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Is Living With AUTISM Hard!? · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys, today's podcast is a smaller ones and the quite
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  interesting. I'm doing an interview for the
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  BBC here in Wales called BBC company and they're doing a
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  feature guest on their website. So this is just me basically
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  reading out what I'm basically saying something like they're
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  interviewing me asking me specific questions on autism my
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  life and stuff like that. So here goes.
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  Okay, so they've asked when was I diagnosed with Asperger's and
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  ADHD? And how was I diagnosed?
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  I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome idiots the OCD when I
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  was 26 years old and this came after years of like other
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  diagnosis like, you know anxiety.
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  Dyslexia agoraphobia and all the other things.
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  I can come come up with Lee with an awesome person condition and
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  they kind of came to this moment in my life where the
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  professionals who work with autism were able to press any
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  diagnosed with autism. It's quite amazing actually, you
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  know. The age of 26 and then learning
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  about autism and not knowing you know what to do where to go from
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  there. It's kind of like when they give
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  you your diagnosis, it's afterwards it's there's nothing
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  there. You know, they say, okay.
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  We'll see you later. You know, it's interesting.
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  I wondered what I would do after having the diagnosis.
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  So the next question you asked was where you're a successful
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  YouTuber what made you start to post videos about Asperger's and
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  autism and ADHD. Do you make a living from the
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  work so I actually started It where YouTube channel almost by
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  accident. I went looking on the internet
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  after having the diagnosis of autism and Asperger's Syndrome.
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  We as it was back then because now obviously it's just a SD but
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  back then it was Asperger syndrome.
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  And when I came across videos on the internet, none of them were
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  really engaging they're all kind of like very depressing and the
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  people were not entertaining at all.
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  So I decided that I would put a video out of myself, which was
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  awful but looking It you know, it was my first video just
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  talking about Asperger's Syndrome from my point of view
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  to give people a little bit of like a Insight in a happy way.
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  Like I'm more a deep beat way talking about the subject
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  without feeling some negative and that was really interesting.
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  So obviously that became like a bigger thing and more people
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  watch my videos and more people wanted to subscribe to my
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  channel and then it became the thing I can monetize, you know
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  by a Revenue and branding deals and and stuff like that and then
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  it became like a part-time job. Then it became a full-time job
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  and now it's like my full-time Enterprise like a business.
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  I run and it's it's amazing and I feel yeah, I just feel so good
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  that I'm able to do this because it's helping people I'm able to
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  make a living from helping people.
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  That's that's a really good gift.
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  So they're asking here what impact has my work hard on my
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  followers like the people for me on, you know, I podcasts and
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  YouTube and stuff and They are asking for specific examples of
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  anybody. You know, how they might help
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  them to be directly through a video.
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  So I'm going outside right now. So the impact that my work has
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  on people that follow me is profoundly amazing the amount of
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  letters. I get from parents and people
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  who are on the Spectrum saying thank you so much.
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  Your information opened my eyes, you're you know, diagnosis guide
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  helped me get official diagnosis your video helped me realize
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  that my son is on the Spectrum when he's not being awkward or
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  whatever and like some people say that I saved a life in all
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  those kind of when I get that stuff.
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  I'm like, whoa, that's exactly why I do I do because that stuff
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  drives me and I'm like, I'm not different by the money.
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  I'm not going to buy anything else for the passion the raw
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  passion to help people is amazing.
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  So the asset is it difficult to speak openly and publicly about
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  your experiences with Asperger's and ADHD.
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  I don't think now it's difficult to speak about it because I
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  don't care what people think about That much I feel like if I
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  don't do what I'm doing, then I'm not adding value to people's
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  lives. The reason I don't find it
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  difficult is because I wish I had this information when I was
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  growing up and I wish my parents had this information when I was
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  growing up. So to me it's kind of like easy
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  to do it because I know why I'm doing it.
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  Okay, they asked what impact has Asperger's have when you as a
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  husband and a father me and my partner aren't married, but you
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  know we have Been together 10 years still so, you know having
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  a partner and a baby it can be difficult and stressful for
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  anybody at any point in their life, you know, the
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  responsibilities and all that kind of stuff.
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  But to me those things are a little bit more difficult at
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  times because of the communicative issues autism is a
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  communication disorder at its heart.
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  It causes issues with the way you understand.
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  Formation data through communication verbally through
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  suggestive through written. It's very difficult to stay on
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  track sometimes as well with certain Sensations and knowing
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  if you're doing the right thing or the wrong thing understanding
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  those scenarios in a gray world where you think in black and
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  white can be very difficult and I find it challenging, but I
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  love a challenge. So it's a good and a bad thing
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  for guys. Thank you so much for Bring it
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  to this episode of the podcast story.
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  It was like Dolly. I feel like this is a bit odd.
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  It's not like we're usual podcast episode, but hopefully
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  you enjoyed it and you will join me next time so go, please,
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  please please share this podcast with your friends when you're
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  buddies with your other parents or peer groups or whoever you
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  want because I wanted to spread the word change the world.
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  So join me in helping to change the world by sharing this
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  podcast tell everybody about it. Also guys, if you want to
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  support me and this podcast, please go to patreon.com forward
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  slash that asked me will Old and you can support me there or some
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  guys. Talk to you soon.