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5 Coping Strategies For Sensory Overload · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the ASPY world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism Ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  So here are 5 coping strategies for overcoming century overload.
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  Let's get into it right now, guys.
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  Welcome back to the ASP world. My name is Dan and I have
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  autism, ADHD. I make videos all about this
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  stuff to help you every single week.
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  So if you want to learn more, come on the journey with me and
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  completely free. OK guys, so awesome sensory
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  overloads, right? This is something that impacts
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  so many people in the Austin Spectrum.
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  It's Ridonculus. So I wanted to take this moment
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  in this video to give you 5 practical things that you can do
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  to actually overcome and help produce sensory stimulation
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  overloads. Because those things are
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  probably one of the most debilitating things in the life
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  of an autistic person. So that you get every single
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  thing that you need ASAP. So first thing and software is
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  practicing mindfulness. Mindfulness teaches like a
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  deeper breathing exercise and meditation, which is chemical
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  visualization. But basically, if you're washing
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  the dishes or washing your hands, you kind of think about
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  the fact you're washing your hands.
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  If you catch a moment to go, hey, I should be mindfulness.
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  You say, how am I in this moment in time?
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  Where are my feet were placed on the floor?
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  What does the room feel like? What does it smell like?
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  What's the temperature of the room?
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  What is, you know, the the sense of my hands kind of, you know,
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  rubbing into each other? What is that like?
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  All this is mindfulness and definitely helps keep your mind
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  a little bit of a sensory break when you're doing those things,
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  which helps you kind of implement small practices of how
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  to overcome sensory overload when it happens.
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  Because what happens with sensory overload is that your
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  mind is going, going and going and it topples over.
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  If you can implement small pieces of like memory breaks in
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  your head in your mind so that when you are going through daily
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  life, you're less likely to get triggered as often if you're
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  used to having small different mental breaks.
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  Which is why mindfulness is awesome.
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  OK, so #2 is using sensory aids like noise cancelling
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  headphones. I use these Bose noise
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  cancelling headphones every single day I'm using them right
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  now. I'm about to jump on a call and
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  do a consultation and all of these little kind of like noise
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  century gadgets are amazing. You can get in ear, Apple,
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  Airpods and all kinds of different types of stuff.
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  What it does is it helps reduce the amount of noise coming into
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  your ears but not the quality because you can still hear if
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  you really want to, just reduces a lot of the noise.
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  But you can also turn on the complete silence mode which it
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  basically sucks in like piece of silence and it just plays it to
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  like the earpieces. I'm not entirely sure of the
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  technicalities of how it works. It's actually amazing.
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  And noise comes and headphones are just like you can also use
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  things like sunglasses, hoodies and stuff to kind of block out
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  light from kind of coming into clothes.
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  Or if you're too cold you put a hoodie on and stay warm.
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  But I use sunglasses and noise comes and headphones as like a
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  that's like a must for me. Like that definitely happens
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  every single day and I love it. OK, so developing it routines.
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  Now, developing routines with an individual, such a processing
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  issues can be more of a way of controlling our environment.
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  So routine would be that you know that when you come into a
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  room, you want a lighting to be a certain way, you want the
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  heating to be a certain heat. Because what happens all the
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  time is we go to places where we have no control over that
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  environment, and that environment then ends up
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  triggering us and giving us sensory overload.
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  Essentially, overload isn't just like lying sounds as now, it's
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  also the feel. Like, how many people in that
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  room, How much space have you got between you and another
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  person? What does your clothing feel
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  like? What is the temperature in that
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  room like? So when you go to somewhere, try
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  to control that environment, get into a routine where you know,
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  hey every, every time I go on. The subway or the metro or
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  whatever. I have to sit next to the door
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  so I get a bit of fresh air so the door opens on my way home
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  from work or whatever. Make sure you get yourself into
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  a machine where you are controlling as much as you can
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  of the environment that you're in.
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  OK, so #5 is a no brainer, but people do not do it and it's
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  seeking support that advice from family and friends when you need
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  it. This could actually be seeking
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  support from a therapist. The thing is we go through life
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  so much where we want to just do our run.
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  No, we're we're all right, Jack, We're OK.
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  But then it gets to the point where it's like it's not OK and
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  we're we're at a tipping point, the glass is full and we're
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  about to overflow and it's emotional nightmare.
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  And that's where an overload kind of just comes wow, no way.
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  If you feel that you're getting triggered and you're getting
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  emotionally kind of burnt out quite often, what you need to do
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  is step back and go, OK, what can I do to help improve that
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  situation? And how you do that is you say
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  no. OK, maybe I'm feeling a little
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  bit angrier. I got triggered by this this
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  morning. Maybe I should speak to my
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  therapist or book a counseling session.
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  I'll talk to my friend about it. That debrief a problem shared is
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  a problem have couldn't get any truer.
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  That is exactly how it is. And I definitely beg for you to
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  definitely try this out. And don't forget that seeking
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  support definitely helps. If you have anything to add, pop
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  it in a comment down below. I'd love to read every single
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  comment you give me. And also, if this video is
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  helpful for somebody, please share it on Facebook and
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  Twitter. I love you guys.
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  See you in the next one. Peace.
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