So do you have Aspergers or narcissism?
This is how you know the difference.
All that coming up.
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Welcome back to the aspirin world, guys.
My name is Dan for anybody who doesn't know who I am.
This is the place where we think differently.
Gaily, what is up by different thinkers ? I feel like there's cameras,
a bit weird like one a bat man moving just to kind of on the side.
Sorry.
This video is on a weird, isn't it?
I feel like it is actually, I'm going to do, I'm going to, so isn't it.
I'm just going to Mark.
I'm absolutely going crazy.
Anyway, guys.
Good to have you here.
I wanted to do this video today because I feel like there's, there's a lot
of, um, There's a lot of like, uh, I don't know what you wanna call it.
Like, um, similarities between when people say that like they're autistic and then
some people say, no, no, it's, it's it's narcissism, but Aspergers syndrome, which
was used to be called Asperger's syndrome.
So I'm just, so the diagnosis that it used to be called Aspergers syndrome,
which is not basically just autism spectrum disorder, which refers to
people with lower support needs.
That used to be the high functioning type of autism.
That's a terrible name in convention and we don't use those anymore.
So.
This is, are you autistic or are you narcissistic?
And there's a very, very clean cut line to figure out which side you're on.
And if you're kind of like.
I dunno, you have to try to align with one another.
So we're going to go through it.
We're going to talk about autism first and we're going to talk about narcissism.
So we're going to talk about like how, um, you know, what autism is
and then what narcissism isn't.
And by doing this, you'll be able to see how different they both are.
Okay.
So looking at autism, right?
I've written some notes.
If you see me looking off screen, this is why so autism.
Um, is there a developmental neurological condition that impacts you from birth?
And it's a lifelong condition.
It's kind of like a, um, incurable, um, lifelong condition, you know,
and cause there's neurological it's with you from day dot.
Um, and it can be understood as you know, looking at people through
personality, behavioral traits, as well as, um, communication issues.
Now, autistic people don't know that they are saying wrong words.
Or wrong things from time to time.
So they don't have filters.
They don't know what's appropriate social conventions because socializing is down
to the communication part of the brain.
And the communication part of the brain is heavily impacted when you
have an autism spectrum disorder.
Right?
So autistic people have.
issues with the communicating and understanding emotions.
So, uh, communicating their emotions, outwards to somebody or laying how
they feel or what their emotions are to somebody is very difficult
for people on the autism spectrum.
As for understanding other people's emotions is actually difficult
for people on the spectrum.
Kind of like, um, trying to tell someone how they feel, um, because it's a
communication issue at the end of the day.
And again, like I said, autistic people just try and be as honest as they can,
you know, that they're honest people.
They, they, they, it's not like.
We, um, we try to lie to get out of anything, is it doesn't do like that.
You know, we're honest and decent kind of thinking.
And so that's a very interesting key point he was going to talk about,
but during socializing and autistic person will struggle to follow the
flow of the social in the conversation and present issue than a stunning,
the social conventions or the hidden social rules of, you know, distance.
And when each alternative talk and hand movements and kind of like.
Yeah, whose turn is it to talk?
How long do we talk for what, what volume do I talk at?
How do I do I just appear or do I just disappear?
Like how, you know, all of those things, those unwritten social rules, which
are kind of like hidden skills that people just pick up from socializing.
These are all a miss with autism.
Very interesting.
Now, if we flip this and look at narcissism, so a narcissistic
condition is a mental health condition that is characterized by a person's
ability to display a negative behavior in their social approach.
So, whereas autism is a neurological approach.
Narcissism is more of a mental health condition.
Uh, you know, in social situations and narcissist will be manipulative and
use manipulation techniques to gain power within that social construct.
So they will manipulate the conversation to make them gain the
upper hand in a conversation or gain power in that conversation.
Uh, quite an interesting thing to think about, but, but it's
definitely something that narcissistic personality traits do help, um, enough.
And narcissist will have multi-dimensional personalities and switch between
different ones with different people to gain control over them.
So, whereas an autistic person will just have one personality.
They are who they are, but in narcissist, will switch it to play the games so
that they can gain leverage in every situation they're and the talking with
somebody on the, on the spectrum now.
Talking with somebody in a social situation now, in terms of narcissism
versus autism, you can clearly see there's a huge difference because narcissists
are actively aware of the negativity that they are implementing into people
that they are exploiting through social conventions, autism, and autistic people.
When they are in social situations, they have, I know where the fact that they
are negatively impacting those people and then not doing it to gain leverage.
Whereas in our system, on the other hand, we'll know what they're doing.
To gain leverage.
So when you're confronted with someone on the autism spectrum,
it's very clear because they're not trying to do anything on purpose.
It's kind of like, uh, they may say something wrong by accident.
It's not, not that intention.
They have no hidden agenda, but people with narcissism will be of the elk
to one to, uh, to manipulate you.
And they want to do, because they know it's wrong and they wanted it
because they want to gain power.
It's a, it's a more of an egotistical thing rather than just a mistake.
So there are differences, the clear differences between
Aspergers and narcissism.
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