In this video, I'm talking about the top five ASD symptoms that you should know.
So by the end of this video, you'll know exactly what to look out for coming up.
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So I'm going to be breaking down five of the most common ASD symptoms
that you can use to identify if somebody is on the spectrum or not.
Or if you're just creating this for yourself and your own research,
this is going to help you.
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So anyway, you guys moving on from this, I just like to know, are you
a parent of somebody on the spectrum or a friend or something, or are
you a person who is on the spectrum?
And you're just looking to see, to seek a diagnosis.
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Okay guys.
So in this video, I'm covering the five symptoms.
I kind of think are most notable in people who are on the autism spectrum.
And because of that, Notability I think that it would be good to break these
down so I can go through them with you.
So I've got five of them here, which are pretty much the main ones and yeah,
let's start opening this discussion.
Okay.
The first one I want to talk about is eye contact.
Now people on the autism spectrum, do you have difficulty creating,
maintaining and keeping eye contact?
Because eye contact is something that's very personal, personal level, and it's
learned through social behavior, not people who are on the autism spectrum
actually have issues and difficulties with socializing and social constructs
of social, social situations, meaning that the idea of eye contact can
be quite a stressing situation.
And also a.
Um, an uncomfortable situation for someone on the autism spectrum,
because they may not be used to that.
And they may not actually feel comfortable doing that.
So if you see a lack of eye contact in somebody, or if yourself, you
know, you know, you have a lack of eye contact issue, then it could be
due to the fact that that person or yourself are on the autism spectrum.
And this is kind of like number one area.
I would tell anybody to just look out for, if they're coming across
something that they think, Oh, this person may be on the spectrum.
This is a key indicator and it's one of the main ones to kind of look out
for when you're looking at people and thinking, Hmm, there may be autistic.
So the second thing I'm going to talk about here is repetitive behavior.
Now people on the autism spectrum love routine and routine is having
something that follows a strict kind of.
A domino line or things that are going to happen.
So you know that you're going to get up at this time, go downstairs at that time.
Have that for breakfast?
Go here, go to work at that time, have a coffee at this time and
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
You know, you have a routine, a structure, a very rigid routine and
structure and people on the autism spectrum really enjoy that routine.
And they love that kind of structure.
And the reason they do that is because it's familiar, it's safe.
There's no unpredictability within that.
And so people who are autistic.
Simply like having structure and routine that unloved falling the
routines now a, a, a side effect.
And that would be that if you deviate from that routine or structure or that
plan, they may have issues with it.
Or we may have issues with it where if like I'm trying to follow
a strict routine or a strict kind of plan that I'm going to do this,
this, and this and this, and then.
I go, Oh, you know, somebody comes in and says, we can do something different.
It completely throws me.
And then like, it throws me, my entire day gets thrown out and then I kind of
feel a bit anxious and that can cause a meltdown because I just feel like
everything else, you know, going forward is going to be completely disrupted.
So it's a really interesting one to look out for, because if you know someone
who's obviously following a pattern of a routine and is very stuck in that routine
and very, it's very rigid and there's a very strict routine and this could be due
to the fact that they are on the autism spectrum, or if it's yourself and Hey.
We're like bros.
Okay.
Number three, three, we're pacing, three of these.
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Right?
And the three, this is really cool.
This one is literal.
Thinking now literal thinking is where you take something at face the value without
questioning it kind of like a joke.
If somebody tells you a joke, you're there, they're setting you up the story.
And then the story is supposed to be funny, but people on the autism spectrum
will take that joke very seriously.
I think we'll take whatever you say.
As when you say it as being truth, it's truthful facts because it's hard to read
between the lines for assisting people.
So my friends always do this to me.
They always joke about and tell me stupid things, ridiculous things that
I end up believing obviously, and then they just laugh about it and they kind
of use hereditary advantage to get some kind of cold, the volume of it,
which is, you know, That's friends, few friends are the words I'm the best.
