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So I wanted to talk about Aspergers in toddlers.
Now Asperger's syndrome is autism and had a name change in 2013
to autism spectrum disorder.
But aspect is still is diagnosed in some parts of the world.
So this is why I'm using it.
And also the word symptoms.
Isn't something that we.
Typically talk about when we're talking about a condition that is neurological
neuro developmental, like autism, because symptoms, obviously, reffer to
something as symptomatic and if something is symptomatic, then you can cure it.
But autism is not something that you can cure it.
And it's not symptomatic.
These are actually traits and characteristics of behavioral things due
to neurological differences in the brain.
There you go.
That was a really interesting, awkward intro.
Anyway, let's move on to the video.
So I listed down five of the most interesting ones, um, that would appear in
toddlers because we talk on this channel.
A lot of our adults with autism, we talk about children, but we never
really talk specifically about toddlers.
And I wanted to do this video about toddlers because I feel like.
There's some really good information that is sometimes missed, you know,
when we talk about toddlers, so here you go Dan, has prepared for you five
amazing, uh, traits of Asperger's symptoms in toddlers, just for you.
All right.
Okay.
So let's go through it.
One by one.
Okay.
So the first one we'll talk about is independent play.
Now children on the autism spectrum will have difficulty
interacting with other children.
You know, so if you're in a situation where there's kids playing as a bunch
of kids, you take them to a party or they're in preschool or whatever, and
there's a bunch of kids running around.
Now the kid on the autism spectrum will differ from the neurotypical
kids on the fact that the autistic kid will probably play on their own,
which is called an isolated play.
Now, if they're playing on their own and they're just playing around and
they'd do an isolated play, the other kids were playing with like other
stuff and they'll play games together.
And no.
They'll they'll kind of group together because they want a group together
and they want to play games together.
Whereas the autistic kid in the other hand will have isolated play and he
may want to, or she may want to play with the other kids, but they're not
entirely confident in how to do that.
And also the other thing about isolation play or isolated play
with children on the autism spectrum is that they won't know how to.
Invite the other children into play in the game they're doing, because a
lot of the time you could say that, you know, isolated play could be
down to the fact that the kid on the spectrum doesn't want to play the games
that your typical kids are playing.
Okay.
I get that's a fair point, but then the autistic kid would probably want the other
kids to play with them in that situation.
And you know, if they're playing Lego or whatever they're doing.
But how do they invite them in?
And they can't do that because they have issues and difficulties with that.
Um, I, myself experienced this a lot in school.
It's very difficult.
Primary school preschool, um, was very difficult for me.
Um, and I find that, you know, it.
It definitely got easier.
As I got older, I could learn more about it, but it was just very difficult
to learn how to, to understand how to interact with other children and
then also play with the children.
Okay.
So number two is nonresponsive to name now, um, children with autism, a lot of
the time have issues responding to their name, and it's not due to the fact that,
um, they are going deaf, which is one of the ones, or they're just ignoring you.
Well, it's actually down to is zoning out and zoning out is when you kind
of, um, when you're talking somebody else's spectrum or you're around
somebody with autism, and then they kind of suddenly just kind of go
off on a kind of staring into space and they're thinking about something
and you're trying to talk to them.
Like I do all the time.
I'm sitting here, I'm talking to my girlfriend and then
I just kind of like this.
And then after awhile, or while we're thinking about
something, I'm like, Oh, I'm on.
What if we actually had.
An equal number of electrons, protons, and neutrons, and they were all equal.
And how would this affect the kind of nuclear, um, structure and the, and the
negative and the positive interaction between that and the nucleus anyway,
I'm I think that about this stuff.
And then Naomi my girlfriend she's like Dan, Dan, and then all of
a sudden, I just hear like a Dan, . I'm like, well, what is it?
What is it?
Why are you shouting at me?
And she's like, well, I've been asking you for the past 20 minutes.
Like, what are you going for dinner?
And I'm like, Oh, shoot.
I didn't know.
I'm just like zoomed out now, zoning out.
Happens when you're a toddler and it continues right the way through your life.
If you're on the autism spectrum, it's basically actually zoning in.
It's not zoning out, it's zoning out of the world around you, but it's zoning
into something that you're thinking about.
And when that happens, the hyper-focus part of autism makes you, gives you the
inability to kind of receive external stimuli from the sensory input and the
data that's coming from around you.
