in this video I'm talking about seven Asperger's symptoms that you didn't know
were actually traits coming up hey guys welcome back to the afterworld I'm Dan
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video I'm talking about some traits that people don't often associate with
Asperger's syndrome that you probably didn't even know about and stick by to
the end video to see the whole list hey guys welcome back to another video super
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today is from Megan a Parker and they said what are some of the resources out
there for autism hashtag philosophy so the resources for autism would be
there's some great websites the National Autistic Society website which is just
autism org they have a fantastic range of amazing
downloads information PDFs all kinds of stuff they even run course is if you
sign up for one of the courses and where they teach people doing things about
autism etc also some of the best resources are probably gonna be from
your local health board so if you go to like your doctor or your mental health
clinic you know a logical kind of clinics and ask them for information on
autism they should be able to point you in the direction of therapies so this is
another access to help therapies like counseling psychological intervention
and things like occupational therapy will definitely help okay so TL I sling
had said would you have even touch on OCD as in
things you used to help yourself with it yes absolutely I do have OCD like I said
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much so guys let's get into it so absolutely symptoms that are like kind
of not just uncommon just things that people wouldn't normally associate as
being something for Asperger syndrome ok so the first one is repetitive of
behavior and you might be like oh everybody knows that people on the
autism spectrum love repetitive behavior because they love routines and routines
out everything right well there are some people who have be able to create coping
mechanisms for other things like you know they may have an autism spectrum
condition but they may not show that because they have made coping mechanisms
and they may mask enigma' do all these things so this video is just a kind of a
just an interesting video to show incite to things that you may have like skipped
over in people's lives so one of them is repetitive behavior now repetitive
behavior could be down to things like if someone likes to make the same thing to
eat every single day and then again they go to work they come home for lunch and
then they have the same thing every single day then they come home from work
at the end of the day and then they maybe play about with like RC racing
cars and then they you know go upstairs watch their favorite show read the same
newspaper and then they go to bed and they do that same thing every single day
now this repetitive behavior is something that it becomes kind of almost
not obsessive but it's something that they rely on and so when that is taken
away from them all there's a change in that routine they may become distressed
they may like overwhelmed and this is a huge one
this is like this is like autism 101 but in terms of people who may not already
be diagnosed you know this kind of behavior is is super super interesting
so repetitive behavior is something that I was always doing before I was
diagnosed that I didn't realize was associated with an autism spectrum
condition which I find just fascinating okay so number two is something that we
don't really talk about a lot in their tics no tics are a little bit different
to stims so when people refer to autism and they
talk about stimming stimming is like self-esteem military behavior which
could be like rocking in the chair or flapping of hands or using you know like
future spinners or something to soothe themselves and having kind of like just
sensory stimuli basically from things that sensory pleasing now in terms of
tics takes that involuntary like flick source or like small things that happen
when you don't realize happening so in Tourette syndrome tics are very commonly
associated with like aggressive shouting or they may use swear words or they cuss
or something like that ought to make weird noises and those those typically
are tics that's what we know is takes but with an Asperger's syndrome you can
have tics and for instance one of my tics is I hit my chest and I go like
this and I hit my chest I don't know why I did it just kind of like I strain I
strain myself I'm gonna push my shoulders back and I strain it put my
test I guess sometimes it sends it to a stim where I like rock my arms back but
usually it's it's a tic and on a cough and I hit my chest all the time happen
all the time and this tic I've had to take for years in the in years I know
who's made apparent me when when we go through the diagnosis process and my
girlfriend has to like write a list of things to show with the doctor you know
what why do you thinking of what evidence would you say what kind of
unusual quirks does Dan have that you know typically neurotypical people
wouldn't have and this was one of them okay so number three is antisocial
behavior now antisocial behavior and I don't mean this in the fact that no
you're a yob and you go outside with like you know alcohol can't and shout at
people that's not like the other children behavior I'm trying to talk
about antisocial behavior in the way where you
are more likely to spend your afternoon in a library researching something than
going out with friends and everything like you know a fun time in a bar or
going to play sports or something like that oh you're really obsessed with
video gaming you're not really bothered about friends as much as you are your
research topic or your gaming that you're into now this type of thing comes
from a mixture of anxiety and also a mixture of social misunderstandings so
people with an autism spectrum condition have a slightly different understanding
of you know how to communicate socially with other people so this makes it
difficult for them so it could lead to them wanting to be more reclusive and be
in their home and also they enjoy the the secluded nosov just the quiet time
having that time to just chill out and not really have to worry about you know
noise and smells and sounds and and other stimuli that could really trigger
you so you know if you're a person you know who is on the spectrum and you
enjoy that you know lucid enough that's awesome I absolutely love it I'd love to
just sit down and research something then go out to a party that's my
personal one so again this is kind of a treat the way you'd see in somebody and
again in myself when I was going through my diagnosis process I was going through
this and my girlfriend was like okay well doesn't really have to go anyway
you know he loves to just do his own thing in his room or when I was not a
parent's house and that's kind of very interesting and again a super top one
what people don't really talk about when we talk about and bigger like traits and
things like that okay so number four is one of my personal favorites this one is
fussy eating now the feta eating can overlap with repetitive behavior so for
instance when I was a child I was super fussy why I am stupid for seeing any
when I was really young my parents on a hard time trying to find food that I
really liked but I really liked one type of food which is like roast vegetables
with gravy and stuff like that and I just wanted that all the time and so my
mom actually like Pratt me like made loads of them and like we froze sermon
