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AUTISM EDUCATION - 3 Effective Tips (with SBSK) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys, what's going on? But today we're talking about
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  autism and education and some special Insight from my friend.
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  Chris from special books by special kids.
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  Okay guys, so I'm joined today by very very interesting guy as
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  super influential. I actually have seen a ton of
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  your videos before and your good friend of my friend Acer Mass
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  from the father and bottom chunk.
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  You guys obviously know a lot about and Chris runs a channel
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  called SBS K, which you kind of what how would you define your
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  tummy? You can take them.
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  I like to say it's just an open platform for people.
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  People living with different disabilities to share whatever
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  it is. They want to share.
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  Yeah, sometimes the interviews are just happy-go-lucky.
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  Sometimes they're incredibly sad because I want to give a
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  platform for people to share their truth.
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  Whatever that truth may be. Absolutely.
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  It's amazing because what I feel like your tunnel does is it
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  gives like a very neutral platform with an unbiased and it
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  just says it as it is and it's nice to give people a voice in
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  my ear, especially the pits on the people you interview don't
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  really have a voice for saying what you want to say on a
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  platform, you know, and I think that's a super powerful as very
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  powerful so Chris Before we get started I'm talking about
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  education an awesome. You were talking about like
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  metadata and optimizing video content for YouTube.
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  And you said that you had a really interesting take on why
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  you don't focus on metadata or yeah, like I don't even think
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  about keywords. It's the last thing you do
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  before you upload a video and I'm always like like like I
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  don't know but there's a very very serious reason why I don't
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  concern myself too much with analytics.
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  Our goal is just to create essentially a an encyclopedia of
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  people living with different conditions and that makes than
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  explaining what life is like for them.
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  So I have many people reach out to me and I can't filter through
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  who I want to interview based on what's going to go viral because
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  that's just so counterproductive to our mission of inclusion for
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  everybody. Yeah.
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  So when you start to focus on okay, what's the Hot Topic?
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  What's the hot where you lose interest in the exactly you
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  might not go to that interview of that person living with a
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  rare disability across the world, but then the other
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  families who also Are affected by the disability will have no
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  resource absolutely and we're very fortunate that it's worked
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  out for us. I understand that analytics and
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  all that stuff does play a big part in the whole YouTube has
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  now. Oh, yeah.
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  I think it does NIA. Yeah, but such we've been good
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  so far. No, it's good.
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  And I think it's great and it's great to stick by that, you know
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  ethics of morals that you stand by it, especially with the type
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  of advocacy that you doing. I think it's amazing.
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  But as you guys know, I'm obsessed with SEO and research
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  and so it's one of my obsessions actually evolving, you know
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  adults on the Spectrum condition.
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  I'm obsessed with learning Certain things and this has been
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  one of the things you give me any advice then because I
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  honestly am at the beginning. Absolutely.
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  Okay so off camera, I'm going to give Chris a bunch of advice.
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  So we will do that. So right now we'll get into the
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  content why people want to come and watch this video and first
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  place? Okay, so, right.
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  Yeah, I know for a fact that Chris is going to do a
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  conference pretty soon in a couple of days on autism and
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  education and the education or teaching or something in the
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  education department of Academia.
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  So essentially I speak to parents and teachers of children
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  with disabilities and teach them.
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  The form of positive bond with somebody and then how to take
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  that Bond and then use it to help that person reach their
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  full potential both socially and academically and here's the
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  thing the same strategies you're going to use with somebody on
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  the autism spectrum or the same strategies you're going to use
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  with anybody. It's just that so often when
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  somebody's Nero diverse. We Overlook these strategies.
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  And as a simple strategy is something we all know everybody
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  wants to be accepted. Absolutely, but we forget that
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  everybody wants to be accepted not on their future potential
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  but for their current state so you take a kid who is typically
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  developing when he's at the place.
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  He supposed to be you're able to praise Him o you're doing great.
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  Oh my gosh, you're doing exactly what you're supposed to do.
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  But when you have somebody who's behind a little bit we're so
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  focused on catching them up. Yeah, we never praised them.
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  We never tell them they're perfect.
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  Just the way they are. And it creates this complex for
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  these individuals at such an early age that man.
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  I'm not good enough. I'm not good enough.
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  Everybody's trying to change me. Nobody likes me the way I am.
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  I'll never fit in. It's a accepting feeling you
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  don't feel accepted for who you are you trying to strive to be
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  somebody that they want you to be rather than just like you
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  said being, you know having joy in the fact that you are diverse
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  and individual and I think that's something super powerful
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  actually and I know from my experience like, you know
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  growing up in the 90s having Asperger's Syndrome.
