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Aspergers Anxiety (5 Tips For YOU When Shopping) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So Aspergers and anxiety, here are 5 tips that you need when
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  you go shopping. All that's coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the Aspie world.
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  My name is Dan, I have Asperger Syndrome, ADHDOCD, and dyslexia,
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  and I make weekly videos all about this type of content.
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  What's up, different thinkers? Welcome back to the Aspie world
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  where we think differently daily.
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  Guys, have I got a video for you today?
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  I was thinking about this for a while, right?
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  Thinking about like what do I use as hacks when I go to
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  shopping for groceries or clothes or whatever.
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  Anything could be absolutely anything and and there are a
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  bunch of different things that I use when I go out shopping.
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  So I decided to list out five of the best ones.
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  Permanent video. Package them all up.
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  Give them to you lovely people because you're awesome guys.
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  Make sure to check out my Autism Life Hacks PDF book for free.
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  You can download from autismhacks.net.
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  You can do that right now. OK, so guys, you know anxiety is
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  super common. People on the spectrum.
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  I'm not going to sit here and lie about it.
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  But yeah, everybody on the open spectrum will deal with anxiety
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  at some point in our life and a lot of the time it's due to the
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  fact when they go grocery shopping or any kind of other
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  shopping, those places are just no good.
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  So your boy has made some awesome hacks for you.
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  So the first one we're going to talk about and look at here is
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  headphones. Now to lower anxiety, I like to
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  bring headphones with me, usually noise cancelling
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  headphones with me. And basically you block out all
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  the the sound around you from having these headphones on.
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  Because when you put these headphones on, it's kind of like
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  a like a just zaps out all the the noise, especially noise
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  cancelling headphones zaps out all the noise from around you,
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  which is super, super dope. And the reason that's super cool
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  because it like sucks all the noise out from around you.
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  If you're using noise cancelling headphones, it sucks out all the
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  noise from around you. And then basically what you're
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  left with then is just complete and utter silence, which is
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  bliss when you're trying to shop in a shopping center.
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  So I always carry headphones with me.
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  Either I have like Apple Airpods, these small ones, or I
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  have like the bigger ones I put over my ears and they're just
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  really, really good. The big ones obviously work
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  better than small in ear ones, but still they're both really,
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  really good and they're super dope.
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  So definitely check out headphones.
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  I'll leave a link actually for the ones that I use down below.
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  So if you go want to really check out the ones I use, I'll
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  leave a link so you can check them out.
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  So #2 is best times. So I actually to avoid having an
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  anxiety attack in a shop where it's going to be busy and stuff.
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  What I do is I go on Google and I look at the store and I look
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  at the stores busiest times and then I look at the stores not
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  busiest times and those non busy times is when I'll usually go to
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  the store. So it could be later on at
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  night, it could be early in the morning.
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  But basically it's when the store has less people in there
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  and Google tracks people when they're in store.
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  So it tells you how how many people are in store at what.
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  So it'll give you an average of when's the busiest time, When's
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  the busiest day? Really cool.
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  You just type in the name of the store in Google and then boom,
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  there you go. It tells you exactly all the
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  details that you need, which is super, super awesome.
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  OK guys, number three is buddy up Now I talk about budding
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  systems all the time, right? And like, budding up is pretty
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  amazing because it allows so much kind of versatility in in
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  what you do. So anxiety can be a kicker, like
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  if you're on your own and you going shopping.
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  But what I like to do, I like to get, you know, a person to come
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  with me as a buddy system so that I can rely on them for
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  things. Like, you know, if you're out
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  and about and you've got a buddy with you, then if you're having
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  an anxiety attack, they can take control.
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  If you have any needs, issues, worries or whatever, you can
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  rely on your buddy to help you out because they're there and
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  they're with you in that moment in time.
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  So having a buddy is great, and you usually use my friend Alex
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  to come with me to when I go traveling.
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  But when I'm actually shopping, I take Nomi with me and me and
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  then we go shopping or we go wherever when it's not a global
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  pandemic on. But yeah, buddy systems work and
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  they're really, really cool. So #4 is preparing, which is
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  making a list of everything you need before you go, and then
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  making a backup plan for that list.
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  So there isn't any, like, issues where if your plan doesn't go to
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  work, you've got a backup plan and then you use the backup
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  plan, right? So the preparation is the best
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  way to avoid anxiety. The attacks just hands down just
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  the best one ever. And #5 here is breathing.
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  Now look, if everything else fails and all things work and
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  you end up having a panic attack, then you just have to
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  breathe. Now, breathing is super, super
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  awesome. It's kind of like this.
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  You you breathe in for five, you hold it for five, and you
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  breathe out for five. And when you're doing that,
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  what's happening is that slowing down your heart rate is slowing
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  down your body so that you become way more calm and way
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  more aware. And by doing that, you kind of
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  reduce the anxiety because he's just taken time to take a step
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  back, just breathe a little bit. This is a huge technique.
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  It's actually used in in loads of things like mindfulness and
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  Buddhism and meditation and yoga and all these kind of things.
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  That is a great technique. I use it personally all the time
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  with anything. And if you don't believe me,
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  just try it right now. Pause this video, try it and I
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  bet you'll feel Calvin than you did watching this video.
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  up because that helps me a lot. And drop me a comment if you
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  have anything to say. I'll see you next time guys.
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  Peace.