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