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How Asperger’s Syndrome Impacts Daily Life (The 3 Secret To Success) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  I'm talking about how Asperger syndrome can impact your daily
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  life. And here are three secrets to
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  living with success. All right, all that's coming up.
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  Hey, guys, welcome back to the aspy world.
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  My name is Dan. I have Asperger's syndrome.
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  Hey, DHD, OCD and dyslexia. And I make weekly videos on this
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  type of content. So if you're new around here and
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  autism content. Let's get into it, guys.
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  What is going on? Good to be back.
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  Now if you are new and you haven't already, make sure to
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  hop over to autismhacks.net to download my free Autism Life
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  Hacks PDF book free of charge because well, you're awesome and
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  you deserve it, right? So guys, I have written out
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  three secret, well, I would call them secrets, like three ways to
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  live a successful life on with Asperger's syndrome.
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  Now, I'm not saying that anybody who has Asperger's syndrome is
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  living a bad life. I'm just saying that I've
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  written down three ways that I know how to kind of, you know,
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  just three secret hacks basically for making a
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  successful kind of attempt at doing daily life stuff,
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  basically. And that is the premise of this
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  video. So without further ado, I'm
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  going to get into it. And also if you want to ask me
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  any questions on anything, pop on me to my Twitter account and
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  give me a follow. That'll be super awesome.
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  OK, right. So here we go.
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  The first one I want to talk about is home skills.
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  Now learning how to work out the washing machine and the cooker
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  and stuff. You know, all of these things
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  don't always come naturally and and autistic people can't really
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  understand all of these in an easy way.
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  So you know, these are basically called executive functions, you
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  know, like preparing food or doing the dishwasher or doing
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  your washing machine or or organising stuff.
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  All of these things are like, these are home skills that
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  people develop because they just pick it up, I guess.
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  But people on the autism spectrum have a difficult time
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  picking up all of these kind of unwritten kind of social
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  constructs of daily life. So to combat this, this is what
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  I'd say to do. Record a video on your phone or
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  on your tablet to show how this can be done in reference.
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  So if somebody's around telling you how to work your washing
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  machine, I get my iPhone and I would film, you know, them
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  showing me how to work my washing machine on my cooker.
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  And then I can refer back to the video on my phone whenever I
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  need to, to say, Oh yeah, that's how they did it.
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  Because having the point of reference, having creating like
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  a reference guide is going to be the best way that you can always
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  refer to something and know about something basically
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  instantly. Because what you're trying to do
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  is make make more of a make more of a relatable guide than
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  anything else. And so by doing that you're
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  basically making easy access to remember things just perfectly.
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  So that is tip #1. OK, so #2, this is a big problem
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  actually. So short term memory issues.
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  Now I have terrible shots of memory issues.
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  Actually did a video about this today actually because I'm
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  filming Vlogmas. This is, I'm filming this video
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  during Christmas time. But people on the office and
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  spectrum have huge issues with shots of memory.
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  I mean, it's no, it's no lie, you know, from remembering why
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  they walked into a room to remembering to go and put a date
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  down on their calendar for appointments and doctors visits
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  and all those kind of stuff. So all those things can be very
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  difficult to keep track of because it's basically like
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  future organizing when you when you know you have to do
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  something in the future that they're really difficult to do.
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  So for people on the autism spectrum remembering to actually
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  take action in the future from something that is happening
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  right now saying like, damn, can you phone me next week at 4:00
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  on Tuesday? I never remember, I'll never
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  ever ever remember to do that. And I need it written down South
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  to overcome these issues. I use apps like Google Assistant
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  and Siri to plan and set reminders for your notes and
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  calendar apps. So basically if I've got an
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  issue, I say, hey Assistant, you know, it could be Google Alexa,
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  it could be the, I don't know, the Google Home.
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  It could be anything, right. Or the Siri.
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  And basically I say to these these devices, hey remind me to
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  do XY and Z on XY and Z date and by doing doing that it creates
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  this already set up alarm and calendar entry for me which is
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  absolutely fantastic. So I don't forget about it.
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  But more importantly as well if you're trying to remember notes
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  because say you've got a notes app on your phone and you look
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  at notes for things to remember to do stuff, I use this to
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  actually create and set notes for me.
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  So I say hey you know assistant, create a note and put this in
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  it. Amazing life changing.
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  I don't want to be without it. Honestly.
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  Amazing. Okay.
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  So tip #3. This one is following tasks.
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  Now following tasks like lists and stuff like to do's and even
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  cooking instructions can be difficult for people on the
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  Austin Spectrum. And this is a hard concept to
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  grasp because we're all tall that like we should follow
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  instructions from a, you know, we get a book and we follow
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  instructions from a textbook or we get instructions on the back
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  of our dinner. That's how we follow it.
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  Recipes. Everything is instruction based
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  right. But this can be very difficult
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  for people on the spectrum to understand the flow of the
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  communication within this kind of restricted list.
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  So to overcome this one and how to kind of really basically
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  master this is have a all the tasks written down in emoji and
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  picture format as a visual guide to so it flows better.
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  Because when you're dealing with like lists and stuff, you didn't
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  like writing on a page and that writing could be confusing,
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  especially if you've come up with conditions like dyslexia
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  and other things that stop you with learning difficulties.
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  But emojis and drawings are so much easier to see.
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  So I would say that try and write out a list of things and
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  use emojis within that list so that you know that there are the
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  word refers to an action that the emoji is showing you on a
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  visual aid. Now not only that, I actually
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  recommend using an app called Timo.
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  I'll link it below so you guys can check out now.
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  Timo is pretty much a fantastic app and it has these little
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  icons built in and they have actually a wider range of icons
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  than emojis do. For things that are daily life
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  tasks that will help you set routines within the Timo app
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  that will help you remember how to do things.
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  It's absolutely fantastic. Definitely check it out guys.
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  If you enjoyed this video and you think it can help somebody,
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  please give it a thumbs up. Share it on Facebook, Twitter,
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  Instagram, and I'll see you next time guys.
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  Peace.