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ASPERGERS In Adulthood Can it Worsen With Age (ESSENTIALS YOU Need To Know) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So can autism get worse the older you get?
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  In this video I am talking about how Aspergers and adulthood can
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  potentially increase in support needs.
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  All that is coming up. Don't go anywhere.
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  My name is Dan. I have Asperger's Syndrome,
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  Still guys, in this video, I'm talking about how like autism
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  and adulthood kind of increases in support needs or potentially
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  increases in support needs the older you get.
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  And I've kind of got like 3 essential points that we need to
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  look at here when when considering this because this
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  comes a question, you know, you know, can autism get worse the
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  older you get? And.
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  And I guess in, in a nutshell, we need to answer that question
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  but also in a broadened spectrum in more detail.
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  We need to look at the reasons why and potentially how we can
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  help avert some of the issues that may come, you know, later
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  on down the line. Guys, if you are new around here
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  and you've never seen a video before, my name is Dan.
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  I love doing this type of content.
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  I have Asperger's Syndrome. I love explaining things from my
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  point of view, from a nepotistic person's point of view,
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  educating, helping people on the spectrum and helping people who
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  are just learning about it or facilitating people on the
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  spectrum. I love it.
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  So drop me a comment down below. Let me know if you're like a
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  care worker or or a mom or a dad or whatever.
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  Or if you're on the spectrum, I'd love to know who you are.
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  ever. Okay.
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  So First things first, we need to clarify something and this is
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  a numero Uno things we need to clarify.
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  People often think that autism or Asperger syndrome, whatever
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  going to call it, only impacts children and you grow out of it,
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  right? Which is makes it an exclusive
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  thing for children, which is completely bogus.
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  This is completely just unrealistic.
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  It's not real. That's complete, absolutely
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  nonsense and nonsensical. Information like this still
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  exists and flows about the Internet.
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  I'm sorry. Channels like mine and all my
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  other friends who are making videos on this on the spectrum
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  are helping try and bridge that gap and get new learning out
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  there. So I thought would be an
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  important thing to talk about because I get people ask me
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  quite often, Hey, Dan, you know, does autism get worse all you
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  get, You know, am I going to deteriorate in a different way?
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  You know, is my brain going to just work differently and all
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  this kind of scary, like, I don't know, you know,
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  catastrophic fantasies and all this kind of stuff.
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  And so I wanted to really be frank and talk about the things
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  that I know of that I spoke about my therapist and my health
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  support team and the people who support my needs about the ways
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  that autism may increase in support needs.
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  The older you get in certain factions because of the way the
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  brain works, it's just a natural cycle of the brain.
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  And when you have in your in your diverse condition and a
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  condition that impacts your brain in a certain way, then
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  maybe there's certain assets that may need support later on.
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  So we're going to go through all those right now.
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  Not super dope. OK guys, so number one is the
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  wave of support. Now.
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  I called it the wave of support. I don't even know what the
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  official term for this. I don't know, but I just called
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  it the wave of support. And basically what this means is
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  when an autistic person is a child, they have quite high
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  support needs because everything is brand new.
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  They don't know the world. They they need guidance in it
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  and everything becomes a struggle.
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  There's a lot of stress and pressure on children to kind of
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  find their feet and learn all these things.
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  And it's an overload of information which becomes very
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  apparent right up until you're about 11 years old.
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  You're constantly getting all this information.
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  So you're going to have quite high support needs there.
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  Now when you reach like teenage years and early, I haven't
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  heard, like, you know, I don't know anywhere from like 18 to
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  like 35, you're going to have quite an interesting experience
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  being on the spectrum. You're going to be trying to
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  still learn things at your rate and the way your brain works and
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  those communication issues. But then you're also trying to
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  find your feet as an adult. But you don't have the pressures
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  of like a house or or children or or marriage or or like a
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  mortgage or bills and all this kind of stuff.
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  You kind of just living for the moment a little bit and you're
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  kind of cruising on, you know, you live with your parents,
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  everything is cool. Your parents kind of look after
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  you like they have done, but you're not going to stress no
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  pressures of learning those things.
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  So your support needs kind of go a little bit down there because
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  you become a little bit more independent.
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  And this is a fashion I've seen quite a lot through people on
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  the autism spectrum. And so this point needs to take
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  a little bit of a dip. But as you get older and more
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  things become dependent. Like, you know, trying to find
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  romantic relationships. Trying to keep best friends or
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  to find friendships and keeping friendships alive.
