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Autism Brain - How Do YOU Make Decisions (INTRIGUING) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  The autism brain, right? How do you make decisions?
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  I'm talking all about that right now.
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  Guys, welcome back to the ass. We want what's going on?
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  My name is Dan. I have autism, ADHD, OCD, and
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  dyslexia, and I make weekly videos all about this kind of
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  Guys, welcome back to the ASK world, where we think
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  differently daily. What's going on?
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  Different thinkers. If you haven't already, make
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  Just for you. Because I love you guys.
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  So I wanted to do this video talking about the autism brain,
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  right? And how we make choices and
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  decisions and how the workings create decisions.
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  Because I was reading a study. There was a study carried out by
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  the Wiseman Institute of Science in Israel and Carnegie Mellon
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  University in the United States, right?
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  And this was a cross kind of section study comparing the
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  brains of adults who had high functioning autism spectrum
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  disorder and adults without an autism spectrum disorder.
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  And by high functioning they basically mean lower support
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  needs. That's all that means.
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  Now the research found that there was a greater
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  communication difference between regions of the brain and adults
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  with high functioning autism than that other people without
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  it, but less communication between others, right.
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  Which is kind of difficult. But I'm going to try and break
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  it down into in three pieces, which I'll go over in in a
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  minute. The patterns also show
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  differences between individuals with high functioning autism.
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  So not all people with the diagnosis have the same pattern
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  of brain signals at at rest. So when when they were testing
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  all of this, it didn't all have the same kind of brain patterns,
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  which is super interesting. So I'm going to go through and
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  break down the different ones for you and hopefully make some
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  kind of sense out of this because I thought it would be a
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  really interesting and fact full video for everybody.
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  So so #1 is communication. Now autistic people have a
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  greater communication pattern in certain areas of the brain that
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  cause different functions and and influence their decisions to
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  that of non autistic people. So how autistic people make
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  decisions of the brain, which causes functional decisions.
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  So like when you're when you're actively wanting to do something
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  like creating a decision, well I'm going to go here and do that
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  because I really fancy doing this right.
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  That showed a different type of pattern in different areas of
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  the brain that it would do in a non autistic person.
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  So the patterns in non autistic people were in the in a
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  different region of the brain and showed a different pattern
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  which is absolutely fascinating because it showed that the brain
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  was working slightly differently in the way that it fired and
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  triggered in different areas of the brain.
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  I find absolutely fantastic. Now the second thing I want to
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  talk about is low versus high, right.
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  So people with lower support needs show different brain
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  signal patterns to that of people with the higher support
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  needs. Which basically means that
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  people with lower with lower support needs you know typically
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  could hold down a job verbally active kind of like myself you
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  know and and really able and capable of doing certain things.
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  But people with higher support needs who may need help one of
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  the bathroom or brushing their teeth and things like this who
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  may be non verbal as well had different rational for decisions
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  that are based on their personalities.
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  So the different patterns showed that their rationale for making
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  a decision was based on their personality not the way that
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  their cognitive brain function worked.
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  So a lot of people would think that all autistic people make
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  decisions in the same way because their brains are wide, a
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  little bit differently. And if you're neurodivergent and
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  your brain works in a certain, you know, way, in a certain
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  pattern, that you're going to be able to kind of think the same.
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  Kind of like when people all think that autistic people are
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  really good at math and going to be all super geniuses, which is
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  completely bogus, right? But it showed that the decisions
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  that were made were actually based on personality decisions
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  rather than the rationale from actual logical thinking, which I
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  found absolutely fascinating. Now, the third thing I'm going
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  to talk about is IQ or intelligence quota.
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  The decisions an autistic person makes are not based off the
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  level of IQ, but they're to do the personality affinity, which
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  basically means that when you think about autistic people, you
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  think about people on the autism spectrum, you're thinking that
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  they're going to be making the decisions off of logical
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  reasoning through their IQ, right?
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  So if you've got a really high IQ, which a lot of people on the
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  autism spectrum do, then you're going to have this same ability
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  that somebody else is going to have to use their IQ as a basis
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  of how they form their decisions to go forward, right?
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  But in actual fact, they make all the decisions based on
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  personal affinity. So it's how you feel to
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  something. If you have an affinity for
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  something, then you will go to that path.
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  Like if there's not a logical decision to buy something in a
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  restaurant based off the logic of, well, this is going to be
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  the cheapest and most nutritious meal.
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  It's going to be based on the fact the affinity.
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  Well, I like hamburgers and fries, so I'm going to go and
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  buy the hamburgers and fries because your personal affinity
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  for that and that is absolutely fascinating.
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  Now this study is really interesting.
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  I have linked it down below because I found it really
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  interesting to read. I mean it goes on for for pages
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  and pages and pages. Now if you're interested in the
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  same kind of stuff as me and you really want to nerd out with
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  this article, I highly recommend checking it out.
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  If you have anything to add, pop it in a comment.
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  I read every single one. I love it.
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  If you would like to share this video on Facebook, Instagram and
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  Twitter to help somebody else, that'd be amazing and give this
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  video a thumbs up. If you found this enjoyable, I
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  will see you next time guys. Peace.