Could you be Autistic and not even know? | 15 Signs of undiagnosed autism

yep it's gonna hit you one day you're gonna put it all together and think oh my gosh i'm autistic so i'm here to help you get to that point a lot sooner than you might realize because today today we're gonna cover 15 reasons why you might actually be autistic and just not even realize it yet and no this is actually a recent video i just happened to get a new succulent for father's day so if you go back and watch some of my older videos you'll notice that i did used to have one and then it died yes i managed to kill a succulent so hey as per usual welcome back to the life autistic i'm really glad you're here if you are here and you haven't subscribed please make sure to take care of that now it's okay i'll wait okay it shouldn't take that long but really though as much as i appreciate you subscribing i love comments and if you feel like this means something to you don't just tell me tell others i deeply appreciate that too so again new episodes every wednesday or on wednesdays if not every wednesday so yeah let's get to the show here 15 reasons and if you want like an interesting creatory secret i actually list out like the camera angles where i'm gonna record all these 15 reasons so i think i have five locations that i'll pick out and then i'll do three for each and then see where we go from there so let's start with number 15. one of the reasons why you might be autistic and just not know it yet i really like how that plant looks my mother-in-law gave it to me but she doesn't realize i'm a killer of plants killer of plants just for the record alright so reason number 15 if you are into routines and you have built routines in your life as an adult as a young adult as an older adult and if you find that if those routines are altered or if something wrecks them or otherwise ruins your day if you can't maintain your routines for whatever reason you made them or fell into them you might be autistic autism and routines they're kind of like bread and butter or bread and biscuits no butter and biscuits they go really well together and they're almost compatible they're they're essential we need them and you may find that you are building very elaborate routines in your life whether it's getting up getting down going to bed waking up workplace little things throughout your day that kind of align you and keep you on focus and on track but if you get off track your day is ruined and you can't explain why well you might be autistic all right so reason number 14 where you may be autistic and you might not realize it if you have friends but they're very few but they're very close there's some funny joke about how the true miracle of jesus is how that he had like 12 close friends okay maybe 11. we're not going to count that 12th guy but how we had so many close friends in his 30s and that's rare you'll find that in autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people that friendships are just hard to come by but when we do come by we latch on to people and we really maintain a strong bond with just a few people so when i hear folks talking about how they're going to go up with their friends i think like what do you mean how do you have like so many friends to go out with like i've gone out with my friends before but you know but that was there was two of them and that was when they came to visit it was super rare to have like two of them in one place and really great so thanks for visiting ferg and jerry but that's just it you may be autistic and not realize it if your idea of friendships is basically just close friendships and not many of them so that's reason number fourteen thirteen all right so reason number 13 where you may be autistic and just not realize it yet is if you've got some extraordinary level of achievement in one thing i remember back when i took my sats i could blitz through that english section vocabulary was my jam i was grades ahead math not even once so when you find that your skill set is really differentiated between being very poor in one aspect but more than well-rounded toweringly strong in another that's one indicator that you may have that differentiation of autistic strength and weakness so yes if that's you you may be autistic that's number thirteen number twelve number twelve and this is common if you happen to be in academic settings or in work settings or somebody asked for volunteers if you are one of the quickest to the answers and you're the type who's going to blurt out the answer before somebody asks the question you may very well be autistic part of our autistic superpowers even though i don't like that term is being able to really produce almost immediate recall our autistic specificities and recall of mundane facts it's kind of an innate ability for a lot of us so you may find that if you're really quick on the draw with answers that it takes other people a lot longer to get to you may actually be autistic which is awesome so yeah you're the first one to answer questions when you know so get ready for people to call and you inspect you to know everything isn't that just great anyway that's number 12. number 11. all right so number 11 you might be autistic and not realize it if you just know too darn much about a thing so you know how it goes when you start going down the wikipedia rabbit hole or you're researching imdb or you just end up looking up from your computer screen and all of a sudden you're an expert on robot combat history in in the late 90s and early 2000s and you can articulate the evolution of the sport and how the meta change from flipping robots in the uk to more destructive types in the later battlebots series and how that meta is probably going to change when somebody can counter a vertical spinning type of robot which seems to be the prevalent choice and kind of the similarity between robots that end up winning and progressing in the tournament which i think is incentivized by the rules and you get certain kinetic transfer of energy am i i'm doing this oh my gosh right so if you know too much about a thing and specifics about a thing you may very well be autistic and not