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  And finding a job. Keeping, holding a job down.
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  Making sure you got a place, pay for your bills.
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  Making sure you can, like, you know, pay your mortgage, make
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  making sure your wifes happier, your kids are happier.
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  Well, you know, all of these things become real pressures.
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  And those pressures didn't exist when you're in your teen years,
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  but they're quite similar to what they were when you were a
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  kid. So those pressures then become
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  quite difficult. And the older you get the cost,
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  the more the more strain it is on your your mental health, your
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  physical health, all things that come into any human being.
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  So this is the wave of support shows that potentially there may
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  be support that you need later on in life because the older you
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  get, you're going to have more things that you'll need to help
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  with, especially like medical can conditions that may crop up
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  because the older we get, our bodies are never going to stay
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  in forever and all that stuff. So there are things that will
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  help increase the support needs for someone on the autism
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  spectrum. But this is something to think
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  about and maybe we should plan ahead and try to plan now for
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  all those strains and pressures and maybe look at what support
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  needs that are before we get to that point.
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  So we're not just kind of like completely incapacitated by the
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  fact that we're overwhelmed with all this pressure and we have
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  nothing to relate to okay. So #2 is the memory, right?
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  So it's no see that people in the autism spectrum have bad
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  short term memory or short term memory loss.
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  Now I did a video all about this.
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  I'll try and link it in a card above here and on the end screen
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  and in a pin comment down below. But I just wanted to kind of
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  briefly talk about I'm not going to go into the memory part.
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  I'm talking about how this could increase your support needs The
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  older you get. Now, you know, as memory is
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  already an issue, the older you get, memory is something that
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  kind of decreases in quality because of the age of the brain
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  and the brain kind of starts slowing down and there's all
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  kinds of medical complications that can come into play with
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  your brain and mental health as you become older, as your brain
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  tries to access memories and stuff.
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  So these things may increase. So short term memory loss may
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  become a bigger issue the older you get.
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  I'm not saying it's going to, I'm just saying that it is a
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  potential, right. So for that you may need support
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  in the area with short term memory loss.
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  Like you know, you might need visual age, you might need kind
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  of like a reminder guide. You might need digital
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  technology or digital assistants like Alexis or Google's or
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  whatever. You know, those things may
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  become apparent and may become way more valuable in your life
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  because those things will be able to support you with short
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  term memory loss like the older you get.
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  And I think that is something very interesting and we should
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  really think about that and and and I obviously think about
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  daily. So I'm trying my best to you
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  know jump on it as as as you know one would and and kind of
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  be a bit proactive and I think we should all take that kind of
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  on board and think well maybe you know my memory is not to
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  stay really, really spring forever maybe.
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  So why don't I try and think ahead of the game Okay.
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  So #3 is the executive function. Like everybody knows that you
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  know social and executive functions and and life skills
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  and all those skills that come with executive function are
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  difficult people on the spectrum.
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  You know, from making friends to doing the washing to cooking
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  food to to knowing how to do your shopping and your laundry
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  and all that kind of stuff. Like all of those things are
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  quite complex and the the process of these can be a
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  constant work in progress and there's nothing wrong with that.
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  But the older you get the more kind of lapse this will become
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  because you become tired and weaker as you get older, you
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  know, especially into like you know the 70s and 80s years.
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  And so those, those needs, those, those those executive
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  functions and those life skills and those social skills may
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  start to kind of drop out of importance because you're quite
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  tired and you're just trying to take care of your health.
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  And you know, all of these things may come into play and
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  that becomes an issue and that becomes something that
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  potentially would need extra support and support from
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  somewhere else or a third party support.
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  And This is why growing old on the spectrum could potentially
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  get worse as you get older or may increase in support needs.
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  And I think that this is something we should definitely
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  think about. It's something scary.
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  It's just a factor of life. And I think life is a beautiful
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  thing. And I think that, you know,
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  having a grand old age is a fantastic thing, but we just got
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  to take care of ourselves and have that little bit.
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  OK. I'm going to plan for my future,
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  just like we do with pensions and savings and stuff.
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  We plan for your future. You plan for your retirement.
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  You plan for all those things that you want to make sure that
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  you're enjoying life no matter how old you are.
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  And with that, guys, I just want to say that you guys are awesome
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  and I love each and everyone of you.
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  So if you think this video can help, please share it on
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  you haven't, and I'll see you next time.
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  Guys, Peace.