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5 Unique Autism Behaviour Symptoms (You Need To Know) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So here are five unique autism behavioral symptoms that you
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  definitely need to know all that coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the aspy world.
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  My name is Dan, I have autism, ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia and I
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  people on the autism spectrum. OK, moving on, guys.
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  Stokes, we do this video. I wanted to do a video all about
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  unique behavior symptoms of people on the autism spectrum.
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  Now, symptoms probably isn't the best word to use when we're
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  talking about autism because symptoms may imply that
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  something can be treated and cured, but autism is not, you
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  know, curable. So, you know, it's more of a
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  trait or a characteristic or a behavior.
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  But I want to put the word symptoms in there.
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  So you know what kind of I was talking about here.
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  So here are five of the most unique behaviors that I've ever
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  come across. And I think that these are the
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  really interesting ones that kind of really characterize
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  people on the autism spectrum to AT, if you will.
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  So yeah, you want to hit me up? Might as well.
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  Cool. So the first one we're going to
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  talk about and this is the most unique list I have here.
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  So the first one of these unique ones is not understanding jokes.
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  Now, as an autistic person, people on the awesome special
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  basically take everything literally, and they're literal
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  thinkers, so understanding jokes and sarcasm can be super
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  difficult and way out of reach. Actually, I'm living proof that
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  this is somewhat funny for my friends because my friends
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  actually make loads of jokes and tell me that they're absolutely
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  real. And I believe them because I
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  have no reason to doubt them. And it's just ridiculous because
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  I take everything at face value, as do most people in the autism
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  spectrum. You know, taking things
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  literally is is kind of one of our fault.
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  So when you are presented with sarcasm or jokes and things that
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  are liable kind of white lies for jokes, this could be an
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  issue. But that is very interesting.
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  I think it's like autistic people are the only kind of
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  condition that actually creates this this barrier between
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  understanding of jokes are real of than just jokes basically.
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  But it's very, very unique to autism and I think it's super
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  interesting okay. So #2 is stimming now.
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  Stimming is a repetitive behavior that is sometimes
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  notable in like and flapping or moving your eyes in front of
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  your face and stuff like that, or moving up and down rapidly.
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  And it's because it's actually stimming a shot for self
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  stimulatory behaviour. And this behaviour is a kind of
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  self soothing, repetitive behaviour that autistic people
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  do to calm themselves down or if they're excited or nervous or
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  whatever. But it's very interesting
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  because stimming exists in autism and autism alone, which
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  makes it fascinatingly unique when you think about it, because
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  lots of people can have similar symptoms of different kind of
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  conditions. But autism has so many unique
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  conditional behaviour traits that are just so unique and I
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  just think it's absolutely fascinating.
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  So stimming, super interesting. OK, so #3 is food issues now
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  having a very particular eating habits and very peculiar eating
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  habits and food sensitivity. This is caused by sensory
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  processing disorder which comes hand in hand with autism pretty
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  much like 98% of the time. Now, autistic people will have
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  very, very interesting food needs and very specific food
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  needs. And this comes from the fact
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  that the sensory processing disorder doesn't allow for the
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  palate to be, you know, hot and cold and squiggy and sloppy and
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  all these kind of things. So sometimes things have to be
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  consistently one type, like any parents watching this knows
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  exactly. I'm talking about when I say the
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  chicken nugget could be like the international symbol for autism.
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  And I've said it a few times before, but you know what I
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  mean. So in terms of food issues, it's
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  very interesting because it's autism that's causing these food
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  issues, but it's kind of like the textures of the food.
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  That's a sensitivity issue. But autism is a communication
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  disorder. So if you're having like sensory
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  input, that's all communication, right?
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  And so if you have a neurological condition that
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  impacts your ability to understand communication signals
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  from sensory stimuli, then it's a no brainer that food is going
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  to be on that list, right? Okay.
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  So #4 is anxiety. Anxiety is a huge part of an
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  autism spectrum condition, right?
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  But anxiety from social situations can also lead to
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  meltdowns. So people with an autism
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  spectrum condition will have anxiety, but it'll be more like
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  a social anxiety and an anxiety that becomes so overpowering, it
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  doesn't just cause a panic attack, it causes a meltdown.
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  And it's like a really serious kind of issue that people on the
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  autism spectrum will present and then they'll hyperventilating
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  and then maybe crying. It'll be an outwards of
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  emotions. And it's just really interesting
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  how how anxiety really, you know, grips a personally or some
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  spectrum and almost dominates their life in certain areas of
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  their life, which is absolutely fascinating.
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  And it's just, it's so it's so unique to see anxiety.
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  It's kind of like aggressive anxiety versus kind of like some
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  of the generalized anxiety disorder, which is kind of just
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  like the panic attacks. I mean, like a certain
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  situation, et cetera, et cetera. So anxiety really is an
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  interesting one to put in there with autism.
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  OK, so #5 is anger management issues.
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  Now, anger management is a huge part of people on the autism
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  spectrum, as we know people on the spectrum about sometimes not
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  even able to communicate our feelings or our emotions or
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  communicate any emotional feelings at all, you know,
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  compared to neurotypical people or people who are not autistic.
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  And so because of this, there's so many anger issues and
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  frustration that comes with it. And I find it so unique because
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  like, you know, people on the spectrum will be trying to relay
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  information that somebody doesn't get and then it just
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  becomes, you know, annoyingly and angry and and it's, it's
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  interesting, but anger management is such a difficult
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  thing to overcome. But it's also, it's so common in
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  autism and using anger management, you know, to to
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  control that. But bad anger management is so
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  common in autism. And I know parents watching this
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  and be like, Oh yeah, absolutely.
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  Like, it's because people say this like tantrums, but it's not
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  tantrum, you know, it's it's it's the whole thing that autism
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  encompasses. You know, it's very, very
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  difficult for people, but that is what it is.
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