in this video we're going to be covering the difference between Asperger's or
social anxiety so you can identify the condition effectively in somebody quite
easily coming right up
hey everyone welcome back to the aspieworld I'm Dan
I have Asperger syndrome OCD ADHD and dyslexia I make videos every single week
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we're going to be covering the difference between Asperger's or social
anxiety and three main tips that you may not know our opposite in the conditions
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single video okay guys let's do it over the video now a lot of people will be
unaware of the fact that Asperger's syndrome and social anxiety are two
vastly different things although they do present similar characteristics like
people have issues with social interaction or social engagement so they
may be super super anxious to go out in public they don't like to socialize with
people they may have like panic attacks which is a really big one especially
with the social anxiety might have a panic attack which will disable you from
actually being in the moment of being there in a social situation this is also
very very prevalent in people with Asperger syndrome so with Asperger
syndrome and somebody out or about in a social situation may become overly
stressed anxious suffer from social anxiety kind of symptoms and then could
cause things like meltdown which may be confused with like
a panic attack and it's similar to a panic attack or a meltdown is something
that is it in autism spectrum disorders now Asperger's syndrome is a
neurological disorder which is part of an autism spectrum disorder well
and social anxiety condition is that of a mental health concern and can be
treated with mental health professionals and their kind of treatment then
Asperger's syndrome need to be looked at by specialists in autism because of its
nature being a neurological disorder so whereas maybe you can overcome a lot of
social anxiety situations from social anxiety condition through different
types of therapy counsellors Asperger syndrome is a lifelong neurological
disorder which is which is different more difficult to treat and to are
trying to overcome because it's the way the brain is wired rather than how the
brain has learned behavior so that's kind of two ways to look at that but
there are big differences a lot of people kind of will notice that somebody
may have social anxiety and then they may get misdiagnosed Asperger syndrome
or they may have Asperger's syndrome and then get misdiagnosed with social
anxiety disorder and this is like quite a big problem with people getting
misdiagnosed with the wrong thing but a lot of people will say that social
anxiety disorder is encompassed within Asperger's syndrome but the difference
is that Asperger's syndrome has an issue with social anxiety because socializing
is part of the communication part of the brain which actually is impaired almost
in people with Asperger's syndrome and autism so the communication part of
socially interacting with people knowing you know all those like social rules and
boundaries are quite lost on a super difficult people with neurological
disorders like Asperger's syndrome to quite grasp where on the other hand social
anxiety disorder is something that has developed because of a scene or behavior
pattern or something that I may have scared that person or a fear so I'll
like more of a phobia than a neurological condition so what I'm gonna
do I'm going to go over like three things that Asperger's syndrome has that
a complete opposite to war social anxiety disorder house because I feel
like this is something that may actually help people identify the difference
between Asperger's syndrome and a social anxiety disorder okay so with Asperger
syndrome people tend to stand too close they don't understand social boundaries
so they may be quite close to a person and don't understand personal space
also people Asperger's syndrome will maybe talk too loud that the voices may
be too loud and they'll they'll shout and also people with Asperger's syndrome
don't understand social gestures or body language or all
kind of hidden rules where you know facial expressions and things like that
that they're quite blurred because again it's a communication issue but on the
contrary the social anxiety disorder people may stand too far away from the
social situation because they don't to be involved or not because it's too
stressful for them people with social anxiety disorder may talk too softly and
quite timid and quiet you know because they're quite scared or they feel
intimidated by the situation and then people with social anxiety disorder may
be overly sensitive to body language and those kind of gestures or people's
facial expressions which is quite an interesting one so you can see there
that there are two complete different parallels here that are complete
opposites with these two conditions that being said though there is a lot more
that goes into kind of diagnosing these conditions that we don't really want to
cover in this video because I'm not a doctor or a specialist in the field just
an advocate and somebody talking about it but I would suggest that if you think
that somebody has either one of those conditions I hope that this video has
helped do that if you'd like to learn more about autism Asperger's please make
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