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10 Obscure Autism Signs (SUPER INTERESTING) · 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 guys, in this video I'm talking about 10 the most
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  obscure signs of autism that you probably haven't really come
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  across, but we're going to go through all of them right now as
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  welcome back to the Aspy world. My name is Dan and I have autism
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  at ADHD. So if you're new around here and
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  you want to learn about this type of stuff.
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  You. Should hit the subscribe button
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  by clicking that notification bell down below and following on
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  Instagram and TikTok and Facebook if you're watching the
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  most platforms, right? So signs of autism look, we all
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  know like the typical signs of autism, right?
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  And I, I've come across these myself, right where, you know,
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  lack of eye contact, deliver routine, social issues, all
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  those things that typically the things that we all know about,
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  right? But there are some really
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  obscure ones and I want to go through 10 of them right now.
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  So before I do that, I just want to let you know I do have a free
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  Autism Life Hacks PDF book that you can get right now from
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  autismtips.net. You can actually get it from the
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  link in my bio and I'll try and link it here on a card somewhere
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  on YouTube and leave it in a comment somewhere if you're
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  watching on Facebook. OK, so number one is hypo and
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  hypersensitivity. Now we all know that autistic
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  individuals will have hypersensitivity or
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  hyposensitivity. Now hypersensitivity means that
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  you're overly stimulated with light like oh you know light's
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  too right? But hypo stimulation means that
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  you're under stimulated from lights like oh there's not
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  enough light, I need more light. Now a lot of the time, autistic
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  individuals will be. Hypersensitive to something.
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  Or they'll be hyposensitive to something.
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  But one of the most odd and strange things that happened is
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  that autistic individuals can be also hyper hypersensitive to
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  something and hyposensitive to something else at the same time.
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  So you can be hyposensitive to smells, but hypersensitive to
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  touch. Which is super interesting
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  because a lot of the time it's either one or the other, right?
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  You've got hypersensitivity or hyposensitivity ever.
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  You can have both of them run simultaneously for different
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  things or different input. That just like boggles my mind.
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  I think it's just absolutely phenomenal.
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  This thing behind me. This is a periodic table
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  blanket. If you don't know, I'm a
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  chemist, editor, degree in chemistry, and my girlfriend got
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  me this blanket, which is a periodic table.
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  Love it. Periodic table blanket.
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  We've been working in the office here, both of us together.
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  So she's been it's not going up with that blanket, but I thought
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  I'd tell you about it because it's behind me right now.
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  They've everything get done What and they'll stop behind you.
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  But get on with the video. Nobody cares about the blanket
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  done. And you're right, nobody cares.
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  But if you're interested, I'll leave a link for it in the.
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  Description down below. OK, so in terms oh and if they
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  don't have a description down below, like if you're watching
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  on Facebook or Instagram, it'll be the link in my bio.
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  I'll leave a little link there for things I mentioned in my
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  videos. The next one is fast talking.
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  This is so interesting. So you'd think that people with,
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  you know, an A developmental condition like autism who have
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  issues with social communication and communication as a whole
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  would have issues with the speed in which they talk.
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  And you probably more likely think that they would slow down
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  their speech so they could really understand what they were
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  saying. This is quite On the contrary,
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  most autistic individuals, not every single one, but most will
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  talk really fast. You guys always say it about my
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  videos like dad, slow down, you're talking too fast, and I'm
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  like, guys, I may be talking too fast and I'm sorry.
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  Love each and everyone of you. By the way, guys, these are blue
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  light glasses. I'm trying them out and I just
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  thought I'd show you because like do they work?
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  Do they look good? If they look good, give this
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  video a thumbs up. If they look bad, give me a
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  comment saying Dan, don't wear those glasses.
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  So talking fast is probably one of my big downfalls if you are a
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  person. On the open.
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  Spectrum and you don't talk fast.
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  I want to know because this is really interesting.
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  Most autistic individuals I know talk really fast.
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  I also have ADHD so it kind of crosses over and I get like
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  super fast, especially when I'm talking about something I'm very
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  excited about. I'll.
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  Be like and. It kind of gets a bit crazy, but
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  crazy in a good way, right? We're all a bit crazy, but crazy
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  in a good way, right? Unusual speech patterns.
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  Autistic individuals will have extremely unusual speech
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  patterns and this happens because the the way in which we
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  learn our vocabulary or lexicon is dependent on how we've been
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  exposed to things. So I was exposed to a lot of
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  American television. I'm from the UK, I was born in
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  the UK and raised between near London and, and, and Wales.
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  And so I have a unusual accent. It's transatlantic because I
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  learnt to speak by watching American cartoons, Nickelodeon,
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  Cartoon Network. These things were my jam, right?
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  Like, are you afraid of the darker and stimpy all these
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  things growing up with my jam. So I grew up learning to speak
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  with those accents, right? However, my, my lexicon, like
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  the, the, the words I choose to speak sometimes are quite
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  interesting. Like my girlfriend always says
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  to me that you use very big words and she's also autistic,
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  but she is second language English so it's interesting.
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  So she sees me using quite big words to describe things when
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  there's really no need. For such big.
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  Words, But yeah. And usual speech patterns are
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  very, very interesting. OK #4 is literal understanding
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  of spoken words. So if somebody says something to
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  an artistic person, hey, and this is a real life example.
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  I remember once I was drinking tea in accounting when I was on
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  a course in college and one of the other women, of course, had
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  her, was like, hey, Dunham, do me a favour.
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  Are you going to take your cup out to the kitchen?
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  I said, yeah. She said, well, and she was
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  eating a banana. She put the banana peel in the
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  cup. She goes, oh, can you take this
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  out and put that in the bin for me?
