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10 Lesser Known Physical Signs of Autism In Girls · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the ASPY world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism Ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  Here are 10 of Less unknown physical signs of autism in
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  girls. I'm going to get straight into
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  it right now. Guys, welcome back to the Aspen
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  world. My name is Dan and I have
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  right now. OK, so 10 Lesson on Physical
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  Signs of Autism in Girls. So first I'm going to talk about
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  sensory processing issues. Now girls will experience a
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  sensory processing issues by being sensitive to touch sound
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  like you know, seeking out sensory environments.
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  Like they may really like plushies or or or like squish
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  mellows or something like that. But then it did also have an
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  aversion to things like Velcro or slime, which is really
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  interesting because you have century seeking estudes.
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  In the century avoiding attitudes as well, there was
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  huge delay in motor skill development.
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  Now this could be fine mode skills like picking up like pens
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  or putting keys indoors to, you know, macro world where you try
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  to pick up a glass and not drop it.
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  There's a physical sign of autism that will present
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  themselves in females #3 is difficulty with social
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  communication. Girls who are on autism faction
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  will have a difficulty in social communication, which will be
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  more apparent when they're trying to write a letter,
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  incident message or but do like an academic kind of
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  conversational piece. This will be struggling for them
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  because they will not really understand the social
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  implications of a conversation. In social communication and
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  before, it's repetitive behavior.
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  This is kind of like doing the same thing over or again.
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  It could be stemming rocking backwards and forwards, hand
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  flapping, you know, tapping their fingers together,
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  twiddling their fingers together, twiddling their hair a
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  lot, eating their hair. This is all self estimatory
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  behavior or stemming, which is a repetitive behavior, but it's a
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  physical kind of manifestation that you could recognize and
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  notice. Never find his difficulty with
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  transitions as his transitioning from being at school to being at
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  home or vice versa, or being at home to being at the grocery
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  store, All these things become very difficult.
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  And what you'll find a lot of the time is the girl will really
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  avoid doing the thing that has to change.
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  So we'll just stay at home. We'll pretend to be sick so they
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  stay at home. This will happen a lot,
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  especially in social situations. This will become more apparent.
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  Number six is eating disorders. Actually, some girls will also
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  will be picky eaters or have difficulty with food textures.
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  Not to mention social pressure, peer pressure from school where
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  it's more prominent in girls to have more anxiety around food
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  since there's a social conventional with things like
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  that for young girls, which is horrible, but it happens with
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  autism. Girls are very well susceptible
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  to that because of the neurological condition, the
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  naivety of of social communication.
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  Sometimes having sleeping issues as problems including like
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  difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, regulating sleep
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  patterns, actually hitting Bram is going to be difficult because
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  the mind of an autistic female is going 1000 miles an hour and
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  they are trying to regulate themselves constantly and could
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  very well come out in sleep. Issues #8 is anxiety and
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  depression with autism and neurological condition.
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  It does coward mental health issues on anxiety and depression
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  unfortunately as some of the ugly ones that do rear their
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  head for autistic individuals who are female so #9 is an
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  unusual walk. So some females Neilton spectrum
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  may have an unusual walking style.
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  Now this could be down to a multi delay or a sensory
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  processing issue where they could be experiencing the
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  feeling of walking on the floor. Quite uncomfortable and quite
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  difficult. So #10 is Hypertonia.
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  Now Hypertonia is a low muscle density or low muscle tone which
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  is like a physical sign of autism girls.
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  Which means the micro development for holding pens and
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  other kind of small objects will be difficult because they'll
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  have low muscle tone in their actual arms and they could be
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  actually diagnosed with something called hyphen
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