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Signs You're an Undiagnosed Autistic Person

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Is it adult autism? Let's look at 15 subtle signs that you or someone you know might be autistic.

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3. Understanding AuDHD: https://www.additudemag.com/adult-aut...
4. Autism without intellectual impairments more common... (2021): https://www.thetransmitter.org/spectr...
5. Heritability of autism (2017): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...

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⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:15 Sign 1
1:39 Sign 2
2:19 Sign 3
2:42 Sign 4
3:38 Sign 5
4:49 Sign 6
6:40 Sign 7
7:46 Sign 8
8:33 Sign 9
9:41 Sign 10
10:28 Sign 11
11:33 Sign 12
13:04 Sign 13
14:02 Sign 14
14:50 Sign 15

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20 Comments

@Auticate Creator 1 year ago Pinned

✨ DOWNLOAD a free video companion guide, with info on each sign here! https://chrisanddebby.mykajabi.com/pl/2148662015

🎙 Do you resonate with any of these? Would you add anything to this list? Drop your thoughts in the comments ⤵

@SINDILE_MNISI 7 months ago

I get to work early because I don't like feeling rushed and having to start working as soon as I get there, I need time to settle in

@jandroid1962 1 year ago

Sitting in the car to help transitions - so relatable.

@Angelaangelat 1 year ago

I appreciate the non intro! It was very refreshing. I wish all content creators would do this. I often feel exhausted by the time a video actually starts after hearing all about their courses and memberships etc 😅We are all capable of finding who a person is and what they offer by finding their website and social media links. This was a top tier video. Thank you so much

@turnipman1944 2 months ago

15:30, im always finishing peoples sentences in my head and then it feels like forever waiting for them to say what i already know theyre going to say

@Jochamon89 4 months ago

"You're always tired" yes. Always. Even when I was a kid (but it could also be the ADHD exhaustion).

Fun fact: when I was in college, I took an ASL class, mostly just for fun. After all these years, I still know how to sign "I'm tired." It was literally my first response when my ASL professor asked me how I was every morning.

@andreabuntpercy 1 year ago

'The older you get, the longer recovery takes.' Key for me at this moment because at 76 I'm only now finding this out. Thanks! I thought I was losing it. Your sense of humour really helps getting past the negative self feelings.

@faeriesmak 1 year ago

I have been in burnout for 25 years now due to raising two ADHD/autistic boys, caring for an autistic parent, all while being undiagnosed AuDHD myself.

@wendyheaton1439 1 year ago

My internal perfectionist is so happy that I scored 15/15... another great video. I am looking forward to more about burnout as I feel having been undiagnosed for so long I've ended up in permanent burnout 😢

@RenTheWren 1 year ago

It's really tough as a high masking neurodivegent adult to figure out which parts are neurotype, which are the mask, and which are the heaps and HEAPS of trauma that come with being an outlier for decades. The mask and trauma actually get in the way of getting diagnosed 'cause you answer "wrong" on questions designed for overtly autistic children's parents to answer about their kids >.< I really feel like diagnostic tools just aren't designed for autistic people to answer for themselves

@MessyHobbit 1 year ago

I’ve had big gaps of no friends at all and then only friend one at a time.

@AFCFO 2 months ago

4:39 if I have something scheduled at some point my whole day prior to it is shot. I have to make sure I’m ready to be ready to get ready to go. Haha.

@ForAnAngel 1 year ago

The older you get the longer recovery takes but also the more control you have over your way of life and daily routines.

@SweetStuffAustin 1 year ago

Wow! Thanks for this video. I'll probably never get diagnosed since i don't have the money... But i feel better after watching these, because i KNOW, at age 53, that I'm autistic with ADHD. There's nothing wrong with me. I'm not broken... Just different. Love your sense of humor, BTW. 😆

@yvonnes7412 1 year ago

The sitting in the car FLOORED ME. I have been wondering why I sometimes take a long time to get out of my car after work… not just 20 minutes, sometimes 30 minutes or an hour… wow 🤯 I guess I need transition time

@redneckinthebardo 1 year ago

Another autism test, aced. I'm 56, female, and just realized last week that I'm autistic.

Thank you. Subscribed.

@CreativeLivingInFinland 1 year ago

I have abandoned so many cool, super interesting projects because of perfectionism. Because I couldn't get everything right 100% of the time, I ended up doing nothing. I had such clear vision of what I wanted to do, and when my skills weren't on that level just yet, I couldn't continue.

Now I'm trying to be kinder towards myself and accept that creating mediocre stuff is just part of the learning process. But it's still incredibly hard.

@elizabeth_revealedstory 1 year ago

I really appreciate how you bring humor to issues regarding autism and ADHD. :)

@sarahlogan2075 1 year ago

Perfectionist here. I have never been able to produce anything to my own standards. What I see in my head never happens in reality. I can do a lot of things sort of well or passable okay and I am in awe of people who can. I can't practice more or take more classes or read more books about whatever. I finally (I'm 70) had to give up on my own expectations and am much happier and a LOT less anxious. I hit all 15. Great video. If you decide to do a video on sleep, could you talk about insomnia and nightmares?

@5avan10 1 year ago

I struggle to make and keep new friends (it doesn't help that I never go out in public unless I have to). But I was very lucky in some ways, because I made some really good friends in school 40 years ago, who have never rejected me even though I have time blindness and forget to contact them for days, weeks, months, or even years at a time. And it turns out that over the last 5 years or so, we all have found out that we were neurodivergent but undiagnosed. That's probably why we clicked so well in the first place. I would even add sign #16: your friends turn out to be neurodivergent.