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Autism and ADHD | (5 Things YOU NEED To Know) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  I'm talking about autism and ADHD and some of the things that
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  I've personally experienced coming up.
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  I'm discussing five things that I feel are super insightful
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  about autism and Asperger's syndrome and how they kind of
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  interlock with ADHD. So yeah, they didn't like my
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  personal kind of like background bits to it.
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  I think it's going to be super interesting.
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  Okay guys, so, you know, I have a condition of autism spectrum
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  disorder and ADHD now that is really interesting.
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  I know a lot of people have that as well.
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  Well, but this my diagnosis my diagnosis is autism ADHD OCD and
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  dyslexia, and it's a very interesting mix and it's quite
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  common you obviously this mix it happens a lot, but I just wanted
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  to discuss it because I feel like a lot of people are
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  searching for it and they want to talk about it.
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  And so I thought I'd discuss five things that I kind of like
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  super interesting to me from my point of view of having both
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  ADHD and Asperger's Syndrome. So here are five things.
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  I want to discuss. The first thing is that ADHD and
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  Asperger's or ADHD and and ASD Just autism spectrum disorders.
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  They are commonly comorbidities are commonly called occurring
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  together. So using this one has a
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  diagnosis or an official diagnosis of autism.
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  They would out about 90% of the time they'll have a diagnosis of
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  like add or ADHD. Now this is super interesting.
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  Like I find this is fascinating because they conflict and I'll
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  talk more about the convictions later on but it's really
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  interesting that when I when I meet someone who is on the
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  spectrum they all say like here I don't want special more
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  artistic. And oh, yeah.
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  Oh, yeah. I have ADHD like most of the
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  time that happens. It's quite interesting actually
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  that you know, so I know a couple people who don't have
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  ADHD, but I think it's just that they haven't been diagnosed with
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  ADHD, but they have been diagnosed with autism and a lot
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  of the time I guess, you know what they'll diagnose autism.
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  They're kind of like the not really getting the ADHD part
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  because they think it's on the autism part of the how they test
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  I'll be it's S4 and lots of spectrum condition.
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  I find it just fascinating. Okay, so number two the second
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  To talk about is how food and drink impact my ADHD versus my
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  Asperger's Syndrome. So with autism I find that like
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  it comes with like GI issues and gastrointestinal issues.
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  Like anybody who does like an Autism Spectrum condition
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  watching this for all know all about the IBS and all the other
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  kind of fun lovely get issues that come with an Autism
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  Spectrum Disorder. I don't know why but it just
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  does and it's a right pain in the backside, but in terms of
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  food and drink sugar, ER directly impact me so if I have
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  sugar or something that is like heightened with like sweeteners
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  or something like that, like basically anything it's sugary
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  like even juice to a certain extent.
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  I just hit the roof. I get super hyper active my
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  parents band orange juice in my house when I was growing up
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  because the effect it had on me and especially Sunny Delight the
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  English only delight and I was a climbing the walls of crazy, but
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  I kind of stay away from sugar and you know now as well the
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  past 10 years. I haven't had any caffeine
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  because I caffeine also impacts me because the weird Okay.
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  So this is how it happens when I have caffeine.
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  I am just super like just you know hyperactive is hacked.
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  I think I'm hyperactive now when I like caffeine I'm hyperactive
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  is ever like I can I can't sleep.
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  So if I have caffeine I'll be laying in bed like, you know,
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  like shaking because I can't go to sleep.
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  And also when I have like sugar it's anything up and I can't go
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  to sleep. I think melatonin to go to
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  sleep. Sometimes we get so hyper active
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  during the day having caffeine and sugar just super directly
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  impacts my life. It's so bizarre, but it's
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  something that I've had to live. Live with and learn to live with
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  and something that I've kind of overcome by just making sure to
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  shake my body well and that kind of replace like Juices Flow like
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  water and stuff like that and I don't have like caffeine and
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  fizzy soda pop and stuff like that.
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  I don't know. It kind of works.
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  I didn't miss Coca-Cola and Mountain Dew and stuff like
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  that. But you know the past 10 years
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  you can get mugged you 10 years ago here in the UK anyway, so
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  we're one of it. Okay, so I really want to talk
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  about this next subject number three.