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  It's not you know, some of the most secure it has severe cases
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  or conditions of an Autism Spectrum Disorder, you know, I
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  know there are a bunch of kids who are non-verbal and there's a
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  whole host of things that could be, you know, worse than you
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  know, having Asperger's Syndrome but having a smoke signal happen
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  was a huge struggle for the fact that my learning Tech was was
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  almost ignored. So when I was in high school and
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  I was in Primary School in the 90s, you know in the UK, it was
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  just awesome wasn't a thing, you know, but you know, nobody know
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  anything about it. So I felt super excluded from
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  the educational standpoint and I felt outside of that opportunity
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  bracket so on. Friends were like set by the
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  level they were developing at certain rate because me, just
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  like completely falling backwards and with no support so
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  they put me like special ed classes, which is just rubbish.
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  And are you coloring like pictures and like it was just
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  stupid like it was not math lessons.
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  They will, you know, you have to like Circle things that were
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  related like circles. What's up for others also call
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  the square is you know, it's like so weird stuff now the
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  button real quick effective special education can be a great
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  thing because in effect the schedule special education can
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  be Big East. Setting of course.
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  It could be the adverse effect to make you from Whispers
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  nothing stimulating exactly and you know, so my partner used to
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  work full-time for a special education Needs school.
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  She has a degree in childhood studies and childhood
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  development specifically in autism.
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  So she know I she loves that kind of like, how did how do you
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  how do you reach his personal communication?
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  Like I said having them been feeling accepted feeling, you
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  know feeling like they belong and reaching them with something
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  that will help improve their Castle not really capture enough
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  but at their Teach them effectively.
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  So would you say that like now that is there's more
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  understanding and unschooling is better or do you think that we
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  still have huge ways to go? We definitely do have huge ways
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  to go there is progress but it's minimal progress and it's almost
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  like as a teacher you have to have some kind of complex where
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  you need everybody to listen to you all the time.
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  You need to have this grandiose feeling about yourself.
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  And in order to be inclusive. You have to let go of those
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  feelings that hey this kid might have a processing time.
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  That's a little bit longer. You might not listen to you
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  right away and he's not doing anything to disrupt your class.
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  He's not intentionally not listening and being
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  non-compliant. You just might need a little
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  extra time. But so often a teacher takes
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  that non-compliance in the first few seconds and ceases as that
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  child is not listening to me. So they punish that shot.
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  Yeah. Yeah, so it's really just
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  ignorance. Yeah.
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  Um, he's huge thing. I mean, what would you say is
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  the biggest issue facing, you know Pete children will Spectrum
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  being in the school of education systems.
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  What would you say the biggest issue is There's everything
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  available answer would be that's what I thought.
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  The sad thing. Is that the answer some simple
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  these things were talking about which people are learning and
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  whatever 20 minute video. Hmm.
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  It teachers will tell if this that would change the way these
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  kids are educated. It's so simple yet.
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  It's not taught. I didn't learn this.
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  I have my master's degree in education.
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  I didn't learn this stuff. It's all from personal
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  experience. So yeah, I mean, that's true.
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  I think like in terms of Educating Educators.
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  How are we going to do that? How what is its do you feel like
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  it's going to be best with things like videos like this and
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  your Channel or do you think it's like creating training
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  programs to go into education establishments and academics to
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  say? Hey, okay, you need to really
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  listen to this program. Well, how do you think the most
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  effective way to solve this issue?
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  The way I think is most effective is for an individual
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  and not a whole Community is what I'm doing with my videos.
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  I solve this problem when I was in the classroom and I decided
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  that I was going to model the correct.
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  What I believed was the correct Behavior.
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  It's not like I have all the answers.
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  I'm yeah best I can but I was going to model it and then
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  through these videos I realized that I can model.
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  What I believe are is the correct way to interact with
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  people and have a large audience watches.
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  So I hope that through the videos I put out on SBS K people
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  can watch Salmon learn. Okay.
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  Well, that's how I do that or that's how I do that.
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  Definitely. I think you know like it you
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  guys have such a large audience base and the shareability of
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  your videos are so high. I believe that you are having a
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  massive impact on helping educate and change the lives of
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  people by simply putting it, right.
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  You know, like I said, I watched your videos and the way you do
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  your style approach to it is it's so warm and I love watching
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  the videos and it was only on the Spectrum watching it.
