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Autism In Children - How To Deal With Changes (3 TOP STRATEGIES) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So autism in children. This is how to deal with changes
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  on my 3 top strategies. All that's coming up.
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  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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  more videos just like this one. Alright guys, what's going on?
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  Welcome back different thinkers, what we think differently daily.
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  It's all about that guys. You know?
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  Super awesome guys. So hope you guys are doing
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  awesome, doing great and having a fantastic day.
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  I wanted to make this video because I don't talk about
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  children on the spectrum all that much.
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  But I decided this was a cool opportunity, a cool chance for
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  me to talk to you about 3 strategies about helping people
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  with an autism special condition who are children or mums and
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  dads of people on special. So here we go guys.
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  Without further ado, we're going to get into it right now guys.
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  The first one I'm talking about here is multiple plans.
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  Now an autistic person will have issues with change in their
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  plans, right? And this is key.
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  So when you have multiple areas of potential meltdowns, right?
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  We all know what meltdowns are, and we all know autistic people
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  love routine. So if you've got a routine and
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  you're sticking to your team, but something happens in that
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  routine, like you know you're going to go out to get ice
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  cream, then you're going to come back and watch Star Wars or
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  something. But on your way to get ice
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  cream, something happens. Flat tire in the car or I don't
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  know something happens right Then that routine is knocked and
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  the person on the spectrum will feel it almost like a pain.
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  It's kind of like you're stopping them in the tracks and
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  it's like ah, you know it's difficult.
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  So I create fail safes. Now this is basically creating
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  two other plans as backup plans so and you can do this with with
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  the child as well. So you make this, the plan is
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  that we're going to go out and get ice cream.
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  Go back what Star Wars. But if something happens, we're
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  going to have a different plan. Like we're, you know, so I don't
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  know, you could whatever it is that you know, that you can do
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  within your capacity, make two of the backup plans.
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  Because basically when this one fails, you have two others boom.
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  Just like that. You're saving the day.
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  You're rocking it. Mum and dad come out like
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  superheroes rocking it. And I salute you guys for doing
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  an excellent job. OK, so two, This is positive
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  aftermath, right? So if there is a change
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  happening that causes a child on the Austin Spectrum to have some
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  issues, right as soon as that change happens and they start to
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  panic, introduce something that is hyper positive to them,
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  right? So this could be, say they have
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  a topic of special interest and they like looking at Penguins.
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  Then if something happens and you start freaking out, get your
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  phone out, show pictures of Penguins and start talking about
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  Penguins and their topic of interest.
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  It could be a game, it could be like Pokémon, it could be
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  anything. But what you're doing is that
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  you're replacing all this negative charge with positive
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  influx and that that exchange will start training the brain to
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  kind of realize that there is like at the end of the tunnel,
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  it's not going to be, you know, devastating.
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  Yes, it's difficult to deal with on the communication aspect of
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  it. It's very hard to understand at
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  that moment in time. But in in relation to life,
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  you're going to get over it because something positive can
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  come out of it and you being the carriers and the caregivers,
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  you're going to be able to understand that and help them
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  out. This is super key, guys.
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  You do this and you got you just nailing it guys, I hope you're
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  writing all this stuff down, dudes.
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  I hope you're writing it all down.
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  And if you're not forgetting about it, then you can always
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  pop over to my membership website, which is level of
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  autism.net and be a part of my membership world first.
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  And you get actual monthly coaching from me live on video
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  chat. Super dub, right?
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  The last one here #3 is change the situation.
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  So if change is happening in the current plan, switch to
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  something completely different and explain the difference so
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  you control the difference. Let me put this way.
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  If you are going to go somewhere and you're you're in the store
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  with your kid and then something happens in that store in that
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  environment and your child on the spectrum starts kind of like
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  getting really panicked, worked up and about to melt down.
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  Then quickly pick them up, run outside, go into the car and
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  turn your kind of AC on your your your actual climate
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  control. So you can control the climate,
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  you can control the noise because you're inside your car,
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  it's quieter, you can control how much light or how much light
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  you don't want. And then explain the situation,
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  say, hey, it's OK we'll come to the car to calm down, to relax,
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  to just chill for a minute because that situation was very
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  difficult and we had some issues there, didn't we?
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  But now we're in this situation and control it, own it.
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  Because when you control the difference, you begin to show
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  that there is power in retracting from something that
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  is giving you negative impulse. And this is really key to to
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  making sure that you're not suffering long term.
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  Like, you don't say like, Oh well, we're just going to deal
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  with it and walk around the store and you're just going to
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  be upset. You're just going to be upset
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  and unhappy the whole time because that's not good for
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  anybody and no one's going to, no one's going to learn anything
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  from this. But if you plan appropriately
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  and you, you kind of make that effort to to move them out the
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  situation and control the new situation, you're winning every
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  single time. Guys, if you want to talk to me
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  about this, drop me a comment down below.
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  you next time guys. Peace.