in this video are we talking about Autism and Asperger so that by the end
of the video you'll know the difference coming up
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hey I'm Dan I have Asperger syndrome OCD ADHD and dyslexia I make weekly
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when I upload a video hey just a really quick disclaimer I'm
not actually saying in this video that every single person who has Asperger's
syndrome or classic autism falls into these specific rules this is literally
just like a basic medical I guess a professional outliner of the differences
to show like some clear-cut differences between the majority of the people also
Asperger's is an autism spectrum condition and it was taken out of the
dsm-5 nomenclature for diagnosing people so now it's just autism spectrum
disorder and becoming autism spectrum condition so Asperger's is autism and
classic autism is autism so all under the umbrella of the autism spectrum so
that is something to be aware of okay back to the video so the information
that I'm sharing in this video I have not seen anybody else talk about on
videos on YouTube so let's get stuck in okay so before we
get started I just like to know what profession you're from or how you've
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so Asperger's and autism what's the difference let's find out so the first
difference I want to discuss and let me just set the tone of the language here
I'm gonna be talking about classic autism want to talk about classic types
of autism and I'll talk about Asperger's syndrome when I talk about Asperger's
syndrome now a lot of people don't like to use classification terminology
anymore because they find that it's derogative
but for the purpose of this video educational II will talk about
Asperger's syndrome is like a high-functioning and then classic autism
is a lower functioning even though a lot of people don't like to use functioning
labels this is just for the purpose of this video okay so number one is i q--
or intellect so basically people with Asperger's syndrome usually have an
average to above-average IQ meaning that they are intellectually quite bright and
they tend to you focus on like science and maths and
history and some very deep scientific complex puzzled kind of computer natured
topics because that's the way that their brain is wired and other things that
they're interested in but they excel in those areas now looking at the
comparison between that and classic autism people of classic autism have
average to below average IQs so the difference here is that people Asperger
Jenner will usually or typically display a higher IQ average than that of a
person with classic autism a personal classic autism won't really be
interested in the magnitude of intellect a person with Asperger's syndrome
usually displays people like Albert Einstein had Asperger's syndrome
there are other super famous people like Nikola Tesla probably Elon Musk and
other people like that who display these traits of Asperger syndrome and you can
see how their IQ would be set higher than the average person okay so number
two is a verbal communication now people with classic autism usually have little
to no verbal communication skills they can't develop these because the type of
autism spectrum condition that they have in the way their brain is work is
leaving them with difficulty learning these skills now a person with
Asperger's syndrome will have a very good verbal communication skill set that
they have learned and developed over many years and people with Asperger
syndrome usually have great verbal skills and they are very good at talking
ok socially they may not be as advanced as a typical neurotypical person but
verbally they can have verbal communications and be very good at
verbal communication as people with classic autism will have difficulty
talking people with Asperger's syndrome will have ease of talking and actually
creating verbal conversation that has the mean difference therefore number two
just as some extra information I'll leave a link in the cab above to a video
I did for Asperger's versus high-functioning autism and what the
difference is there and leave that in the cab above so you can
check that out because that might be a similar test to you also okay so number
three is a vocabulary now people with classic autism have little to no
vocabulary at all and they can't develop those skills and they have a very
difficult time trying to learn or develop any skills in learning
vocabulary at all people with Asperger syndrome have a vast large and quite
huge volume of vocabulary that is usually somewhat complex and they have
some almost not an obsession but an interest in vocabulary and expanding
that vocabulary so people with Asperger's syndrome have a usually
really good vocabulary skillset whereas people on the classic autism side
wouldn't really tend to have that good a vocabulary or a large vocabulary set at
all so people with classic autism limited vocabulary people with Asperger
syndrome quite a high volume of vocabulary in never cover a skill set
okay so number four is day to day skill set now day to day skill set is very
interesting I'll outline what a day to day skill set is basically the things
that a neurotypical person does on a daily basis which is like getting up
getting themselves ready for work or whatever a school and then getting
themselves to school and going off on those tasks don't think anything of it
but there are various skills that are entwined there in getting up and do all
those things now there's things that range from like
executive function skills to hygiene and then getting dressed and things like
that which is basically a daily life skills now a person with Asperger's
syndrome can learn to put on their clothes they can learn to brush their
own teeth and then they can learn like things like the importance of going
shopping all the things like the importance of getting a job they may
need you know help with managing that job or managing their finances and
organizing their life but they can still learn the skills that they need to
physically prepare themselves for something in the real world tasks
now a person who displays traits of classic autism would have limited
skillset in this region and would then rely on support and help lifelong for
this type of skill set so they may have issues with hygiene and Kondylis they
may have issues with trying to you know go to the bathroom on their own and use
the toilet they may have issues of putting on their own clothes and you
know they have little to no concept of the reasoning for going out and doing
shopping depending on their it obviously level on the spectrum but a classic
autism type person would need daily daily support and day-to-day help with
those tasks because they just don't really develop those skills typically in
a classic autism case so a person with Asperger's syndrome can live somewhat
independently using their day-to-day skills but a person with classic autism
would need daily support and life long support for just those daily tasks alone
let alone emotional and physical support for other things okay so number five is
speech delay now as autism is a developmental condition it does have
like a gradual time period of how it like develops from one thing to another
now one thing that is interesting between the difference of Asperger
syndrome and classic autism is a speech delay now typically children who have
Asperger's syndrome will not display speech delay in growing up like they
they have they'll have typically in normal speech delay like I said as their
vocabulary is super intense and very varied then their speech delay doesn't
come into it you know though they'll gradually get speech they'll learn from
like TV and movies and mimicking other people through kalila and things like
that and then they'll learn how to speak a
typical rate right now people are kids and children with autism of classic
autism they will have a speech delay in growing up so growing up they will have
a varied speech delay and their speech will be very varied like obviously the
delay will be there but then also there'll be very
big gaps in what they can say and how they relate that to real-world
situations so in short Asperger syndrome typically
not really much of a speech delay classic autism there will be a speech
delay present most of the time okay guys my next video over here is for sensory
processing disorder please check that out and I'll be super super awesome if
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