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  I want to talk about how ASD and ADHD conflict with each other
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  because I have both conditions. It's very interesting to them
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  conflict now. When I want to try and
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  hyper-focus on an obsession because if anybody has an Autism
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  Spectrum condition will know that you have a hyper Focus
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  where you'll find an obsessive topic or interest or something.
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  You want to hyper focus on and you'll like really get into that
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  and you really want to learn about it and you want to get
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  onto that one thing do it really really well now that's all well
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  and good. But when my ADHD kicks in it's
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  like you don't agree that you want to do this.
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  I'm also this and also that also this and also that and also this
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  is also done with it and you get all these things just like
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  around me. I have like a million Products
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  project I have a million unfinished project because my
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  brain is just splitting me all over the place.
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  My MacBook window has like Anna million tabs open at any one
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  time. I have like anyone like maybe
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  four or five projects on the go. I edit like two videos at a time
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  because my brain is just like split and divided down the
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  middle and I'd rather just focus on one thing but then the other
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  time I'm like no but I can do so much more and it's so weird.
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  Like it's the most weird thing I can I could try and explain.
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  I mean, I don't know if I'm explaining this like well
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  enough, but it's how it is and that's what I experienced.
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  Okay guys number four and this one is interesting number four
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  is like how ADHD impacted me in a classroom, right?
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  So where I was in a classroom, I had ADHD and it made me like
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  super irritable. Like I didn't want to be there
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  because all I care is it that you want to sit down on this
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  chair for too long? And then like I couldn't like
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  focus and stuff and really super unhappy because like I'm just
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  irritated the whole time while to get up and just like let off
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  some energy, you know, and it was just mad and you look at
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  like being destructive if teachers caught you like getting
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  up off your chair. You have to sit down with who?
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  Either kids in general. It makes you sit down for such a
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  long time in these little plastic chairs.
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  It's horrible. Like they really need to kind
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  of, you know realize that not all kids are going to be a
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  sit-down for that amount of time especially kids on the Spectrum.
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  I mean, it's stupid to think otherwise, but that was really
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  interesting because like that made me like anyone to focus on
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  stuff. I couldn't focus on the board
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  like writing stuff down or learning like certain techniques
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  and stuff like that. But my autism also made me super
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  bored in costumes because like as a kid, I was like Super Bowl
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  because I knew a lot of the stuff that teachers are talking
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  about already like learn a lot of the stuff actually cracked.
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  The teachers a few times so it does conflict of like being with
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  really irritable and really bored and it wasn't a good
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  combination and I really didn't enjoy primary school or the
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  first few years of high school until I found music but like the
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  first day it was just it it didn't work.
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  You know, I get that the school system.
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  What I went to was never set up for anyone with autism ADHD
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  autism and ADHD to didn't work. Okay guys, the number five is
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  this is interesting actually. So as I was saying before like
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  ASD and ADHD are commonly called morbid or co-occurring when they
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  get diagnosed on the Contrary to that ASD sometimes is
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  misdiagnosed as ADD. Now.
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  This is really fascinating. So people who actually have ASD
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  actually getting diagnosis of ADHD or EDD because the
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  assessors are finding it really interesting that they have the
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  same traits like zoning out obsessive interest hyper-focus
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  that super smart the very creative all that kind of stuff
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  adds to the fact that they go. Oh, no, this person actually has
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  ADD and but they go. Okay.
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  Well, we're about the social aspect and social aspect
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  actually determined that the autism But it's the other parts
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  like the hyperactivity and the and the other things that I like
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  more links or like ADHD or add switching from topic to topic
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  very quickly and not really deciding on those things that
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  again is ADHD and add so rather than really pick out the bitter
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  between us say, oh, it's ADHD and autism or ESD.
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  They're actually saying it's one or the other a lot of the time
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  and this is a big issue for kids who have both but not getting
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  the support for both if if that makes sense.
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  So it's a very interesting one to think about this is really
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  common misdiagnosis. Just like in girl.
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  Girls, you know girls on the Spectrum was diagnosed with
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  bipolar disorder before they get their actual official diagnosis
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  of autism, and it's just very interesting but hopefully
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  communities like ours are going to help build that kind of
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  understanding and help build a secure structure.
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  So people can get correctly diagnosed as and when they need
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  it. Okay guys, they were like my
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  five things. I thought you needed to know
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  about ADHD and autism together and autism and ADHD and how they
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  relate to each other and I have super fun telling you like
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  reliving some more like my memories from the past and going
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  down the relay in and do all those kind of things.