in this video we're going to be discussing what Asperger's syndrome is
some behavior characteristics of Asperger's syndrome and why it's part of
the autism spectrum coming right up
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see more of this type of content coming up we're going to look at why Asperger
syndrome is part of the autism spectrum and why it's been taken out of the
formal autism diagnosis hey everybody I'll be doing well and that the snow
hasn't made an interruption in your life too much I know that it's been snowing
pretty much everywhere in the world or anywhere the guests know
regularly kind of in the West and we were supposed to have this huge massive
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morning it's like oh my god is gonna be snow when you open the curtains and like it's
not even raining there was no snow there was no rain there's no ice it was no
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say we didn't have any snow okay so a beginning everybody already to comment
so I'm gonna keep reading a comment from you guys and this one it is from 74 blonde
girl they said very important information to know the earlier the
diagnosis the more success a child has and that is absolutely true that's in
relation to a video I did last week which I'll link in the end slate or
above here do you guys can check that up okay on with the video so what is
Asperger's syndrome Asperger syndrome is a lifelong neurological condition that
affects the brain in communication and social development and it's also part of
the autism spectrum now Asperger's Syndrome is more on the higher end
of people with like an autism spectrum condition which means that they are more
likely to be above average or average intelligence but also show signs of
issues in social communication maybe potentially written communication social
situations food textures all kinds of different
areas of life Asperger syndrome is named after Hans Asperger who was doing
research in the field of autism at the same time
Kenner was doing research in the field of autism and they were developing the
terminology Hans Asperger decided that he would call it Asperger's
syndrome what was nicknamed Asperger's syndrome then he only identified it in
males but actually it's actually identifiable females as well but
Asperger's syndrome is the name given to a set of type of characteristic
behaviors that apply to certain individuals who are part of the autism
spectrum now some of the behaviors of Asperger's syndrome include repetitive
behavior so eating the same thing watching the same thing listen to music
one of the one of the most easy ones to spot is like routine so following strict
routines that you have to do this in a day and if the routine sways away from
that then the person can get quite irate or upset or maybe a bit not cool or
kosher with the situation if the routine is spoiled now this is again down to the
routines and the patterns that people with Asperger's syndrome like to see
patterns like to maybe line up their toys or their their games or line up
their things or have things quite neatly and organized and organized manner
because again it's all to do with this listing repetitive behavior some other
kind of behaviors and traits would be that they have issues with social
communication they also have issues with certain types of food smells and sight
because they'd be hypersensitive or hypo sensitive to light and sounds and this
again are clear characteristics people with Asperger's syndrome I did a video
extensively on this which I'll link in the card above you guys can just check
that out so how does Asperger syndrome relate to the autism spectrum now if
your total spectrum is a huge spectrum that portrays a lot of different types
of symptoms of different people but they all relate to a certain type of
condition which is the autism condition work to neurological issue in the brain
Asperger syndrome would be held right up close to the higher functioning autism
spectrum disorders so you have high functioning autism then Asperger's
syndrome and then I suppose you'd have like ADHD after that so with Asperger's
syndrome it's usually people who have good good to moderate verbal
communication and they can have really good intellectual abilities so they may
be able to be good at mathematics and maybe excelling in a certain area maybe
science or creative ideas and that is kind of where
Asperger's Syndrome and high-functioning autism do differ that is a difference
between high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome and if you'd like to
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to know if you want to see a video high functioning autism versus Asperger
syndrome and that's it's classified because they have the
communication issues and social interaction issues of people on the
autism spectrum but they also have this intellectual ability of a above-average
IQ most of the time which means that Excel in certain areas I know myself
like I have a degree in chemistry I'm a multi musician self-taught and I make
youtube videos you know and like all those things really I love all those
things and I find that science and chemistry comes easy to me so I guess a
lot of people on the autism spectrum will have excelling areas like that and
could be gaming it could be writing could be anything but that's that's
super super cool so now here's the interesting part
now the Asperger's syndrome has been diagnosed since the mid 90s maybe
earlier than that and it was diagnosed Asperger syndrome right up until about
two or three years ago and it was on the actual diagnosis called the dsm-5 now
the dsm-5 is a basically standard classification for mental illnesses or
mental conditions or neurological disorders and all that kind of stuff for
the doctors and all the medical industry used to identify different types of
medical conditions for mental capacity and neurological disorders
now that's big as soon as we used all of that time until I think it was 2014 or
15 that they actually took Asperger syndrome off the dsm-5 because they
wanted to include it in the autism spectrum disorders now it's not called
Asperger syndrome is called ASD or autism spectrum disorders and the reason
it did that is because they felt like because of its complexity that Asperger
syndrome didn't really fit some of the diagnostic process anymore and so an
autism spectrum disorder would be better classified so you can get a bunch more
of people within that classification rather than having oh you have
Asperger's syndrome and this you know it's like oh this person is on
the autism spectrum or they are artistic so it makes it a lot easier because a
lot of confusion came from the fact they said you know if you have Asperger's
syndrome are you autistic well yes but why isn't called autism well it is but it's
also called Asperger's Syndrome and it became kind of this confusing thing
so that is why they've taking it out and it's more of a generic term of an autism
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