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have you ever wondered and sat down and
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thought hey do I have Asperger syndrome
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and what are the Asperger symtoms that I
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need to be looking out for well it's
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more complex than that but it's actually
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easy to understand and let's get into it
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right now so asperous syndrome isn't
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like a disease or anything okay it's a
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neurological condition part of the
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autism spectrum disorder classed by the
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Triad of impairments these are all big
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words but it's kind of basically saying
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if you take off three of these things
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these major topics like communication
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issues social skills and learning
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difficulties in a certain area then it's
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more like you'll be on the Spectrum
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somewhere because of X Y and Z that
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happens in your brain because we have
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neurological p in our brain that form
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typically like this but with an Autism
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they form a little bit differently and
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that causes different types of autosum
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conditions so that in a ner shell
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explains that asperous syndrome isn't
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technically a disease or anything so
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symptoms is an odd word to use even
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though we still use it to kind of look
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for things right but it's more
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characteristics traits and the way a
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person is or behavior type I would for
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you to leave a review for this video/
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podcast if you have anything to add
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because it would really help me out on
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this channel and also help me learn and
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grow from your comments so I'm going to
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break down five of the most interesting
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ones actually the last one is probably
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the most impactful one the one that it
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really impacts me the most because I was
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diagnosed with Asperia syndrome which is
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now just called autism spectrum disorder
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or ASD for short but this impacted me
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massively in my life and so number five
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is an interesting one so make sure you
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stay to the end so Asperger symptome how
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do you know if you have Asperger
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syndrome here we go number one and the
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first one is eye contact now people on
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the autism spectrum like Asperger
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syndrome oh and FYI guys so for your
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information for those people who are old
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like me and don't know what FYI means
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aspiria syndrome isn't a diagnostic
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criteria anymore in many places most
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places now just use autism spectrum
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disorder since 2013 when the DSM took it
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out there's a big long story about it
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and I did a video explaining all about
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the difference between autis Asperger
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syndrome nomenclature and everything so
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if you want to watch that video I will
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leave it in a link at the end of the
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video in a card and in the description
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pin comment down below so you can check
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that out so asbg is eye contact so what
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does this mean eye contact so lack of or
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less than normal eye contact normal
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being kind of like the typical average
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eye contact of any makes when they're
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talking to you because asper syndrome is
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part of the autism spectrum disorder it
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means that you have social communication
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issues how well look looking at somebody
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in the eyes is quite intense it's a
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social um communication tool that people
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use to look at somebody to make sure
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that they know they're talking directly
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to them but people in the autism
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spectrum with Asperger syndrome will
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have difficulty looking in the eyes and
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maintaining the eye contact why because
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it's like looking into somebody's Soul
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give this video a thumbs up if you've
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ever looked in somebody's eyes and you
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feel like they're draining the soul out
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of you you're like you feel naked and
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like it's weird right that's how I feel
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about it and people in the Au inspection
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feel the same so rather than put up with
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an awkward social convention where you
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having to stare somebody in the eyes
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really awkwardly people on the autis
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Spectrum like Asperger syndrome just
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won't look you in the eyes they'll look
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past the eyes or just past you or on
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your forehead and they won't look
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directly into your eyes even looking
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into the camera for me took a long time
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and I've had to practice this if you
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look at my first ever YouTube video I'm
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not looking at the camera I'm like this
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stood this way talking to sideways on
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the camera so that's what the first one
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is the second one is the love of routine
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so number two is autism and routines
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people on the autism spectrum withp
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syndrome will love routines and routines
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AR things like uh I I mean like you're
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not doing the same thing every day what
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I mean is that they love the pattern of
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doing things repetitively that they are
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comfortable with so it could be that
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they sit in the same spot on the couch
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they their breakfast they wear the same
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type of clothes every single day they
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watch the same TV show and they'll just
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rewind it and watch the same thing again
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and those type of things are part of the
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autism spectrum where a person who is
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autistic uh with asgus in
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would technically find unfamiliar things
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very uncomfortable right and this and
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this lack of familiarity will be
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uncomfortable and therefore having
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something comfortable knowing what
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happens next basically is a routine
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right if you do the same thing you know
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what happens next so it's comfortable
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you don't have to worry about it less
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worry happier days typical so you'll see
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people who have Asperger syndrome who
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like just eat the same thing for lunch
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every single day or they'll wear the
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same kind of clothes or they'll talk
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about the same things and this is a huge
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giveaway for people on the autism
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spectrum especially people who have
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aspect syndrome which is kind of like
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the lower support needs or higher
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functioning we don't really use that
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term autism okay so number three is
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social issues now this is probably one
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of the biggest ones not the biggest one
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but a big one and social issues are kind
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of like this a person with Asperger
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syndrome if you ask them in work hey
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darl you want to go out and grab some
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pizza after work they would 100% say no
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every single time because they'd rather
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go home and study something or read a
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book or watch a documentary or go to
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library and study then go out and
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socialize because socializing is
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difficult why because there are so many
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Unwritten social rules like for instance
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when you're at school you learn things
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like you talk to your friends and then
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your friends will be like hey um you
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know they know how far away to stand
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from you when you're talking that's
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acceptable so you're not kind of in
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somebody's face or in their personal
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space and these things are learned
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through social behavior because they're
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picked up on but people with Autism
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won't pick up on these things because
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they're so busy trying to manage their
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brain in the chaotic world of reality
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that it's not always easy to pick out
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the social conventions that people just
