10 ASPERGER Symptoms you MUST know

in this video we're looking at 10 Asperger symptoms so you can identify Asperger's in somebody fast coming right up hey I'm Dan I have Asperger's syndrome ADHD OCD and dyslexia I make weekly videos on the subject so if you want to learn more consider subscribing and join the most accepting family on YouTube also some of the symptoms I'm sharing in this video may actually shock you hey what's good Aspie World farm what's going on you guys are the best before getting into the video just ask a simple question what do you guys prefer minecraft or Pokemon let me know in the comments below so 10 Asperger symptoms this is a retake on my first ever video on youtube and if you're interested in watching it I will leave it in the description that below so number one is stimming now stimming happens when you need to self-soothe and what that actually means is that sometimes i used to stim like this with my hands or twitch like this but then i've got used to rub in my hands like this another one is using my my hands here it's inside a rubber on the side of my chin when I'm feeling kind of stressed or anxious or excited or happy it's kind of weird things when I'm like super concentrating or something like right okay this is give me like the best video in the entire universe and don't watch it or it's like in like a new episode of something cool like Stranger Things I'm like I'm gonna' get so into it I start kind of maybe rocking a little bit or I'll kind of like soothe myself by stimming with my hands a little bit and this is kind of super common with people with Asperger syndrome and autism so it's a very good one to look out for if you're trying to look at somebody and say hey does this person have an autism spectrum disorder and you go well I don't know do they have any symptoms this is something that pretty much everybody I know on the spectrum has this symptom of this trait okay number two is changing routine and what I mean by this is that people with Asperger's syndrome like to have specific routine so I know that I like to go to this store buy this sandwich with this bread and everything's cool but sometimes the routine doesn't always go to plan and sometimes things can change but when things do actually change it's not a good thing when when when change happens it disrupts the whole pattern of it because you're used to having these things and that's how you perceive it's going to be and you know that I'm going to go from my house to the store and do this when something happens and it just sets you off it's kind of like somebody flicking the dominoes over when you haven't even set them all up yet I find this one of the most difficult things about having the condition because it's difficult to think abstract that okay well something doesn't happen what's gonna what's gonna happen but one of the tips that me my partly is is she helps me kind of come up with scenarios so we have three options we go to something we didn't before I have my diagnosis but now we've had the diagnosis this is one of the ways we deal with this issue but again it's a great one for identifying if somebody is used to very strict routine when you get very upset and can't deal with the change then this could be a factor okay so the next one number three is sensory issues with foods now essentially issues with food people with autism and Asperger syndrome generally have sensory processing disorders and sensory issues and for me the worst one is it is kind of like food so so sloppy cold food so I can eat my food when it's hot but it soon as it cools down I can't even touch it kind of look at it don't like anything to do with it when it's cold freaks me out it makes you super nervous I can't explain why it just does and it's something that I know that people on the spectrum actually deal with a lot of the time you know so certain sources if they're cold or like you know soup goes cold and it just freaks me out oh that reminds me um this video is set from my perspective as a guy on the spectrum actually did a video about symptoms for girls on the spectrum if you'd like to see that video make sure you hit that card above here that will show you that video maybe watch it after this video okay so number four is sensory issues with smells now the smells are super big ones a big trigger for me so one of the one of the main smells or two the main smells I can't stand it is onions and garlic I can't be around them no way no way no way another one is perfumes and like cents like me with body lotions or probably washes things that may be super overpowering and like it just triggers me I go know where it is I can't get comfortable I feel kind of irritated by it the garlic and onions make me really kind of I wouldn't say upset but really annoyed it triggers me in something I'm like you've got to go away from the smell just gonna I don't know I feel like this skin is gonna just burn off and I'll die or something a bit too exaggerated okay so number five its sensory issues with noise this time again this is how sometimes things can be like super loud and super noisy and like way overpowering I actually wear headphones I have specific headphones I wear which are noise canceling headphones so to stop the the overwhelming noise of loads of people or or certain environments like cafeterias or like I don't know like days out with your folks or whatever a shopping mall I wear headphones and at home as well to kind of chill out so you know zero noise total silence I can just zone out and this again is a huge essentially issue of most people on the autism spectrum do have I'm not saying that everybody's gonna have it but I'm saying that like you know a lot of people will have it and this is another way to identify the symptoms in seventy oh and if you're interested in watching more I do have a playlist that's linked in the description below in the first line or whatever all about autism I did a bunch of videos and waters and stuff so you can learn more about it you can always click that video and there's a playlist full of different videos in there okay so number six is obsessive topics of interest and this called kind of like persons resonate to me for a few different reasons but I have a variant amount of different topics that I Iike obsessed oh but one of the main ones is aliens UFOs conspiracy theory all that stuff I love it I just like super focus on it I buy loads of books on it and audio books and videos and research and I listen to podcasts and do all that kind of stuff if you guys are interested and learn more about my obsession I'm actually doing a video on it which will be on my channel if you're watching this video right now make sure you click the subscribe button so you don't miss out obsessive topics of interest is a huge huge common characteristic with people with an autism spectrum disorder now they may get obsessed about things like minecraft or Pokemon or Thomas the Tank Engine or numbers or anything that they can really just dive into that they feel like really technically into I was also really into chemistry I've done a degree in