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Aspergers Sensory Trait (Why We Do This) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So why do I smell everything, you know, from like my hands to
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  new shoes to maybe a room I walk into or even somebody that walks
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  past me. I'm like my brain is processing
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  things a little bit differently, especially senses.
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  I see this a lot in autistic individuals because we are
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  sensory processing disorder, which means that when we are
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  trying to understand the world, we understand it and use our
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  senses in a different way than the typical person does.
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  So in this video, I'm going to talk to you about why that
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  happens and how that happens and some of the ways that sensory
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  stuff can make you smile. So in this video, I'm going to
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  be talking to you all about why that happens and how that
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  happens in autism for sensory issues.
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  Hey, what's going on guys? My name is Dan and I have autism
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  ADHD. Now if you're new around here
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  So autism can amplify one or more senses and this is called
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  hyper sensitivity or hypersensitive sensory
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  processing disorder. So SPD or Sensory Processing
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  Disorder is something that comes alongside or comorbid Co
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  occurring with autism and pretty much all the time, right?
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  me. Or you can just click the link
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  in the description down below to listen to this.
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  Podcast The senses are normally like smells.
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  That's like a big one, right? Smells or like sounds.
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  That's another big one. Sounds as a huge, huge 1.
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  And smelling things to me isn't weird.
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  It's kind of like a sensory processing style that gives me
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  an extra insight or depth to something.
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  So if I get something new like a book, I'm like, I'm going to
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  smell the book because my brain wants to understand more about
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  it rather than kind of the typical person would look at a
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  book and OK, it's a book. And then maybe, I don't know,
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  ask the stalk. Like, hey, does this book come
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  in blue, black, whatever, I'd smell it and if I smell it and
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  it smells good, like a lot of the time, I used to collect a
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  lot of vinyl action figures and you can see some hymen my shelf
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  here and the vinyl action makers.
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  One of the main reasons I I collected them was because they
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  smell really good and I used to just smell the toys.
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  So I then we used to like play with them and just smell them.
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  Now the sensory style gives me extra information.
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  I give my brain extra information and it's hard to
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  really put that into words that like how the sensory input from,
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  you know, smelling things helps me understand something, you
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  know? And for someone, it's
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  comforting, you know, for me, it's comforting more than
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  others. It's about detaching themselves
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  from the environment and actually, you know, feeling
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  safe. Now, if I smell something of
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  smells unsafe or I'm in an area that smells unsafe, then I won't
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  stay there, which is kind of interesting and I find it quite
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  fascinating. So, you know, a heightened
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  olfactory senses is something that's actually very common in
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  autism. You know, stronger smells higher
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  detected than than the average person.
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  And this goes for me for like garlic, onions, vinegar, you
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  know, caesic acid, ether, petroleum, diesel.
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  All these smells are like really, really like vibrant and
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  like, and it smells overpowering Even so that I can smell
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  theremin in women and that sounds really weird, but I can't
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  and I I I can't figure out why I can do that, but I can because
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  typically women can smell pheromone on men and women, but
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  men don't typically smell pheromone, but I do.
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  And that's a really interesting sense.
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  So it allows me kind of like I almost feel like a sniffer dog
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  sometimes. I'm like I can smell different
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  things, like, you know, people's moods and stuff.
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  I can also smell this is a weird one, but I can also smell if
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  somebody is dying, like that's a bit of a weird one, but that is
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  true. Like I, I have this weird, like
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  it's, I don't know what it is, but I can smell, I can smell it.
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  So hospitals are quite overpowering for me because of
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  the from the cleaning products to food to the people with
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  illnesses, those things can, you know, really, really be smelly.
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  You. You're.
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  Going. To be amazed, you know sensory
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  seeking is something that autistic individuals do where
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  smelling becomes a way of exploring the world around you,
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  right? Or exploring dopamine hits.
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  So if you like the smell of, I don't know, certain flowers or
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  certain sodas or whatever, and you can smell those things and
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  it gives you a little dip of dopamine like boop, boop, boop.
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  And dopamine is like the happy hormone that autistic
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  individuals are deficient in and we're trying to catch all the
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  time to get dopamine. And those, those can be good
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  fun. But also you can also have an
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  emotional connection to certain sense and certain smells, kind
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  of like that whole idea, you know, you smell your
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  grandmother's perfume. You're like, oh, I remember my
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  grandmother. That can also intensify
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  feelings, especially for people on the autism spectrum.
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  But people on the autism spectrum use that as a sensory
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  seeking tool, as in like something that will please them.
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  But you can also have the adverse effect.
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  You can have a sensory aversion to those smells.
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  Like you could smell something like, oh, that reminds me.
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  That smell reminds me of a, you know, I don't know, a traumatic
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  childhood experience or a trust experience in life or whatever.
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  And then they'll avoid those smells because those smells
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  don't give them dopamine. It actually sucks away the
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  dopamine and makes them sad. And so you have to be very
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  careful with those things. Now, the interesting thing about
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  this is that someone could be hypersensitive to smell, but
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  hyposensitive to touch. And hypo means like not as
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  sensitive to and some people can be sensitive hyper to touch or
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  hyposensitive to smell. So you can have an autistic
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  person who doesn't smell like this.
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  But for me, I found this is one of the most interesting traits.
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  And and also smelling is like a self regulation thing.
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  So like certain smells can make you feel calm.
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  And you know, it could be a smell of washing powder, it
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  could be a smell of your skin, it could be the smell of like a
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  soda or your clothes. And those are what are called
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  relatable or predictable smells. And those predictable smells
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  give an autistic individual like myself kind of like a calming
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  reset regulation or a, a normalisation of the situation.
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  Like, oh, OK, I know where I am. You know, it's kind of like
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  having a comfort food. It's like a comfort smell, if
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  you will. Now I want to know, do you do
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  this? Are you on the autism spectrum?
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  Do you smell things? Do you smell your hands?
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  Do you smell new shoes and carpets and rooms that you walk
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  into? Let me know because I feel like
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  drop it in a comment down below and I'd love to open that
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  discussion. I actually detect people by
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  their smells, you know, like certain people have certain
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  smells like they everyone has an individual smell and also houses
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  have individual smell and those people smell like their houses
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  and the houses smell like that. It's really weird.
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  And the only time that's never happened is with my own house.
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  It smells like a house but not me.
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  That makes any sense. This is really weird.
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  It's hard to explain but it's definitely something that's
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  interesting. Especially for autistic
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  individuals. It's something that is apparent.
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