realize it that's number 11. number 10. all right so reason number 10 10 is when you are considered rude and you have no idea why when you're just telling it like it is and you're relaying the facts and people say oh how rude and you have no idea why well one i actually have a video for that so i hope you watch it but that may be one of those key signs that you are autistic and don't realize it when you think you're just being honest you're not trying to be critical you're not trying to be mean you're just trying to get to the point but news flash apparently you can't do that in today's society or at least an american society they call you rude they call you blunt they call you mean and then they think you're a jerk and then your life is miserable and you're misunderstood but no no it's not you're just autistic and you don't realize it yet so that's reason number ten moving to number nine alright so number nine probably more common in autistic women or where you see autism represented in girls but when you're the one who's considered shy or odd or quirky and when those types of terms tend to apply to you you know for guys or others you may see it more as just introverted or keeping to themselves solemn when those labels apply more to your social disposition and you find that you're always the the quirky one or you're always the weird one or whatever nice word there is for weird that may be a telltale sign that you might just be autistic and not know it yet granted there's plenty of neurotypical people who are weird enough in their own right or quirky but when you start to get the combination of shy reserved introverted keeps to themselves a little bit different marching to the beat of their own drum off in their own little world that that may be a sign and that's number nine number eight number eight you may be autistic and not realize that you are if you can somehow manage in social situations but you have to overthink and pre-plan this every single time apparently there are people who can just do this naturally you throw them in a crowd they know exactly what to say and all of a sudden they're the center of attention and everybody's talking and they're not stressed out about it but you may be autistic and not realize it because you found a way to manage this you found masking and coping strategies to where you pre-planned you know who's going to be there you find just the right spot you get with just the right circle of people you tell just the right kind of jokes and you can move from one area to another and you've thought about how to minimize being cornered caught in the center or otherwise excluded from the conversational circle but there's no way you're doing it naturally and you know you're not doing it naturally in a way you're an unnatural natural at socializing so yeah it looks fun when you're at parties yeah you can pass as being a social butterfly but on the inside you're concuned in a lot of anxieties and hoping that somebody doesn't corner you in a topic that you haven't planned for yep you might be autistic and not realize it yet so that's number eight number seven okay so number seven is the sensory overload aspect so if you have no idea why certain senses bother you more than they do other people why certain sounds disrupt you why certain smells distort you with certain textures really bother you like an itchy shirt or a tag or even lighting then you may be autistic and just not realize it yet one of the things that i don't really talk about is my college experience and i remember just in going back how i could not exist in my dorm rooms because of the fluorescent lighting i would literally buy extra lamps with softer lighting i don't know how i got away with this but i just insisted that we use the more ambient lights no matter what i didn't realize then that i had a light aversion i wasn't a vampire i just didn't like that hard light i like nice soft orange-y light yeah if that's you and you find that certain sounds smells or senses just seem to bother you more than the average bear that may be a sign that you're autistic and you just don't know it yet all right so that's number seven moving on to six number six is stimming and stimming is fun it's a self-stimulating behavior that you do is kind of like a coping mechanism so if you're always seeing where you're either itching your hair kind of like i do like i itch my hair constantly when i'm thinking or you have some kind of fidget i don't know who would have this elsa wand as a fidget i mean i actually have two because i have daughters but no if you find that you are involuntarily fidgeting or twirling pens or you basically just don't know what to do with your hands which by the way i was thinking like i need to write a book or a pamphlet that's titled what to do with your hands that way you're reading it and unit anyway whatever i like to think that that's funny but if you find that you're constantly doodling or you're twirling a pen biting your nails or some kind of like even more involved motions whether it's flapping walking a lot of involuntary sustained ticks for when you're stressed or even when you're happy and flappy that's really awesome and guess what you might actually be autistic so that's number six number five all right reason number five you might be autistic and not realize it is if you feel like you are speaking a foreign language and hearing a foreign language like you're the only person conversing on a certain level with a certain precision of detail i've been guilty of this to where i'm thinking really deeply about a topic where i ask like a parenthetically labyrinthine question and i'm going into a lot of details and nobody really picks up on the kind of language that i'm using or how i'm trying to relate or you may see this with children to where they just they're basically trying to get you to play with them and you don't know how to say hey can you come play with me like you'll just stand and kind of wait and maybe somebody will throw a ball at you that's just apparently that's not how it works but that's how it works to us it's almost like we are speaking our own language that nobody else gets using a lot of