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

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  But you got to here are 10 of lesser known physical signs of
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  autism in girls, and I'm going to get straight into it right
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  now. Guys, welcome back to the Aspen
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  world. My name is Dan and I have
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  autism. So if you want to learn more on
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  videos. OK, guys, so I have Autism Life
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  Hacks PDF book you can download for free from autismhacks.net
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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
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  essentially 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 like squish mellows
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  or something like that. But then it 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 out students and
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  century avoiding us students as well.
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  There was two is 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 was where you try to
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  pick up a glass and not drop it. There's a physical sign of
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  autism that will present themselves in females #3 is
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  difficulty with social communication.
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  Girls on autism spectrum will have a difficulty in social
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  communication, which will be more apparent when they're
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  trying to write a letter, incident message or but do like
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  an academic kind of conversational piece.
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  This will be struggling for them because they will not really
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  understand the social implications of a conversation
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  in social communication and before.
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  It's repetitive behavior. This is kind of like doing the
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  same thing over or again. It could be stimming, rocking
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  backwards and forwards, hand flapping, you know, tapping
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  their fingers together, twiddling their fingers
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  together, twiddling their hair a lot, eating their hair.
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  This is all self estimatory behavior or stimming, which is a
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  repetitive behavior, but it's a physical kind of manifestation
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  that you could recognize and notice difficulty with
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  transitions. As is transitioning from being
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  at school to being at home or vice versa, or being at home to
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  being at the grocery store. All these things become very
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  difficult, and what you'll find a lot of the time is the girl
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  will really 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 and peer pressure from school
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  where it's more prominent in girls to have more anxiety
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  around food since there's a social conventional with things
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  like that for young girls which is horrible but it happens.
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  Autism girls are are very well susceptible to that because of
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  the neurological condition. The naivety of of social
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  communication. Sometimes having sleeping issues
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  has problems including like difficulty falling asleep,
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  staying asleep, regulating sleep patterns.
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  Actually hitting Bram is going to be difficult because the mind
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  of an autistic female is going 1000 miles an hour and they are
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  trying to regulate themselves constantly and could very well
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  come out in sleep. Issues #8 is anxiety and
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  depression because autism and neurological condition.
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  It does cover mental health issues on anxiety and
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  depression. Unfortunately some of the ugly
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  ones that do rear their head for just like individuals who are
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  female. So #9 is an unusual walk.
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  So some females in the autism spectrum may have an unusual
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  walking style. Now this could be down to a
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  multi delay or a sensory processing issue where they
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  could be experiencing the feeling of walking on the floor.
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  Quite uncomfortable and quite difficult.
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  So #10 is Hypertonia. Now Hypertonia is a low muscle
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  density or low muscle tone which is like a physical sign of
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  autism girls. Which means the micro
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  development for holding pens and other kind of small objects will
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  be difficult because they'll have low muscle tone in their
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  actual arms and they could be actually diagnosed with
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  something called hypermobility. Also.
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  comment. I'd love to read all your
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  comments. Peace.