So how to know if you have autism.
Here are five most common top traits.
All that's coming up.
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So lots of people kind of wonder if they're on the autism spectrum.
Do I have autism and hello?
Um, it comes from when, like a child of a parent is diagnosed
with an autism spectrum disorder.
Then the parent kind of like goes through the assessment with them
and then they think to themselves, well, Hey, that aligns with me.
And then they start questioning.
And so how do you know if you have autism and in this video, I'm going
to be discussing five different.
Traits symptoms, characteristics, behaviors, whatever you want to call
them of an autism spectrum disorder.
So you can kind of see if you align with those.
And then you can, uh, really see where you want to go from that.
Really, if you aligned with these and you could take it further and
look for an official diagnosis, or if you don't align with these, then
at least, you know what to look out for and other people, if somebody has
this question and they come to you.
Okay.
So the first one I want to talk about is the preference of staying at home.
Then to go and to socialize.
Now people on the autism spectrum, especially adults and are always offered
social situations where they can say, Hey, you want to go out to the pub
or you're going to go to this party.
Or you can go with this group of friends or do game night or whatever it is.
And a lot of people, especially if you're working in a working environment with
other colleagues and colleagues might want you to go out and maybe have some
drinks after work or have like nights out or whatever, a lot of the time.
The people who are on the autism spectrum and will kind of say, Oh no,
no, I've got something to do about, I need to do something else because
they prefer to stay at home and the security of their own house than
to go outside and start socializing because socializing is difficult
for people on the autism spectrum.
So, you know, if you're a person who is like favoring staying in and just kind
of like favoring your own company, right.
On your own, rather than going out with a group of people and socializing.
And this is a common trait within autism because social anxiety is just
too high for people on the spectrum.
now the, next thing, number two, I'm going to talk about here is fascination
with objects, uh, with a certain genre.
Um, so people on the autism spectrum will have a fascination
with a certain topic or genre.
Or fact that they completely submerged themselves in a, and they'll, they'll
just love this, this actual fact that they'll kind of, um, be obsessed with it.
Uh, so for me, I love things like, I love learning about science and history,
and I love learning about conspiracy theories and aliens and stuff like that.
And I really throw myself into an environment and I
just absolutely absorb it.
And one of my most current ones is, is social media, internet marketing.
And I just love.
You know, getting all the books and all the, all your books and the podcast, and
then just like just watching videos on it constantly and just learning about it
because it's kind of like, it's my thing.
I just absolutely love it.
It's it's, it's what kind of like really entices me to do more and get motivated.
But people on the autism spectrum will have a, a topic of interest that they
will almost obsessively obsess over that it's something that they love as a fan.
Uh, they can be fanatic about it, but they also can be very
interested in becoming experts in it.
So number three is difficulty with eye contact.
Now it's a very well known fact that people on the autism spectrum will
have difficulty with eye contact.
And so making eye contact can be.
Um, difficult and, uh, nerving for people, uncomfortable
people on the autism spectrum.
So this comes down to the fact that, you know, it's a social convention
that you look somebody in the eye when you're talking to them, but
it becomes more of a personal thing when you're trying to maintain and
make an eye contact, then that.
It, it almost, it feels so like, it feels unnatural someone on the
autism spectrum when doing this.
And so that's why they refer from doing that so that people in the
autism spectrum won't really make eye contact, or typically wouldn't be
comfortable with making and maintaining eye contact and social conversations.
Okay.
So number four is rigid.
Routines now what this is, uh, people, um, on the autism spectrum,
they love routines and it's very, and they learn like a strict, rigid
routines because it's that preference of having control over something
that they know is going to be easy.
Like.
You know, uh, people in the Autism spectrum don't like surprises.
So they like to know what's coming up because it becomes comfortable and safe.
It's all about security and safety because the world is so chaotic, for people on the
autism spectrum that even just changing something in your daily planner, it's
set them completely on the wrong path.
And then he could get really upset about this.
And that's what I mean about having a routine, having a routine that
they can stick to, that they are confident in and that they feel.
Security from, you know, it could be gang up every day at the same time, having
your breakfast in the same spot, watching the same television show, sitting down
at the same spot, watching TV on the sofa, it could be absolutely anything,
but it's that routine, that rigid structure that will give you that kind of
sense of security and safe and longing.
And this is definitely common on the autism spectrum.
Okay.
So number five is difficulty in following.
Tasks now because people on the spectrum, um, have executive function issues, uh,
you know, like, why are you doing laundry or doing like typical daily life and
home care stuff, then they will find it.
Accessibly difficult to follow tasks could be reading instructions
from a magazine, could be reading instructions for cooking food.
It could be absolutely anything.
It could be even be your boss telling you to go and do this,
this, this, this, this, and this.
And you'd be like, I have no idea what you're saying to me because autism.
Is a communication disorder.
It's core.
It's going to give these difficult, um, instances like following tasks,
uh, because it's, it's just, it's something that is not, um, just naturally
occurring someone on the autism spectrum.
Doesn't just typically understand all of that information.
It's not something that they, they, they get is easiest people who are
neurotypical or people who are, um, Not on the autism spectrum
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