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uh take for granted that they just learn
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so autistic individuals will have a hard
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time being in social situations I have a
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free autism life hacks PDF book that you
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there right now and download it so they
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will retract from those and plus those
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places are busy smelly they're just
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difficult environments for an autistic
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person to be in so they'd rather be at
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home in a comfortable you know routine
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environment of learning or watching
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something that they already know this is
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a comfy cozy spot and the artistic
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individual will Thrive there so yeah if
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you know somebody who's autistic they
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will definitely like shy away and stay
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away from social situations most of the
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time they will okay so number four is
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sensory issues or sensory processing
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disorder now SPD or sensory processing
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disorder is a condition that is
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diagnosed with autism now I mean until
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now I don't think you can have a
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separate diagnosis of sensory processing
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disorder which we'll get into what that
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is in a minute it has to come comorbidly
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or co-occurring basically means
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alongside with autism and the reason for
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that and just by the way guys if you're
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that if you have sensory processing
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disorder you have to be in the autism
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spectrum right makes sense because you
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can't have it independently diagnosed so
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it has to be with cobid alongside with
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autism and what this means is you will
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have a versions you could be hyper or
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hypos sensitive to certain things like a
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hyper sensitive to taste would be if you
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taste something that's slightly spicy
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like a KFC chicken wing or something
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then you could find that intensely spicy
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but somebody who's hyposensitive to it
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could just like drink hot sauce from the
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bot because they're hyposensitive to it
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so it could be one of the two and so
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this happens with everything could be
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smells trigger you or the lighting is
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too bright and that triggers you or or
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sounds trigger you like too much sounds
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like if you know you've been in that
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position where you're in a party and
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you're trying to talk to somebody and
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it's like everybody else is talking
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around you and you're like I have no
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idea what this person is saying because
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I'm focusing on the conversation over
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here right give this video a thumbs up
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if you've had this experience I'm
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calling you out right now drop me a
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comment if I just called you out that is
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because these there's too many things
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going on your senses are overwhelmed
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well an autistic person a person with
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Asperger syndrome will have this
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sensation and this feeling all the time
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this this is the their number one like
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just constantly feeling this so it's not
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a question of like being in a crowded
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place or a party it's like all the time
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when you're trying to talk to them
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they'll have this issue with sensory
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issues and it could be anything be
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clothing could like they might not like
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the tags on clothing and cut tags off
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t-shirts and socks the seams on socks
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may be really uncomfortable there's all
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kinds of things that can really impact
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someone with Asbergers one of what's
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interesting ones for me and FYI if you
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are the same you have to leave me a
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comment I I've not me met many people
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with autism who have the same issue I
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get really hot I'm always running hot my
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body temperature is like through the
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roof right and so if I'm doing anything
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like DIY or trying to like hang a
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painting up or like anything that that
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takes me to just do a little bit more
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effort than just sitting down and
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walking around I just start sweating my
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body temperatur goes through the roof so
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I'm having to do DIY in my end pants so
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I'm sitting there like doing shelves in
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my end pants like people will come over
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like Dan are you okay like why are you
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when your end pants doing like shelving
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and I'm like yeah well you know I get
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too hot so I have a sensory issue with
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heat and cooling which it's it's crazy
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it's absolutely crazy but that's true
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true Point okay so number five I'm
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getting on to you right now this is
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probably one of the most interesting
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ones this is communication issues now
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people on the autism spectrum especially
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people with Asperger syndrome will have
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difficulties in communication and they
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can't just be communicating like verbal
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communication sometimes they may have
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speech delay may have speech impediment
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um they may have a different lexicon or
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vocabulary that's quite Superior to most
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people because like many of itic
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individuals I learned to speak by
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watching television and many of it was
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American television now I'm actually in
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the UK I'm from the UK born and raised
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here in the UK but my accent is slightly
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Americanized right so if you've noticed
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that my accent is really odd it's kind
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of transatlantic it's because I learn to
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speak by watching television so how does
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that transpose because autistic
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individuals have a mass difficulty in
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communicating with people because they
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have to go with the pace that the person
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is going right do make sense if
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somebody's talking at you you kind of
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have to listen digest what they're
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saying understand what they're saying
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know what you want to say back and say
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back to them within a very short time
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frame and that's usually on the time
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frame of the person who's initiating
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that conversation or starting to talk to
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you however artistic individuals take
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longer than most people to do that whole
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circle it's called um Alexa thyia so the
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whole cycle of communication can take a
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little bit longer which means that
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autistic individuals will say the wrong
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things not say anything at all I'll
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totally not understand what you've said
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to them it could be a list of things you
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said I need you to go here do this do
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this do this this and then they can't
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execute it you know they can't get on
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with the task because they have no idea
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what you're talking about this is very
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common but also communicating their
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emotions how do you feel so emotion the
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word emotion comes from energy in motion
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so when an artistic person has energy in
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them say they're angry how does that
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energy come out they may not have the
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ability to put that into Motion in the
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correct way or if an artistic person is
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bothered by something and they're just a
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little bit kind of like huh how do you
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put that energy into motion sometimes it
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comes out as anger cuz it's the wrong
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motion for the energy
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because you know emotional intelligence
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is difficult to transpose into
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communicative language and that is
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something that people on the Spectrum
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struggle with the most me it's by far
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one of the biggest things I struggle
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with and then I guess like if you're
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struggling with this too um I actually
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