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Aspergers Treatment Why YOU Should Consider These (3 BEST) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys, in this video I'm breaking down three of the best
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  ass Bridges treatments for you, which is super awesome.
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  All that's coming up, Hey guys, welcome back to the aspy world.
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  My name is Dan, I have autism, ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia and I
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  make weekly videos on this type of stuff.
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  So if you're new around here and you'd like to see some more
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  awesome videos just like this one and be super super cool, hit
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  And if you're watching over on Facebook, which just gives a
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  page of life and a follow to see more videos like this on this
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  page, right, guys. So I am doing this video on
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  three personally, I've taken these treatments for my
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  Asperger's Syndrome diagnosis and these treatments are really,
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  really cool and they're like therapies basically.
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  They're not really treatments. When you hear the word
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  treatment, it sounds like it's like drugs and stuff like that.
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  But there's, you know, I do have medication, but that's for like
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  my comorbid conditions. But in terms of this one, it's
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  specifically talking about like therapies that you can use to
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  help with daily life and and struggles that people with, you
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  know, Asperger syndrome on the autism spectrum deal with.
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  So I wanted to break that down right now.
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  But before we get started guys, I'd like to know, do you have a
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  diagnosis of Asperger syndrome or autism or are you just like a
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  parent coming here to figure out what's what?
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  I would love to know. Please leave me a comment in the
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  comment section down below. I'd read and respond to every
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  single comment and I would love to have that conversation with
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  you. Super love it.
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  Let's get on. So basically I have had a bunch
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  load of treatment ever since my diagnosis.
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  I had like a bunch load of treatments come in for different
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  things, like treatment plans with this guy.
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  That guy and I tried pretty much anything I could get my hands on
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  that I feel would really benefit me.
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  And I've tried some, like I did a a group counseling therapy
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  where it was like about 12 people sat on the table.
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  And then we talk about like, you know, anxiety and stuff.
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  Like that was like an anxiety support group and that wasn't so
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  good. And then I also had
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  psychological intervention and that was OK.
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  But it wasn't like, it wasn't really, really good.
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  So in terms of, in terms of this, you know, this video, I
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  wanted to go over the ones that I felt were like the best ones,
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  ones I got the most out of. And I hopefully, you know, me
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  telling you this, like maybe you can use this to your advantage
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  and maybe it would be something, something awesome for you.
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  So these are the top three. I'm going to break them down
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  right now. Okay.
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  So #1 is counseling. Psychotherapy.
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  Now counseling is pretty, pretty darn simple.
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  You you have a counselor who's trained in psychotherapy who
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  knows how to deal with people's emotional differences and their
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  ups and downs and their personal behaviors and behavior
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  personality traits. And then you sit down in a
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  neutral environment that's very calm, relaxed.
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  And then you discuss self exploring problems, emotional
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  problems and mental health problems to come to some kind of
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  solution I guess is the best way to explain it.
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  But the the thing I get most out of counselling is it's almost
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  like a weight taking off your shoulders.
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  Because when you're able to vent the things that you feel, I like
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  you know, the the most kind of like the things that impact you
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  the most in your life. You know, if you're thinking, oh
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  you know, I want to talk about my relationship, my parents, but
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  I'm living in the house, my parents.
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  How do I, you know, who do I talk to about this?
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  Because I obviously cannot talk to my parents because it's about
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  them, right. So having a counselor and
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  psychotherapy is pretty cool because you get to kind of
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  express yourself to your counselor in a way which is non
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  judgmental. They're not going to judge you.
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  They're going to help counsel and guide you through that on
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  kind of like a self exploring mission to help you come to some
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  resolution to the problem that you may be presenting.
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  Other times it's nice to just have like a steady flow of
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  therapy from a counselor because they're listening to you and
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  giving you feedback and making you look inward a bit.
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  And I think that's really good. Not not just is it good, I mean
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  it's super helpful. I have found that the best
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  format for this for me personally has been better help,
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  which is like an online, like a, you know, you log in on your
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  phone and your video call, you know, your counselor or
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  whatever. And it's actually been one of
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  the most beneficial ways. Because one of the things I was
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  worried about before was that I had to travel like 20 minutes to
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  the clinic and then sit in a waiting room, then go into
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  another room with a person and then do that and then for an
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  hour and then drive home. And you know, it's like 2 hours
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  out of your life. And then you've got to prepare
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  yourself and you've got to put on like, you know, proper
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  clothes. You can wear sweatpants and, you
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  know, make a cup of tea and just sit down.
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  You know, you have to kind of present yourself in a way which
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  is presentable for the outside, but with better help I can just
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  sit down on my bean bag and then like just call my counselor and
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  repay through like PayPal or whatever.
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  It is super dope. If you're interested in doing
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  like online counseling like that, I will leave my personal
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  link for better help down below and it really helps me out if
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  you use that link. This is not a sponsored video.
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  It's just that I, you know use them and it's really cool if you
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  use my link. So in terms of the, the, the,
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  the rest of it, I'm going to breakdown other therapies that
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  and basically not counseling, just in case you think like
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  going to talk about different types of counseling therapies.
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  No, not counseling was #1. Let's move on okay, guys.
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  So therapy #2 is relaxation therapy.
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  Now that are variants of relaxation therapy.
