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AUTISM Definition (3 Ways YOU Can Understand) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Come back with another video, guys.
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  This is an autism definition and three ways that you can
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  understand it. Let's get into it.
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  So what is going on, people? Welcome back to the aspy world.
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  My name is Dan. I have autism, ADHD, OCD, and
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  to you. Look at that, it rhymed.
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  I didn't even try. Anyway, let's I have no idea
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  what's going on. Anyway, So I wanted to do a
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  video on the definition of autism or autism definition or
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  defining autism because a lot of people come to my channel, come
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  to my videos, and they're looking for research purposes.
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  They're looking to understand autism and maybe a really cool,
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  you know, video to start a conversation, a discussion type
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  of thing, where we could, like, just start talking openly about
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  different types of stuff, I guess.
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  But anyway, this is a cool video.
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  So I wanted to put down like three ways that you can kind of
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  really understand what autism is all about.
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  And this is kind of like the learning the that like
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  understanding of the definition of it.
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  So let's not further ado. Let's get started.
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  Aru OK, guys. So number one is socializing
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  difficulties, right. So autism, coming to find in a
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  person who finds it difficult to socialize in neurotypical
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  situations, you know, socializing impact pretty much
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  all of our life. Because every time you do
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  anything in life, you're socializing, whether it's
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  talking to your banker or your or your boss and work or you
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  know, at the grocery store and you're trying to buy, you know,
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  food and stuff like everybody you talk to.
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  That's a form of social communication, and now we're
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  surrounded by abundance of it through social media.
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  But in terms of face to face socializing there are like loads
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  of unwritten rules and loads of like things that like reading
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  between the lines that we pick up like understanding other
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  people's emotions or intentions, understanding some upset or when
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  they want you to back off or stop talking or whatever.
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  All these concepts are really difficult and autistic people
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  have struggle trying to understand these concepts and
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  and really adapt them and and take them on board and and use
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  those in a daily life approach. And that really in essence is
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  one of the main things in autism that presents itself.
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  You know, like poor communication skills because
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  that like you're you're, you don't know what to do.
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  You, you, you're trying your best in that sort of situation
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  and it just tanks. I'm not saying that like it's
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  the only thing, but it's one of the main ones.
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  But also it can be improved upon things.
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  You know, the thing about it is that, you know, practice makes
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  progress and if you're practicing something, you're
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  progressing and you're always progressing.
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  And you know, people who are on the autism spectrum always
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  practice socializing and always progressing because people on
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  the autism spectrum, they want to have friends, they want to
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  hang out with people. It's not just like this thing
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  that it's not. It's not who.
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  It's not the autism that defines who you are.
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  It's you as a person that finds who you are.
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  So I just want to put that one in there in case you're artistic
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  and you're watching this, Hey, I love you.
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  Hit me up. So #2 is language and speech
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  communication issues. So as autism on its core is a
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  communication issue, then autistic people may have
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  difficulty with their types of communication like they may be
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  non verbal. In some cases people with like
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  high support needs on the autism spectrum can be non verbal.
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  A good friend of mine, ASA, his kid Abby, she's non verbal and
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  they're a lovely family and I've met them and I hung out with
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  them a couple of times in LA when we were at Vidcon and they
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  have a channel called Fathering Autism.
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  So definitely check them out if want to check out that Channel,
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  but they vlog every day and stuff and they're really nice.
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  But that's an example how you know Abby has a diagnosis of
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  autism but she's non verbal. And then I have a diagnosis of
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  autism but I do have verbal ability.
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  So it's really interesting to know that there are different
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  levels of like communication difficulties for different
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  levels on the autism spectrum. But in essence, language and
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  speech, they could have a stutter, A stammer, speech
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  impediment, all kinds of things, not learning how to
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  appropriately have a volume or a tone when talking.
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  All types of actual speech and communication and language can
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  be destructed because of an autism spectrum disorder.
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  So it's a very interesting point, but it's it's one of the
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  most like valuable ones to really understand because that's
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  really in essence how autism kind of is understood.
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  When you think, well it's communication and communicating
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  in any sense. If it's in socializing, if it's
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  in text messaging, it's all to do with language and these
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  barriers of how you, how you express your communication flow.
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  And these are always destructed with people on the autism
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  spectrum. But people on the autism
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  spectrum try to Dang this and they're amazing at doing it.
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  And I just salute them. OK, we have ways around, we use
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  iPads, we use like written things.
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  We've got like, you know, Packs and Macintosh, we've got loads
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  of ways and it's amazing. So yeah, just big salute there
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  for the the autism farm, you know, in the house, You guys are
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  amazing. I absolutely love you.
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  OK, so the third one I'm talking about is executive function
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  issues, right. So because of the way that the
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  brain communicates function and ability from like the sensory
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  world, because all the world is sensory input, right?
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  Well, these signs and signals of input can cause movement and
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  autistic people where like they may have issues following tasks.
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  They may have issues knowing how to turn a dishwasher on, may
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  have issues learning how to cook their food.
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  It may they have issues in trying to just organize their
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  life with you know, with executive function and and all
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  types of function ability within a daily living scenario like
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  using the toilet, knowing when to take a shower, knowing when
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  to brush their teeth, knowing when to cook meals, knowing when
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  to drink water. I actually have this with me all
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  the time to remind me to drink water otherwise I would forget.
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  And Naomi, my girlfriend, she's like, she's on me all the time.
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  She's like, dude, you need to drink more water.
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  Like, oh shoot, yeah, well, like, we'll eating dinner or
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  something and she's like, damn, you literally haven't drunk.
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  So like, drink up. I'm like, OK, But anyway,
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  executive function issues do impact people in the autumn
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  spectrum a lot. And because of that, it helps,
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  you know, it helps define what autism is, because those
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  functions, the help in those areas is definitely where
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  autistic people are vulnerable in those areas like the speech
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  and language, the socializing difficulties, the executive
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  function, these areas of vulnerability are where autistic
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  people need more help. But this is the typically the
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  definition of how to define autism really is.
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