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So basically I want to do this video talking about what Aspergers
is and kind of like all the things that he's known about us.
We're just syndrome, because I feel like.
Does it, a lot of people don't really know about Aspergers syndrome.
And since, you know, I want to just cover all those things.
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So, um, you know, let's be Frank about it at the beginning.
Asperger's syndrome is now referred to as autism spectrum disorder.
Let's just be super Frank, right?
Um, also I'm used to be.
A split off into several different kind of naming conventions and
nomenclature, like high functioning autism low-functioning, blah, blah, blah,
classic autism and all this kind of stuff.
And you basically get the picture.
Um, but, uh, all has changed in 2013 when the DSM, which was basically
the American, uh, kind of like dossier if, uh, how you diagnose
neurological mental health conditions.
Then referred to an umbrella term for all those conditions
called autism spectrum disorder.
So it took away the kind of need for just aspects of central, just classic
autism and all these kinds of like terms.
And there's a good reason for those things as well, but they kind of changed it.
So, you know, what is Aspergers syndrome, if you say it looks okay.
So if it's part of all sudden wanted to ask, but just syndrome.
So basically it's an autism spectrum diagnosis and it's characterized by
quite a few common personality traits.
Uh, that have lower support needs than other spectrum disorders.
So there could be somebody on the spectrum who needs a lot of support daily, you
know, going to the bathroom, um, you know, getting around when you bring
this kind of all kinds of stuff, but in terms of Aspergers syndrome, um, it
was a, um, It, you used to be called.
I was better than them.
It's just not as a spectrum to started with low support needs.
Now I, I have listed out four ways that you can identify
these types of straight of us.
We're just syndrome in people, right?
So the first one is eye contact now, right?
Autistic people generally have issues of me making, I mean, eye
contact because eye contact can be difficult for people on the spectrum.
It's something that's quite personal when you're dealing with somebody and
how's autism's communication issue then.
You know, having that communication deep kind of eye
contact is difficult for people.
And that difficulty stretches across the board because it's
not just, um, eye contact that they have issues with, you know,
communication skills across the board.
But eye contact is probably one of the most common ones to kind of look and
see like, Oh yeah, that person's not really making or maintaining eye contact.
And it kind of sticks out, you know, because people
generally do make eye contact.
Now the next one is talking constantly.
Now talking constantly is quite interesting.
So autistic people will have.
That obsessive topic of interest, like a certain topic of genre that they will
just love and they'll dive right into.
And when they get talking about it, then we'll talk nonstop.
Now, if somebody comes up to me and starts talking about.
Social media strategy and SEO and web marketing and digital media marketing.
I will not shut up.
I just kind of, I love this stuff.
I love talking about all the books.
I read all the podcasts.
I listen to all the YouTube channels and subscribe two are all about the subject.
Cause I love it.
I love that subject.
I'll talk about for hours and hours and hours and people get really bored of that.
So this is a very.
Awesomely, uh, common topic of, uh, of, of aspects you syndrome, where
it's a common trait where you kind of just talk about your obsessive
topic, or interest, just indefinitely.
All the time.
So number three is social skills issues.
Now socializing is difficult for people on the autism spectrum due to
the lack of the understanding of the unwritten social rules, like, you know,
uh, hand gestures and distance to be a parent or someone talking to them.
When your child turns as Hawk, when do you talk, when do they talk?
What's your volume levels or talk out all of these things.
Unwritten social rules of social conventions that I just picked up
by people on the autism spectrum.
That I just picked up by people who are not on the autism spectrum, just
because they are something that they pick up, no people with autism don't
typically pick these up because it's difficult for them to do that.
Right.
So, um, you can always tell when someone's really having a difficult
time when you are, um, in, in the midst of a social communication.
Uh, they're having a difficult time communicating socially.
This could be down to the fact that they are on the autism spectrum.
Now, number four is quite an interesting one.
This is not understanding jokes, autistic people take everything.
Literally friends use uses to the full advantage and just absolutely
tell me all kinds of garbage and I believe them for ages.
And then they make fun of me for ages for it, because they're just like that.
But I love them to bits and I mean, no.
Harm or malice with it.
They're just being funny, but jokes and sarcasm can be so difficult.
Someone on the autism spectrum to kind of really understand and get, you know, we'll
take everything at face value, take your word for it and really take it literally.
So if you are confronted with somebody who, um, may not understand jokes
and what you're kind of putting out there in terms of jokes and sarcasm,
then this could be the fact that they are on the autism spectrum.
Basically.
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