So, yeah, but literally thinking is something that happens all the time
and this can be, be a blessing and also a issue because it's a blessing in a
way where you can have somebody on the autism spectrum being completely honest
and truthful, which is super amazing.
And they will take what you say and trust what you say.
The issue, the issue is that someone could lie and become, you know, you make you
vulnerable and then you become vulnerable.
To them lying and stuff like that.
But taking things literally, like not understanding sarcasm, not
understanding all that kind of stuff.
This is so common.
It's kind of like, um, it's kind of like a really big red flag for
someone who's on the autism spectrum.
If they're not getting the jokes, if they really don't understand and
they're taking things, literally it's like, That's autism dude autism.
Okay.
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Okay.
So number four is socializing.
So people on the autism spectrum will have huge issues with
socializing and social behaviors.
For instance, they may not understand social conventions, like how
close to Stand to somebody else, how, how distance stand, how, how
much their voice volume kind of.
You know, it should be at a certain level when they're talking to other
people, how they know it's their turn to talk when it's their turn to talk,
um, loads of different social constructs like that, all these are very difficult
for artistic people to kind of, uh, come up with, think about, understand
all of these social unwritten rules.
And the reason why is because all of these unwritten spoken about social construct
are things that are developed when you're.
Young, when you're on your growing up and your, and you've got friends
and then you, you talk to your friends about something and then
you learn different things together.
As friends, as, as comrades, you know, you grow together and you learn together.
But unfortunately with autism spectrum disorder, because that is
such a difficult concept because it is a communication issue.
It's harder for them to pick that up or for us to pick that up.
So socializing, social interaction.
Making friends, maintaining friends, keeping relationships, saying the
wrong things, having a filter, all these things are very much a mess
with people, the autism spectrum.
And this is a huge giveaway that somebody is autistic.
Okay.
So number five, the last on the list is obsessive interests.
This is probably like my favorite one because people
who are on the autism spectrum.
Have an obsessive interest or obsessive special interests, which means that they
have it's subject genre or something that they know every single thing about.
You could ask them anything on it.
They'll know everything about it.
They probably collect everything to do with it.
They could tell you everything, they spent all the time researching it.
They want to talk to you about it all the time.
And that's it.
And it's all I want to talk to you about like obsessed with it.
Like right now I love Tamagotchi.
I just got a new one as well.
And I'm obsessed with Tamagotchi.
I know I'm like a 30 year old dude, like this is, yeah.
I love Tamagotchi's but people on the autism spectrum have obsessive interests.
Now, if you're thinking to yourself.
Okay.
But everybody has interesting stuff, right?
Well, yes they do.
But do people go to the great lens where they start like hording
stuff and, and like really, really getting into collectors theory
and then really kind of like.
Researching everything to know about it.
Like for instance, somebody in the autism spectrum who has an obsessive interest
in some things say it's Marvel or DC or something like superhero related, right.
They probably know everything.
The person who designed the shoelaces in the comic book, because all the
reason why those shoes were picked and how the progression of that
character's shoes were evolved over time, because it's the small money detail.
It's the.
It's the collecting of data, the gathering of research, which is the thing that
probably excites the brain, I'm guessing.
Cause I love doing that stuff as well.
So it's that, that makes it more of an obsessive interest from an artistic point
of view rather than just somebody saying, Oh, you know, I have an obsessive interest
in X, Y, and Z and blah, blah, blah.
So it's more like.
And obsessive interest and they become almost like a guru in it.
So they'll know everything about it, which is a really good thing, because
just think about it now, this could be a job if you like, you know, mechanic
or builder or something like that.
Um, you know, if you're really interested in mechanics or something
or driving or whatever, then you can become an expert in that field.
And that's a really good, uh, leeway art or way in to get a really cool job
in that field for, so guys that was it.
That was the five ASD symptoms that you really needed to know.
And I hope now that you understand everything, I said, if not.
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And I'll see you next time guys.