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It's an interesting one, right?
I call this video high functioning autism, right.
But high functioning autism, isn't a term that exists.
It's kind of a, not a term they use anymore.
It was actually taken away because of all this kind of weird stuff that
happened between like nomenclature and trying to get support.
And it was just a bit weird and using function and labels
didn't really help anybody.
So they got rid of all that.
And then they called it autism spectrum disorder.
So in this video, we're talking about people on the autism spectrum, lowest
support needs than people on the autism spectrum with high social needs.
And therefore.
Oh, well, let's get into what's going on.
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So I wrote down a list of the traits of people who are on the autism
spectrum with low support needs, so that you would kind of be able to
identify them because sometimes it can be a bit tricky when people aren't
typically displaying things that are.
Noted with kind of like the classic idea of autism.
So let's go through them right now.
no.1 is The love of routines.
Like autistic people, love routines.
They love to stick to daily routines.
They love to stick to doing the same thing every single day.
If they could do probably have the same thing.
Um, for, uh, you know, for breakfast every single day, they'll come down
and they'll sit in the same spot or watch the same thing on the TV.
It will be the same magazine.
Then we sit in the same chair all the time and that routine is like their life.
They love it.
It's a lifeline, it's something they hold on to something
they cherish and they love.
And it's part of them.
It's something that we should really look out for because
that's a really good indicator.
Someone on the autism spectrum, because we'll have a routine,
gives somebody a stability.
Um, Uh, someone on the autism spectrum really wants stability
because that stability gives them that comfort, I guess.
And security.
Awesome.
Okay.
So number two is special interests.
Most people on the autism spectrum will have a specific, special interests,
like almost like an obsessive interests that they really focus on.
And when they really focused on, I mean, like they go to town
on it, like I remember a guy.
Who I know who's on the autism spectrum.
And he was really interested in Marilyn Monroe.
Like he knew everything about it.
He read every book about, and he collected all of the memorabilia and
books and stuff, and even went to visit her house where she grew up and went
to the place where she was last living and stuff in America and met some of
her friends and all that kind of stuff.
And it was just this crazy, like, Um, obsessive interests with Marlon Monroe.
And I have obsessive interests, too.
I love, uh, systems and, and chemistry and, uh, and yeah, marketing and online,
social media and stuff like that.
But like, like obsessive, like, I mean, I just, I love it.
I love listened to all the time.
So in terms of that, um, especially obsessive interest in special interests
come under the umbrella of a typical trait or a personality trait of somebody in
the autism spectrum, because it's very, very interesting and it gets intense.
And I can tell you now that if you know exactly what I'm talking about, where
you've got a son or a friend or whatever, who's on the autism spectrum, or you
suspect that they're on the spectrum, but they have this thing that you talk
about and they'll talk about it, right.
Nonstop, just full Pelt.
Talk to you about it until the cows come home until you're bored
and probably falling asleep.
And you're like, I have no interest in stickers, stamps or hot,
like vintage coins, but they're telling you about it anyway.
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So there's a third one on my list is odd food habits.
Now, autistic people, or an autistic person may have an unusual eating habits.
Now they, they may like separating their food on their plate so that they have
like, you know, Chicken the signs and then rice this side, and then veggies the side.
So they're not touching, or they may have like the gravy and sauces and
stuff in a pot next to their dinner so they can dip their stuff into it.
So they don't have to have it touching.
This is very common because textures and stuff come with, uh, the sensory
processing disorder, which is a Comorbidly co-occurring with autism,
which is kind of like a bolt-on, uh, diagnosis that happens with autism.
But it's kind of like, It kind of marries up quite well, but this also
leads to things like unusual eating habits, where they want to separate
food, or they can't have this type of food or food that looks a certain color
or a food that smells a certain way.
Like for me specifically, I can't have raw onions or raw garlic anywhere near me.
And I can't be in a room where someone's cooking onions and garlic.
It just makes me feel very uncomfortable.
And it just, it's just difficult for me to be in the room.
I don't, I'm getting really upset when I was doing like access
to science, uh, course degree.
Um, When, uh, when we had to dissect an onion to put it into a microscope
and look at the lays and stuff, but yeah, it was very difficult, uh, to
deal with, but that's just who we are.
It's just, we're all individual and we're all made just super awesome.
So yeah, we should power to being individual, man.
That's awesome.
Okay.
So the fourth thing I want to talk about here is difficulty in conversation.
Now, conversing for people in social situations is typically something
that people do without even thinking about, but people on the autism
spectrum will have difficulties in social situations because autism in
its core, is it communicative issue.
It's a communication issue where people on the autism spectrum will have difficulties
socializing because socializing right.
Has unwritten un kind of spoken about rules that we just pick up from just
going to school and hanging friends and be with this guy and that guy.
And when I, those things kind of pick up, uh, just around you, but people on the
autism spectrum don't really pick these up because they're too busy trying to figure
out the world around them from heightened senses and other things that's going on,
or maybe their assessive interests with coins and Marilyn Monroe is taking over
at the time where they would have been concentrating on conversational pieces
between two people and blah, blah, blah.
So.
This is a very interesting hallmark where someone on the autism
spectrum may have an awkward time having a social dinner or a social
conversation or meeting new friends.
Very, very interesting.
Okay.
So number five is that people in the autism space will have, uh,
like an anxiety or overwhelmed, easy, uh, part for them.
So they could be like very, they could be overwhelmed very easily basically.
And they'll have excessive anxiety that can cause meltdowns and emotional
outbursts or, uh, or what people used to call it kind of like news
breakdowns or an anxiety breakers.
Which is basically a meltdown in an autism sense, which happens quite a
lot and happens because the personally autism spectrum has a difficulty
in certain situations that will heighten their anxiety or heightened.
They're getting triggered and they start getting upset and then
they get emotionally overwhelmed.
All of those things can, uh, cause this, this upset and this upset can come
out as like an anxiety attack or can come off as a, um, uh, Well, I don't
know, it could be an autism meltdown.
It could be a shutdown, could be a, could be anything.
Right.
But the fact that the matter is it happens.
And if you are, um, you know, if you know somebody who may be on the autism
spectrum and you see them getting overwhelmed easily or, or triggered
easily, or have anxiety, it's anxiety and partial to panic attacks and they
have all this other stuff going on.
Well, there you go.
They may actually be on the autism spectrum.
And that's kind of like an interesting thing, and it's a cool thing because
we're all individual on all different and all equal in our own way.
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