So am I autisitc?
now that's a question.
A lot of people may come across.
Here are five common traits that you should know if you think you are on the
autism spectrum, all that coming up.
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So autism or the autism spectrum disorder is a condition which is characterized
by a neurological behavior or personal behavior traits that characterize within
people now that are approximately one in a hundred people in the United Kingdom.
Uh, Diagnosed with autism.
And one in 60 in the United States diagnosed with autism.
Now that is a lot of people.
It is on the rise because the way of diagnosing it becoming more and more
streamlined on people are becoming more aware that there are females
on the spectrum, but who've been misdiagnosed, which is a terrible thing.
That's happened over the years that no one's properly diagnosed the
females, which really annoys me.
I've got a bunch of videos on that.
So if you head over to my YouTube channel check playlist on girls and autism does a
bunch of videos that for you, but in terms of this video, I want it to kind of go
over five of the most common traits that you see all five of the most common autism
traits that you would see in yourself.
If you believe that you potentially could be autistic, like some people could
stumble across information on autism and think, Oh my goodness, it's not me.
Do I relate to that?
And so in this video right now, I'm going to just go over five of the most common
ones that you could align yourself with.
And that would be super interesting.
Right?
So the first one I'm going to talk about is lack of eye contact.
But people on the autism spectrum actually have an intense difficulty with
maintaining and creating eye contact with somebody when they're talking a
lot of autisitc, people will kind of look down when you're talking to them.
Um, I, for one have a huge issue, looking people in the eye and talking to them,
especially like anybody, even with my parents and family members, it's really
difficult to make eye contact because there's an uncomfortable feeling that
comes along with this that makes it almost impossible for you to enjoy making eye
contact, which makes it really personal.
And you have to kind of look away really quickly.
Now people on the autism spectrum.
Um, I don't do this exclusively.
And there was a bunch of other people, probably don't like looking people in
the eyes, you know, people with extreme anxiety or other kind of neurological
and mental health conditions, but people with autism, uh, tend to not
like, or tend to not have, tend to have a difficulty with making eye contact.
Um, but it's not, it's not the, it's not.
in everybody with autism, but it's majority, I'd say 90% of people with
an autism specturm disorder so don't worry if this one doesn't take the box.
Okay.
So number two is difficulty socializing.
Um, you know, people with autism have a huge difficulty socializing
and creating social communication through social interaction.
This comes from the fact that autism is a communication disorder, a communication
issue, which actually imposes on people's ability to understand social work.
conversation and, uh, social, uh, gestures and things like that.
And it all stems from the fact that when a person on the autism spectrum
is growing up, learning all about how life and, you know, trying to see the
world around them and take all that in what happens in a neurotypical sense,
a person who is not artistic is that they just take the world as it is,
and they kind of Bumble along with it.
And then the things that they start to learn and pick up are these social
norms of social, um, Yeah, conformance is where people will do certain
things like gestures, and they know how far to stand away from someone.
I know ones that tend to talk and all this stuff that these unwritten
social rules, you just pick up from being in a social environment.
Um, they pick those up, whereas people on the autism spectrum, having a
difficult time, reading the signals all around them from the world and
taking a lot in, and that is their main focus that the socializing and
the social things and social norms.
Pushed to the side because they're that less important as a viable
than the actual world around them.
And so this causes an issue with difficulty, with
socializing and being social.
So number three, really interesting one is hyper focus, but people with autism will
be able to hyper focus on something like a specific thing that could be looked at as.
Then zoning out of reality, you know, that could be like, Whoa,
check out this thing in my hand.
But then people might be like, you know, Hey, DAn's zoning out.
You know, he's Dan Dan talk to me and I'm like, Oh, Whoa, this thing in
my hand I'm proper involved with it.
But then they're like, Dan, you know, Dan, what's going on, man.
He's zoned out with the world up, but it's not zoning out.
It's actually zoning.
In, and this is definitely having a hyper-focus, which is
fascinating because hyper-focus helps you develop certain skills.
Like I, um, I'm able to hyper-focus and I'm learning stuff in a, in a video format
or a visual based format, which enables me to learn new things, which is super cool.
Right.
I mean, like, why wouldn't that be a cool thing?
Okay.
So number four is lengthy talking on a subject, right?
So.
A person was an autism spectrum disorder may really love a certain subject.
And because of that subject that they're really into, they can talk at length.
They could literally talk at you for an hour straight about the subject.
I remember once I was doing a presentation on the nine 11 terror attacks in
America, which I found, um, just, you know, really interesting, cause it
was like a puzzle trying to figure out what has happened and you know, such a
tragedy, you know, so many pieces to it.
I just love to learn about it, you know, and understand it as morbid
as that may sound, but you know, I did a presentation on it and a
presentation, especially five minutes long, but I got so into my presentation
when I was doing my degree, that I spent 25 minutes in the presentation
and everyone's jaws were dropping.
Cause it was like such an interesting presentation, but I just didn't know
that I was talking for that length of time until the tutor was like,
Dan, you have to start talking.
So when you talk about something in general, people know like they should
talk, you know, a small, concise amount of information at a person, but people
in the autism spectrum, if they're really into it, we'll just, they'll just throw
everything out at them, you know, in this conversation, which is really interesting.
I can't remember the amount of times that like my, my mom or my
girlfriend, and I was like, Damn, just stop talking about this stuff.
You know, we've got to get home it's dinners in like half an hour.
We have reservations, man.
Um, which is so funny.
I just love that.
Okay.
So number five is obsessive interests kind of goes along with the lengthy
conversation because I guess you talk at length about your obsessive
interest, but most people on the autism spectrum have an interest of subject.
They completely absorbed themselves and they'd dive into that subject
and they just love that subject.
They, they like, you know, it could be Tamagotchi or soft toys or like fireman
Sam or Thomas the train, like they could just obsess with that thing and love
it so much that they collect all of the toys, all the memorabilia, all of the
t-shirts watch all of the DVDs, but all of them got the subscription service for
that specific thing, you know, go to see the theme parks, no, all the characters
they obsess over it it's called a special interest and not special interests.
It makes them almost an, an expert in it because they're obsessed with it.
You know?
I mean, you'd be, if you were obsessed with some things.
There's no doubt.
You'd be, uh, you know, uh, an expert on that field.
And that actually goes on to, let me tell you something that I
actually have launched an autism membership website, which has
monthly coaching sessions with me.
So if you want to kind of like a coaching session with me on a video chat with, in,
in a group setting that you can do every single month, and there's also courses and
that we can learn about autism and stuff.
Uh, really, really good tactics for living daily life and stuff like that.
And also PDF downloads and other kinds of cool interviews with people
who run like autism apps and stuff.
Anyway, all that is available.
Levelupautism.net is available right now.
So you can sign up on a monthly basis.
It's so awesome.
I'm super excited.
I'll love to see you in that.
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