So do you have a daughter or a friend who's female.
And you think that they may be on the autism spectrum and you don't
knwo where, to go well in this video, I'm talking about female autism
characteristics, and this is the female Austin checklist, the ultimate guide.
So, you know, coming up,
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So there is this huge kind of like gap between, uh, females
who are diagnosed with autism.
And males who are diagnosed with autism.
Hey guys, I'm Dan and I have autism, myself and I male.
Now I did a bunch of videos interviewing my friends who are
female on the autism spectrum.
And I will leave a link for that playlist in the countable here and
down below in the comment section so that you guys can check that out.
But in terms of, um, the female to often imbalance.
It's a different to the male yeah.
And balanced, and it's completely way off actually.
It's one out of every three.
So three males to one female who were diagnosed with autism, which
means that they're saying that female diagnosis is three times
less likely than a male diagnosis.
Which is really weird, right?
Let me know if you are a parent, who or a friend or a carer who was looking
for somebody else in the comments down below, or are you a female
who's looking to get diagnosed.
Let me know in the comments right down below right now, I read
and respond to every single one.
Loves talking to you guys.
Super.
Awesome.
So basically I compiled a checklist of kind of like the main characteristics
that you would kind of look out for when you're thinking about, huh.
Is my daughter on the spectrum or is my best friend Sheila?
Is she on the spectrum or like my grandmother, is she on the spectrum?
You know, and just recently I interviewed a woman on my podcast called, um, uh, Anna
Wilson and Anna's mum was 72 years old when she got diagnosed with autism, which
is incredible, but it just shows that.
They just miss out a bulk all the time and it's probably cause they, they're
not looking for the right things.
And also if you can get ahead of the game, like if you can compile a list of
the things that like you notice to be autism characteristics in the female, uh,
person that you're dealing with before going to the, uh, the assessment process,
or you go to your doctor for a referral for assessment, I think going to help.
And this is why I compiled this checklist with seven items on it.
And, uh, it's the ultimate one.
So what I'll try and do as well is I will try and compile this into a PDF document
and leave it in the link down below.
So you guys can see that too, because it'd be super awesome to have a print
out version of this that you can kind of, you know, just use at your leisure.
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Okay.
So here is the checklist or female autism checklist just for you.
So the first one on here is lack of eye contact.
No eye contact is a big issue for people on the autism spectrum.
People on the autism spectrum have a difficulty making eye
contact and maintaining that eye contact, which then evidently
causes a lot of issues for people.
And so.
It's a big indicator.
If someone can't hold a conversation with someone and keep consistent
eye contact, because consistent eye contact is definitely one of the social
norms that people kind of fall into.
So when you're trying to think, well, is my daughter on the autism
spectrum or my friend or whatever, or do they make eye contact is the
first thing to kind of look out for.
It's not exclusive and it's not a deal breaker, but it is definitely something
that you should definitely look out for.
So the next thing on my list is difficulty socializing now, social
interaction, social communication, socializing with other people,
other girls, other guys, whatever.
This can be super difficult for people who are on the autism
spectrum, especially females who are more outgoing by in nature.
Yeah.
But they're more introverted because of the condition.
So they have this conflict of wanting to socialize, but then they have a
super difficulty with socializing.
Whereas males on the spectrum have probably just not
even go out and socialize.
But what I tend to see is that females who are wanting to go out
and socialize and wanting to make friends, but have extreme difficulties
in that end up just been reclusive.
They just end up saying, okay.
Oh, okay.
Well that sucked.
I got into like this huge argument with this girl cause they didn't
understand me, blah, blah, blah.
And then they come home and then they just walk themselves away.
And then.
They have no friends, they have no social time and it's really sad and it's
really upsetting, but that difficulty socializing is typically one of the
most important ones to watch out for.
So again, you tick it off that list, you compile and quite the list right now.
So the next one is typically what I kind of.
Poked about on last time, but which is the introverted personality,
but outgoing in general.
And what I mean by that is, you know, they, they want to go out and they want
to kind of go out and do these things.
Like they want to see friends, they want to go to university.
They want to go to school.
They want to do their best.
They want to go to class and do all these things, you know, amongst
having extreme social anxiety.
And the fact that, you know, if they had a choice to go to a party of
stay home and read their favorite book, They're going to come, stay
home and read their favorite book because they're introverted by nature.
So it's quite a contradiction, isn't it?
So, you know, your kid or your friend or your mom or whoever it
is you're questioning right now, you know, that, that definitely an
introvert because, you know, yeah.
You know, you live with them day in, day out, but then all of a sudden,
like, you know, going out to the social events and you are like how are
they even doing this because they're the most introverted person ever.
And it's still confusing.
I love that contradiction, but you'll know, it's kind of like one those things.
If you know what I'm talking about, You know, you know, that's exactly it.
And if you know that what I'm talking about right now,
give this video a thumbs up.
If you're a person on the spectrum who is an introverted outgoing person,
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awesome to show a bit of love between everyone here right now, as a bit of
a, you know, companionship hanging out.