internal references that only we find funny but because it's our reality yeah you might very well be autistic that's reason number five number four number four is an interesting one and i appreciate this suggestion but if you find that your friends and acquaintances and the people that you connect with the most are also getting diagnosed and going through their own and neurodivergent awakening you might be autistic too and just not realize it yet especially with those who have made closer connections and you find that hey maybe i speak the same language as this person hey maybe i get this person a little bit better and then they find out they're autistic you know the phrase right birds of a feather flock to heather so if heather's got her diagnosis well there's a chance that you may also get something similar autism isn't like a contagious thing but i have found that the more autistic people who seem to connect with you and you're not autistic well you might actually be autistic and you just don't know it yet so that's reason number four is if your acquaintances or closer connections are getting diagnosed or are autistic well you might just be autistic too cool number three is an interesting one but number three you might be autistic if you literally just feel differently and what i mean by feeling differently is when you really take a lot of time to process and to really reflect on feelings like it's almost like a delayed response in some cases to where you may feel something but it's a much more delayed effect the shock the visceral response may come quicker to others for you it may actually be a much longer track and it may take longer for things to resonate and kind of work through your system or you may find something immediately funny or immediately urgent or it tugs your heart strings a lot more pronounceably than it does others so where others may not have as much of an emotional response your response may be incredibly emotional like for me i joke that my neurotypicality is when i cry at the end of toy story 3 but my neurodivergence is that i cry at the beginning of toy story 3 which most people don't do but i did i was openly weeping in the theater um yeah that's a great movie and i just cried through the whole thing throughout you may feel very differently you may process feelings very differently and if you do you might be autistic so that's number three number two reason number two and this is very similarly related to a previous point about speaking a foreign language when you are on one of two different sides of the equation and nowhere in between and it's either you get it and you're the only one to get it or you don't get it and you're the only one who doesn't get it you've probably been there where everybody around you is laughing at a joke or they're playing along or they're having a good time and you're left out because you don't understand sarcasm or you had trouble picking up on a literality or you don't know why it's funny it's like i remember that one quote from the office where dwight walks in and he's like hey what's funny i want to laugh too and i have literally said that like hey i want to laugh too because i'm the only one not laughing or maybe somebody sure has presented this very complex problem or it's an emergency and you're the only one who gets it i actually got in trouble at work because of this because like i understood like a certain kind of blah blah let's just say work related dynamic and i think my bosses reported me to their bosses because they had no clue what i was getting at you know i hate talking about work because i just can't talk about it but i was the only one who could see the pattern and put it all together and i was like is it like is it like charlie day and it's always sunny where he's like got all everything mapped out but that was me and if that's you you might be autistic too and not get it that's reason number two but the number one reason you might be autistic and not realize it yet is this the number one reason that you may be autistic and not realize it is if your parents are autistic or your children are autistic or your siblings are autistic autism from what i understand has a genetic component if your parents got it if any siblings got it or if your kids do they get it from somewhere and if you're part of that family system you may very well be autistic like i had to have gotten it from somewhere so you may find that your parents exhibit symptoms that really line up with autistic symptoms your children may be diagnosed and i'm telling you they didn't just pick it up off the street chances are they may have gotten it from you so that's worth considering too especially if your kids have been diagnosed i've seen a lot of examples to where that was the key to adults getting a diagnosis mainly because their children's symptoms were more easily identified and diagnosed so yep if your parents siblings kids are autistic chances are you might just be autistic too and not realize it yet look everyone i didn't choose the life autistic the life autistic chose me i discovered that i was autistic at age 16 but you may be going through life you may be matching up and really not knowing why you're different you know that you are different but you might not know why and these 15 reasons may explain it but it's not definitive i don't have a phd in autism but i do have experience and i'm just trying to relay the experience of where i've seen difference that lines up with autism and autistic traits so i'd encourage you if you feel like you line up and you're 15 for 15 on this and you don't have a diagnosis and you don't know whether you are or not try to seek that out if you can maybe take some tests use whatever resources you have that are available but otherwise you know what you may be autistic undiagnosed and not know it yet and today you may be coming closer to knowing that hey you could be autistic and maybe you are if so hey welcome and hey if anything welcome to the life autistic thank you so much for joining me take care

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Published: Wed Aug 18 2021

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