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Spotting Autism ! YOU Are NOT Simply Quirky!

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Spotting Autism in adults can be difficult because many autistic traits are mistaken for personality quirks, habits, sensitivity, or simple personal preferences. FREE Autism Discovery Call: https://theaspieworlc.com/booking
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I also discuss heightened sensory processing, including sensitivity to flickering lights, electrical smells, background noises, temperature changes, and other people’s emotions. Sensory differences can feel normal when you have experienced them throughout your entire life.

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00:00 Hidden Signs of Autism in Adults
00:11 Repetitive Behaviours and Autistic Routines
02:03 Autism Sensory Issues and Emotional Sensitivity
04:24 Autistic Blunt Honesty and Missed Social Cues
06:11 Allodynia and Painful Autism Sensory Symptoms
07:16 Autistic Intense Personality
08:05 Autistic Visual Stimming

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In this video, I explain six hidden signs of autism that many autistic adults experience without realising they could be connected to being on the autism spectrum.

You may wear the same style of clothing, order the same safe food, replay the same songs, or rewatch familiar television shows. These repetitive routines can help an autistic brain feel calm, prepared, and protected from unexpected changes.

Other possible autism traits include blunt honesty, difficulty recognising flirting or social signals, physical pain caused by sounds or sensations, intense interests, and visual stimming. These experiences are often dismissed as someone being overly sensitive, obsessive, rude, dramatic, or quirky.

Recognising autistic characteristics does not provide a diagnosis. However, learning about autism can help you understand your needs, behaviour, sensory experiences, communication style, and emotional responses.

Let me know in the comments which signs you relate to most. Please like this video and subscribe for weekly videos about autism, ADHD, sensory issues, autistic adults, late autism diagnosis, and neurodivergent life.

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@michellecarey583 2 months ago

The absorbing feelings is horrible. I can be fine, happy and if someone is upset, my mood plummets.

@guillonremi5668 2 months ago

Wait, not everyone is bothered by flickering lights?

@charissaCrimson3967 2 months ago

There was a dead kitten on the road, down the road. I passed it, a couple times, and It bothered me, and had me so upset, that i had to stop and get it off the road and bury it. I felt so much better and gave me a sense of relief that, that poor kitten is not getting smashed no more.

@hawgsdogs-hardcorehotdogs1362 10 days ago

I can feel all of the cells in my body vibrating.

@Torby4096 2 months ago

When I was little, the vacuum cleaner terrified me. I knew it was not harmful, but I had to hide from that noise. Once, while I was in a panic, I noticed my younger sisters just playing happily and wondered how they could do that. When I started school, Mom told me she would do the vacuuming while I was at school. I thought that was very kind of her.

@earthstar2493 2 months ago

I just got diagnosed as an adult. I finally feel ok in my own skin.

@cracked-nana 1 month ago

My parents didn't know I was autistic as a child. My dad was a pastor so went to a ton of weddings and funerals. I would absolutely bounce off the walls at weddings and melt down at funerals and they didn't realize I could feel all the emotions and couldn't help myself. I can sleep if I even know there is flickering light or a blinking light in my house. I sleep with a fan on every night since I was like 10 otherwise I can't sleep.
I get heartburn from sounds. I get hives from the stress of touching something that I don't like the feeling of like polyester (not allergic). I have always been weird but found out I have ADHD and autism at age 49.

@catpocalypsenow8090 2 months ago

I buy gasoline from the same place, and get my haircut at the same place, and go to the same ATM machine, etc etc etc

@kellynowak8332 2 months ago

Industrial A/C units sound like a jet engine.

@dengyldnesvaneHop 2 months ago

Sometimes I can smell my computer; other people say I'm weird... My dad worked a lot with electronics when I was a child and teenager, and as an adult I wanted to work with electronics too, but the smells gave me migraines, so I had to give it up. I thought everyone felt pain when they heard certain sounds; I can't stand hot water either—my son says I take cold showers... I play a few games on Facebook, and I have a hard time switching to a new one; I always go back to a certain one and can't seem to let it go. .. One of the things I love is sitting there and just staring at the washing machine as it washes

@SthapRhan 2 months ago

I always thought I was just undesirable or unattractive, having no one flirt with me and such, but it all makes so much more sense now, later in life that i was most likely just unaware they were flirting with me

@I-N-Z-A-G-H-I 2 months ago

I actually find the soft hum of air conditioners soothing. It’s really calming. I always liked it.

@FFKits 2 months ago

Cannot sleep without a fan, but if I hear the whistling no one else can, I need earplugs too. Cannot cope with "wrong sounds" or too much light. I get physically ill. I can hear frequencies in popular music that disgust me. I can "hear" the math in Classical music and heavy metal. Other people's emotions stick with me, and I oversense things to the point I feel paranoid and have to ask if I am being paranoid about people's reactions or they are mad or cool with me for real. Didn't know other people didn't experience that until I was 40. Wild.

@FrekiBodgaedir 2 months ago

I am audhd and I met many people who are autistic. They dont all have this empathy. Many simply tune out everyone around them.

@OOO-0000 2 months ago

My mother used to smell every book she read or any piece of paper she picked up

@paulenemaehinds9848 1 month ago (edited)

None of my children are autistic but they are all super sensitive to anyone chewing or eating candy out of a bag etc. my oldest son lunged across rows in a theatre once when a kid kept crinkling his candy bag. He grabbed the bad and threw it over the balcony at the theatre. I was mortified. He was 16!

@auroraglacialis 2 months ago

My ADHD cannot stand watching the same show again and again. My autistic traits however mess up any social interaction. So this is where it gets complicated when you have ADHD (I got that as a diagnosis) and autistic traits (I have no diagnosis as there is almost no way to get one as an adult here)

@darkartsbyadrienne 2 months ago

I feel like I'm an obvious liar and people will see through it anyway so I might as well tell the truth. I try to do it gently, but it's much easier to be direct about it

@W0rdn1nja 1 month ago

Yes! Cold water hurts so much! And I can hear fluorescent lighting from outside a room that hurts like a migraine! You too?! My kitchen counter edge is totally straight and perfect. Every morning and just before bed, I tap along the edge softly because it's so smooth under my finger.