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Hidden Trait Of Autism YOU 100% Do (WOW) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey I'm autistic, I accidentally stumbled across something whilst
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  looking for personality types that is actually evident of
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  autism and not just personality. You see there's certain things
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  that people do but I always thought these are personality
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  types or at the very least these may be connected to something
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  like ADHD or just a hyperactivity in the person.
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  Upon more research I realised that this is something that's
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  prevalent in autism. The misdiagnosis bipolar
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  disorder or ADHD is because of this single reason.
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  Now I want to talk about something specific and and it's
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  kind of it's something that is very relevant because I feel
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  like a lot of people deal with this issue, but they don't even
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  know they deal with this issue. So autistic individuals a lot of
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  the time are dealing with this and they have no clue that
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  actually deal with it. And it's called hypermania.
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  Now Mania is is where the, you know, the term maniac comes
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  from. What's dark in this room?
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  Guys? Give me a second on the but in
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  autism, we have a condition or a part of the condition that can
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  actually occur called hyper mania.
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  And hyper mania basically is characterized by a few traits.
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  And I'll go over those in a minute.
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  But I wanted to kind of just really go over why I think this
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  is relevant right now. And guys, check this out.
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  I, I, this is where the Christmas tree was.
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  So then I just put this these two tables here, just going to
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  turn the rest of these lights on.
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  It's early morning here getting my day started, but I'm going to
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  make some, I'm going to make an egg and sausage sandwich.
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  But so hydromania, it's kind of like when an autistic person can
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  really like they start to hyper focus on something and they
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  could like stay up all night. Now we all know that hyper focus
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  exists in autism. That's no kind of like big
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  secret. Oh, guys, I love drinking up my
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  logo on it. I love this.
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  So hypermania is characterized by a few things.
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  And I've written some notes down on this about six to seven signs
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  of hypermania, which I think are really relevant and that we
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  should be thinking about or at least talking about.
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  So here we are. OK, so hypermania, the science,
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  hypermania is unusual high levels of activity or energy,
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  right? So like feeling like super
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  energetic, like yeah, let's go. We could do anything.
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  Let's like run around. Like for instance, like I can
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  get up in the middle of the night after like I can be like
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  completely fast asleep and I'm like, my partner will be like
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  down. I'm like, yeah, what's going on?
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  Let go. I'm like, I'm always like hyper,
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  hyper energized and motivated, right?
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  And then also inflated self esteem and confidence, right.
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  I'm quite a confident person. I teach confidence in my
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  bulletproof brain course, which is all about autism confidence.
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  I'm never overconfident, but I am confident and I do have good
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  self esteem. But hypermania is when that over
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  kind of override the, the normality of it or the OR the
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  normalization of it. And like what's going on in my
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  All right, back to the video. OK, so the next one is flight of
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  ideas. And a flight of ideas could be
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  like you, you have a million and one ideas going on at any one
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  time. Now this can be very similar to
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  that of a DHDA. Flight of ideas is kind of like,
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  oh, I'm going to build a boat. And then they're like, oh, I'm
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  actually I'm not just going to build a boat.
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  I'm going to build a boat. And I'm also going to write a
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  book and I'm going to put the shed together.
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  And like you, like all the projects, all the thoughts,
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  everything that you have like thought about over the years all
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  comes together and you have every thought all at once.
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  And all you want to do is, is do all these projects all at once.
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  But it becomes all well known and easily distractible.
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  That's what I mean. So we, we have all these ideas,
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  we want to do this, we want to do that.
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  And then we're just super distracted.
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  Like we don't even have to, we don't have to realise that we're
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  distracted to be distracted. You know what I mean?
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  Like we'll have so many thoughts like, Oh, I want it.
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  I like, I have thought all the time, like I want to do so many
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  things. Yes, I get so distracted easily.
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  And yes, it could be that, you know, having ADHD as well as
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  autism can create this type of scenario.
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  But in terms of hyper mania, it's something that is kind of
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  prevalent in in, in the fact. And I, I feel like this as well.
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  By by the way, guys, I don't think that like hyper mania is
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  something that like your artistic hypomania.
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  So you have to treat hypomania. What I mean is that like I think
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  people will suffer from hypermania in periods, in short
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  periods of their time. And I think that these are
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  heightened by high levels of stress, levels of anxiety, maybe
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  trauma, and hypermania kicks in. OK, so exaggerated sense of
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  well-being. This is another sign.
