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Occupational Therapy for Autism · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So the benefits for having occupational therapy if you're
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  autistic, I'm going to get right into that right now guys, what
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  is going on? My name is Dan, welcome back.
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  I have autism and ADHD enemy quicker videos all about this
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  platforms. I'm on all of those.
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  And my links are down below also because I upload 4 videos every
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  single day on those. OK so guys, occupational therapy
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  and autism. Very interesting.
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  I didn't have occupational therapy until I was 32 years
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  old. Oh my goodness, I went all my
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  life without occupational therapy, right?
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  And I didn't really know about it.
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  I was doing a talk for an autism conference in Wales and it was a
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  really big autism talk, a big autism conference.
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  And when I was there I bumped into some occupational
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  therapists who worked for the Welsh Autism Association and
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  they were amazing and they offered me a session.
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  I said OK cool. So I went to their offices and
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  and it was all to do with proprioception and the sensory
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  diet. Because autism comes with
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  sensory processing disorder right?
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  With everyone knows. Oh and FYI guys, if you want
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  your hands on my free Autism Wifax PDF book, the link is
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  encrypting down below or you can just go to autismhacks.net and
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  download your copyright now. So with this occupational
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  therapy, I didn't know what to expect.
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  Now I went in there and I was mind blown.
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  What an occupational therapist does is they look at the section
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  of your condition that you need most help with and they will
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  help you with strategies in that just one place of that
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  condition. So for me it was appropriate
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  section, like I could open a door but not open it wide enough
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  to go through because I wasn't sure my spatial awareness and
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  this was all to do with deep muscle activation.
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  I couldn't, I wasn't activating my muscles.
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  So they gave me the sensory diet to do, which I put into one of
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  my courses, which is the Autism Acceleration Academy.
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  I will leave that link for that down below if you're interested
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  in checking that out. And that course I, I go through
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  the sensory diet and it's kind of one of the main focuses of it
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  because it's kind of like deep muscle activation so that you
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  can understand your spatial awareness.
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  And it's crazy how doing muscle activation exercises help
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  increase your spatial awareness and lower the negative impact of
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  sensory processing disorder. Now for me, occupational therapy
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  was life changing. I know a lot of people have
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  issues with therapists and things like that, but I'd highly
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  recommend speaking to an occupational therapist if you
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  have insurance that covers it or you have access to it with your
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  healthcare system in the country that you live in.
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  I know here I had it with the NHS here, which is our National
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  Health Service. But a lot of people don't have
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  access to occupational therapy. There is other therapies
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  available. I think that counselling was the
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  second best that I ever had. Now, if you're interested in
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  having a counselling therapy session, you can use the app
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  down below called Better Help. I've used this.
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  They link you up to somebody specific to you for like ADHD or
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  autism within 24 to 48 hours. And you just use your phone like
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  you can like talk to them on your iPhone.
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  You can message them, you can video chat them.
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  And it's amazing. So definitely check out Better
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  Help. The link will be down below.
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  I really enjoy it. I think it's amazing.
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  And yeah, if you think this video is helpful, please share
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  it and leave me a comment. Love you guys.