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Aspergers Syndrome Get to Know the Key Symptoms · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Welcome to the Aspy world. Here's where we talk about
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  anything and everything ASD in an upbeat and informative way.
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  And now here's your man on the spectrum, your autism
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  ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones. Pretty curious about Asperger
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  syndrome. We want to know if you're on the
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  autonomous spectrum. We'll stick around.
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  In this video, I'm going over some of the key aspects of
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  someone on the autonous spectrum who would possibly be diagnosed
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  with Asperger syndrome. Let's get into it guys.
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  What's going on? My name is Dan, I have a
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  diagnosis of Asperger syndrome, ADHD, and I make videos like
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  Guys, what is going on? Yeah, Asperger syndrome, and
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  it's a term that people don't typically use anymore because
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  back in 2013, the DSM 5, which is like the American Health
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  Association is kind of like guide book for doing stuff.
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  They kind of threw out the name Asperger syndrome and changed it
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  all to ASD, which is just autumn special disorder.
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  But just as an umbrella term, it does work very well.
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  Just ASD, but some people were diagnosed with the term Aspergis
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  and people still get diagnosed with the term Aspergis because
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  the DSM 5 is not the only way to diagnose people with autism.
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  OK, so now that's out of the way, let's get into the nitty
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  gritty. I wanted to put down some key
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  points, some key indicators, some key kind of relevant
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  factors and characteristics of people who are on the autism
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  spectrum who would be characterized as having Aspergis
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  syndrome. So if you're wondering and
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  you're wondering with somebody else or yourself, then these are
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  going to be useful. OK, let's get into it.
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  So the first one is knowing that individuals with Asperger
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  syndrome may experience challenges in understanding
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  nonverbal communication. And what I mean by this is like
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  facial expressions and hand gestures and social kind of
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  signals that would be typically not said, you know, where people
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  would like, you know, gesture with their hands or whatever.
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  Those things, those commutative patterns, are something that
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  difficult for people with Aspergers to really fully
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  understand because those are learned through social
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  environments, which are difficult for people with
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  Aspergers because they would be more exclusive from those
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  environments and have less exposure to those social
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  environments. Which is really interesting
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  because when you're thinking about somebody who is autistic
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  and they don't make eye contact, they're not looking at the frame
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  of the person, they're looking around the frame of the person.
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  So they're going to miss out on gestures.
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  They're going to have a harder time picking those things up and
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  learning, but it doesn't mean that they can't ever learn those
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  things. It just means that they'll
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  struggle with those things, if you get what I mean.
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  So the second one is people with Asperger's syndrome may struggle
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  with maintaining friendships and expressing their emotions to
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  friends and partners and loved ones.
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  This includes things like small talk and social skills because
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  that part of the brain is, is kind of busy occupying something
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  else like learning about spaceships or, or kind of like
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  obsessing with Pokémon or something.
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  And I'll get on to that in a minute.
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  But there's, there's a whole kind of deficit for social
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  interaction and meaningful relationships and understanding
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  those emotions because it's hard for a person on the inspection
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  to express their emotions outwards and understand other
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  people. Because this is all part and
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  parcel of having this condition. Focus #3 is that people with may
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  have a very narrow range of interest and kind of focus
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  intensely on specific subject. So like, I'm obsessed with like
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  conspiracy theories and like UFOs and stuff like that.
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  And I'm obsessed with that because I'll go out for for days
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  and hours. I'm actually really obsessed
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  with SEO, social media building, funnel building and online
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  marketing. I love all that kind of stuff
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  because I'm so passionate about it.
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  You know, I get super sucked into it.
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  And this is, you know, no different from anybody else on
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  the Orson spectrum who is diagnosed with Asperger
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  syndrome. Because I don't know what the
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  reason for this is, but there's a passion for something that is
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  very specifically niche. Like I knew a guy who was
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  obsessed with Marilyn Monroe and like just loved everything
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  Marilyn Monroe. Did you think about a life you
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  went to a house throughout to see a house which was buried and
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  all this kind of stuff. Really interesting but very
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  important to him and, and the things that he wanted to do in
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  life and the things that he was interested in.
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  So it's kind of like having a hobby or an interest, but being
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  intensely super focused on that. Like nothing else comes close.
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  You know, your whole room becomes this like shrine to the
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  thing you're into. OK, so #4 And the last thing I
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  wanted to talk about here is that autistic individuals with
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  Asperger syndrome may show engagement in repetitive
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  behaviour and repetitive patterns such as like doing the
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  same thing every single day or eating the same food every
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  single day. But this also includes but not
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  exclusive to stimming self stimulatory behaviour, whether
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  it be like flapping their hands or rocking backwards and
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  forwards. And all those repetitive
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  behaviours of ways of self soothing and are very very
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  prevalent in Asperger's syndrome.
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  Now guys, if this sounds like you, drop me a comment down
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  below and let me know. I'd love to have a discussion.
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  in the next one. Peace.
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