Hey guys, in this video, I am showing you the aspegers checklist and these are five
common traits that you should really know.
If you're looking at somebody and thinking, Hey, are they
on the autism spectrum?
All that's coming up.
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Nice to have you here because I've done different like asperger checklists and
stuff before, but I wanted to put like the most common traits, like the five,
most like five most common traits into a quick checklist here on this video
blog posts, just so that you could have.
Some are really general idea of like what to look out for when you're
looking at Aspergers syndrome.
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So the apps were just checklists.
I wanted to do this because I feel like it's super fun.
And it's like a really good thing to do where we just list out like
five of the most common ones, like the traits and the, and the, and the
kind of typical characteristics of somebody who has Aspergers syndrome.
So I hope you enjoy buckle up.
Sit back, relax.
And just enjoy the video.
Okay.
So number one is social interaction issues.
Now social interaction issues are people with Aspergers syndrome usually have a
difficult time with social interactions.
Like they are unaware of unwritten social rules, you know, like hand gestures, body
language, stunning, close to somebody's personal space, knowing when it's their
turn to talk, all that kind of stuff is.
Somewhat missed on people with Aspergers syndrome because of the difficulties
in the communication and the brain.
And they don't actually fully understand the, the, the communicating part between
like social communication, because socializing and social conventions
and social communication is something that is learned through just doing
it as you're growing up, because you kind of in those patterns and you
kind of pick it up if your brain is neuro typically developed, but when
your brain is, neurodivergent like an Asperger's autism brain, it's kind of a.
A different pattern of communication.
So your brain reacts in a slightly different way, which is totally fine.
It's super awesome.
But it just does mean that there is social attraction issues that
you should definitely be aware of.
Okay.
So number two is something that anybody can relate to you.
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Number two is repetitive behavior now.
Well, on the autism spectrum, um, but people with Aspergers syndrome will have
very niche, um, repetitive behavior.
So they'll like.
Get up the same way every single day to have the same thing for breakfast every
single day at the same time, but wear the same type of clothes they will drive
to work the same time every single day.
They'll do the same thing.
The routine will be absolutely exactly the same and for entertainment, they
may like one TV show and I'll watch that one TV show every night that became an
always play that one game, when they come in every night, it's kind of like.
A bit of a Groundhog day situation.
And if you have never seen that movie, I highly recommend it.
It's awesome.
It's kind of like how this repetitive behaviour this routine
is repetitive routine because the idea of change is quite scary and
the idea of change is unpredictable and that unpredictability is, is.
Anxiety wridden, but when you have something that is completely in control,
you know, what's going to happen that repetitive routine, it becomes
really comforting and calming because, you know, there's no unexpected, um,
you know, bugs in the road because you're already, you've already know
you've done it like a hundred times.
And that is why people on the autism spectrum really
like behavior effectiveness.
There is healthy ways, adding new things in and building new routines.
And I actually did a very interesting webinar on this.
So if you're interested in checking out that free.
Training for parents and caregivers and people on the spectrum.
Click the link above here and check out that free webinar session I did.
I'll try and also leave a link at the end, do the video so you can
click straight through to that.
And I'll obviously put it in the description below, but I definitely
recommend checking that out because it's really, really helpful for
routines and stuff, but there are healthy ways of doing that.
Um, but I think that like, There's nothing wrong with the practice of behavior.
As long as the person who's doing it gets something out
of it and it's not destructive for them in that kind of sense.
Okay.
So number three is stimming.
Now stimming is an interesting one, stimming is short for
self stimulatory behavior.
That is really common in autism.
It's kind of like a, you know, a repetitive, um, Thing that you do could
be like, you know, flapping the hands.
It could be like tapping their fingers.
It could be like circling something on their hands.
It could be like moving the hands up and down.
It could be rocking backwards and forwards or from side to side, or even stimming
with something on the, I like that.
And basically what it is, it's kind of like a calm, um, a condition thing.
It's like a.
It's something that you do kind of subconsciously, but it's something that
you do kind of actively as well sometimes.
So I sometimes find myself rocking for side to side like this when
I'm interested in something.
And if I'm worried, I find myself looking forward and back and things
like that when I'm really concentrating.
So it's kind of a, a self comforting thing.
And you will notice that stimming happens typically when.
Someone is anxious or when someone is really happy.
Okay.
A lot of the time it does happen when someone is really focusing in on something
like when they're really researching something or they're really having
to focus stimming will come into play because it's kind of like, you know what?
