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WOW! These 3 Sensory Issues Reveal So Much About Autism · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  OK, so these three sensory issues reveal so much more about
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  autism that you probably didn't even realize.
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  And this is so interesting. I love talking about this stuff.
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  Let's get into it. Don't go anywhere.
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  Buckle up. What's going on, everybody?
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  Welcome back to the Ashby world. My name is Dan, and I have
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  autism, ADHD, OCD and dyslexia. I make weekly videos all about
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  this stuff, actually daily videos.
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  So if you're on here and you want to learn more, remember to
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  And if you're on Facebook, just be sure to give this page a
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  follow to see videos from me. All right, so boom, this is
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  super awesome. 3 Sensory issues like that really reveal so much
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  more about autism because we're trying to find a bigger picture.
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  We have a very small snapshot of autism and kind of people say
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  like people don't understand autism.
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  And I think like, I think that's incorrect.
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  I think people do understand autism and I think that people
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  understand autism in a certain way, but I think that there's so
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  much more to autism that we could be looking at that we
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  don't, right? And so it's the, it's the
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  understanding is there, the awareness is there, but it's
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  like the deeper knowledge of autism that people don't really
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  know. And it's basically that that's
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  You'll you'll really enjoy it. OK, So what are these three
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  things? Dan, come on, get on with the
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  video. OK?
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  It's very simple. The first one is temperature
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  issues. Now autistic individuals have
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  something called sensory processing disorder, which is
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  hence why you clicked on this video, right?
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  And sensory processing disorder is a comorbidity or a Co
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  occurring comes alongside a diagnosis of autism.
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  Most of the time, not every single time, I don't think, but
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  most of the time. And all this means is that you
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  are more susceptible to certain senses.
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  It could be sound, sight, you know, lights, it could be
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  smells. It could be touches, fabrics,
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  textures, foods, all kinds of things.
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  But one of the most interesting things that we never touch on is
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  temperature. Now this is quite funny because
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  I'm so susceptible to temperature, my own body
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  temperature, and it's because I I am always running kind of hot.
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  And this is really weird. Nobody talks about this like I
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  feel like autistic individuals run hot quite often, right?
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  And then I've just called you out.
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  I get it. You have to give this video a
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  thumbs up. If I've just like, if you're
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  like, Dang, he's he know, he, he knows what's going on in my
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  hair. He knows me, right?
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  I'll be like, yeah, because I am you.
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  I'm I'm you. But like, you know, I know how
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  you feel because I have been there.
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  I am there and I'm an autistic adult just like you.
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  So temperature changes, this is an example of how it works.
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  OK. If anything that I need to do
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  outside of my realm of my kind of comfort zone or my other
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  realm of my kind of like routine then becomes a temperature
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  increase. So DIY in the house.
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  Oh my goodness. So DIY if you're not familiar
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  with Do it Yourself, which is like the term used for things
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  like hanging a painting, putting together furniture from IKEA,
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  you know, building something or, or painting a wall or bringing
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  wallpaper up or something like that, right?
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  This is all stuff that you do in your house.
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  It's kind of like your fittings and fixtures.
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  And I had such a difficulty with this where if I was to do any
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  DIY, I'd get so hot of the thought about it.
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  I'd have to do a DIY on my underpants.
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  It was really funny. So we'd never have like friends
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  and family over if I was doing any DIY because I'd basically be
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  naked and so I couldn't do that. And so you'll see a lot of
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  autistic individuals will like to be shirtless or topless or
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  just an underpants a lot of the time.
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  And this is because their body runs hot because they are
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  outside of the comfort zone for some reason.
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  Now I have managed to help with this by learning more about DIY.
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  So I'm more comfortable going ahead and doing something that's
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  more DIY, which is really interesting.
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  So I'm able to keep my clothes on.
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  But temperatures like when I when I have my newborns, like so
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  I've got 2 little boys, I have three-step kids, but I also have
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  two kind of biological kids and those two kids, you know, having
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  them as time 10 little babies in the house, it made me like, you
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  know, I was like, don't my goodness is salt my covers or
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  don't I'm doing looks like any other parent would be right.
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  But then my body temperature increased and so I had to like a
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  sweat band. Like it was just crazy.
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  Like it's so interesting. So temperatures impact autism or
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  100% and so interesting. OK, number 2 is food situational
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  sensitivity or situational environment sensitivity of food.
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  Now, this basically means that you have a different experience
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  of eating or drinking something in certain environments and and
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  I can give you an example. OK, so if you go to a restaurant
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  and you get lasagna, the lasagna can be amazing.
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  You can love it. You smash the whole thing like
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  you know, you've got your money's worth out of it and you
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  smashed it and you loved it. Now you could also get that same
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  lasagna, go home, cook it, sit down at your table, try and eat
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  it. And what happens?
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  Well, you then realize that you don't like it.
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  You are all, you don't even, you don't even attempt to have it
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  because even the thought of having that lasagna at home is
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  something that doesn't entertain you, doesn't make you think
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  like, and like I had this exact thing with my mum.
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  Like, you know, when I was a kid, I used to have like certain
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  things from, from primary school where I'd eat in the canteen in
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  primary school. My mum would bring it home
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  because I was a very selective eater and I wouldn't eat it at
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  home because the environment was different.
