in this video we're going to be covering five Asperger's symptoms and traits
so that by the end of this video you'll be able to identify autism and
Asperger's and people relatively quickly coming right up
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behaviour traits that you may not realize that our Asperger's symptoms I hope
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ok so first I'm gonna really comment from my youtube comments from one of you
guys and this comment is from Harry Potter and they said is a 14 a late our
early diagnosis and I would say that being diagnosed with Asperger's of 14 is
kind of quite an early diagnosis ok not as early as like you know like 6 or
7 years old but it's still not really a late diagnosis like in your 30s or 20s
so you know I think I would say it's pretty it's really nearly diagnosis if
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read one of those out the beginning of every single video okay guys on with the
video okay five Asperger's symptoms here we go number one is stimming now stimming
is a repetitive notion that people do sometimes with their hands or their
fingers or they rock back and forwards and this is kind of like a self of
soothing thing so that it's it's a repetitive rhythm that people do to
count down in like anxious and stressful situations and that this is very very
common people with Asperger syndrome number two is hypersensitivity now
hypersensitivity is quite interesting because you could be hyper or hypo
sensitive with autism and Asperger's it means that a lot of people are hyper
sensitive so that they they don't like light so that they can see the
fluorescent flicker from fluorescent lights sometimes lights are over
exposing an overpowering for people so it's really annoying and frustrating
causes a lot of frustration again a lot too sensitive to sound so you might see
a lot of people in the hands over their ears like this this is so that they can
block out the sound because they may be hypersensitive to sound so the sounds
louder than what you may perceive it to be with the person with the condition is
actually hearing the sound really really another one is taste in textures within
the hypersensitivity so you may like not like certain textures like runny texstures
like condiments and gravies and things like that and this could cause a lot of
upset in people with Asperger syndrome so if they don't like the texture could
really put them off their entire food come off anything and then it can just
escalate into a very big episode of uncomfortableness number three zoning
out now zoning out was quite interesting a lot of people say that zoning out
there refer to people with Asperger's syndrome or autism as people who live in
their own world which is kind of not really true as quite derogative when you
use that term but was owning out is when the person with autism or Asperger's
will fixate on something and they'll get super intensely into that thing so
they'll zone out because they're they're concentrating on maybe a wheel of a car
or it could be anything any small detail that they may pick up on and they'll
Zone in to it just to kind of really embrace and look at it you know but then
a lot of people would say that their zoning out all that daydreaming because
they're not answering to verbal stimuli or anything like that and it's just a
factor in the matter so yeah you could have somebody who's just like drifting
off into space and they're looking at something staring at something and then
you you know you're trying to talk some of they're not replying this is a form
of like zoning out okay number four is a repetitive behavior now this is quite
interesting people with Asperger's syndrome have a repetitive behavior
which is different to OCD so repetitive behavior would be someone who has to do
something in a routine so every single day they have to get up the same way
they have to do the same thing every single day they'll probably eat the same
foods very often all the same food every single day they'll like to watch the
same programs all the time they'll like to you know read the same books all over
again they may want to walk to town the same way they may want to just
everything like they like the pattern that everything a repetitive pattern of
stuff so if you find somebody that is very much stuck in this repetitive
pattern this could be the reason why and repetitive patterns for people with
Asperger's syndrome give them a sense of comfort and relatability so they can
relate to the fact that they are doing those things and it's comfortable and
it's familiar because again unpredictability is a causing factor for
anxiety and and can scare people with Asperger's syndrome and autism so this
is why repetitive behaviour doesn't have any ambiguity on it you know it's it's
welcoming you know exactly what's gonna happen and
therefore it's safe it's good it's it's not anxious okay so number five is poor
social skills now social skills are something that people pick up on
throughout their lives and they learn this as they grow as they become friends
or people in school and become around more social situations
unfortunately because it's part of a communication section of the brain
people with autism and Asperger's it doesn't really mend that well for them
and it doesn't really create those opportunities to learn those outcomes so
somebody with Asperger's syndrome probably wouldn't be very good at making
what they call small talk so they wouldn't be good at knowing when it's
their turn to talk in a group of the group people talking you know they they
wouldn't know when to wait their turn I want to stop talking sometimes people
Asperger's Syndrome we'll just talk about their topic consistently for hours
and hours until someone says hey you know you need to stop because it's not
knowing those boundaries of where to stop people with autism or Asperger's
syndrome also would be we may not have a filter so I know that I say things that
may seem like hash or rude but or crude but it's not supposed to be you know it
was just trying to it's trying to figure out where that feels where that boundary
is or that social boundary I guess but these are things you're supposed to
consciously kind of pick up just do learning but it's difficult people
authors and Asperger's so somebody who's really bad at making small talk or can't
really communicate that well again this could be another Asperger's or autism
trait I'm gonna give you guys a bonus one here so this is number six so this
is kind of not within the main one but I thought would be really cool to just
check in here is alone as well for you guys because you're watching this video
you give me the time super awesome so number six is gonna be social anxiety
not social anxiety is something that hits people with autism Asperger's and
also is a huge Asperger's symptoms because people with autism have a huge
issue with social interactions and social anxiety and a whole and it causes
big anxiety cuz you got to go out to the world you gota' go out and like talk to loads
of people it's overwhelming the crowds the noise the smells everything is just
crazy so being really socially anxious is almost like a byproduct of having
autism or Asperger's syndrome so if somebody is suffering from like social
anxiety they have a bunch of these other issues like through communication skills
or like the don't make eye contact or whatever these things can be led to
Asperger's symptoms or could be symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome or Autism
and I would say that if you find like three to five Asperger's symptoms in
your persons you know behavior patterns or the person you're looking at other
cousin you know the paper problems I would say that maybe it'll be good idea
for you to say to them that you know they should go and seek a diagnosis
because or see some professional help because and maybe some help available
for that person to make their life a little bit more easier if you'd like to
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