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  I feel I don't feel on edge. You know me as I watch a lot of
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  things in my career. Look, you know they I don't feel
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  quite nervous when I watch things because I'm not sure
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  where it's going to go away don't know how they made it with
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  your videos. They're so like calming it's
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  just dead nice, you know, and I enjoyed watching it sometimes
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  known because I'm interested in a lot of content, but I know
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  that I'm going to enjoy it because relaxing in a way that
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  is good. And that means a lot to me and I
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  want to point out that I was it wasn't always like that it was
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  there was a learning process number one being on camera and
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  interviewing people I was so uncomfortable at first because
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  I'm not a camera person I was Teacher should and if you watch
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  some of my earlier videos, I'm really awkward.
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  I mean, I'm still awkward. No, no, but I was way more
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  awkward in the beginning, you know, and even with the the
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  methodologies and techniques that you use the tall just
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  learned experience. So if you're watching this and
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  you feel like you're not confident in the way you
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  interact with others, the only way you're going to learn is by
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  practicing obviously, I'm descending saying that like
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  practice makes progress because everyone saw strives for
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  perfect, right? There's no such thing as perfect
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  as when you reach perfect. You just decline so always
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  remember the practice makes Progress and that Please Release
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  the pressure of you're trying to reach perfect nothing's ever
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  perfect, but you will get progress and I think you're
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  right. My first video on YouTube is
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  terrible. I felt on an iPad there's no
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  lighting and I have no idea what camera lens to look at.
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  The camera lens wasn't happening.
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  So it's something again. It was a learning curve and I
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  feel like the take away from everything is that everything is
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  a learning curve and it may not be the teacher's fault that
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  they're not able to effectively Edge.
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  It won't but some of them may not be able to edit effectively
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  educate people in a way that is Correct, or not, really correct,
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  but in it the best they can because they may be unaware of
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  the information that they need to get access to and I think
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  that it's our job as advocates and people watching videos like
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  this to share it in those areas and recommend it to teachers so
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  that they do start to kind of then reach out to programs and
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  come and see talks like the URI or whatever to understand a bit
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  more about that. And I think that that's a good
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  way to do it as well and you reminded me of a philosophy.
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  I've always subscribed to since I entered the classroom and it's
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  just personal accountability often times.
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  If there's a student acting up the blame will be placed on the
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  student. Well, why is he doing this?
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  It's given with attention this punish him whenever that
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  happened in my classroom. I would look at myself and say
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  why is this student not exhibiting the behavior that I
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  want him to exhibit. What am I doing wrong?
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  What's wrong with the environment?
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  What can I do to tweak? So when you have that mindset it
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  makes you explore. It makes you change things and
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  you realize that there's nothing wrong with the kid.
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  Yeah. There's something wrong with
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  what you're doing Improvement that you need to implement.
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  Exactly. Absolutely, right?
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  Yes, I could help ya. I've adapted that with my
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  professional life as a CEO of a video on my channel doesn't do.
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  Well I think to myself. Okay.
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  Well, the person I interviewed was amazing.
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  What did I do wrong that I asked the wrong questions that I
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  edited the wrong way. So when you take that personal
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  accountability with everything in your life, it forces you to
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  examine yourself reflect and get better.
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  Absolutely. That was something that I live
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  with YouTube is you watch the do anything.
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  How can I improve this and even if you think it's a good video I
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  think maybe the audio getting better.
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  Maybe the position of the camera the lighting can be better right
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  now, even though filming this that there's loads of things we
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  could have done better. It may be Overexposed and
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  scenarios and you know the color correction free time.
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  But if we apply those same principles to everything we do
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  in life if it's advocacy education understanding from
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  bolting self-acceptance. I think we'd all kind of
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  progress at a rapid rate and it would be good if we get it we
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  give everybody involved but right with that being said
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  because I wanna thank you so much for taking the time to come
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  in the room and talk to us because we're I here in Boston
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  right now doing a an amazing thing.
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  Actually, it's a the lead 20 leaders Summit conference get
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  together networking. It's everything all I have is it
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  and it's all if people like it impressing myself who are
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  working in this field for advocacy for people with
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  disabilities doing amazing things.
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  I will actually leave a link in the description below if you
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  want to check out what we're actually doing here goes, what
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  would I feel like what we're doing?
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  We just were at the start something absolutely phenomenal
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  certainly super blessed and I'm like honored to be here.
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  So and in the you know, the presence of people like Chris is
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  definitely amazing and I've watched Videos in Arnold super
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  like oh my goodness Chrissy. So it's amazing dress.
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  I thank you so much. Yeah such a pleasure.
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  I'm doing great things on your channel.
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  I look forward to watching your videos for years to come.
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  Thank you man. I appreciate that and I'm saying
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  I'm Dale. I love watching your videos.
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  So yeah awesome.