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  You can have like sensory therapy where you basically use
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  sensory rooms or sensory gadgets and gizmos like you know, fish
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  tanks or bubble tubes and lighting and like soft touch
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  like walls and like ethanol, just like lay down like beds and
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  stuff like that. That's like one way sensory
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  another. Relaxation therapy is to sit
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  completely calm and relaxed in a room listening to like a
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  meditation type of tape when it's completely controlled, like
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  really calm, nice relaxing environment, which is super
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  dope. And then one of the other ones I
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  found just incredibly relaxing is Vibro acoustic therapy.
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  Now I've spoken about this in a few different videos and I
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  actually think I made a video on this a while back.
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  It was a vlog. I was doing a talk in Wrexham
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  which is close to where I live in the UK, which is in North
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  Wales and there was a vibro acoustic bed there and basically
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  it uses like audio waves to vibrate this like bed or chair
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  and it it's so calming like I almost fell asleep when I did
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  this therapy. It was so good.
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  And a friend of mine, Paul, was with me as well.
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  And we, we basically tried this bed out.
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  And the chair, I was in the chair, he was on the bed.
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  And then the therapist was kind of like showing us around, like
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  the room and all the stuff. And you put on different tapes
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  and it was just absolutely fantastic.
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  And they have a few locations. I think one of them is like
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  located in Chester and other ones in Wrexham.
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  I'll try and leave a link for them down below.
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  Vibro Acoustic Therapy. And yeah, I would highly
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  recommend checking that out. They're really, really good.
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  But I found that one the most, like, just amazing.
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  And honestly, like I said to the person, I was like, I've never
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  heard of this stuff. She said, no, it's big in the
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  States. And she had to go over to the
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  United States of America to do the training and get all the
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  equipment and then like ship it back over and it's like a whole
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  thing. And it's super effective.
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  I found it amazing. And Paul really enjoyed it as
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  well. So yeah, big thumbs up for vibro
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  acoustic therapy and the other types of relaxation therapy that
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  you can use. But relaxing is a form of
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  therapy and I find it really difficult to relax.
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  So that's why I found real benefit in vibro acoustic
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  therapy. So yeah, OK, guys, Number three,
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  the last one here in my list of super top three treatments for
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  Asperger's syndrome because that's why I diagnosed with and
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  I know that it's now called just autism spectrum disorder, but my
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  diagnosis papers had asperges on it.
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  So hey ho, what can you do? So this one is occupational
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  therapy. Now occupational therapy is
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  specifically designed for the thing that you need.
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  So in my case I went to see a an autism like occupational therapy
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  group and I asked them for help and support with my like I kept
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  bumping into things like spatial awareness and stuff like that.
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  And then they said it was to do with Sensory Processing
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  Disorder, which is comes comorbidly with autism, right.
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  And and so they they gave me this like we did loads of
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  therapy and it was just absolutely fantastic.
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  We did a thing called the sensory diet, which is not food.
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  It's like physical activity. And you guys have to hit that
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  subscribe button and the notification bell because I'm
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  going to do a video where I'm going to do a week on the
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  sensory diet and film every day to show you like what it's like,
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  how to do it, what it was like before and after and all that
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  kind of stuff and and see the difference that it makes to like
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  my functions. So basically like when I was
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  putting cups down, I was missing the edge of the table.
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  Or if I was out of the cupboard, I keep my hand on the cupboard
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  and I get really sore arms because when I open a door like
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  I don't open it wide enough to fit through it because I have no
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  idea of the spatial awareness. It's a big issue.
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  But the sensory diet actually helped with that.
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  It didn't cure it. Obviously, there's no cure, but
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  it definitely helped it. And it just, it was just really
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  effective. I'm very, very happy with it.
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  And I found that the occupational therapist was just
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  amazing. Like, she knew everything there
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  is to do with sensory processing disorder and knew exactly like,
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  I was like, yeah, but there's this thing, you know, like, I'd
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  say something completely like, how's this related to sensory?
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  And she'd be like, oh, it's like this.
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  And she'd show me like the proprioception chart and talk
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  about muscles and stuff. And I'm like, this is just
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  amazing. Have you been on my life?
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  Like, how did I even survive without knowing this
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  information? So that's super, super awesome.
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  I am going to do video, like I said, on the sensory diet
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  specifically because I had a lot of questions and stuff about
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  that in emails. So I'm going to do video on that
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  because it's going to be a really good guide to doing, you
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  know, that type of type of thing.
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  So yeah, And I think it's going to be really, really beneficial.
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  But occupational therapy is something you can access through
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  your doctor's service or your clinic.
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  So whoever is looking after you and your condition, you can ask
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  to be referred to an occupational therapist.
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  I use the ASD info Wales if anybody living in Wales, I don't
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  know. Obviously a small minority of my
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  views in Wales in the United Kingdom, but they're the ones
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  who hooked me up with an occupational therapist in Wales.
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  But you can just speak to your clinic, or if you're in America,
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  speak to your insurance company and see if they can hook you up
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  with an occupational therapist. I highly recommend it because
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  it's like, it's not scary therapy, it's very good and
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  highly effective therapy. I can't rate it enough.
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  I mean like like out of 10 that gets a 10 out of 10.
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  Like straight up, like 11 out of 10, why not 11 out of 10 dishing
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  out these elevens. Just Anyway guys, I hope you
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  found some kind of, you know, new information from this video
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  and ways that you know you've never thought about.
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  I could probably help you with your condition.
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  And if you think this can help somebody else when I share this
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  on their Facebook page or their Twitter account, it'd be super
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  cool. And if you could do that for me
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  anyway, help spread the word, be super cool as well.
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  All right? I will see you in the next video
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  because you're coming back. Because I love you.
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  All right, Peace.