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So I want to do this video about signs of autism, because I've done loads of
videos on it, but I wanted to come back and start doing some more because I feel
like a lot of people are, uh, you know, they don't really get a lot of it and
maybe they haven't seen the older videos.
And I thought, I just want to spruce it up a bit and do
some new videos and they just.
We thought, Hey, let's do a new one.
Let's let's do it.
So we're going to run down seven and it was common signs of autism and yeah,
it's going to be lots and lots of fun.
Okay.
So number one is issues with socializing.
Now, autistic people have huge issues with understanding social
cues, unwritten social rules.
Um, that kind of general back and forth in social situations that people just
learn and understand that as a given, because they're just typically grown up
in an environment where it's just easy to just learn and understand those things.
But for autistic people being, neurodivergent having that ability to suss
out those reading between the lines of a, of a, an unwritten social communication
can be quite tricky, difficult, and also leave them feeling a bit kind of left out
because it's a communication disorder it's called autism really impacts these areas.
And it's something that.
Can really stick out.
Okay.
So number two is a lack of eye contact.
Now, a lot of people know that eye contact is very difficult for autistic people,
but you may be aware that to look out for signs of autism in a person, then you may
be able to notice that they're not making eye contact regularly, or be able to
maintain eye contact during conversation.
This could be down to the fact that they may be on the autism spectrum.
This is a huge giveaway, probably one of the most common ones.
And it's probably one of the things I get asked about.
Most of all.
I actually remember being on television when I had my book.
It was released.
I was talking on good morning Britain with piers Morgan and piers Morgan, uh, was
talking to me and I was sat next to him.
And, uh, but a lot of people then in the, in the comments and, and the
feedback in the press was that I wasn't looking him in the eyes and they said
it was disrespectful, but of course it was just because I'm on the spectrum.
It's not something that I can generally do quite, you know,
comfortably with somebody I've never met before, let alone on television.
So it's definitely an interesting one.
And what to look out for and a huge giveaway.
Okay.
So number three is delay in speech and communication skills.
Now, autistic people will usually have a delay in their speech and almost
always have issues with communication.
It could be a stutter or a stammer.
Some kids can be non-verbal, um, but they're all, um, you know,
communication issues and issues with communicating in general.
Then you may.
Come across just a number of different things could be reading, could be writing.
It could be, um, talking one-on-one with somebody and not understanding
the premise of the conversation.
It is a communication disorder, the very, very heart of autism.
And this is what it is.
So this is the best way to kind of look into that.
You know, you're looking at.
Um, speech delay or communication delay or communication issues.
Okay.
So number four is difficulty understanding people's emotions.
Now people with an autism spectrum disorder will have huge issues,
understanding emotions in other people.
It's difficult to know, you know what what's not spoken about.
You know, if somebody's feeling upset, but they're not telling you the
feeling upset that isn't an unwritten kind of read between the lines.
I don't know what's going on.
You know, is this person upset?
Is this person sad?
Yeah.
Those things are really difficult that they have difficulty
understanding those people's emotions.
And so trying to communicate emotions with autistic people you'll have to be direct,
but autistic people won't understand if you are unhappy, sad, or or really
happy, you know, without the laughter.
Obviously if someone's laughing, then it could be happy.
But then again, it comes into muddy waters.
Some people could laugh hysterically, um, but hysterical in a negative way.
So it's very, very difficult and murky waters, but it's
something to look out for.
If somebody has difficulty understanding emotions from other people, it could
be due to an autism spectrum condition.
Um, number five is quite an interesting one.
This is upset from minor changes.
Now, a change in someone's routine, who is an autistic person.
Um, it can have a huge impact, uh, no matter how minor the change.
So, and people love routine and love knowing what's ahead.
What lies ahead that schedule that routine, the thing that they're going
to do and the thing that they do pretty much all the time, but then if there's.
A small bump in that road.
Then there could be a possibility that they are going to really have an
impact from that small, certain change.
So cause like if the, uh, the personal and spectrum expects to do
something, then something like a bump in the road happens, then it kind of
completely throws out their entire day.
And then they, I feel really like, you know what I do now?
It's almost like a feeling of dishpan like, how do I even.
You know, it's, it's a difficult thing to do.
And, um, and yeah, flat, minor changes, upsetting a routine.
Something that we've seen small to somebody else is huge
to somebody on the spectrum.
Okay.
So number six is sensory processing disorder or SPD.
Now SPD comes hand in hand with autism and, uh, can show issues and things.
How people with autism kind of interact with sight and smell and sound and
textures and sitting down and heat and being in a room with people.
All of these things that impact your senses and your ability to
be in a place can be impacted by the sensory processing disorder.
And it's the way that you communicate the senses from the external stimuli into you.
When I hear certain words and I actually feel physical pain, um, I
can't walk down certain aisles in.
I can't walk down certain aisles in a supermarket because the
smells are powering from their deli and things like that.
These are very, very common.
So if you know somebody who has sensory issues and all these other
ones, then they're probably more than likely on the autism spectrum.
Okay.
So number seven is no shock.
It's the love to follow routines.
Autistic people have to follow routines.
They'd love to have routines.
They'd love to have rigid routines and strict structure, um, in the way of
creating safe to predictability, because at the end of the day, There's very
little in life that is predictable.
Um, other than things like death, you know, but in terms of, um, Having
like, you know, to predict, Oh, you know how something's going to happen.
Nobody knows what's going to happen.
You know, because that's the beauty of life.
It's, uh, an ever-changing thing.
Right.
But what's, I think people love to have some kind of predictability, some
control and calm in that situation.
And so what can you control is the routine, you know, you know
that you're going to get it.
You're going to have conflicts breakfast.
You're going to go downstairs and watch.
I don't know, Dexter, whatever that is, what's going to happen.
And that's in your control and that's your comfortable, predictable, um, ability.
So following routines, having a love for routines, this is.
Just a huge common giveaway that someone who's on the autism spectrum.
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