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5 Hacks To SURVIVE A Pumpkin Patch With AUTISM (Halloween) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  I'm gonna be telling you 5 facts for surviving a pumpkin patch.
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  This Halloween with people on the Spectrum coming up.
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  Hey, guys, welcome back to the ask me worldwide only discussing
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  five hacks that I've kind of developed or come to create.
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  I'm going to help you in surviving the pumpkin patch
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  thing because it's Halloween. Everybody wants to go check out
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  pumpkin patches and all that kind of jazz.
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  So let's go down with it. Okay guys dang.
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  It's so good. It's so close to Halloween.
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  I think it's like Monday that the 21st October Halloween is
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  like really close. I know you're not watching this
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  on 21st, but this is when this video was shot.
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  It's cool. I love Halloween is like my
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  favorite time of year where I just feel like people are just
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  having a lot more fun with things and then like it's just a
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  bit weird. We can talk about like those
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  stories and all that kind of jazz, but it has no real
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  relevance on you know reality because it's just a bit of fun
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  and that being said, I also understand the importance of
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  having a Halloween witch is safe and I'm happy for everybody
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  inclusive. So it's all about inclusivity
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  and on this. We talked about all the things
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  that we can do to make life easier and better for people on
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  the Spectrum. So I've come up with with five
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  things five hacks that I think that we need to know to remember
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  that this is going to help people on the Spectrum when
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  going like pumpkin patches because I want to do something a
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  bit different. So I want to do something
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  completely different and talk about going to Pumpkin Patches
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  because I feel like this is something that missed, you know,
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  we all want to go and get our pumpkins at pumpkin patches or
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  wherever we go to get a pumpkins and there's always some issue
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  that could arise or spring up and the could be something that
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  somebody on the Spectrum Doesn't like here are my five hacks for
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  dealing with that and I think that you guys are going to
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  really enjoy I'm going to drive them to a pump.
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  Let's get into it. Okay, the first one above
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  Everything plan ahead planning ahead is going to be so much
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  benefit for anybody because what you're doing is you're planning
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  ahead you're saying okay. We're going to go this time.
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  We're going to go, you know that time we're going to put this in
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  the car we're going to take you know, you know Dad mum, you
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  know, the kids are whoever's on Spectrum as well as the parents.
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  Are you plan everything out? So basically planning out the
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  route, Pulling out like you know, how many pumpkins you're
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  going to get. So there's no disappointment
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  because one thing is you need some like list of what you're
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  going to do people on the Spectrum like things to run
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  smoother like them to run in a fashion in a linear format
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  because the ambiguity of things going wrong can really impact
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  the lives of money on the Spectrum.
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  So what I say to do is make a plan plan out the day if you're
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  going to spend a day going to Pumpkin Patch if you have to
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  travel a little bit to get to one of your closest ones because
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  I know not all pumpkin patches are local to everybody.
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  So So plan it out. If you're not going to the
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  pumpkin patch and you go into a store do the exact same thing.
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  These will apply to a store scenario as well.
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  So you plan out your day you plant the morning.
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  You tell every what they're going to expect to happen
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  because the ambiguity is another big thing.
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  So if you don't like if you don't tell someone what's going
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  to happen, like we're going to go there we're going to pick two
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  pumpkins. Maybe the person who is on the
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  Spectrum. We want to get three pumpkins,
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  but that don't understand why you're only buying two pumpkins
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  or if you know, there could be a level of confusion and that
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  anger frustration there, which I think can be definitely avoid It
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  massively avoided and I would highly recommend every void, you
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  know, any kind of unnecessary anxiety or stress or anything
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  like that. So plan ahead make sure
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  everybody knows and then make that list you got my plant list,
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  you know exactly what to do, whatever time and also like
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  everything else. I say you make a plan B and a
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  plan C in case the things don't fall into perfect sync because
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  you don't want to have like an upset issue where it goes off
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  plan and you don't have a plan b or c and then it's going to get
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  really really sticky. Okay.
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  So hack number two. Two is preparing lunch and
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  snacks like one of the biggest things for me and I think like
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  every can agree deal with people on the spectrum.
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  Is that like if you don't eat at certain times, then it becomes
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  like a really big issue like you could knock your entire day.
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  I know for instance, like if if you're hungry it's going to turn
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  into hungry but hungry for someone on the spectrum is kind
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  of like really intense and I can't explain that feeling but
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  it just isn't anybody out there watching this and got kids on
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  the Spectrum when you think like, oh you miss a meal or you
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  miss a snack, you know, there's some consequences.
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  So I highly advise everybody to plan out how they are going to
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  do their food. Like you know, what I would say
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  is that you bring a packed lunch with you and then you bring
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  snacks as well so that even if you're stuck in traffic on the
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  way to the pumpkin patch or you're around other people and
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  it's like lunchtime anything in. Oh my goodness.
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  You know how we're going to do you want a date to go smooth as
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  possible. You want to be prepared?
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  So bring a lunch with you even if that you end up going to like
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  somewhere else and to sit down and eat at lunch.
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  If you don't manage that and you have to do there and then you
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  have that option that is always one of the the make like to me
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  if 'well if people are and not preparing lunch and not bring
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  snacks then becomes difficult because in another thing added
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  to your list, you know, if something goes wrong and then
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  you're left with like oh, this is gone wrong.
