So how do you identify autism without actually knowing the person
or speaking to them in this video?
I'm covering five simple physical signs of autism.
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So how to identify autism with physical science.
This is super interesting because.
There are no physical kind of traits of autism in terms of like a physical
deformity where it's some disabilities that are physical deformities.
Now this is super interesting because there are physical traits
that you can see in autism.
And I want to go through those right now.
So autism class as a.
Hidden disability.
You know, autism is a, an invisible disability because there's nothing
that kind of, you know, if you looking at a wheelchair user who,
um, is in a wheelchair, then it's obvious that they're a wheelchair
user because they're sitting in the wheelchair, you can physically see that.
So it's not hidden, but with autism being something that is neurological
and neurodevelopmental, then it has this hidden invisible disability tagline,
which is kind of annoying in some respects because people don't really understand
you straight off the bat because.
They can't see it.
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So, um, I use these basically I've created this list.
For you to use these physical attributes, to notice autism in a person.
So you know how to help them.
This is all this is designed for.
I'm not talking about outing somebody or, or picking up on something
and, and kind of like saying to them, Hey, you're artistic.
It's not about that.
It's it's knowing that if you can see someone is like this, then you can.
Help them in, in an adequate way, because if you know that somebody is on
the autism spectrum and they need some extra help, then you can help them.
And that's a great thing, and it's a great thing to help people.
So here are the five most interesting signs that you can
pick up physical signs of autism.
Okay.
So number one is rocking.
Now people on the autism spectrum will sometimes rock from side to
side or backwards and forwards.
And this process is called stimming, which is short for self stimulatory
behavior and stimming or to stim.
It's a soothing behavior that people on the autism spectrum find comfortable
and they do it to become comfortable.
They rock back and forwards and then they, they, they might just, you know, rock side
to side and this is to help them kind of.
I dunno, common situations, or if they're excited in situations, or
even if they're just relaxing and situations, this is what it is it's for.
This is why it happens.
But it's that you can notice cause rocking in certain situations or rocking,
you know, full grown adult rocking is something that you don't normally see.
Some kids do rock, but it's normally assist the kids who do rock
backwards and floors or side to side.
So definitely interesting to keep that in mind.
And no, I is a stim.
Okay.
So number two, again, there's another stim and this is one's hand flapping.
Now you may see people flapping their hands on their own autism spectrum.
Again, this is a self stimulatory behavior or a stim type behavior,
which is designed to kind of.
Keep the person cam uh, well in a stressful situation or excited
situation, cause being excited and stress kind of stimulate the same
type of response in your brain.
So autistic people have that same response.
Um, hand flapping is more common in younger, uh, people on the autism
spectrum, but it doesn't really go away.
Sometimes autistic people when they're older love, you know, just
still flapping their hands and yeah.
Fucking the hands is happy, hands and happy hands are good hands.
And, uh, a friend of mine, uh, Micah from, um, the positive, uh, artistic,
uh, on the artistic, artistic, positive autism is his channel.
And I'll try and leave a link for him below.
Um, he has a thing that he calls him jazz hands and he does it all the time.
And he's like, you know, he, he stimming with his hands
and he goes and Giles sounds.
And he's a cool guy.
So definitely check out with YouTube channel and he blogs and stuff.
And he's, he's really nice guy, him and his dad that just absolute
bros, so that can check them off and the musicians, which is super dope.
Okay, so number three is eye contact.
Now I talk about this one a lot.
Now, autistic people don't find it easy to make eye contact, and they
actually find it difficult to maintain eye contact for long periods of time.
And so if you are talking to somebody and they're on the autism spectrum, they'll
more likely not be able to maintain eye contact with you or make any eye contact
with you because it's just not in that kind of way that they, they can deal
with that stress of social communication.
Because as we know, autism is a social communication condition and it doesn't
hold up well for making eye contact.
No, this is not to say it's exclusively now.
Also some people don't make eye contact.
Um, some autistic people can make eye contact and they do make that effort
and they have trained themselves to make eye contact, which is fine.
It's great.
But so this one was just, I would say most people I'd say about 80% of autistic
people have difficulties with eye contact.
Okay.
So number four is anxiety and artistic person will come with a book.
Bulk load of anxiety, not just generalized anxiety, but this will
be stuff like social anxiety that COVID kids with a condition of autism,
because socializing is so difficult for people on the autism spectrum.
A lot of the time.
So having social anxiety or generalized anxiety disorder, which will be
prominent in like kind of panic attacks and all kinds of, you know,
situations and potential meltdowns in social situations and other
situations of heightened anxiety.
It's a good way to notice that, Oh, I think that person may be on the autism
spectrum because they're acting like this.
And so I can help them, you know, in the right way.
So that is a really interesting one to kind of notice.
And I guess all of these together would show you someone who's obviously.
Like a hundred percent on the spectrum, you know what I mean?
So, um, yeah, just, just, just something to look out for.
Okay.
So the fifth and final one was talking about right now, it's zoning out.
Now let's just take individuals will have extreme hyper-focus, which
basically means that they are, they would be really focused on an interest.
Like they're really interested in this cable that would just like
really zone in and look at this cable and just think about it.
And you can be in the room with like a personal on the autism spectrum.
And that's, we're looking at this.
And that they're really obsessing over it.
You could be talking to them and asking them questions and it be completely
oblivious as if they're completely deaf and you're not even in the room.
And they're just looking at this thing.
And that is kind of like what you see as stoning out, but actually zoning
into something, which is really funny because it's called a zone out.
But it's actually a zoning issue.
I always tickles me when I hear that.
And this is so common to people on the autism spectrum, even so.
The comment is that people who are on the autism spectrum sometimes
are tested to see if they are deaf because they don't respond to
their name, at least when there's owning out and running into things.
So that's really, really interesting.
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