Hey guys in this video, I'm going to tell you how you can tell
if you have Aspergers syndrome.
And here are the top five signs that I know of to help
you along the way, coming up.
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Okay guys.
So you think you might have Aspergers syndrome or you're
looking for somebody else?
Didn't think they might have Aspergers syndrome.
Well, it's good job that you are here because I have a
diagnosis of Aspergers syndrome.
I have listed out five for the most common signs of Aspergers syndrome,
where how you can really quickly identify if somebody is on the spectrum
or not using this kind of outline.
This is not an official test, but this is a good way to indicate to you that, okay.
Maybe I should go and see a specialist because.
My kid or myself acting this way.
Right.
Let's get started.
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Okay.
Let's jump straight in to my list.
So, number one is the, the love of routine.
Now people with Aspergers syndrome love repetitive routine, getting up the
same time every day, going downstairs, sitting on the same chair every day,
eat the same cereal every single day.
I'm watching the same show every single morning that.
Is them in a nutshell, you know, they wear the same clothes every day.
They're like the same food all the time.
They go to the same places all the time.
It's basically a.
All around a routine that is comfortable and is familiar to them
because people on the autism spectrum don't like change in their routine.
They don't like, uh, um, you know, things that they can't control,
like surprises in the road.
So when you have a routine, there's not going to be anything.
That's going to just pop out as a surprise because you already
know all the stuff that's on it because you do it every single day.
You do day in, day out, no surprises.
Super easy to deal with.
Love it.
So number two is obsessive interests.
Now people with Aspergers syndrome will have an obsessive interest.
Now an obsessive interest is basically where the person has a topic of interest.
It could be, you know, Pokemon or Tamagotchis or Minecraft
or Harry Potter or whatever.
And they'll, they'll learn everything there is to know about it.
They'll learn everything they know they'll they'll, they'll buy every book, every.
T-Shirt they'll go to the place where it was a created, they'll know all
the backstories of every character and every individually tiny little details
because their obsessive interest is the mind's way of engaging with something.
That's really keeping their focus engaged in something that
is, is building their mind.
And, and it's just a fantastic thing to do.
So you've got to hit that thumbs up button.
If you know somebody who is like every single kind of like Pokemon t-shirt in the
world or knows everything about Minecraft and your loft garage or basement is full.
Right now, Minecraft books, or like my little ponies or something.
I know exactly what we're talking about.
You've got to go to view of thumbs up because you know what I'm saying?
Now I see you, mum.
I see you doing this right now.
I see you laughing at this video.
I know exactly what I'm saying, right?
Because obsessive interests are really cool.
Um, you know, and, and it's, it's not a bad thing.
It's a really good thing.
If you treat it in a good way now, I actually did a, a free webinar course,
all about help for parents and kids.
They gave us a people on the spectrum.
Now, if you wanted.
Check that out.
If parents and carers are watching this video right now and want to
check out this free web class, I did specifically for them to help
ease people's lives of autism.
There is a link in the card above link in the end card and in
description below where you can get your hands on that course and
you can just take it it's for free.
And it's awesome.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
Check that out.
Okay.
So number three is.
Bad eye contact, no bad eye contact basically means what it says on the
10 people who have Aspergers syndrome have a real bad difficulty making eye
contact, maintaining eye contact and keeping an eye contact with people.
Eye contact could be a countering factor that the fact that people
on the autism spectrum have a difficulty with social situations.
now social situations may cause issues with like trying to look people in the
eyes and keeping a maintaining eye contact with people because that's a socially.
Um, understood convention.
And obviously if you don't understand the social conventions and well, how on earth
are you supposed to ever understand too?
Yeah.
You know, maintain icon look absolutely right in the eye is
make sure that eye contact is part of a everyday conversation.
It's very difficult for someone on the autism spectrum, especially people
like diagnosed Aspergers syndrome to actually maintain that eye contact.
Okay.
Number four, this is really interesting.
This one impacted my life probably more than any other.
And this is following instructions and issues with following instructions.
Now people diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome like myself.
We'll have issues following instructions.
Now you might think that following instructions is really simple.
You could just like tell somebody to go and do something and you
say, do this, this, this, and this.
And he goes and do it well in actual fact, that's very difficult.
For a start if you just give somebody instructions that are verbal instructions
and their brain can't process.
The way that the verbal instruction, then it goes into a physical command.
Then they're never gonna be able to do that.
Now, this is exactly what happens with me and autism in general, where if you ask
someone with an autism spectrum condition to do something specifically in list
format or an instructional font, They may have difficulty trying to, trying
to process what you're actually asking.
So actually I asked them my girlfriend, uh, quite a few times I said to her
like, Oh, can you tell me again, tell me again what you need and then we'll
write it down or we'll draw a picture.
Now this is the best way to overcome this, that you can just actually draw
pictures of what you want, but also.
List format in texts.
Sometimes don't work either because it's just as confusing and difficult
because people on the autism spectrum are quite visual thinkers.
I like to see things visually and kind of like notice that, Oh yeah.
That's how it is.
Anyway, that is one of the most common ways that you can figure out if you are
on the autism spectrum, because having that issue with the communicating part
of your brain and the social part is definitely impacting the way that you.
Follow instructions and understand the instructions.
And this also could be down to like fallowing, cooking instructions on
a packet or a recipe or a remedy.
So this is a big one.
Now we're getting down to number five, the golden number five.
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And that, yeah, let's go with number five.
Okay.
So this is an interesting one, probably the biggest, one of all of
them that impact everybody on the spectrum and pretty much the same way.
And all this is issues with social communication now, social communication.
Isn't just the fact that, you know, you go to see a friend, ask how they are,
they ask who you are and you shake hands.
You know, that's not, it was the communication.
That is a form of social communication.
Yeah.
That's not all of it.
Do you know?
It said that we actually communicate 70% of our lives without actually speaking.
So, you know, 70%, which is the outstanding majority of communication
has done without actually talking, which is difficult, especially people
who are autistic, who actually like a more verbal conversation and,
or maybe picture a conversation.
So this is an issue.
Now the issue is basically this, when you were growing up and your
understanding, like different social situations and social conventions, you
kind of pick up on those because it's just a learning process that people do
as they learn and express themselves.
If they are developing typically with neurotypical brain conditions.
Now the problem that autism and autistic people have is that when
you're developing your brain is.
Wierd a little bit differently.
So it's having a difficult time in descending, the world around you, let
alone social issues, let alone social conventions within social circles that
you're already having difficulties with.
So you may not have a chance to pick those up.
I mean, some people may pick them up.
I'm not saying I'm going to be able to not notice any of them,
but most people would just have a little bit that they may pick up.
The bigger picture, like jokes and sarcasm and knowing how far to stand away from
your friend or knowing when to shake someone's hand, knowing the appropriate
language to use in front of somebody knowing like where there's a filter, where
you don't say certain things and said in front of certain people, or you don't.
Um, you know, you have respect for authoritarian figures and you have certain
things that you'll have to say to him, but not, you know, this is all very
confusing and it may be that sounding quite trivial, but for people on the
autism spectrum, this is very difficult.
There's another way.
If you talk with no filter, if you will, then people say your volume is wrong.
If people say stand too close and you're on some personal space, these are all
huge social conventions, especially hand gestures, and like, you know, just most
social gestures, really those things that really difficult to pick up on, especially
if you're on the autism spectrum.
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