That's awesome.
Okay.
So the next thing on my list is obsessive collector.
Now girls who are on the autism spectrum, get obsessed with
collecting certain things.
It could be Twilight DVDs, Twilight books.
It could be a book series or video series of CareBears.
It could be anything could even be Winnie the Pooh plushy dolls they collect.
So people with autism spectrum conditions have.
Obsessive interests are obsessive special interests where they'll know
a lot about a certain subject and kind of read it until the cows come home.
And, you know, if you saw it did a table with them, and you're lucky enough to
sit next to that person, you're can get the full rundown, a dictionary and
encyclopedia of the topic that they really, really liked, which is super cool.
But girls spectrum decided to take it a little bit further and they're typically
more collectors they'll collect stuff, you know exactly what's going on.
I know mum's out there watching this video right now thinking, goodness me.
That's my.
That's my kid right there.
And it's funny because I also collect things.
I collect things because of feelings, a sort of personality to those
objects, which is really interesting.
And I did a video all about that.
Um, but in terms of, um, In terms of females on the spectrum of
collecting they're collecting because that's their obsession and they
will collect their obsession on it, which is super, super interesting.
I find it really, really interesting.
Really funny.
Yeah.
And I know every moment of that who's got like every beanie baby in the
kind of basement or lofts or garbage or Arctic is going to be like, yep.
We got them.
We got every, you know, carebear, Teddy in the world sitting in her loft.
So, yeah, super awesome.
Okay.
So the next one is really interesting.
Selective mutism.
So selective mutism comes kind of hand in hand with autism and it's very, very
common, especially with high support needs, people who are on the spectrum, but
in terms of females on the spectrum, they have a type of selective mutism where.
It comes into play where it's almost like, like super shy, like say you, your, your
daughter's really, really confidential talk to, you know, you and your family
members, everybody in blah, blah, blah.
She's like, won't, shut up about her favorite topic, talking to everybody,
just chatter, chatter, chatter, like we all do just super awesome.
And then you, uh, your friend comes over or your cousin who lives in
like a different country comes over and you're like, Hey, check out my
daughter, Hey, say, hi daughter.
And daughter's like, completely, just, Nope.
Goes to the room, stays in the room.
It doesn't say a word the whole time, the person's down.
They could be staying with you for Christmas and they
won't say a word to them.
Right.
And it's seletive mutism because it's like an overwhelming feeling because it's like,
it's overwhelming to be around somebody.
You don't understand that.
Don't know.
And so, yeah.
Did you becomes a silent kind of gesture where you say, well, I'm
going to keep silent and keep quiet.
And I have nothing to add this conversation controls still trying
to sus out the, the anxiety from it, it's super, super common.
And actually it's very, very common.
You'll notice that a lot of kids on the spectrum will be
selective mute, especially girls.
And I've noticed this.
Quite a lot.
I can see you all ticking off this list right here and like nodding
your head and laughing to yourself.
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Okay.
So the next one on my list.
Is masking to meltdown, like what I'm asking to meltdown.
And it's basically this, if you're masking is a term that you use in autism
and it's, it's common with everybody in autism, but more so common in females,
on the autism spectrum where they will try and put on a front a persona,
like, Hey, I'm a confident person.
I'm going to talk to people in school.
I want to go to school and do all this stuff, but it's exhausting because then
masking they're putting on a persona.
Uh, like, uh, almost like they're acting to be somebody
else to fit into social norms.
Right.
And by doing that, they kind of go to school all day, dealing
with stuff, masking, you know, create a student, super awesome.
Then they come home and it's just like, blah, you know,
meltdown mode, bag throws down.
Goes up to that room has a crazy meltdown or, you know, he comes home
from school or you come home from school.
If you're, if you're a female and you know, you've had a full day of masking
and then you go to the, the fridge to get a chocolate sauce out because
you're gonna make some ball actually with chocolate sauce, super dope.
I'm vegan.
So I have the vegan version, but it's still dope.
And then there's no chocolate sauce that.
Flips, the lid, bang and tables, flying there's loads of stuff going on.
And it's called masking to meltdown because you've kept it up all day to
be, you know, all the masking all day.
And then at the end of the day, you kind of come home and Oh, so
having to mask causes meltdowns.
So you'll, we see this type of behavior and that mums that you've
got to take this video as a, like, if you understand exactly what I'm
talking about right now, I feel it.
Okay.
So the last thing he is shy and quiet.
Now, typically girls on the autism spectrum are typically shy and
quiet people quite well, you know?
Well reserved, they're not loud, they're not obnoxious, you know, the quite shy,
quiet, reserved, um, you know, as typical people, you know, they're quite just into
their thing and they do their own thing.
So this is a common characteristic that just sometimes missed out because
people don't really think, Oh, just because they're shy or they're quiet.
It means that they're on the the spectrum, but if you attach that to the
other, like six things, I pointed out.
Then that compiles quite the list.
Wouldn't you say?
So that was the list.
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