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7 Hidden Autism Traits (You NEED To Know) · 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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  In this video, I'm breaking down 7 hidden autism traits that you
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  probably never even saw before. These will help you identify
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  autism and somebody quickly. I have autism and ADHD and I
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  help people understand this on a daily basis.
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  So I'm going to go through these right now so you can understand
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  that just for watching this video.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the ASP World.
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  Hey, so autistic traits, a lot of the time we know that some of
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  the more common autistic traits like maybe you have an issue
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  with speech delay or eye contact, but there are a load of
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  hidden ones and I'm going to go through them right now.
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  Here are seven of the most hidden autistic traits, and
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  we're going to go through the first one.
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  And the first one is abnormal posture.
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  Now, abnormal posture is kind of like, but also sometimes related
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  to poor posture. What this means is that autistic
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  individuals will find it difficult to know how to place
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  themselves in space. So they may look like they're
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  just really awkwardly stood somewhere and they, they, they
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  just stick out because, you know, if you can't be relaxed in
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  your own body to just stand somewhere, your posture will be
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  kind of a little bit out of kilt or what I would say is non
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  typical posture. Now, if you have a non typical
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  posture, there could be a whole host of reasons for this, But
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  more importantly, autistic individuals find it hard to
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  place themselves within society and within social situations.
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  So it's one thing being at home and being on the couch versus
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  being in a club and being next to somebody in the store.
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  Now I myself have experienced this.
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  Like when I sit down to watch TELEVISION at night with my
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  girlfriend, I find it difficult to How do I How do we sit and
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  watch TV? Actually this is one of the
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  weirdest things. I can't actually sit down and
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  watch TV on my own because I have this.
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  I don't know how to say. I don't know how to sit down.
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  I don't have to position. Myself, so I end up just
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  watching. Netflix in bed?
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  Because of the the the the social construct of posture
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  seems to elude me, meaning that I have no idea how to formally
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  sit to watch television, let alone how to formally stand when
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  I'm out and about. So this is something to
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  recognize and realise within autistic individuals that maybe
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  when you're looking at an autistic individual, they have
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  bad or poor posture and they may not understand how to position
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  themselves in reality a little bit.
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  OK #2 is rituals with no outcome.
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  What does this mean? Well, autistic individuals find
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  sense of calm, a sense of understanding with doing certain
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  things time and time again. So repetitive behavior.
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  So it could be drinking the same tea every single day.
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  It could be standing up, turning around and sitting back down 3
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  or 4 times a day. Not because there's going to be
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  an outcome there, because you know, standing up and turning
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  around and sit back down, it's not going to give you much of an
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  outcome. But what it does do is itself
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  soothes the autistic person's need for knowing comfortability
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  and expectability. So when you can expect something
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  to happen, you feel calmer, right?
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  Which it's a no brainer. Kind of like how we all worry
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  and we have anxiety over things that we don't know yet.
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  That's going to happen. The unforeseen future that
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  within autistic individuals is 10 times that because they are
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  deeply entwined with every action that they take as as
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  autistic individuals will find it difficult to to literally
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  just not have anything that gives us stability over a short
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  period of time. Hence why we have these rituals.
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  So it could be, you know, standing up, sitting back down
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  could be going to check, I don't know the outside, I'll come back
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  in. Maybe he's checking to see if
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  light switches are turned off, if plug switches are turned off.
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  There's all kinds of things. And these little rituals may
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  seem strikingly weird or odd to somebody, but they're actually
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  there for certificated wheels to feel comfortable and relax in
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  right on the video. OK, so #3 is intense empathy or
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  compassion towards people or animals?
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  Now this is super interesting. Now autistic individuals have
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  issues seeing things from other people's perspective, right?
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  So it's hard to see somebody's point of view, which people do
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  say is empathy or lack of empathy, right?
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  Like when you can't see from another person's point of view.
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  However, with autistic individuals, what is actually
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  happening is that they feel the intense issue or negativity or
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  the emotion from that person more than they can understand
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  what that person is trying to tell them how they feel, right?
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  So they can say, okay, well, that person is clearly upset,
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  but I feel it deeper, right? And the same with animals.
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  You'll see that a lot of animals are used as companion pets or
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  therapy animals or therapy pets for autistic individuals because
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  there is no communication that is verbal or written between you
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  and an animal. It's all just how you act
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  towards each other, which for artistic individuals gives them
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  good compassion. So you'll see autistic
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  individuals will gravitate towards animals a lot more than
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  they do people because they feel that they can communicate with
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  them without having to use the typical means of communication
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  like writing or speaking or whatever.
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  So this is really interesting and it's trait that we don't
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  really think about because we believe that autistic
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  individuals have no empathy. Well, in actual fact, it's just
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  that we can't see it from their point of view, but we can feel
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  it from the other person's point of view, which I think is quite
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  magical actually. OK #4 is probably my all time
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  kick in the behind and it is lack of organization skills.
