 What's up YouTube? Welcome to another video from Asperger's Growth. I've been thinking about why teenagers and adults on the spectrum more likely to experience anxiety during their everyday lives Apart from the genetic factors because I do believe that people are more likely to have more potential mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety That kind of stuff. But in the studio, I want to focus on more of kind of the social social side of it. So firstly a long time ago when we were Being hunters and we didn't have a lot of brainpower and stuff that we did nowadays Danger was the main cause of stress or what we call anxiety in modern society. A lot of anxiety that comes from modern society is to do with feelings of being very comfortable worried or being very confused about a situation And that's and those those things are the reasons why autistic people are more prone to getting overwhelmed by anxiety and being more likely to have breakdowns. You see I believe that the anxiety that people on the spectrum experience is it stems from a difference mostly between the the world that the world of society that we have and all the social norms and all the the general things that people take for granted in situations So those things contrast a lot with the view that someone with autism may initially have on on the world and that can be quite a big source of anxiety for someone because there's a lot of confusion in that. A lot of the things that people who aren't on the spectrum would initially already have built into them. It's going to be learned and it's going to be forced upon people on the spectrum. So we obviously live in a society based on people who aren't on the spectrum, obviously. So that means that everybody who who is autistic has to comply to those rules as well. And if and that the problem comes with trying to comply with those rules and as I said before and confusion and being anxious about the situation is a it's quite a big factor when to do break downs and anxiety and such. So a lot of the reasons for all the anxiety and the stress is usually to do with misunderstanding and confusion in that situation. So if a person is forced into a certain way of living on certain like social standards then it's going to conflict with how they feel about the situation. Something that may be considered to be quite common sense and normal to a normal person, even quite a young person, maybe quite alien and very hard to understand for someone with aspergillation. For example the topic of stimming, which is the the act of doing some kind of repetitive motion or something repetitive that gives a lot of comfort to someone when they're feeling anxious or stressed about a situation. These stimming things, they usually develop quite early but especially in like people with aspergers and especially like teens and adults they tend to kind of peter out for for a lot of reasons. The main reason for the loop the stimming being petered out because I think personally think that it's a really great tool for someone with autism to have. There's been a lot of situations where I've known people have told me and also experienced myself where there's quite a lot of stress on you and that you really want to do it but the the actual stress of people judging you and people looking down on you for doing it is a lot more scary and there's a lot more to worry about with it, so it ends up being kind of petered out during those years. So although it's accepted for something with autism to do the stimming and it becomes an issue when as I said we get to the kind of the teenagers where people with aspergers, so milder form and it's harder for people to recognize someone who has aspergers especially as they get more old get older. Although if you do explain it to people and people don't understand that it's something that's useful it tends to be a lot of doubt on anyway for all these reasons because it's not a very attractive thing to do for a lot of people and it can you know, it can be signs of difficult to explain that but it's definitely not an ideal thing for normal society and making friends, making relationships, etc. The stimming techniques that some people of aspergers acquire earlier on as I said, peter around. A lot of that is to do with friends, that's one of the biggest factors especially when people reach teenagers and they start coming into bigger schools they'll feel a great need to fulfill their social interaction and obviously make friends and feel part of the group. Other people such as parents, teachers, anyone of authority maybe not as much as friends but they may encourage the reducing the stimming mostly for social reasons especially with a person of aspergers a person with high-function autism might be quite a bit easier for them to get away with avoiding social norms not saying that it's a bad thing and that I spite in one, but it's a big kind of going off in the tangent a bit here but the main thing that is important is that society forces people of autism to do things that are very comfortable for them. For good or bad purposes it depends on how you look at it but it does significantly increase the difficulty of someone to get enjoyment over the day be stress free and get a lot of happiness Other examples of times where the perceived reality of someone on a spectrum is different to social norms and etc like that and would be the social rituals that people have especially for making friends could also be applied to relationships in an ideal world it would be a lot more logical to go up to someone you'd like to exchange your information see what they like what you like what they don't like what you don't like and generally get a feel about how you feel about that person it would be a lot easier and a lot more simple and logical to just ask to be friends or ask to go on a date straight there but in society there's a lot more kind of background noise if that makes sense there's a lot of different things and it's a lot more confusing and if something goes wrong and a person on a spectrum doesn't really understand the situation can lead to a lot of things of insecurity and loneliness and even depression so this has just been a little bit on how I feel about the society's impact on anxiety people on the spectrum it's just a little bit it's just a few thoughts I'm not a trained psychological professor or anything but my experiences do go off me having and also meeting a lot of people and observing a lot of people on a spectrum so I'm thinking of doing a next video on autism anxiety and the benefits that sport and exercise can give to someone on a spectrum and also a lot of the difficulties that come along with trying to do get involved in them kind of activities so if you have any suggestions on content that you'd like me to do stick it in the comments and I'll have a look at it and I'll definitely get around to making some content so if you like the video today hit the like button give me subscribe it's a very small channel right now so it would be good to get a few subscribers under the belt and get the ball rolling anyway I hope you guys have had a good day this has been Asperger's Growth thank you YouTube