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Autism Working Memory What You Need To Know · 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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  Hey guys, these videos are a little bit different.
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  Today I'm answering questions for you guys, but with the help
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  of one of my team members. Now this is Carla.
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  Carla is a healthcare professional in the field of
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  autism and therapy. So Carla is going to be
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  answering questions that she's specifically taken from the
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  stuff that my viewers, you guys have asked in my videos before.
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  So if you want a chance of being heard answered directly by
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  Carla, then make sure to comment on this video.
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  If you have a question and you'd like us to pick it up.
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  Now Carla also has therapy available, which we'll leave
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  links for it down below. You book through the Aspy world,
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  but I'm really pleased to have this now.
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  So I'm going to hand you over to Carla.
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  She's amazing and she's going to answer the questions and you're
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  going to learn a lot. All right, guys, Peace.
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  Hi Lee, My name is Carla Pretorius and I'm a registered
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  therapist. I'm also Neera Divergent myself
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  and I've been working in the field of nearest for 20 plus
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  years. It really is something that I
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  love doing. I love learning from my clients
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  and sharing these learnings with you and also sharing what works
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  in my own life. So there was a question from
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  Laura that said I want to learn but struggle to remember or to
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  remember in the right order. I've noticed that I seem to
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  remember the letters in wrong order in certain names.
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  So I don't want to make any snap judgments or snap diagnosis
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  here, provide any snap diagnosis here.
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  So I will steer clear from that. What I will do, however, is I
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  will provide some practical support strategies for Laura and
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  for people that are struggling with the same issue, So
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  struggling to remember. Our brand is amazing.
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  We can find new ways for our pathways to create ways to
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  remember. So for example, if you are
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  struggling with your working memories, so they say you want
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  to make a cup of coffee, walk to the kitchen and you forgot what
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  you were doing. An idea there could be as soon
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  as you have something that you want to do and you have time to
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  do it right now, I would write it down and I would carry that
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  piece of paper with a while you're walking to the kitchen.
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  You've got like a little sticky pad or you can do it on your
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  phone and it just says remember coffee.
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  I have that same thing where I would grind the coffee beans and
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  I would walk away just to go and do something quickly and then I
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  should get about the coffee beans that I've been grinded.
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  So that happens to me quite often.
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  I would definitely recommend to help your working memory out a
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  little bit, maybe with sticky note or like I said, something
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  on technology so that you don't waste too much paper.
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  And then also the other option there is while you're thinking
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  about something, to have it in pairs or in threes.
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  So let's say you want to again go and make a cup of tea or a
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  cup of coffee. You can say I want coffee, I
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  want coffee. And then just kind of tap your
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  fingers like this. And while you're walking, you
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  can also do this. And when you're at the kitchen,
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  you can do this again. And that would provide you the
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  prompt to remember what you wanted to do in the kitchen.
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  This is just a simple example of something practical that you can
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  try out. If it doesn't work, please let
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  me know in the comments and I will try and find some more more
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  things for you to test out. I don't want to overwhelm you
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  with too many things. So I'm not going to provide like
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  20 different things because then I feel we feel overwhelmed and
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  we want to try everything. So I just want to make sure that
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  we try one thing, rule it out and try it out for a little
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  while. So not just once, but try it out
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  for like a couple of weeks and see if it makes a difference.
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  The rest of the comments said or to remember in order.
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  So remembering in order again, I would use the tapping strategy
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  where I would say first coffee, then walk the dog, then series,
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  watching series, coffee, dog series, coffee dog series,
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  coffee dog series while I'm drinking the coffee, I know next
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  is walking the dog and then series.
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  So we're kind of like teaching ourselves in patterns and we're
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  providing prompt, like a tactile prompt for ourselves for our
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  brain to remember. So it's a little bit different
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  of just remembering by telling ourselves, remember to do these
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  three things. I had a client once that told me
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  that she remembers everything in threes and another client
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  remembers everything in sevens. So it's really it's, it depends
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  on what kind of number you'd like and how many things you
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  have to do. So you can always break it up in
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  threes. And then another three different
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  things that you need to do. Try that out, see if it works.
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  Let me know in the comments section below.
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  And then the last one was I've I've noticed that I seem to
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  remember letters in wrong orders in certain names.
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  So I'm learning at the moment. I live in Portugal and I'm
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  learning Portuguese. So for me, the first time I I
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  heard it, I told my Portuguese friend friends that it sounds
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  like they, they sounded a bit Russian to me in the way that
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  they were speaking. It was a very foreign excuse on
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  language for me to learn. So what I really appreciated was
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  when my Portuguese teacher told me to break it down in
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  syllables. And I feel like with a lot of
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  autistic people, a lot of people with ADHD, our brains are so
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  quick and we think about so many different things all at once
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  that we struggle to kind of just slow down and process what what
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  information is being provided to us.
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  So if somebody tells me their name is which his name is Joe.
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  Wow. And in the beginning, I was
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  like, Joe, what's your name? You, you know, it was very
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  tricky for me to remember that name.
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  So then I had to really break it down to Zhu.
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  Or wow, Zhu, wow, Zhu, wow. And that made more sense.
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  So I would break it down in syllables.
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  That's not really breaking it down in syllables, but more in
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  sounds. And then I would go really slow.
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  And I would also see it in my mind's eye, the Zhu
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  phonetically. Wow.
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  And I would probably add a bit of meaning to it too.
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  So I'd go like, like, that's quite a quick one.
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  And then, oh, wow. So in my mind, I see.
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  WOW. Wow.
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  So that's what I see when somebody tells me their name is
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  Joao. For other people, it's really
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  quick. Joao.
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  Oh, Joao. Oh.
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  Pleased to meet you. For me, I have to break it down.
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  So I would I would recommend that see if it makes a
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  difference. If it doesn't, again please
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  comment below and let me know if it does.
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  Also comment because it would be great if we can, if we can share
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  what works and what doesn't work.
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  For any other questions, please feel free to comment or to book
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  a session. I've got a 15 minute free
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  consultation that you can take on, take up on any time.
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  I would love to meet you and I would love to share some
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  strategies that have worked for my clients for 20 plus years of
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  working with amazing neurodivergent individuals.
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  Thank you so much for listening. I'll speak to you soon.
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  Ciao, decrease the time in receiving an assessment.
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  Please do write that down as well because then we can also
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  learn from each other. I think that's the main thing
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  for me is to really share what I know, but also learn from the
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  clients that I serve from you. So thank you so much for being
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  here. I'll speak too soon.
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  Don't forget, if you want to book a session with Cal, there's
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  a link in the description down below.
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  Thank you guys for watching this video.
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  Give it a thumbs up if you liked it and I'll see you in the next
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  one. Peace.
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  Peace.