And not sounded like a lot.
I'm really sorry.
But basically that's how it works.
So if you are calling your kid for ages and age and they don't respond
to the name, you're like, huh, but they do respond to the name.
Sometimes this is definitely a hallmark trait of autism.
Okay.
So number three is a very interesting one and it's very common
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Flapping.
Now, if you see kids flapping their hands and doing this basically hand
flapping, it's a form of stimming off self stimulatory behavior,
which is very common in autism.
And it happens because they are controlling the stim because it is a
repetitive behavior that they can control.
So this will happen in, um, maybe situations or events or nervousness,
anxiousness of situations of happiness or extreme over emotions.
Um, they'll use a stim to kind of balance out, we will use stems to balance out.
Um, hand flapping is probably like the most go-to one there's loads of different
variations, but basically just waiting hands up and down to very, very common.
And especially at present in toddlers, uh, on the autism spectrum.
And it will persist all the way through the teenage and maybe they'll never
kind of, um, change, use that stim.
We will hold onto that stim their entire life, but it's very prominent and
dominant in children, the autism spectrum.
And I think that like stimming in general is very interesting.
A lot of the time you see kids stimming with.
Like their finger, maybe like this, a little hold, like an item and they'll
stim the, I like this, like really close.
Um, this is another form of stemming, but it's almost like that
same notion of like hand flapping.
It's just a different kind of variation of hand flapping, but yeah, hand
flapping number three, autism trait.
Awesome.
Okay.
So a number for his delayed speech now due to the complex nature of autism, um,
we do know that it impacts communication and has an impact in the development
of speech and can cost speech delay.
Um, in toddlers.
So as a typical kid would be kind of like, you know, progressing typically and that
their speech would be coming along quite well in, in what you expect to happen.
A person on the autism spectrum may have delayed speech, you know,
so that speech may be delayed.
They're not picking up language as quickly or as easy as the other kids.
Right.
And that's absolutely fine.
It will come.
Maybe, maybe not.
Maybe there'll be non-verbal.
But what I'm trying to say is that if they, if you notice that they,
they will later, uh, blossom in their speech protocol, um, and the
lexicon didn't develop until, you know, a year after all the other kids.
This again is a very high indication of autism.
And actually sometimes, um, kids can, can be completely non-verbal,
um, all their life and then grow up to be non-verbal adults.
Or sometimes it could be non-verbal to a certain point in their life,
and then they can start talking.
Maybe it'd be like 10 or 11 and then start talking.
It's very interesting.
And that one actually fascinates me so much.
Okay.
So number five is sensory.
Issues now this one is a big, big one.
Actually sensory issues are called sensory processing disorder or SPD, for short.
Now this usually is co-occurring with autism.
And in fact, I had this conversation today that you can't have a diagnosis
of sensory processing disorder without having a diagnosis of something else.
So it normally comes comorbidity or co-occurring, which basically
means along the side of autism.
So if you have a diagnosis of autism, You get this kind of bolt
on of sensory processing disorder.
All this means is that your senses are work slightly different because
sense senses and relaying information from your brain to other parts of your
body, because it's, it's giving you that sense is a communication aspect.
And of course, we know that autism is a communication issue in the brain.
So this is what happens.
You may be hypersensitive to light, to smell to sound, to textures, to
touch, to environments, to heat.
That could be a number of things you like, the tags on clothing
can drive autistic people.
Crazy.
The seam of socks can drive people crazy.
I, for one had an issue with denim growing up.
I always had to wear cotton.
And another one is that I get really hot if I get any, any, any, um, uh,
if I have to do anything, like if I'm, if I'm have to think hard or if I have
to get quite anxious about something, all my clothes have to come off.
I have to sit here in my underpants.
I know, it's really interesting.
If you see me doing DIY, I'm actually doing DIY in my underpants.
It's not a great sight.
Oh my goodness.
But it's what happens.
But the heat thing is a huge one because it's all of those things, but
the textures and tastes, they may have really interesting kind of like dinner
reservations, where they'll want to have the food separated on the plates
or cold stuff and hostels and touch and sauces, don't touch and try things.
So there's a whole thing, right?
Sensory processing disorder, it's very apparent.
And, uh, it calls for a fussy eating, fussy clothes wearing
a very interesting case.
It's not fussy.
It's just peculiar particular.
And that's what I'll say about that.
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