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Autism and Aspergers: 5 Intriguing differences (YOU need to know) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In this podcast, we're going to be talking about autism and
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  Asperger's and the difference between them and what the
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  medical industry says difference anyway, so this is kind of like
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  the proper academic difference between them and these are five
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  specific differences aghast as question quite a lot.
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  So I hope you enjoyed this podcast.
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  Every just a really quick a disclaimer.
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  I'm not actually seeing in this video that every single person
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  who has Asperger's Syndrome or cost of quarters and falls into
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  these specific rules. This is literally just like a
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  basic medical. I guess I'll professional
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  outline of the differences to show like some clear-cut
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  differences between the majority of the people.
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  Also Asperger's is an Autism Spectrum condition and it was
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  taken out of the DSM-5 nomenclature for diagnosing
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  people. So now it's just autism spectrum
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  disorder and becoming Autism spectrum condition.
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  So Asperger's is autism and classic autism is autism the all
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  under the umbrella of the autism spectrum.
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  So Asperger's and autism. What's the difference?
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  Let's find out. So the first difference I want
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  to discuss and let me just set the tone of the language here.
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  I'm going to be talking about classic autism when I talk about
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  classic types of autism, and I'll talk about Asperger's
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  syndrome when I talk about Asperger's Syndrome.
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  Now, a lot of people don't like to use classification.
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  Ation terminology anymore because they find that it's
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  derogative. But for the purpose of this
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  video educationally will talk about Asperger's Syndrome was
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  like a high functioning and then classic autism has a low
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  functioning even though a lot of people don't like to use
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  functioning labels. This is just for the purpose of
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  this video. Okay.
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  So number one is i q or intellect.
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  So basically people with Asperger's Syndrome usually have
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  an average to above-average IQ. Meaning that they are
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  intellectually quite bright and They tend to focus on like
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  science and math and history and some very deep scientific
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  complex puzzle kind of computer natured topics because that's
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  the way that their brain is wired and other things that
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  they're interested in but they excel in those areas now looking
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  at the comparison between that and classic autism people of
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  classic autism have average to below average IQs.
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  So the difference here is that people are supposed to know.
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  I will usually or typically display a higher IQ average than
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  that of a person with classic autism a personal classic autism
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  won't really be interested in the magnitude of intellect a
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  person with Asperger's Syndrome. Usually displays people like
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  Albert Einstein had Asperger's Syndrome.
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  There are other super famous people like Nikola Tesla,
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  probably Elon Musk and other people like that who display
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  these traits of Asperger syndrome and you can see how IQ
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  would be set higher than the average person.
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  Okay. So number two is a verbal
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  communication now people with classic autism usually have
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  little to no verbal communication is skills.
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  They can't develop these because the type of autism spectrum
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  condition that they have in the way their brain is worth is
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  leaving them with difficulty learning these skills now, I'll
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  person with Asperger's Syndrome will have a very good verbal
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  communication skill set that they Have learned and developed
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  over many years and people with Asperger's Syndrome usually have
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  great verbal skills and they are very good at talking.
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  Okay, socially they may not be as advanced as a typical
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  neurotypical person. But verbally it can have verbal
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  Communications and be very good at verbal communication as
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  people with classic autism will have difficulty talking people
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  with Asperger's Syndrome will have ease of talking and
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  actually creating verbal. That is the main difference
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  there for a number two. Okay.
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  So number three is vocabulary now people with classic autism
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  have little to no vocabulary at all and they can't develop those
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  skills and they have a very difficult time trying to learn
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  or develop any skills in learning vocabulary at all
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  people with Asperger's Syndrome have a vast large and quite huge
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  volume of vocabulary that is usually somewhat complex and
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  they have some old. It's not an obsession but an
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  interest in vocabulary and expanding that vocabulary.
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  So people with Asperger's Syndrome have a usually really
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  good vocabulary skill set. Whereas people on the classic
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  autism side wouldn't really tend to have that good of a
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  vocabulary or a large vocabulary set at all.
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  So people are classic autism limited vocabulary people with
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  Asperger's Syndrome quite a high volume of vocabulary in their
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  vocabulary skill set. Okay, so number four is day to
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  day. Skill set now day-to-day skill
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  set is very interesting. I'll outline what a day-to-day
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  skill set is basically the things that a neurotypical
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  person does on a daily basis, which is like getting up getting
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  themselves ready for work or whatever or school and then
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  getting themselves to school and going off on those tasks don't
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  think anything of it, but there are various skills that are
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  entwined there in getting up and doing all those things now,
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  there's things that Range from like executive function skills
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  to hygiene and then getting dressed and things like that,
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  which you basically our daily life skills.
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  Now a person with Asperger's Syndrome can learn to put on
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  their clothes they can learn to brush their own teeth and then
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  they can learn like things like the importance of going shopping
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  all the things like the importance of getting a job.
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  They may need, you know help with managing that job or
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  managing their finances and organizing their life, but they
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  can still learn the That they need to physically prepare
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  themselves for something in the real world tasks.
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  Now a person who displays traits of classic autism would have
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  limited skill set in this region and would then rely on support
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  and help lifelong for this type of skill set.
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  So they may have issues with hygiene and cleanliness.
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  They may have issues with trying to you know, go to the bathroom
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  on their own and use a toilet. They may have issues of putting
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  on their own clothes and you know, they have little to no
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  concept. Out of the reasoning for going
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  out and doing shopping depending on their obviously level on the
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  Spectrum but a classic autism type person would need daily
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  daily support and day-to-day help with those tasks because
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  they just don't really develop those skills typically in a
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  classic autism case. So a person with Asperger's
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  Syndrome can live somewhat independently using the
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  day-to-day skills, but a person with classic autism would need
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  daily support and Life along support for Those daily tasks
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  alone. Let alone emotional and physical
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  support for other thing. Okay.
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  So number five is speech delay. Now as autism is a developmental
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  condition. It does have like a gradual time
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  period of how it like develops from one thing to another now
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  one thing that is interesting between the difference of
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  Asperger syndrome and classic autism is a speech delay not
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  typically children who have Asperger's Syndrome will not
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  display. A speech delay in growing up.
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  Like they how they'll have typically normal speech delay.
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  Like I said as the vocabulary is super intense and very varied
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  than their speech delay doesn't come into it.
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  You know, they'll gradually get speech to learn from like TV and
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  movies and mimicking other people's through echolalia and
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  things like that and then I'll learn how to speak typical rate
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  right now. People are kids and children
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  with autism of classic autism. They will have a speech delay in
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  growing up. So growing up.
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  They will have a varied speech delayed and their speech will be
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  very varied. Like obviously the delay will be
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  there. But then also they'll be very
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  big gaps in what they can say and how they relate that to
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  real-world situations. So in short Asperger syndrome
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  typically not really much of a speech delay classic autism.
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  There will be a speech delay present most of the time.