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  I don't really display this, I don't think, but this is a sign
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  of hypermania, extreme happiness or excitability.
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  Now I get super excited about things.
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  I get super pumped about life, air fryer room.
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  And that is true. And I think that for most people
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  it is a a form of hyper mania where like, you know, you get
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  excited about something. You might get like too happy
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  about some people, like how are you so happy about things?
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  How are you so excited? And I guess it's either that
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  I'll get super depressed super low and then go into a
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  depressive state and then have mental health issues that kind
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  of go on top of having autism issues and all these kind of
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  things. So that can actually account for
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  that. But unusual irritability or
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  aggressive. Now this can happen, I suppose
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  like autistic individuals can or people, you know, people on the
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  Austin spectrum can be irritated and triggered to have more like
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  underlying kind of like, oh, that sucks.
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  All this hurts. Like this trigger is causing me
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  to become really angry and really like disassociated.
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  And, and that really is really interesting because I feel like
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  a lot of autistic individuals have low pain thresholds, but
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  also autistic individuals sensory issues or sensitivity
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  issues where they could feel things really, really strongly.
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  So I think like irritability and aggressive behaviour can come
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  from the fact that we're triggered a lot of the time.
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  But also this is part of this hyper mania.
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  This is an interesting one. OK, Finding a heart to keep
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  still. I find a heart to keep still.
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  Of course, this is something that comes along with ADHD as
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  well. And if you've got Audi HD, then
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  of course it's going to happen, right?
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  Oh, man, guys, it's been snowing quite badly the past couple of
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  days. But hopefully, hopefully we're
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  over it. But yeah, you never know.
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  OK, so the next one is rapid speech.
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  I suffer from this because if you think about it, rapid speech
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  is kind of like you're hyperactive.
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  So you're going to have rapid speech, right?
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  You're if you're hyperactive most of the time, then you're
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  going to speak quite fast. I think a lot of people always
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  say to me like Dan, you need to slow down.
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  You need to like you speak too fast.
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  I try to speak just like, you know, a normal pace and all
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  speed like anybody else. But like everybody always says,
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  Dan, you speak way too fast or like hyperactive speech, which I
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  think is probably one of the weirdest things and I can't even
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  control. I don't even know I'm doing it
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  right. And less need for sleep.
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  Oh my goodness, guys. I probably sleep about and an
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  average day I probably sleep about, I don't know, I'd say 5
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  hours a night maybe. Maybe.
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  It's not like I'm, I'm having issues with sleep because I'm
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  like, oh, I can't sleep and it's, it's it interrupting with
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  my life and it's doing all this stuff.
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  Actually, I'm OK. I can have five hours sleep and
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  be OK. I'm putting on a sweater because
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  it's like absolutely freezing up here, man.
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  It's like so cold and there's this ridiculous heating issue in
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  the house that I'm that I'm renting.
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  So check this out. I have to like.
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  So here's the thermostat. So I set this thing for wider
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  temperature, but in order to actually get the my hair is
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  crazy. I'm so started in order to
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  actually get the thing to come on, I have to go into here,
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  which is this like cupboard and then there's a valve on the back
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  here and manually move the valve also.
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  By the way, guys, this is like, this is all my musical
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  instruments like, so I've got a drum kit, my bass guitars and
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  some Christmas decorations. This is just typical of of me.
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  Oh, my, I'm so sorry. My hair is absolutely crazy.
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  Might just put a hat on and be done with it.
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  But yeah. So in terms of hypermania, one
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  of the cool things is that I can actually survive on quite little
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  sleep. I don't know if it's a good
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  thing or a bad thing. It's a thing nonetheless.
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  And the the this is really interesting.
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  OK, guys, this is a little bit taboo, but it's the last one
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  here. Unusually high drive.
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  Now people on the autism spectrum who have audio HD
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  actually do have, I would say a heightened libido.
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  And this comes from like hypersexuality through having
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  audio HD or ADHD and autism. And it's like dopamine because
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  intercourse is super dopamine rich.
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  So you're going to be hitting lots and lots of dopamine.
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  Now, I do have a heightened, you know, libido and, and that's
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  kind of interesting because like it's, it's part of this
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  hypervania now. But what does this all mean?
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  Well, what's really interesting, what's really interesting about
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  this is that it can actually account for something where 11%
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  of autistic individuals will have bipolar disorder, OK.
