So how do you spot autism?
Here are five simple autism traits that I'm going to share with you that you
should definitely look out for all that.
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So what's up different thinkers walking back to the aspie world
where we think differently daily.
Which is kind of like a cool tagline.
I thought I saw cool and blowing my own trumpet.
I just like using it because it's true.
We think differently daily.
And hopefully in this video, I'll get you to kind of think a little
bit differently about how you see stuff, which is pretty dope.
So I have the many videos trying to like identify autism and people.
How do you characterize autism and people?
How do you see it?
And people, because it's a, it's an interesting thing to talk about.
You know, you could just be somebody who works with someone
and you think that may be autistic.
So how do you spot that?
And this is exactly what this video is about.
So I've listed out five of the main ones that I think would be helpful
for you to try and identify autism.
If you suspect somebody maybe on the spectrum, just for your own peace of
mind, or if you're trying to help somebody and you wanna investigate it, then, uh,
yeah, you could definitely, um, help and, and learn this stuff and the, yeah.
Right.
Let's get into it.
Okay.
So the first one is lack of eye contact.
Now lack of eye contact is such a common.
Autism trait it's due to the fact that an autistic person find it super
difficult to make eye contact and maintain eye contact with people.
It's because it feels awkward.
It's a social connection.
There's something it's difficult to do.
I can't really explain in any other way.
I did do a video all about autism and eye contact, and I'll try and link
it in the description down below.
So you can check that out, but in terms of eye contact, it's very difficult to do.
Um, and people on the autism spectrum will just kind of not look at you.
They'll just like what past, you all look at your forehead,
they'll just look at the floor.
Okay.
So number two is an usual speech patterns.
Now people with an autism spectrum disorder usually will display, uh,
patterns of speech when speaking sentences, but there'll be unusual.
Um, you know, they may talk as if you already know what they're talking about.
Uh, they may just come right out and say like, Oh yeah,
yeah, he did that last Tuesday.
And you're like, wonder if you're talking about.
What I'm talking about anybody wearing an ice cream right now, but that is
because the person on the spectrum is relaying a conversation in their head
that may they have, they may have had months ago, weeks ago, or even a year ago.
And they're relaying that conversation.
And they finally got to the part where they want to put
their input and their input.
And it happens all the time.
I randomly laugh out loud, just like all the time my girlfriend
is like, what are you doing?
And I'm like, Oh, I just remember this joke that I was told like two months ago.
Um, so yeah.
Unusual speech pattern is.
Definitely something to look out for when dealing with
people on the autism spectrum.
So you'll notice very quickly.
Okay.
So number three is zoning out.
Well, actually it's not zoning out.
It's actually zoning in, but it seems like from the outside that
the person who in question maybe on the autism spectrum is zoning out.
Of the world around them.
Right.
And this is due to the fact that the person on the autism spectrum
is hyper-focusing and really focusing, concentrating on something
like zoning into something of their specific kind of interests.
They may be, you know, finding this little hinge on the back of this,
um, you know, iPad, the, uh, AirPod Pro's is really interesting and
they're just hyper-focusing on it.
And when they do that, they become so, um, focused on it that
everything else becomes just.
Blacked out, you could be calling the name for hours and then she'd
be like looking at this thing.
Um, it doesn't mean that there's doning the world, that actually
is running into something.
So this is very common.
Um, cause often you might hear that people say, Oh, artistic people
live in a world of their own.
And what they actually mean is that assisting people are, um, zoning into
this thing, this, this, you know, the zoning out of the, they, what they can see
as the typical all around them reality.
Okay.
So number four is not understanding jokes.
This is a very big one.
My friends.
Kick my butt about this all the time.
They make up things too, like sarcastic jokes and all those kinds of rubbish.
Um, just to get one over on me, just because the horrible, so big shout
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But anyway, um, not understanding jokes is very common.
Autistic people take things literally.
So when you say jokes, that joke is perceived as all literal when you are
relaying that to an artistic person.
So if you know somebody you think maybe autistic.
And then not getting your jokes all the time.
Well, this is why I was letting people take things literally that they're not
able to differentiate between the joke and what's real, unless they really know
you really, really, really well, but even then it can become quite struggle.
Okay.
So number five, if the obsessive interest, now this is probably one of the most
obvious ones, obsessive interests.
It's something that autistic people do just.
Everyone I know on the autism spectrum has an obsessive interest.
They're obsessed with certain things.
Like some guy knows obsessed with Marilyn Monroe.
I'm really into like conspiracy theories.
And I love fight club and I love like social, digital media marketing
and all that kind of stuff.
And.
When someone is obsessed with that, they will talk about it 24 seven.
They will talk about it nonstop if you're asking them about it.
It's the only thing they will talk about.
The only thing they will do to relax is study their specific topic.
It will collect everything on it.
They'll read during the visit, the places about that thing.
It's like it engulfs the entire being that is what it is like having
an obsessive interest, or a special obsessive interest on the autism spectrum.
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