Social interaction and Communication

• Difficulty with social reciprocity and struggling with turn taking conversations.
• Challenges in understanding social cues like body language, tone of voice, and facial expressions.
• Challenges with non-verbal communication including interpreting gestures, eye contact, facial expressions, or body posture.
• People with autism might find it challenging to make friends or sustain friendships

Restricted or Repetitive Behaviours

• Repetitive Movements (Stimming). Common repetitive behaviours include hand-flapping, rocking, spinning, or other movements that help with sensory regulation or emotional expression.
• Reliance on routine and struggling with unexpected changes
• A preference for sameness. Preferring predictability in daily activities and environments.

Other Autistic traits may include

• Difficulty regulating emotions
• Literal understanding of language
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills
• Exceptional memory abilities
• Having special interests or strongly focused passion for certain subjects, activities or objects.
• Strong sense of justice and heightened attention to ethicalness
• Strength in repetition such as stimming or engaging in repetitive activities
• Unique perspective on social norms and being able to see situations from a different perspective
• Sensory sensitivities including hypersensitivity to certain environments such as light, sound, textures
• A reliability on sameness, routine and structure

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