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  And so a lot of autistic individuals, especially females
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  when they're first diagnosed, will have a diagnosis of
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  bipolar, but it's actually autism, right?
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  But the same thing can be really interesting is that the
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  hypermania can mimic or show that kind of like up and down in
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  emotional regulation or, or, or, or well-being.
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  So that like woman, you'd be super excited and then you look
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  super, super depressed. Like I said, I think the
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  hypermania comes in sections or, or spurts or it's like
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  hyperlexia is hypermania is kind of like this part, this part,
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  like it comes in little pieces. And it's not always like, you
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  know, you'll have an episode of hypermania.
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  You don't have like a prolonged exposure of hypermania.
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  But I think that like it's probably the thing that nobody
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  talks about because all of those things when you're switching all
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  them together. And like an example could be
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  like you could be sitting on the edge of your bed like all night,
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  just like, you know, it's 10:00 at night, You go to bed, your
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  wife goes to bed or your husband goes to bed and you're sitting
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  there thinking about something. But then you get so hyperfixated
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  on it that they could wake up at 6:00 AM.
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  You're still in the same position looking at the thing.
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  But this this kind of like behavior, irritability or
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  irrational behavior could then look like bipolar disorder.
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  And then if you peddle with the fact that 11% of autistic people
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  have bipolar, then there's no one that we have so much
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  misdiagnosis. But what can we do about it?
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  What I think is really interesting is that when we see
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  these patterns happening, I think it's an indicator that we
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  are struggling with certain things in life.
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  Like, OK, I mean, you know, I'm always going to talk fast and
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  I'm always, you know, I think I'm your personality will kind
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  of a lot of the time depict your sex drive, libido, but things
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  like, you know, extreme excitability or extreme
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  happiness and the flight of ideas.
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  So many ideas come in and all at once, but you can't actually do
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  any one of them and then get really distracted.
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  And then obviously your irritability and aggressive kind
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  of intake, you're kind of like you're, you're more irritable,
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  you're more aggressive. I think those are indications
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  that we need to take a break or we need to do something because
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  if we don't do these, where does it lead us?
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  I think if we have hypermania consistently for a long, long,
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  long time for constantly episodes of hypermania, I think
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  it's, it could tip into mania and Mania is, you know, is like
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  a of like an episode that you don't get into like like it'll
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  kind of just, it's a psych psychiatric state of abnormality
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  basically. So you're going to, you're going
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  to feel kind of like disconnected from reality and
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  you'll have no creativity, but you'll just have crazy kind of
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  like just just overwhelmingly bad mental health conditioning.
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  Like it's just so bad. Like you'll have elevated energy
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  and moods, but also be kind of like unstable.
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  It's almost like hitting psychosis in a way where you're
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  going to be in this kind of state of of of just absolute
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  despair and nobody wants to get there.
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  So I would highly advise that if you're displaying any of these
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  kind of traits of hyper mania, then it's maybe times just take
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  a little break up time to just take a little bit of time out of
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  your day to go, OK, maybe I should introduce a little bit
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  more downtime, maybe introduce a little bit more kind of like
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  relaxation of some way. Now, I'm always happy to help
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  guys like I if you want me to help you personally, actually,
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  this is one of the most amazing things that I do is when I work
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  one-on-one with people, I it's amazing.
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  I feel so I don't know, just so much kind of like the happiness
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  because I'm helping somebody one to one.
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  Now look, if you want coaching or mentorship from me one to one
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  you can do. I'll leave a link down below in
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  of like Facebook or if it's re uploaded onto a different
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  just send me an e-mail dan@theaspyworld.com and I can
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  But I have like a special mentorship program, right?
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  And it's really interesting, like I only have 5 spots
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  available every single month, but I would love to help as many
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  people as possible and it's just really nice to be able to get to
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  help people. So anyway, getting back to
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  hypermania, it's a real thing and it's super interesting
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  because I believe that hypermania probably is one of
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  the main causes of burnout. And nobody talks about this
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  because I think people don't even know what hypermania is and
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  it's displayed across the board. And I think people who are like
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  level 1, level 2 autistic at higher risk of having hypermania
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  that then turns into Mania. But this is just my take on it.
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  I'd love to know your thoughts on it.
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  So O it in a comment down below. Do the thing.
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  Let's go.