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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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  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 that 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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  And there's a secret 4th bonus tip right at the end if you stay
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  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 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 with Roblox.
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  Now, if you're a parent or as a person watching this and you're
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  thinking, damn, I know exactly what you mean, down with the
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  video, 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 what?
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  We'll just prepare. We're just going to kind of get
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  our stuff to get in the bag and then go with it, Pick up a
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  sandwich 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 spectrum. Now, how you do this is that you
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  make a plan. You say okay, we're going to be
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  here for this amount of time, it's over.
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  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, like could be sunglasses,
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  could be noise cancelling headphones, could be sensory
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  friendly clothing, could be clothing, window tags.
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  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 issues that happen
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  in certain environments on a transitional change going from
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  the car to the store or vice versa.
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  OK you 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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  And now your kid is going to freak out because they are
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  losing control of their environment.
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  They were at home playing Minecraft all ice and cozy, and
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  all of a sudden now they're going into the car and then get
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  to the store. It's crazy, right?
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  But if you said to them, hey, you get to control the
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  temperature in the car, you get to control the music in the car.
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  You get to control which parking space we go to in the car park
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  or the parking lot or wherever you go.
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  So what you do is you create micro environments, like what
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  toy do you want to bring with you?
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  What sensory tool do you want to bring with you?
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  What clothes do you want to wear?
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  What is it that you can give the person to control or you can
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  control yourself in an environment that seems
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  uncontrollable. This is a key to many areas of
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  life from an autistic person, but it's super important when
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  you're dealing with change. OK, so #4 is something that
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  people always forget. And this is the bonus tip guys.
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  Now, this is providing reassurance and support.
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  The difficulties that artistic people face dearly is crazy,
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  right? But we hardly ever have people
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  validate us and reassure us that it's OK.
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  It's completely fine. We understand.
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  We get this panic from the other people, like, Oh my gosh, what
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  do we do? What do we do?
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  And then people ask me, what can we do to help?
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  I'm like, I don't know, I just need validation that moment in
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  time. I need support and reassurance,
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  that evidence we find and somebody needs to take control
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  and just chill. Because when an event happens
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  that you're feeling difficulties from like your meltdown because
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  your meltdown because of change or something, you know, the
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  transition didn't go well. It's because you are feeling out
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  of control. Now you need somebody to take
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  control and say everything's gonna be fine.
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  Super, really easy one to do. People always forget this one,
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  but I know that it's effective and I know how this works.
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