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Okay.
So I wanted to talk about social anxiety and autism, because I feel like
when I post about waters and stuff, and I talk about certain anxieties
and social anxieties, people always see like, Hey, you know, that's just
social anxiety, that's not autism.
And I'm kind of explaining like, well, yeah, social anxiety is its
own thing and autism is its own thing, but autism does have with it
social anxiety and anxiety disorder.
And so people can't get like that they're different and they can't get that.
Sometimes it can be a amalgamated.
So I wanted to kind of clear that up in a video today and go through all of that.
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Okay.
So let's start off.
I want to talk about anxiety, right.
And, um, and, and social anxiety.
So what's the difference between like, you know, social anxiety and autism.
So we just look at anxiety and social anxiety isolated on its own right now.
So anxiety is a form of a, um, a mental health.
You know, it stems from a mental health condition and a mental health condition
is something that is, um, trauma-based.
So you may have been exposed to trauma from an external source and
that external source, um, can then carry through like an underlying.
Health condition that basically you didn't know you had, so let me explain it.
Like, if you're a little kid and then you had a traumatic experience
in a shopping mall, right?
When you were a kid, then maybe every time as an adult, you go to shopping malls,
you may get like an overwhelming anxiety rush because you have this like trauma
that's past trauma in your life that is coming back to haunt you now, trauma.
And anxiety and mental health based issues.
Um, and mental health is something that is, is treatable.
It's sometimes potentially you can overcome some mental health conditions
and it's nothing to do with a biological, um, impact on neurons like this.
It's not a neurological thing.
It's, it's a mental health thing.
And that could be chemical imbalances.
It could be past trauma.
Yeah.
Uh, and it could be personality traits.
Uh, you know, that could be part of that.
So when you think about anxiety and you think about social anxiety, you always
have to think like when it's isolated on its own, you know, not connected to
any other health condition, then it's a mental health concern and for treatment
on, um, Anxiety and social anxiety, you'd go to a mental health clinic and
you see a mental health practitioner.
Typically, I guess you'd see like a counselor or a psychotherapist or
something like that to deal with it.
Now, if we flip the switch over to autism now, as everybody who watches
this channel, cause I do videos on autism and a big shout out to every who keeps
returning and watching those videos.
You guys are amazing.
I'm loving the squad right now.
You guys were awesome and autism is a neurodevelopmental.
Condition neurological developmental condition, which
means that you are neurodivergent when you're on the spectrum.
And a neuro diverse brain is where the neurological paths of the brain, when
they were fusing together on conception, when it was when the brain was making
it, you know, these neurological paths, they moved them slightly differently
and they, they, they mended a little bit differently together, which is
kind of like they made alternative paths to like a neuro-typical person.
So a neuro diverse person would have a.
Different way of thinking a different set of thinking, thinking differently, which
is kind of like that phrase in autism.
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But when you think about neurological conditions, then these are
things that you cannot hear it.
These are not mental health conditions that are neurological conditions.
And so social anxiety and the characteristics come
from different factors.
They are underlying social anxiety.
Uh, autism related issues due to communication difficulties in the brain.
So autism is a communication issue.
It's an impact on that.
Person's ability to communicate the world around them and communicate centers
and sensory input and stimulate and communications stimulate an input into the
brain and how that is decoded, and then read by the person's ability to understand
cognitively what is going on now with autism, because it is a neurological on a.
Primarily a communication issue when you have, um, you know, an overload of
information, like maybe you could be just not understanding social situations,
you could be, um, around people that inductance on the conversation.
It could be a task to kind of follow and keep up with the conversations because
people on the autism spectrum have issues with following conversations.
knowing when it is There turn to chime in with a conversation part.
You know, how close you stand to another person, the volume of your voice uh,
you know, when the conversation comes to an end, if somebody is of the
conversation, all of these like hidden social constructs and these social, um,
ideologies, uh, sometimes lost to people on the autism spectrum, because that is
a part of the brain that impacts them the communication part and the social
interaction, which makes it difficult for someone on the spectrum to really
grasp the, the, the, the issues of.
Of the social constructions that people just pick up generally in
high school and stuff like that.
So, That is one version of how autism could impact social anxiety
and cause social anxiety in a person on the autism spectrum.
If we look at the other side of the autism and where social anxiety could
come from now, if you think about autism, autism is a neurodevelopmental condition,
like we said, and it actually has.
Something that comes with it called SPD or sensory processing disorder.
Now I did a video all about sensory processing disorder and I will leave it in
the link above and account and down below in the description of the video and also
on a pinned comment and on the end screen.
So you can't miss this video.
It's all about sensory processing disorder.
And it's a really good video to watch to learn more about that.
But sensory processing disorder comes from the fact that how the brain takes
in sensory stimulated, like lights, sound, smells, textures, um, heat.
All of those things are taking in.
And again, you have this confusion through communication and this could lead to,
um, upset and, and, and, you know, a disadvantage in that certain environment.
So when I go to a grocery store, for instance, um, if the deli counter is
too strong and overpowering, I could smell onions and garlic, it freaks
me out and then I have to get out of there and then it become, I get the
social anxiety that people are gonna look at me and judge me because I
am trying to maneuver myself in this position where I don't feel comfortable.
And I'm getting a bad time, you know, thinking about doing all these things and.
You know, that causes so much anxiety and stress and then
like potentially a meltdown.
And again, those things are just so difficult and the things that
people on the autism spectrum experienced because of sensory issues.
So when we look at the picture and you look into autism, you
have sensory processing disorder issues, and then you also have.
Uh, a communication issue, like a social interaction, communication
as you sort of two things.
And when they're put together, sometimes they put together the exact same time.
It's a, it's a, it's a no go for someone on the spectrum of all the
time, which is, which is upsetting.
But that is the difference.
So if you think about it, Communication and neurological path differ from like
a mental health condition that could be chemical imbalance or a trauma based
environment, a trauma based trigger, uh, that is basically that the main
split difference between autism being something generally that is associated
with social anxiety and social anxiety being independent of any other condition.
Now they are the most.
Basic examples I am going to talk about in this video about those differences.
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