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  I was like, all right, So I threw the cup in the banana in
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  the bin and then put my cup in the sink.
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  I came back and she's like, where's my cup?
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  I was like, both threw it in the bin.
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  She said, well, obviously don't throw the cup in the bin.
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  I meant the banana peel, put the cup in the sink.
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  I was like, oh, nuts. So taking things very literally,
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  because we see things as they are, like the face value is, is
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  a term like, OK, well, this is how it is.
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  It must be like that. That's kind of fascinating.
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  It's it's so interesting #5 is unusual posture.
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  Sometimes you'll notice that people with autism have unusual
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  posture or unusual body, kind of like they feel almost unusual in
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  their own skin. I have this quite a lot.
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  I don't know how to, how to stand.
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  You know, I'll have to sit, especially if I've got like less
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  clothes on. Like if you go to the swimming
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  pool, like I'm not entirely sure how I'm supposed to be
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  conducting myself as I walk with very little clothes on.
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  I find this quite interesting. But more importantly, how do I
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  how do I stunned? What do I do in my arms?
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  I find this when I'm sitting down watching television.
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  I'm like, what do I do? Do I just sit down looking at
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  the TV or do I smile or do I like I lean, do I lay back?
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  Like it's really weird. I don't I don't really know.
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  So I don't really watch that much television because I'm not
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  entirely sure the etiquette what to do when you sit down watching
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  television. So just stay at my dad's on this
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  chair because the the squeakiest chair in the world.
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  I've referenced this in the last video.
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  Big thumbs up if you know about the squeaky chair reference from
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  the last video. Anyway, so number six is object
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  attachment that we get attached to object.
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  And it's so interesting. And what I mean by this is that
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  we give objects personality. And because we give them
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  personality, we we, we give them kind of like this this.
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  I don't know what affinity that we have with them.
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  Affinity meaning a likeness for like some kind of like we, we
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  have a love for these objects. Like I used to name my cars like
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  Tony the Ghost was my first car and I missed Tony the ghost.
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  Great car, but I had some attachment to it and getting rid
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  of it was crazy. Like when I get rid of a pair of
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  shoes, I'm always like bang, I was just I want a pen runs out.
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  It's the worst when a pen runs out.
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  I'm like, no, goodbye, old friend.
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  Like it. It's sad, right?
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  But it's quite interesting. This is something that's very,
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  very interesting. And if you relate to the pen
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  thing, drop me a comment. I want to know where you are.
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  I I can see you kind of OK. So autistic people, I see people
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  who are super hyperactive, super energetic.
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  They're doing a lot of things at once.
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  Our brain is going 1000 miles an hour, yet we cannot sleep at
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  night. You'd think we'd be absolutely
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  knackered through to our skin because we just do all these
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  things. And I know all these parents of
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  autistic crews are like, hey, my kids is on the autumn spectrum.
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  We should climb in the house all day, like going crazy, yet you
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  won't sleep. And I'm like, yeah, because it's
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  a really unusual but very common trait of having autism.
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  But we have difficulty sleeping. I think it's because our minds
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  are racing also until they never slow down.
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  It's very difficult. But medication and some
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  therapies may help. OK, this is the best one.
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  The next one is the three drink problem.
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  I did a video all about this. I'm going to try and link the
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  three drink problem video down below in the in in the about
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  sections video. And the three drink problem is
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  that autistic people will have more than one beverage on the go
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  at any one time. They'll have a cold drink and
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  then like a hot drink and then a fun drink or a fizzy drink and a
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  fruit juice and a hot drink all the time.
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  I always have 3 drinks and I go, I literally just took down to
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  other cups. I had a a cup of tea and a fizzy
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  drink and I have my water here, but I just took down this other
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  two to kind of make some room at my desk.
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  How funny is that? It's such an interesting thing
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  and it's a very neuro divergent thing to to do.
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  Very, very interesting. OK, there's all this.
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  The next one is interest fields may be oddly obscure.
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  Now, this means that people with autism may have an interest in
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  random things, like the most random things you ever think,
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  but they'll become the expert in those most random things.
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  You're going to love this. My most random special interest
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  is taking pictures of mattresses, second hand
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  mattresses that have been thrown out onto the street.
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  I just want to interject in this video here to let you know that
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  confidence is one of the main issues that holds.
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  Autistic individuals back from their full.
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  Potential. This is why I made a course
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  which is the. Chaos to.
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  Confidence in 90. Days blueprint which means.
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  I can take an autistic person from.
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  Complete chaos to being very confident in.
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  Acing their life. So if you're an artistic adult
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  and you want. Access to this?
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  Program. You can check it out.
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  The link is in description down below or you can go to
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  theaspyworld.com. C2C right now the number 2.
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  And get access to this program. And so it becomes such an
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  obsession. My girlfriend even takes
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  pictures for me when she's in Canada or, or you know what I
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  mean, we take pictures of matches and I have a large
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  collection of these. And that sounds completely
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  bonkers, but it's something that I really enjoy and I like.
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  And so autistic individuals will have maybe some obscure
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  interest, which is really, really interesting.
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  Now the last one number 10 and my most favorite is that
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  autistic individuals can work awesomely good under pressure.
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  And what I mean by this is that if we have an essay or a
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  deadline in work or something that we need to do, we will
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  procrastinate like absolute kings.
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  And we will. We will just like, yeah, we'll
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  get it done tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.
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  And then tomorrow comes and we're like, uh oh.
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  But we managed to pull it off in literally minutes.
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  We can get an entire week's work done in 14 minutes.
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  And that is a testament, my peeps.
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  I love you guys. All right, let's go.
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  I love you. Peace.
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  one. Peace.