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Why Autism Girls Do This One Odd Thing (INTERESTING) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  This is why autism girls do this one odd thing.
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  Super interesting. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  aspy world. My name is Dan, I have autism,
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  ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia and I make weekly videos on this type
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  differently daily. What's up, different thinkers?
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  That would be super dope. OK, guys, so this video is all
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  about super interestingly odd things that girls with autism do
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  or one really interesting thing that girls or women with an
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  awesome spectrum is all to do. And I wanted to do this because
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  I find it really interesting. You know there's there's a whole
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  kind of like different world when you when you compare like
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  males to females on the autism spectrum, there's different
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  diagnostic criteria. There may be different kind of
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  traits and characteristics. But I find like the certain ones
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  I just think are just very fascinating that I'd like to
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  talk about. And that's why I wanted to do
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  this video right now because we we often talk about girls on the
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  spectrum on this channel. And if you are wanting to learn
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  more about girls specifically on the spectrum, I will leave a
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  link for a playlist in the description down below all about
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  girls on the autism spectrum. And I've interviewed from my
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  friends who are girls who are on the autism spectrum, lots of
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  information there and I'm sure you'll get a lot value from
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  that. So without further ado, I'm
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  going to get into this right now.
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  So we all know that autism definitely isn't exclusive to to
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  males. But there there has been some
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  very interesting development in that web for many years.
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  People thought that autism was just a male based thing right?
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  When in actual fact it's obviously across the board.
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  So it doesn't make any any difference if you're male,
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  female or whatever. You know, you can have autism,
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  you could not. You know, there's no difference
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  there. But above all else, autism in
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  girls displays very interesting behaviour.
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  There's different behaviours between males and females as
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  well. There's like masking and stuff
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  with males that isn't as prominent as it is in females.
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  The females mask way more and they have a lot more different
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  kind of like difficulties than males do.
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  And so I just think it's fascinating to talk about it.
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  But above anything else, right? Girls display this one very
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  interesting behaviour. And that behaviour, ladies and
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  gentlemen watching this here right now is inappropriate or no
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  or no facial gestures. Now women typically display
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  women on the autism spectrum typically will display the wrong
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  facial expression for the emotion that they're they're
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  displaying. So if you could be talking to a
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  female on the spectrum and they could be really happy, yet their
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  facial expression could be completely mute, they could have
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  like no facial expression at all, just completely like as if
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  you're not even talking to them. But then also they could display
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  a facial expression or a gesture of like extreme happiness,
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  sadness, a twitch which has no relevance to the situation of
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  conversation at hand. So where you typically see
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  people smile and happy situations or people kind of be
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  really sad and upset and have like a frown in sad situations
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  or an intriguing face for intriguing situations, whatever
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  an intriguing face is. You know, girls typically in the
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  Autism inspection won't display these.
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  Typically they will display them all but not linked up to the
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  correct or it'll be inappropriate.
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  So you could be talking about like a funeral or something, but
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  a girl in the Autism inspection may smile about this and it's
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  like it's the wrong social gesture for that situation.
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  And the reason being is because autism is A at its core
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  communications issue, right? It's a communication difficulty.
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  And so the brain offering signals, for one is
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  understanding emotions and understanding situations, then
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  relaying that information to you to display the correct way to
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  display your emotion in that situation and facial expressions
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  to display how you feel. It's just not going to happen.
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  And so with females specifically, I feel like
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  females are more engaged with the emotional side of autism.
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  And so therefore they are more tied to showing more facial
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  gestures, but actually showing more incorrect facial gestures
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  or that specific kind of event you're in or the social
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  situation you're in now in terms of not having any facial gesture
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  at all, this is very, very common.
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  A lot of people on the autism spectrum will have difficulty in
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  displaying any type of emotion through their facial gestures.
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  Now women on the autism spectrum seem to be more acute to just
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  not displaying any emotion at all, just completely neutral all
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  the way through. They could be excessively happy
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  or excessively sad with just having a neutral face, which is
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  very difficult for the other people with the group to just
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  judge what the person's going to be like, going off their
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  Facebook, going off of their facial expressions.
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  Now I definitely would say that if you're with a person on the
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  autism spectrum who is a female, just try and look out and ask
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  them like, hey, are you OK? Is this OK?
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  Because the facial expressions are never going to match up to
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  what they feel. And you know, I have this as a
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  male, but on the female side of things, I think that this is way
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  more prominent, again because females are more into their
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  emotional side of autism spectrum, feeling more emotions
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  than the males. I'm guessing this is typically
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  why that happens. Now I find this really, really
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  interesting and there are, you know, there are a bunch of
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  different things that are different between men and women
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  on the autism spectrum. I'd love to know if you want to
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  see more differences between autism and girls versus boys.
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  And drop me a comment down more. Let me know your thoughts on
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  this subject and if I should do more videos on it.
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  Peace.