Hi I'm Dan, I'm 26 years old and I have Asperger syndrome and these are my top
ten Asperger traits that you may find helpful.
(#1) number one, erm, sometimes when I'm nervous or [touchy] I flick my fingers
and I don't even know I'm doing it, my girlfriend seems not as quite...
like that just to soothe and it helps me concentrate and I normally get it when
I'm quite nervous around other people. (#2) number two for me is change in routine
so if I've got something in my head that we're going to do or I'm going to do and
something comes in the way of it I get really upset and nervous if, erm...you know,
it's a challenge like if we're in a sandwich shop and we're going to buy
sandwiches and the bread I want isn't in, I get really nervous and then I start to
panic because I don't know what I'm going to do because, I don't know what, you know, what bread is
available and other things like that, so this can become a problem for me and
then I guess routines, are you know, um quite comfortable to me and everything I
do. (#3) foods are really important to me as in I like eating maybe a small selection
of foods I don't like anything with any sauces or anything I can't have the
sauce texture in my mouth and if I do have sauce like gravy it's got to be warm I
can't have anything cold and I can't eat food [that's been] cooled down like pizza.
If it goes cold I can't eat that and I like quite blunt things like sandwiches
No butter on it and just literally just chicken and lettuce maybe, I could
eat the same thing over over again forever I mean I could eat Sunday dinner
you know like roast vegetables and things forever. (#4) Erm, smells are quite a bad
thing and some, some smells some certain smells make me really annoyed and-and
then I start to panic or I feel, I feel sick and I get you know nervous and I
don't what to do so depending on what it is it's not every smell it's just
certain smells that are really potent and it goes straight to my head and I
just can't deal with it and I guess this is to do with hypersensitivity and
people with Asperger's. (#5) Number five, certain noises and sounds can really
affect me and only slightly, only sometimes, only certain noises and sounds
and it's really sharp and it goes right into my brain and I can't concentrate and
I get really, like super annoyed sometimes I just kind
of lash out in anger because that noise annoys me so much I can't, I can't deal
with anything else you know like everything gets shut down just because
that noise pierces everything. (#6) number six, a lot of people with Asperger's syndrome
tend to get quite involved in a certain topic of interest and for me this is
definitely true and I have a topic of interest with social economic and global
economic issues involving conspiracy theories and UFOs and I know everything
there is to know about it in great detail I can remember everything that I
read about it. (#7) number seven wearing the same type of clothing all the time I
kind of get into comfortable patterns of wearing the same thing all the time and
so my girlfriend kind of helps me pick out different things sometimes to
spice up my clothes line but I tend to just fall into the, to a routine of just
wearing maybe like three t-shirts in routine so that's quite important to to
people with Asperger's syndrome with routine and I guess I, I-I get really
comfortable wearing the same clothing. (#8) number eight is sarcasm and I feel
that this is a common thing with people with Asperger syndrome is and I don't
get sarcasm with strangers or people I don't know that well and the only time I
really do get sarcasm is if I know the person quite well you know if I don't
know them and I it's hard to pick up when they're joking or if they're being
serious this could become a problem especially if you're in work or a
professional environment so I do have difficulty to this and I'm sure a lot of
you guys will as well. (#9) number nine is crowded places and busy public places
I'm not a massive fan I can't deal with myself in big cities I get very
scared and nervous and I tend to just shut down and it's quite ironic as well
because I play music in a band and I love playing gigs and love to play to big
audiences but if it was the other one if I was in the audience watching myself
it's a different scenario and I can't I can't deal with it with a lot of people
around me all the time it's kind of overload again and I get really really
scared and have to kind of retreat back to somewhere I feel comfortable with
and (#10) number ten last but not least a lot of people think or tell me that I talk
too fast right now I'm actually trying
to talk quite precise and slower than I usually do but when I get going on
a topic of interest or a specific area that I know a lot about I tend to kind
of speed up and talk quite fast and I guess it's because my brains running
really really fast I'm trying to get a lot of information out at any one time and I
guess people don't understand that and they kind of always tell me to slow down
It gets really frustrating because I don't want to slow down because I'm going to lose what
I'm trying to do but at the same time I guess they can't understand what I'm
saying so this is a big problem and I don't know em many other people with
Asperger's syndrome so I don't know if this is a common thing but this is
definitely something that affects me so thank you for watching my video, please subscribe to my
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