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  Now autistic individuals usually have ADHD and what we'd like to
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  call this sometimes in the community is Audi HD.
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  And this means that we have various amounts of things going
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  on at anyone time and we can't organize them for buggery.
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  We could be starting a project here and then starting a project
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  over here. And then my to do.
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  I have more. I have more To Do List than than
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  I could possibly need right now. I need one consolidated To Do
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  List, but I have about 18. I have like so many note pattern
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  To Do List because we're so unorganized and we need to
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  organize our lives. But this chaotic an organization
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  actually is a representation of how our brain is perceiving the
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  world around us. It's chaotic and it's confusing
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  and it's unorganized. This is what it feels like to be
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  autistic. So that's reflected in the way
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  in which we live our lives, an organized, chaotic and hectic.
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  It also helps to have that organized because having
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  organization, two things will help an autistic person feel
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  more calm like we did with the rituals and routines because we
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  know we can expect, Oh well, I know everything's going to be.
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  But the lack of skills to do that and to set it up big one on
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  the autistic scale of what I would like to say a hidden,
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  hidden trait of autism. And FYI guys, I use a few
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  different little apps to help me with that.
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  So I'll try and leave some in the description down below.
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  If you go and have a look, I'll leave you some organization apps
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  that I'd recommend. OK #5 is something that really
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  bothered me in school. This is disinterest in physical
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  activity or sports. Now, a lot of autistic
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  individuals, they will go one of two ways.
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  They'll either say I'm so into sport that I am in one sport
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  that I am just this, I'm an athlete in this one area and I'm
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  going to absolutely nail it and it's going to be my obsession
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  and I'm going to do it, which is good.
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  We know a lot of autistic athletes and that's exactly how
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  it works. On the other hand, you have
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  autistic individuals who don't like sports and will never
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  engage in physical physical activity.
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  Why? Because those things become
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  superfluous to an autistic brain because of this one reason.
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  If you think about what sports and physical activity are,
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  they're what's called recreational activities.
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  And recreational means recreating something that's
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  already been done before. But autistic individuals like to
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  be creative, so create something that's never been done before.
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  So in this example, I can almost guarantee that if you find an
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  autistic athlete who's absolutely top of their team and
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  top of their game, they won't be interested in any other sport.
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  Even though they're an athlete and a sports person, they won't
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  be interested in any sport. They don't watch football or
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  soccer. They will literally just be
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  doing that one thing because they are creating a new reality.
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  They are winning in those kind of areas.
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  Whereas the recreational crowd, as neurotypical people, they
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  like to watch recreation because it entertains them, right?
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  And they're not as creative as autistic individuals.
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  I'm not saying that people who are neurotypical or not
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  creative. I'm just saying that
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  neurotypical people don't have the intense creativity as
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  autistic individuals. OK, so number six is trouble
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  with left and right directions. What's really interesting is
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  that a lot of autistic individuals have a comorbidity
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  or a Co occurring, which means like a condition alongside
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  autism where they may be dyslexic or dysphraxic.
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  And what this can do is it can really impact their ability to
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  understand left and right. I, for instance, I'm terribly
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  dyslexic with things like left and right.
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  I can't understand my left, right and also my B's and D's
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  and my PS they all look kind of the same.
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  So I can't really write them out.
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  When I'm doing handwriting to write them out, it's so
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  difficult. Hence why I use a computer for
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  everything in my life and I have done ever since I was able to.
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  So as soon as like school and it's not hand write, I kind of
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  only hand write. I only hand write to keep my
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  fine motor skills up because I've read bad fine motor skills,
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  which is OK, but I just have to get on with it.
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  But autistic individuals, this is a hidden one.
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  They would have difficulty with the left and right instruction.
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  And this actually is a broader term that there'll be
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  instructions where an autistic individual will be told like,
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  Hey, I need you to go here, do this, do that, do this.
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  Is it No idea, completely confused.
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  And it can be as simple as like, hey, Dan, go to the kitchen, go
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  in the fridge, get the little juice box and bring it back in
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  for me. I go in the kitchen.
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  I'm like, oh, I have no idea what I'm doing here.
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  Like, so it's, it's a, it's a, an issue or a trouble with
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  understanding direction that is specifically given to you.
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  OK, so number 7 and the final one here is not knowing how to
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  end during a conversation. So autistic individuals will try
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  and converse and have conversations with people and
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  friends and try and socialize because we're humans, right?
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  We're hunter gatherers. We're supposed to have community
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  and we're talking, we're talking, we're talking.
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  But then also you go, how do I leave this conversation?
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  Like how do you just what, what is, what's the format?
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  Do I just get up and move away? Do I say goodbye?
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  Do I say, hey guys, listen, I got to run.
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  I've interrupted everybody talking.
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  Like what is the format? Autistic individuals have a
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  massive issue with this, so if this sounds like somebody you
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  know, this could be an indication that only autism
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