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Asperger’s | Kelsey Fleming | TEDxYouth@Harlow


a number of months ago I was in I was
introduced to a new word Asperger’s I
had the word a couple of times before
but had never had any mean input to it
this was until a few months ago when I
got told by a close friend of mine that
they had Asperger’s it seemed that there
was a big deal to them now for a little
bit of a backstory we had met a couple
months before he told me at party so did
I so I did the only thing I know how to
do do you get it
I’m so intense coffee fueled googling
sessions I’m being no closer to finding
out anything more than the signs that
someone may have Asperger’s I decided to
leave it for a couple of times for those
who are unaware of the term Asperger’s
is defined as a type of high-functioning
autism meaning people with the condition
may have the following difficulty with
social relationships difficulty with
communication a love of routines and/or
a special interest in recent terms times
the term Asperger’s has died out and is
now under the umbrella term autism
spectrum condition this is after a new
discovery that Hans Asperger was found
to aid and support the Nazi regime and
suggested that children with
disabilities should be sent to their
deaths
the opportunity to find out more had
came about recently I become really good
friends with this person and I needed to
know more than ever I want you to know
more in depth about how they see the
world differently how it affects their
academics and how it affects their
friendships
once again the good old faithful Google
come out instead of the more logical you
know just asking them either did – taken
aback there where there wasn’t too much
on the topic so I decided to ask the
most oldest wisest person in my family
is estimated that it is one in
200 people affected with Asperger’s and
when you scale this up tell me the
people is there is new UK it totals over
700,000 in most recent times a certain
TV star has opened up about his
condition this is it led to an increase
awareness not just in the public eye but
also to the younger viewers there are
other notable celebrities that have also
spoken out about this condition kind of
unsurprisingly my dear nan didn’t know
too much IVA however she was however
able to add to my knowledge it affects
everyone slightly differently it was
something that I’d briefly thought about
but I’d never considered fully this was
the point when I realized it was never
going to be put on Google there was well
no one-size-fits-all Asperger’s affects
everyone slightly differently although
there are some sort of rates that the
main points patterns that it is a very
loose outline in the last couple of
months there have been some challenges
in the friendship that I’ve had but what
friendship doesn’t
nothing is ever smooth sailing it
although has taught me a lot if someone
tells you they have any condition be
kind it may have took a lot of them to
so you should you should feel good
during because you’ve spoken but also
because of how you responded so when you
had the friend who said Asperger’s you
your response was oh I’m gonna go and
find out more about it once you found
out more about it how did you respond
then to your friend I then obviously
went I’ll go on and ask questions to the
specific friend and I just wanted to
know all about it as much as I could and
just apply it if I could help them out
in any way then I wanted to be able to
help them like that that’s brilliant to
identify something and to come back and
not run away not be scared but to say I
want to know about it and I want to help and does you now know more about it now
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