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5 Common ASPERGERS Behaviour Traits YOU Mistake · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys, here are 5 common Asperger behavioral traits that
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  you definitely Mistake. All that's coming up Hey guys,
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  welcome back to the aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  OK, so here are 5 common Asperger behavioral traits that
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  people probably mistake is just like they don't see it.
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  They mistakenly think they're just typical aspects of somebody
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  or personality trait or something that's not linked to
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  autism. But that's why they're wrong.
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  That's why I'm here. So I'm making this video, all
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  right? And that for me.
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  Waffle in, let's get cuffling into it.
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  OK, so breaking it down #1 is clumsiness and poor motor
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  coordination right? So autism can present a lot of
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  poor coordination skills and cause clumsiness in people
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  because it's it's all down to how the brain communicates with
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  the outside world. Also we have to think about
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  comorbidability where you will have Co occurring conditions
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  like ADHD or dyspraxia or dyslexia.
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  Now if you have these type of conditions then being clumsy is
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  going to be part and parcel of having that package of you know,
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  autism and dyspraxia, autism and dyslexia.
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  You know, being clumsy and having really poor motor skills
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  is definitely on that on the list of most common things that
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  people usually see in somebody like oh Larry, yeah, God, he's
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  always fallen over. Oh, he can't seem to put a cap
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  down on the side. But, you know, it's part of
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  being on the autism spectrum. But people can't just dismiss
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  this because they just say, oh, you know, that's that's Larry.
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  That's that Larry. So in terms of this, it's kind
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  of like a, it's kind of like a if you see this and it's
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  combined with some of the other bits and pieces I'm talking
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  about, it's time to think a little bit smarter about it and
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  not just kind of write it off with something that just a
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  personality trait of somebody. OK, #2 is issues with social
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  functioning. Now, autistic people will have
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  issues with social functions like socializing and socializing
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  in general. Now, social functions are
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  typically the way that somebody communicates in a social circle,
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  knowing when it's their turn to talk, knowing what the rules of
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  conversation are, knowing that if you're going to add
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  information into a conversation, then it can't be aggressive, it
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  can't be shocking or rude. It has to be filtered to to a
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  certain degree. And all of these social
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  constructs and you know how the distances stand away from
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  somebody and everything that encompasses social
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  communication? It's sometimes, well, most of
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  the time missed with people on the autism spectrum because they
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  have such a difficulty understanding the world around
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  them. They don't pick up on these
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  unwritten social rules that people pick up generally just
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  through conversations of growing up and hanging out with people
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  and just knowing people. You know, it's it's difficult,
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  it's it's a lot more effort for someone on the Austin Spectrum
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  to kind of get into the swing of that.
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  But that being said, it's just very, very common.
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  It's something that's super common with people on the Austin
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  Spectrum and some people write off for shy and my parents even
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  wrote me off as just being shy when I was a kid.
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  They just didn't really fully understand it.
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  But obviously having an actual psychoanalysis of it, then we
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  can understand what's going on. But in terms of like, yeah, it
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  just, yeah, it's interesting. OK, so #3 is expansive language
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  in subject areas, OK? And that sounds like a lot of
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  stuff I just said there and once.
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  But you know, basically what this means is people diagnosed
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  with like Asperger's syndrome usually have a very expansive
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  language in the subject field that they're super interested
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  in. Which means that their lexicon
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  and vocabulary we've vast within a certain genre like Pokémon.
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  I mean everything there's to know about Pokémon or a certain
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  area of science and may very be very well researched in science
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  and a certain topic of science that is like just their niche
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  and they'll know everything about it.
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  Because that is like basically having a a very narrow, focused
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  obsessive interest in something that then you become a pseudo
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  expert in. And sometimes in a lot of cases
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  then you go on to being an expert like Temple Grandin, she
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  know she's an expert in, I think it's like biology and like
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  cattle and things like that, like animal biology and she's a
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  doctor in that and that was like her focus and her study of field
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  of study. And I think that's really
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  interesting and I just find it super fascinating.
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  But you'll definitely notice this because that person on the
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  spectrum who is into that thing won't stop talking about it and
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  we'll just continually just ramble about it.
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  And it's kind of like, all right, all righty, real.
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  OK, let's move on. So #4 is having an above average
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  IQ. Now, let me just put a
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  disclaimer out there. I'm not saying that every single
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  person on the autism spectrum will have an above average IQ,
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  nor am I saying that it's only people with lower support needs
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  that will have an above average IQ.
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  This is not what I'm saying. I'm just saying generally and
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  commonly that you'll notice that people on the autism spectrum
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  will think a little bit more outside the box and I really get
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  a problem solving and so that IQ will display quite higher than
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  an average person. So studies have shown actually
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  that people diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome show to have
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  on average above an above average intelligence quota in
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  80% of the cases that they studied.
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  So 80% of the people on the autism special they studied
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  actually had an above average IQ, which is actually
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  fascinating, but it doesn't give the the grounds to the reasons
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  why a lot of the most famous scientists in the world had
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  traits of autism and would have been diagnosed with Asperger
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  syndrome like Nikola Tesler and Albert Einstein, etcetera.
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  OK, so #5 is favoring alone time.
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  Now people on the Austin spectrum will favor being alone
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  over going out and socializing with friends.
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  And it's because they have a social anxiety for big large
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  social gardens and social groups.
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  Because autism presents itself in many ways.
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  And one of the ways is that it gives you a really bad slap of
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  anxiety, generalized anxiety, social anxiety that cause
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  meltdown to panic attacks, burnouts, shutdowns.
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  Just so it's easier to stay at home and study the thing that
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  you're really into and develop that lexicon and actually go out
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  to the pub with your mates and, you know, sink a few beers or
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  whatever. You know, that kind of like
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  social convention or social group thing is somewhat of a of
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  a desired trait, I guess in in neurotypical people.
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  It's something that people just do without thinking about it.
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  Like I could never just get on. I'm like 30-4 years old, right?
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  Favorite little dude. I'm a father, you know, and I
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  have girlfriend and stuff and we have like a dog and all this
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  stuff. But I can never just get on a
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  train and go to like London and have coffee or whatever on my
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  own. I can't do those things.
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  Like I'm so overwhelmed with that that even that process that
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  it really scares me. Even thinking about it gets me
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  anxious and that social anxiety kind of just comes over me.
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  So in terms of favouring a long time, I do often and I have done
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  pretty much all my life. My friends would be like, hey,
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  we're going to a party. I'm like, yeah, I'll see you
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  later. I've got a thing to do.
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  You know, I just just this thing and they're like, what thing?
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  I'm like leaving alone. And so it was actually playing
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  music. I used to just hang out indoors
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  and play bass guitar like pretty much all the time.
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  Like that was my thing and I just, and I taught myself to
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  play pretty much every instrument I can play.
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  I play about four or five different instruments and more
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  than that, but I taught myself to play those instruments.
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  But it was done in that time, that a long time where all my
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  friends were outside like partying and having girlfriends
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  and you know, doing cool dude stuff.
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