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video on the autism meaning because.
We hear the term.
We hear the words autism.
Yay. Okay.
I get it.
But then we know we haven't had to take the time to go.
Okay. Well, what does autism mean?
Like what, what is the meaning?
And, um, And, uh, I just thought I'd go over a little bit about what autism is.
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So what does it mean?
You have lots of them, right?
Or what is autism?
What is the, what is the optimum meaning?
So, um, we should really start at the beginning, right?
So autism is a neuro developmental condition that impacts the lives of
people who are impacted by a condition.
Um, it's characterized by the inability to fully function in a social
environment, through communication and.
Sensory triggered issues.
So it's kind of like, there's a tried of impairment, which is a social
issues, communication issues, social issues, communication issues, and
living in with functions of executive functions, living in the reality
of functions, executive functions.
So it impacts a lot of areas of the world because it's
neurological, it impacts your.
The ability to communicate with the world around you basically that's,
that's the premise of it, right?
And also some currently impacts the lives of one in 100 people here in
the United Kingdom, and even also one in 60 people in the United
States, which is quite a high number.
And it seems to actually be on the rise.
There's probably a lot more people, but just who are undiagnosed
for one reason or another.
But the interesting thing about autism is, like I said, at the beginning, it's
a neurological developmental condition.
It's not a mental health.
Disorder, because people think that autism is a mental health disorder.
When actually it's neurological, even though it is taken care of by
mental health teams, it's not mental health, it's neurological, which
is fascinating, which also means that there's no cure for autism.
And we don't know the cause of it, which is also fascinating.
So moving on from that.
Autism comes from a Greek word.
So the word autism comes from people who are called autos, which is basically alone
or the self you know, alone, basically the word, um, and autistic people are,
seem to be by themselves a lot, you know?
Um, so new neurotypical people or people who are not autistic seems to be quite
social, although they'll gravitate towards social groups and stuff, but
people that are on the autism spectrum will gravitate to being on their
own, which is that self alumnus in, which is again, the auto for autism.
But the name actually used to be called early infantile autism and
Kanner autism, because back in the 1940s, which is when the condition
was actually started to be studied.
So it wasn't actually until 1940s, that, that the condition wasn't actually.
Uh, studied properly and it was Leo Kanner and, uh, Hans Asperger
who started studying this.
Um, but it wasn't until the late eighties, early nineties, they actually
started using it as a diagnostic criteria for people with these
kinds of impairments in their life.
Now, this is all really fascinating.
Um, the two main players, like I said, and this was Leo Kanner and
Hans Asperger now, Leo, Kanner
um, dub the, um, the, the term early infantile autism, but then obviously I
had to drop the early infantile because they realized that autism was like this
lifelong thing that impacts everybody.
So it can just be for children and then sort of lifelong and then it
became autism, but then it also was nicknamed Kanner syndrome.
Right.
And also in the eighties and nineties, after Hans Asperger passed away, we
saw his body of research, then use this diagnostic criteria and, and call people,
uh, in, in that bracket Asperger's syndrome, which is very, very interesting.
I found that just absolutely fascinating.
So, um, that is typically the, the kind of the, the meaning behind autism
and the kind of where it came from.
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