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  That whole everything, everything that encompasses that
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  environment, the sound, the smells, the lights, the, the,
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  the textures, the seating, the temperature, how you position
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  yourself in that environment, that cannot be replicated at
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  home. So it makes a difference.
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  And it's kind of like this, like you'd be like, well, I enjoy
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  drinking Coca-Cola when I'm out in a restaurant, but I don't
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  enjoy drinking Coca-Cola if I'm in my house, right?
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  It tastes different. And you're like, yeah, why the
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  heck is that? And it's because the way your
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  brain is reading that information, the communication
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  part of it, it knows that it's, it's linked to an environmental
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  factor. And this is really interesting.
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  So one of my sons likes connecting certain snacks with
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  certain events or environments. Like if I'm cutting or mowing
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  the lawn, he wants to eat a certain snack or some mowing the
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  lawn. If he's watching a certain TV
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  show, he wants to eat a certain snack with that.
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  Now it's patent parcel. It's like a comfort thing, but
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  also it's a neurodevelopmental thing.
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  So I think that when we look at this bigger picture, we realize
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  that we're not actually just really selective or we're not
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  actually picky eaters or awkward or being difficult.
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  We're actually just experiencing an environmental situation for
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  sensory processing disorder, which is really interesting,
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  right? And if this is blowing your
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  mind, just comment down below. Let me know because I want to
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  know if you relate. I did a video all about this,
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  right? And and I talk about my mother,
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  my partner, because we all have very different quirks.
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  I go into very big detail with it.
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  I'll leave it in a link down below in the comments section or
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  the description of this video. I'll try and link it on account
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  if I can remember. Sorry guys, I'm always terrible
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  at remembering these things. And if you're on Facebook, I'll
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  link it in the comments. If I haven't linked it, call me
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  out and be like, Dan, where is that video you've linked?
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  But basically if you want to find it, the video thumbnail,
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  it's just me holding up like a ketchup bottle.
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  And it's kind of there's two different things.
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  There's ketchup and then there's there's ketchup out with a
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  bottle or something. Anyway, that's what it looks
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  like. So the third one is weather
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  sensitivity. Now weather sensitivity is a
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  huge 1, so much so that I have this thing here, this is called
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  a light therapy lamp and it's like a it's an LELED type of
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  thing. I'm not sure what kind of bulbs
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  in this, but it's a therapeutic 1 and it is a therapy lamp that
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  gives me sunlight because I am affected heavily by the weather.
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  Now when it's nice and sunny and when it's like, you know, not
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  too breezy, it's good. I really enjoy, you know, the
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  weather makes me feel a certain way.
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  But when it starts to get dark windy, cold, snowy, rainy, all
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  those things really impact my mood and almost to a point where
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  I just hit absolute like depressional and there is a
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  disorder called season affected disorder.
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  But I think that autistic individuals are so sensitive to
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  weather for a few different things so season affected
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  disorder yes and hence why this lamp and this lamp really works.
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  By the way, if you're interested, I will leave a link
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  for this down below for you can get it on Amazon.
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  I think I paid like 20 bucks or something for it, but like it's
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  amazing it's USBC powered like it's so thin you can travel with
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  it amazing. I got it on for like maybe 15
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  minutes in the morning, Absolutely fantastic, helps with
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  the dark days and I I love it. So definitely look at this lamp.
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  If it's something that impacts you, definitely check out the
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  lamp. I'll leave a link down below and
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  it is an affiliate link. So if you do end up buying it, I
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  think I get like 10 pence Commission or something on it.
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  I don't know, but it helps me, helps the channel helps you.
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  Now there is another type of weather condition that impacts
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  our weather environment that impacts an autistic prisons and
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  mood and ability and that is wind right or hash sunlight.
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  Now hash sunlight can be so impactful to an autistic person
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  sight that it's so overwhelming that they want sunglasses all
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  the time, completely all the time.
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  Like my partner, she you can't stand the sunshine too much
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  glare, even though she can deal with sunshine a lot more than I
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  can due to our I call it right. And so she has dark eyes.
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  I have light eyes, but one of the things that really rocks her
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  is when it's windy. If it's so windy, if it's windy
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  and her hair is blown everywhere or it's windy and you can't get
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  something on your coats blowing everywhere, you get pushed
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  around. The sensory trigger from wind is
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  so overwhelming that it's kind of like it it it's it's
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  something that you you want to avoid going out because it's so
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  bad, right? Look, we have statistic
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  individuals don't go out because we don't socialize our people
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  scares or all those things, right.
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  You know, I see, give us a thumbs up if I just called you
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  out. But in terms of like the
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  weather, when you add into the to the mix, that weather could
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  also be a cause causing factor for you to stay in the house.
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  It just kind of escalates into something and you're like, Oh my
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  goodness. So weather is a really big 1.
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  And I think that like more research if you've done in this
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  area where there's other sensitivity triggers that will
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  impact autistic individuals, not to mention rejection sensitive
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  dysphoria. Oh yeah, I called out.
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  If that is something that you're interested in comment
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  downloading down, I want to talk about how rejection sensitive
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  dysphoria, it's a doozy. All right, guys, see you in the
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  next one. Peace.