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Introversion or Asperger's Traits?




Hey guys! Today I want to talk about introversion
or Asperger's; and to do this I'm going to
talk you through a few traits of Asperger's,
and you can decide: Uh, does this sound like
me, does this not sound like me? And the aim
of the video is: If at the end, you do...if
these traits of Asperger's sound like you,
I want you to question: what you think about
being an introvert, the way you are, blah
blah blah; I want you to question that a bit.
So let's start with the first trait. Are you
a bit OCD about things in your life? So, it
could be you're OCD about the way you clean
your house, or do it: This time of day, I
clean this much, or it could be about food.
Many people have strong discipline around
food: I only eat this special kind of diet,
and you can stick to it. Or, for example,
like me, my disciplines are more about my
creative work. I make this much work; I do
it roughly on these days and these times;
it's important to me and other things don't
get in my way. And I don't quit things, either.
Whereas most people in the world, they don't
have a lot of discipline. You know, they quit
things all the time. And if they're on a diet,
they can't really stick to it after a day.
You know, most people in general don't have
a lot of discipline.
So ask yourself: Are you a bit OCD about things
in your life...strong, strong discipline.
Next Asperger's trait. Have you always found
social communication, understanding people.
Have you always found it in some way hard,
as if everybody else got the rules for social
interaction: Here you go, here are all the
rules, All right, I understand. Everybody
else got those rules, but for whatever reason,
they didn't sink into you when you were a
kid. Maybe you've learnt now, most of them.
Or maybe you've improved greatly. But for
someone reason, it was just hard for you;
it was a struggle; you didn't understand.
Does that sound like you?
And the other Asperger's trait is: In some
situations, in a situation where you are overwhelmed:
it could be there's a lot of noise, or you
felt uncomfortable, something happens, and
you just suddenly have an explosion. Like
you get really angry; you start shouting at
everyone; or you just get overwhelmed, and
so you run away, and you don't tell anyone;
or you get this overwhelmed feeling, and then
it's like you can't move. And it's awful and
it's like all the feeling in your body goes
out.
What I've just described there is a bit like
a panic attack, but you might not recognize
it as a panic attack because, you know, when
people think of panic attack, they think of
breathing into a paper bag. But this kind
of panic attack is...it looks like to other
people that you just went crazy or you did
something weird. Like: Why did you run away?
Or: Woah, why are you shouting at us now?
But the way it feels when it's happening to
you is like: it happens suddenly, and you
can't control it. That is: could say panic
attack, could say Asperger's meltdown.
So ask yourself: Do these things happen to
you in your life? If the answer is Yes, I
know what it's like, because all these things
are the story of my life, and the challenges
that I face. And the things that I most wanted
to learn in my life, like to solve. Like:
How do I stop that panic attack? How do I
learn to communicate and understand people
and express myself? So I always had these
issues in my life. I didn't really know what
they were. Like I definitely didn't know that
the getting angry thing was like a panic attack
or an Asperger's meltdown. I just felt like
there's something really weird and really
wrong about me. And I always tried to hide
that and avoid situations where it could happen.
So that's how I experienced my life. I didn't
really have the language or the knowledge
to explain it. I just thought: it sounds like
introvert stuff. You know: introverts get
drained around people; I knew that. It's an
introvert thing, and if I'm not spending time
around people, then that stuff doesn't happen
to me. I don't have a crazy explosion when
I'm just by myself, cause I'm an introvert.
So I was thinking that the challenges in my
life and things that were hard for me and
caused me suffering I was thinking: Oh, this
is because I'm an introvert. So I was using
that language. And I'm imagining and I'm guessing
that a lot of people are still thinking that,
because they don't know about these panic
attack kind of thing, and they don't know
about Asperger's traits, so they think: It's
because I'm an introvert, I experience this.
Then it becomes a lot of excuses that many
people have. You know: Because I'm an introvert,
I don't like parties. Or: Because I'm an introvert,
I don't want to go there. And basically it's
like trying to avoid panic attacks, rather
than: Maybe the real reason you don't go to
parties is not because you wouldn't enjoy
it; maybe you could enjoy it, but you don't
go to parties because you're scared of having
a panic attack.
I think it is true that there are like real
introverts out there, who don't have problems
with social communication, don't have these
freak-outs, and they're happy to lead introverted
lives and all the stereotypes of introverts,
all the things that introverts like, that
appeals to people like that, because they
are true introverts.
For me, this introvert movement, introvert
thing, doesn't really appeal to me a hundred
percent, because the reason I developed an
introverted life was because I was trying
to avoid the panic attack explosion. And I
find it...I do enjoy to be around people;
I just don't want to be interacting all the
time. There are many things about how I lead
my introverted life which I'm trying to go
in the other direction more and more. I like
to be around people; I like to push my comfort
zone. And it's not like I want to be an introvert:
stay in my cave, stay in my cave. I think,
for me, going the other side and pushing it
against limitations, to me is where a more
exciting and a more rich life lies.
And I think maybe this is because the introvert
label-name doesn't describe me that well,
because my challenges and my problems were
the Asperger traits after all.
So I invite you to have a think about that
and reflect. Are you a true introvert whatever
that means, you know, the quiet time, blah
blah blah? Do you really identify it? Or have
you got some struggles in your life about
communication, about having explosions, panic
attack things? Have you got some struggles
in your life, which are why you've taken on
that way of looking at yourself as an introvert?
Have a think about it. I've also got a link
to a test, which you can do, and you can get
your own score to investigate your own Asperger's
traits.
So yep, thank you for watching and join me
again soon!

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