Understanding Autism: Common Symptoms and Signs

Here is a great place to start: https://embrace-autism.com/raads-r/

The best thing for me personally when I was wondering this was watching a bunch of videos of autistic people on YouTube covering the criteria under the dsm-5 and how they relate to it. They break it down to be more understandable than just reading the criteria and wondering what social emotional reciprocity means.

From someone who is autistic, being overwhelmed or underwhelmed by sensory input, (sometimes) rigid food choices due to sensory issues, difficulties in social situations, and stimmong (ex: hand flapping, rocking, flicking fingers, etc.)

Talking to self and answering back or when angry kids tend to hit there heads against the wall I can go on and on I'm raising a autism teenager