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3 Autism Transitions Tips For Hacking Change · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the ASPY world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism Ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  Change can be super challenging for people on the autism
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  spectrum. That is why I've compiled 3
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  major things you can help to implement in an articipation
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  life. If it's you or somebody else to
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  help them overcome change, let's get into it.
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  Oh, and there's a secret 4th bonus tip right at the end if
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  you stay to watch. Okay guys, welcome back to the
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  aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  What is going on? I have Asperger Syndrome and
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  ADHD so I make videos on this stuff every single week.
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  So if you do not want to miss a video on learn more, make sure
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  to hit the subscribe button down below.
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  So change is something that happens.
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  It's inevitable. Life is an ever changing
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  experience. Yet people on the autism
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  spectrum have a massive issue with the transition of change
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  because it's going out of that comfort zone.
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  It's something that's moving away from their control.
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  All these things cause mega issues.
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  Roblox. Now, if you're a parent or an
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  insisted person watching this and you're thinking, done, I
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  know exactly what you mean. Down with the video.
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  Well, I'm going to get into 3 tips right now.
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  Actually, there's four, and the 4th one is a bonus one right at
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  the end. So we'll get into 3 tips right
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  Now buckle up. Now preparing in advance sounds
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  just normal. Like, oh, yeah, you know, we'll
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  just prepare. We're just going to kind of get
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  our stuff to get in the bag and go with it, Pick up a sandwich
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  on the way. OK, That's not preparing in
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  advance. That's actually just winging it.
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  Preparing in advance means that you basically minimize all the
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  stress that you could encounter in that change or transition
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  before you do something and you low the anxiety of the person on
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  the awesome spectrum. Now how you do this is that you
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  make a plan and you say okay, we're going to be here for this
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  amount of time, it's over lunch time to bring it out with me.
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  It may rain, so I'm going to bring an umbrella with me.
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  I'm going to have a backup iPhone with me or iPad or
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  something like that, so that if we need to use games to calm
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  myself down, then I've got those games there.
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  I'm going to bring my headphones because it may be too noisy.
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  All of these things are preparing in advance.
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  Before you go to the change, another way to do this is to
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  make those things like that. What's going to happen?
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  A visual schedule. Like you could get emojis and
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  say, OK, we're going to go to the grocery store, grocery store
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  emoji, then we're going to go to the swimming pool, swimming pool
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  emoji, then we're going to go to Pizza Hut, and then you're like
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  a pizza emoji. All of those things visually.
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  Or a planner on a prepared planner will give the autistic
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  person enough advanced notice to visually see what's going to
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  happen. And they will be so much more
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  comfortable and relaxed with that situation as it comes.
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  Because that's one of the biggest issues we have is not
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  knowing what to expect. So #2 is using sensory tools.
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  Now sensory tools are things like fidget gadgets and all
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  kinds of sensory deprivation tools.
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  That could be sunglasses, could be noise cancelling headphones,
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  could be sensory friendly clothing, could be clothing,
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  window tags, all this kind of stuff is sensory based.
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  Now what you're going to see is that artistic people have issues
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  all the way through their life like they're going to the store,
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  they're going to have issues because the the store is going
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  to have certain smells that they don't like.
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  But if you're already wearing AT shirt that's making you feel a
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  bit uncomfortable, non sensory pleasing and you go to the
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  store, then you have two problems.
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  Not just not just the one to deal with, right?
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  What about if you also got your headphones?
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  Now you got the headphones, the clothing and the smells in the
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  store. There's three problems and it
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  could just be one. If you remember to do the
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  sensory clothing and the headphones so you can see
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  preparing all the tools that you need for a trip for century
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  pleasing or century seeking people, then you are going to be
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  able to really reduce the amount of stress or the issues that
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  happen in certain environments on a transitional change going
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  from the car to the store or vice versa.
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  OK guys on the video. OK, so #3 is create a
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  microcontrolled environment. Now microcontrolling is kind of
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  like, say you are trying to get your kid to the store because
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  you want to go get groceries and you want to go to the store and
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  say to your kid, hey, let's go to the store.
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  Now your kid is going to freak out because they are losing
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  control of their environment. They were at home playing
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  Minecraft all ice and cozy, and all of a sudden now they're
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  going into the car and then get to the store.
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  It's crazy, right? But if you said to them, hey,
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  you get to control the temperature in the car, you get
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  to control the music in the car. You get to control which parking
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  space we go to in the car park or the parking lot or wherever
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  you go. So what you do is you create
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  micro environments, like what toy do you want to bring with
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  you? What sensory tool do you want to
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  bring with you? What clothes do you want to
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  wear? What is it that you can give the
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  person to control or you can control yourself in an
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  environment that seems uncontrollable.
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  This is a key to many areas of life from an autistic person,
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  but it's super important when you're dealing with change.
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  OK, so #4 is something that people always forget.
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  And this is the bonus tip guys. Now, this is providing
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  reassurance and support. The difficulties that artistic
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  people face dearly is crazy, right?
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  But we hardly ever have people validate us and reassure us that
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  it's OK. It's completely fine.
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  We understand. We get this panic from the other
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  people, like, Oh my gosh, what do we do?
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  What do we do? And then people ask me, what can
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  we do to help them? Like, I don't know.
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  I just need validation on a moment in time.
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  I need support and reassurance, that evidence we find and
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  somebody needs to take control and just chill.
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  Because when an event happens that you're feeling difficulties
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  from like your meltdown, your meltdown because of change or
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  something, you know, the transition didn't go well.
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  It's because you are feeling out of control.
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  Now you meet somebody to take control and say everything's
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  gonna be fine. Super, really easy one to do.
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  People always forget this one, but I know that it's effective
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  and I know how this works. Guys, if you found this
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  See you in the next one. Peace.