and like and I'd have that every single day and I was not like the best
experiences of my life was having that same meal every single day and I loved
it now having you know fussiness with food it's super super interesting
because it relates directly to something called sensory processing disorder now
if you want to learn about sensory processing disorder I will leave a link
to that video I made on that right above here in a cat so you guys can actually
see you know that video on sensory processing disorder and house
you process into sadiq and impact your life and how it co-occur is comorbid ly
with autism now what someone is fussing with the food through textures or smells
or temperatures all of this stuff is down to how the body is perceiving the
sensory input from this thing now this again is a super super diagnostic fact
that when you're looking at diagnosing criteria for people on the spectrum and
it's super interesting I found just just fascinating okay guys so number five is
depression okay so this isn't like we don't really talk about a lot but very
very commonly occurring and most mostly all the time occurring with Asperger
syndrome is that when people have Asperger's syndrome they do suffer from
depression unfortunately it's a it's something that happens because of the
way that the autistic brain interacts with the world around them they are
susceptible to things like depression and high anxiety and things like that
and stress and all kinds of stuff I mean for me personally I've had like alopecia
my have fallen out in different places and about depression been on
antidepressants but it's so common that you know people just they do treat it
and they don't really say oh goodness yeah this is another causing factor that
is a comorbid the co-occurring condition within an autism spectrum diagnosis so
if you're somebody you know who has a lot of these traits going on like I was
and also had like depression this again leads to a more strong and successful
diagnosis of Asperger syndrome or it now is autism spectrum disorder and I
explained this in a video you like last week so if you want to check that video
out please go and check it out in the link in the card above here so that is
something to always remember that the prescience strikes people with autism
and it's super it's just like almost like a like a really obvious trait if
that makes sense okay so number six is something that like this is super
interesting well it takes a short-term memory loss now a short-term memory loss
is simply something that's very very common with autism now when you have you
know your own spectrum and you're having issues with short-term memory but you
have a great long-term memory like for instance I can remember most of the
stuff it happened to me all of my life I going through the 90s growing up you
know when I was a little kid growing or growing up and it's even conversations I
have with people almost like bizarre kind of like just in each conversations
that probably wouldn't even think of I remember pretty much everything little
thing about those and almost I can picture for my mind it's in a picture
okay - black and white - it an extent because I don't really remember things
that well in color but it is picture format I can definitely cup the details
and I love that but if I go walk into the house and one was like hey can you
go to the kitchen and get me that cup I walk into the kitchen and be like
instantly I have no idea what I'm doing and just forget instantly or if somebody
says to me this is the worst one some people say hit down on the 12th of this
date you need to go here look if I don't write that down and get Siri on my
iPhone to tell me when that is going to occur it's not gonna happen
and I just absolutely fail at it and this is really common with the way the
autistic brain processes information it will start filtering the information
into the long-term memory bank but in the short-term it just forgets that
information and it's quite clumsy with it and it's super interesting and that's
a huge trait of an autism spectrum condition and something that we should
always be aware of on dealing with new diagnoses or looking at yourself even if
you're diagnosed there is help available for building a short-term memory
resilience and like you know helping overcome issues that it may have I use
different types of apps and maybe I'll do enough video so if you want to see a
video on apps then please make sure you comment Saint Todd do a video on earth
that can help shot some memory loss okay so number seven and this is that the
final one is stuttering right this isn't this is super interesting studying is a
trait that I have all my life growing up until I was about 15 or 16 I do stutter
sometimes still but I've overcome that because I'd be more conscious about it
now you know stuttering or having a stammer is when you kind of like it's
you know you can't get the word out and you start it a little bit now when I was
a kid this was really bad and my brother used to make fun of me and all that kind
of stuff because you know all the siblings are horrible sometimes and yeah
the the stutter was a huge one for me because like I didn't really know what
was going on it kind of gets worse when I'm under pressure are under stress it
gets worse when I'm trying to do things and I'm flustered and and it was really
really strong when I was a kid I would say up until I was about 15 it was super
bad and it stopped me doing a lot of things
that kind of gave me some issues with like once a while and actually make
friends and socialize along with all the other stuff that comes with an autism
spectrum diagnosis but in terms of having a stutter this is another key
indicator that and also the spectrum condition does come with a stutter
because of simple things like is how your brain is communicating your brains
running a bit faster than your mouth can get out and it can cause all kinds of
you know neurological conditional issues that come outcome overtly with it and
stuttering it's definitely one of those okay guys that number eight and this is
I don't normally do this but this is like a bonus 150 I want to give you guys
number a so number eight for me it's obsessive interest like I feel like this
isn't like I've missed a lot of the time because they look for things like you
know they socialize can they communicate - do people make eye contact these are
how they categorize you know autism diagnostic and very basically I'm not
talking about this is like the clinical kind of academic vision I'm just saying
that this is like typically how people kind of identify autism in people but
one of the things that I think is greatly missed is the obsessional
interest and the obsessive interest of some people are they get directly into
something and they're like wow this is amazing and they they just dive straight
in and they just love the subject that they just get completely overwhelmed of
them will bite everything to normal subject they'll read about it they'll
visit that that place of the subject interest and it becomes an obsession and
obsession obsession and then they'll just quit that and go to another
obsession and this is very very common that I'll have one session and then move
on to another session and the idea so this is very very common and I think
this is something that we all should take note of as well when an autism
spectrum condition and it should always be encouraged because having that
knowledge base could lead to a really good career and maybe I don't know guys
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