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  Oh goodness. You're not now we're going to be
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  late and will be delayed getting food where we going to get food
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  from where we going to get lunch from and we're gonna sit becomes
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  a huge catastrophe and then you have complete chaos that's going
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  to about to unveil so like if you are the mop up basically the
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  this is the line the more prepared you are with every
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  situation the better the experience is going to become
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  Includes lunch and snacks and everybody can benefit from that
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  a it's tidy for your mind. It's better for the day and it's
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  helpful your wallet always a thumbs up.
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  Okay guys hack number three is cool be aware that there may be
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  other people and noise. So like this is one of the
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  things I always forget when I go somewhere there's there's loads
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  of people so I think I'll shoot. You know, I should have brought
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  my my a defending headphones. I should have brought like
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  another coat of mirror hoodie or sunglasses or something and I
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  always forget but you have to be aware that when you go into a
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  pumpkin patch, What to expect what do you expect when you get
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  their world expect it's going to be it could be tractors going
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  around there. There could be other animals on
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  the farm that could be like bad smells from those animals
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  because you know, they're just animals in today.
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  There could be a hundred people trying to pick out their
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  pumpkins and maybe other kids and Rowdy people could be groups
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  of people having fun and a lot of pumpkin patches have kind of
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  like a small like Fairground thing that goes on there like
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  the, you know, the kids can go and play and there's different
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  things going on and it's like kind of like a fair like an
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  attraction thing not just going out and picking up pumpkin.
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  So just bear that in mind and Be aware that those things will
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  happen and also, you know explain after the person who's
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  on the Spectrum before going there what to expect from that
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  place because the unexpected that's going to cause you all
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  that like paying and issues and then Mountain potential
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  everything else and all that stuff which isn't good.
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  So if you actually have a in outlined a basic idea the
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  thought process that this is what we may expect anything else
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  would be a bonus. So always go in with like the
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  things that you want to happen to be noise.
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  It could be bad smells like that could be loads of people and all
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  that kind of stuff. Because if you don't and they
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  expect it to be completely fine and empty and you know, people
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  expect that people on the Spectrum.
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  I just going to know you know what you're thinking that's not
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  how it works people on the Spectrum think well, you're one
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  of the pumpkin patch to pick up pumpkins.
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  We've only mentioned a pumpkin patch and pumpkins and my family
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  members and that's all you kind of Envision.
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  I'm sure like, I would until someone says, oh you gotta
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  remember that could be other people and you go.
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  Okay. And so it's that thought process
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  that is going to be the game changer.
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  So be aware and make sure you do that.
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  I'm telling our guys. That's a game changer.
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  Okay, guys number four is bringing a change of clothes.
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  This is like okay may seem like a bit of a weird one, but this
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  is but hear me out hear me out. Okay, so and even I do this,
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  okay, so sometimes I go places and I just love what I'm
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  wearing. I'm like, I'm really comfortable
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  what I'm wearing. I like really comfortable and
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  because picking clothes is like a thing that I do and the
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  clothes that I wear have to be comfortable takes me a while to
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  get trained change in the morning get ready and the
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  feeling of that day has to reflect the feeling of the
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  clothes on me. So when I'm out and about if
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  something happens Like a spill something on my clothes and I'll
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  have a change in me. I'm like, oh my goodness.
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  It's a completely ruined and I can like flip especially for
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  getting wet or dirty. It's like it it's not a good
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  combination. So my advice is this bring a
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  change of clothes with you for the person who is on the
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  spectrum because simple things like if you're going to a farm
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  or a pumpkin patch, there may be a possibility that you are going
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  to get a little bit muddy a little bit dirty a little bit
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  wet. Maybe maybe it's raining, you
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  know, all those things can can trigger some of the inspection
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  what we're trying to do. He will try to do with
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  everything in life is we're trying to reduce the amount of
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  triggers reduce the amount of stress reducing a lot of
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  negative outcomes so that you feel way better and you can go
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  about your day with a bit more ease that is super super
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  interesting just try it and this is a hack.
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  I mean not just for like this video but like going forward why
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  not try and like go to like a anywhere but bring a change of
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  clothes at you because you always have that like I don't
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  worry about this at I know if this gets dirty or what Can rely
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  on the back up close so cool idea OK guys.
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  So that brings me to the fifth thing that I'm going to tell you
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  guys V hack if you will. Have fun.
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  Remember that going to a pumpkin patch and picking up pumpkins
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  are doing anything halloween-related.
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  This is all for fun. It shouldn't be a stress.
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  It shouldn't be something that is negative.
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  It should be a task. We should be a chore.
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  It should be. Hey, we're in the family going
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  to go hang out. We're going to do this.
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  We're going to do that and it's going to be great using those
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  tactics. I just told you and have fun
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  with it because if you're worrying about all these things,
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  You never going to have fun, but you need to remember to have fun
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  and I think like a lot of people forget this.
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  I think that's like one of the main things that people forget.
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  So take my advice down from the astral world says have fun this
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  year at Halloween in the pumpkin patch or wherever you are and
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  I'll see you next time guys. Peace.