People can really focus when they chew gum.
It's kind of like that, you know, when you stimming you're focusing
on something, cause you're, you're taking out that kind of like, um,
need to jerk, you know, because it's.
There you can just fidget spinner or, you know, it could be down to
the fact that I have ADHD as well.
And people on the autism spectrum typically have add and ADHD.
So stimming is very, very common and I don't think I've met an
autistic person who doesn't stim.
So it's really interesting and it's very, very common.
I think the rocking one and the hand flapping one are definitely the most
common, but it's definitely them to look out for and Def on a checklist.
I mean, this is, has to be on as paramount.
Okay.
Number four is monotone talking.
Now I want to turn talking doesn't mean, uh, like talking like a radio, you know,
speaker like, no, I'm not about that.
I'm want about just.
Not having some variation in the upward inflections, in their voices.
Now, a lot of people on the autism spectrum have difficulties
understanding how to place that tone in vocabulary when they're talking.
And this kind of gives people a somewhat of a.
Boring talking voice.
Uh, I've actually had people say to me that my voice is quite soothing, but I
guess it's because it's quite mono-tonal, but in terms of like boring, a lot of
people on the autism spectrum, especially Aspergers, we'll have people say something
like, goodness, me, you sound very boring.
And because you're just very mono-tonel, there's not much excitement in that voice.
And I try my best to you have upward inflections and different types of
pitches in my voice because I've watched a lot of movies to try and.
Figure out the best way to talk.
It makes people most engaged because I'm just a super nerd and trying to
communicate my feelings and stuff.
So that's why I try my best, but it's something that's very common it's because
it comes from a, a factor of like, again, it's communicative, like autism is a
communication issue within the brain.
It's a, it's a neurological develop neuro developmental condition
that is affecting communication.
Now.
Speech verbal or audio communication is something that
not all autistic people have.
So there are some people who are mute, who are autistic,
who are nonverbal completely.
And that is absolutely fine, obviously, but there are people who are verbal
and usually people who've had like diagnosis of Aspergers syndrome or
like lower support needs autism.
These people usually have this monotone kind of like voice
and can become very boring.
If the person perceives it, is it as being boring?
I don't think it's boring.
I think it's super awesome.
I think that people on the autism spectrum having such monotone voices
make it easy to talk to, but I think it's one of the reasons why people
actually like listening to me in like a really weird, strange roundabout kind of
way, but not to be missed off the list.
Super awesome.
Making a note.
So number five for the bigger number five, this one is literal thinking.
Now people with Aspergers syndrome are very literal thinkers.
They don't get sarcasm and jokes and kind of like figures of speech, you
know, like, Oh, it's raining cats and dogs outside the'd probably think that
you saying that there's actually raining cats and dogs outside and this doesn't
get easy with age and you can't learn it.
To a certain degree, you can get understand more of it, but to a certain
degree you never like get over it?
For instance, I'll give you some stories.
Um, first of all, when I was, um, doing an access to science course before
doing my degree, um, I was with a friend of mine who also has a son on
the autism spectrum, but she was like, Eating a banana and drinking coffee.
And then you put the banana peel inside.
The coffee comes at, Hey, can you put this in a bin for me?
So I said, okay, let's do the cup of the company in a bit.
And she was like, Whoa, only the only the banana peel in the bin, put the coffee
cup on the side, what's wrong with you.
And I was like, well, goodness, I have no idea in terms of that.
That was really interesting on the flip side of that.
It's really funny when my girlfriend is like playing with my son and
she's trying to pretend to shock him.
Like she does thinks she has like, Oh, I like that playing about or whatever.
I'm like, well, what is it?
What is it?
You know, what's going on?
Who died?
And it's nothing.
She's like, what's wrong the way so jumpy.
Cause I take everything she says as like literal facts, especially when she's a
story where she says, blah, blah, blah.
I was talking to my friend and I said, Hey look over there.
So I'm like, what, what is what's over there?
And she's like, we do it.
I was like, what are you talking about?
You want me to look over there?
So I take everything she says quite little.
Sure.
And it's really annoying, especially when you're trying to have like a
good conversation with somebody, because like, it's hard to follow
that flow of conversation because taking things literal, it's just
super, just like, but also it doesn't work well with jokes and sarcasm.
My friends play jokes on me all the time and they just know that I'm going
to be vulnerable to believe all the rubbish that they tell me, because.
I have no way of sifting through what's real.
And what's not that filter.
Isn't really there for me.
So, yeah.
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