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5 ASPERGER Symptoms you NEED to know · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In this video, we're gonna be covering 5 Asperger's symptoms
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  and traits, so that by the end of this video you'll be able to
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  identify autism and Asperger's in people relatively quickly.
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  Coming, right? Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  Asperworld. I'm Dan.
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  I have Asperger's syndrome, ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia.
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  I make weekly videos on autism and Asperger's.
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  So consider subscribing to see more of this type of content.
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  In this video, we'll cover behavior traits that you may not
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  realize that are Asperger's symptoms.
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  Hey, so first up, I'm going to read a comment from my YouTube
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  comments from one of you guys and this comment is from Harry
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  Potter. And they said is 14 a late or
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  early diagnosis? And I would say that being
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  diagnosed Asperger's as 14 is kind of quite an early
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  diagnosis. It's not as early like, you
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  know, like 6 or 7 years old, but it's still not really a late
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  diagnosis like in your 30s or your 20s.
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  So, you know, I think I would say it's pretty, it's really
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  nearly diagnosis. OK, five Asperger's symptoms.
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  Here we go. Number one is stimming.
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  Now stimming is a repetitive notion that people do sometimes
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  with their hands or their fingers or they rock back and
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  forwards. And this is kind of like a self
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  soothing thing so that it's, it's a repetitive rhythm that
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  people do to count down in like anxious and stressful
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  situations. And this is very, very common
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  people with Asperger's syndrome. Number 2 is hypersensitivity.
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  Now hypersensitivity is quite interesting because you could be
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  hyper or hyposensitive with autism and Asperger's, which
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  means that a lot of people are hypersensitive so that they they
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  don't like lights so they can see the fluorescent flicker from
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  fluorescent lights. Sometimes lights are over
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  exposing and overpowering for for people.
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  So it's really annoying and frustrating and causes a lot of
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  frustration. Again, a lot sensitive to
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  sounds. You might see a lot of people
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  putting their hands over their ears like this.
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  This is so that they can block out the sound because they may
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  be hypersensitive to the sound. So the sound is louder than what
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  you may perceive it to be, but the person with the condition is
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  actually hearing the sound really, really loud.
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  Another one is taste and textures within the
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  hypersensitivity. So you may like not like certain
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  textures, like running textures like condiments and gravies and
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  things like that. And this could cause a lot of
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  upset with people with Asperger's syndrome.
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  So if they don't like the texture could really put them
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  off their entire food. It could cut them off anything.
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  And then it can just escalate into a very big episode of
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  I promise you, you're going to be amazed. #3 zoning out.
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  Now, zoning out is quite interesting.
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  A lot of people say that zoning out, they, they refer to people
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  with Asperger's syndrome or autism as people who live in
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  their own world, which is kind of not really true.
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  And it's quite derogative when you use that term.
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  But zoning out is when the, the person with autism or Asperger's
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  will fixate on something and they'll get super intensely into
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  that thing. So they'll zone out because
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  they're, they're concentrating on maybe a wheel of a car or it
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  could be anything, any small detail that they may pick up on
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  and they'll zone into it just to kind of really embrace and look
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  at it, you know, But then a lot of people will say they're
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  zoning out or they're daydreaming because they're not
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  answering to verbal stimuli or anything like that.
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  And it's just a factor in the matter.
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  So you could have somebody who's just like drifting off into
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  space and they're looking at something, staring at something,
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  and then you, you know, you're trying to talk to them, but
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  they're not replying. This is a form of like zoning
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  out. OK #4 is repetitive behaviour.
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  Now, this is quite interesting. People with Asperger's syndrome
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  have repetitive behaviour, which is different to OCD.
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  So repetitive behaviour would be someone who has to do something
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  in a routine. So every single day they have to
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  get up the same way. They have to do the same thing
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  every single day. They'll probably eat the same
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  foods very often, all the same food every single day.
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  They'll like to watch the same programmes all the time.
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  They'll like to, you know, read the same books all over again.
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  They may want to walk to town the same way.
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  They may want to just everything, like they like the
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  pattern of everything, a repetitive pattern of stuff.
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  So if you find somebody that is very much stuck in this
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  repetitive pattern, this could be the reason why.
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  And repetitive patterns for people with Asperger's syndrome
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  give them a sense of comfort and relatability so they can relate
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  to the fact that they are doing those things.
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  And it's comfortable and it's familiar because again,
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  unpredictability is a causing factor for anxiety and, and can
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  scare people with Asperger's syndrome and autism.
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  So This is why repetitive behaviour doesn't have any
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  ambiguity on it. You know, it's, it's welcoming,
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  you know exactly what's going to happen and therefore it's safe.
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  It's good. It's, it's not anxious.
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  OK, so #5 is poor social skills. Now social skills are something
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  that people pick up on throughout their lives and they
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  they learn this as they grow, as they become friends with people
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  in school and become around more social situations.
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  But unfortunately, because it's part of a communication section
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  of the brain, people with autism and Asperger's, it doesn't
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  really mend that well for them and it doesn't really create
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  those opportunities to learn those outcomes.
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  So somebody with Asperger's syndrome probably wouldn't be
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  very good at making what they call small talk.
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  So they wouldn't be good at knowing when it's their turn to
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  talk in a group, group people talking, you know, they, they
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  wouldn't know when to wait their turn or when to stop talking.
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  Sometimes people with Asperger's syndrome will just talk about
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  their topic consistently for hours and hours until someone
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  says, hey, you know, you need to stop because it's not knowing
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  those boundaries of where to stop.
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  People with autism or Asperger syndrome also would be may not
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  have a filter. So I know that I say things that
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  may seem like harsh or rude, but or crude, but it's not supposed
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  to be, you know, it was just trying to, it's trying to figure
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  out where that feels, where that boundary is, that social
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  boundary, I guess. But these are things you're
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  supposed to unconsciously kind of pick up just through
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  learning. But this is difficult for people
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  with autism and Asperger's. So somebody who's really bad at
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  making small talk or or can't really communicate that well,
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  again, this could be another Asperger's or autism trait.
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  I'm going to give you guys a bonus one here.
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  So this is number six. So this is kind of not within
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  the main one, but I thought it would be really cool to just
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  check in here as a bonus one for you guys because you're watching
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  this video. You give me the time.
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  Super awesome. So #6 is going to be social
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  anxiety. Now, social anxiety is something
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  that hits people with autism, Asperger's, and also is a huge
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  Asperger's symptom because people with autism have a huge
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  issue with social interactions and social anxiety as a whole.
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  And it causes big anxiety because you've got to go out
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  into the world, you've got to go and like talk to loads of
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  people. It's overwhelming.
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  The crowds, the noise, the smells, everything is just
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  crazy. So being really socially anxious
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  is almost like a byproduct of having autism or Asperger's
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  syndrome. So if somebody is suffering from
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  like social anxiety and they have a bunch of these other
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  issues like poor communication skills or like they don't make
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  eye contact or whatever, these things can be led to Asperger's
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  symptoms or could be symptoms of Asperger's syndrome and autism.
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  And I would say that if you find like 3 to 5 Asperger's symptoms
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  in your person's, you know, behaviour patterns or the person
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  you're looking at or the person, you know, the paper patterns.
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  I would say that maybe it'd be good idea for you to say to them
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  that you know, they should go and seek a diagnosis because or
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  or see some professional help because there may be some help
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  available for that person to make their life a little bit
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  more easier. OK?
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  I got lots of requests like this.
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  I just wanted to put it in this video.
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