chemistry because I got really into it then I'm also into kind of like making videos which is what I'm doing now I'm making a video but I also do other kind of videos like more vlog style videos but you know that this this is one of the main reasons why you can spot somebody with an autism spectrum disorder quite easily because you'll be like wow look they've got an extreme obsession you know and not a lot of people on a nurotypical sense will kind of do this ok number seven is basically repetitive clothing and repetitive clothing basically means that I wear the same thing every single day well not the exact same t-shirt be super smelly and stuff yeah we're the same type of t-shirts oh I plain brands I wear black jeans I wear black vans and I always have a hat so I have a lot of hats I have lots of plain t-shirts either grey black white or like a dark maroon colour and I always wear black jeans I don't really own I do own other colour jeans but I don't really why there's like for special occasions and crap I be forced to wear other coloured jeans what is up with that but I also wear black socks and black underpants every single day that's it I just buy loads to them at one go this has come through a few problems also when I'm trying to buy things again and again they don't always have them in so I have to kind of bulk buy things so I don't run out in time where I can find another one or a place but that's good enough or or better than the one I already got which is similar which is also kind of crazy but you get the idea you know if you walk into somebody's wardrobe Asperger's syndrome they me usually have repetitive patterns of what they like to wear this is all from my point of view I mean these can't differ because everybody on the spectrum is individual but this is commonly what we kind of you know are about okay so number eight is sarcasm and jokes now this one is always getting so people on the autism spectrum don't understand the sarcasm and jokes that often I mean sometimes they do and sometimes they can get it for me for instance if I know my family members really really well I know my friends really really well then most the time I can get their jokes but a lot of the time I just completely don't get it and actually my friends use this to their advantage they kind of tell me stuff that to make it like once we were in the studio recording because I'm in a band and we were recording music and they tried to tell me that the Tom on a on a on a drum kit was actually called the Tomual and I believed them for ages until I Googled didn't realize it didn't exist so they do it just to kind of like have some fun but this is a common kind of trait where people kind of take things literally where people kind of just who are on the spectrum don't understand jokes and don't some start a sarcasm that well okay so number nine is social anxiety now comorbidly Asperger syndrome and autism does come with an anxiety but social anxiety is probably one of the worst ones so going to like cities and traveling or going to airports these things are like super triggering for people with autism and Asperger's and don't because of the social overwhelmed there's too many people there you get overwhelmed sensory input is going crazy smells slight sound all the stuff is crazy and a lot of time will end up in a meltdown and if you want to see a video on a meltdown I will link that in the card above here somewhere so you guys can see that but it may cause a meltdown and by causing a meltdown it could like put a bad tone or trip or whatever so you know anxiety it's something that is super difficult to deal with I have it really bad with travel anxiety and when I go to cities I think is probably the worst I going out to big cities there's almost like agoraphobia in a away but it's not as I was diagnosed first like a phobia but it's not really agoraphobia it's something different it's obviously social anxiety and being out there in the general anxiety disorder kicking in okay so I did a video on autism life hacks I'll try and link it in the description below so you guys can check that out in case it's something that you may be interested in you know how to deal with certain things if you're watching this video on your on the spectrum then these autism life hacks may come in handy okay so number 10 and this is probably my worst one which is talking too fast now I'm trying my best in this video to make sure that you guys know that I am talking at a moderate speed but most of the time people tell me to slow down dude you're talking way too fast I can't understand a thing you say what did he just say most of my family members can't even understand what I say because I talk too fast and if you look through a bunch of my old videos and look through the comment section you'll see people saying dude you need to slow down and even in this video maybe you're thinking Done you need to slow down on that talking son but talking fast for me is because my Asperger syndrome comes come comorbidly with ADHD and I know a lot of people who have Asperger's syndrome also have the ADHD so we kind of get a bit hyperactive and might like my voice starts going kind of crazy and I've kind of hyperactive about things and I speak really really fast so my apologies for that but that is another symptom of autism I've met a lot of people with Asperger's syndrome who have this trait and then it just I find it quite funny people get super triggered by it I'm super sorry okay so I'm actually gonna give you guys an extra bonus this is number 11 and I thought was kind of fun thing just to check in here to give you a free one because you know you guys are awesome and stuff so this one is taking things literally and I had a really funny story about this um I remember when I was doing an access course to to go on to do my degree I was actually hanging out in the kitchen eating some food like a sandwich or something and then the woman I was talking to who son also had Asperger's syndrome was having some soup and she like put like a banana peel inside the cup that she was drinking a soup from and gave me the the cup with a banana and she's "Ah Dan can you put that in the bin?" like okay so I threw the whole thing in a bin and she was kinda like Dan what you do thrown out in a bin and I was like oh my goodness you know dang it and I didn't realize that she didn't mean to throw the whole thing in the bin just a banana and then put the couple of sites or things like that and I get a super bad with taking things super literal and it's because of the way the brain of someone with an autism spectrum disorder work ssso that they take things quite literally but this is a key to understanding typical common symptoms of people on the autism spectrum make sure you guys watch the next video which is also awesome and you think you'll love it and make sure to subscribe if you want it become part of this awesome family on YouTube and learn more about autism and Asperger's

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Length: 11min 51sec (711 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 19 2018