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Autism Meltdown (5 Tips YOU NEED to Avoid Them) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived, welcome to the as be 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.
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  Daniel Morgan Jones. Meltdowns.
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  In this video, I'm giving you five tips to help you prevent
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  autism out that's happening. This is real stuff that I use.
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  I'm so excited. Let's get into it.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the ask me world.
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  My name is Dan. I have autism ADHD OCD and
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  dyslexia. And I make weekly videos all
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  Okay, so awesome meltdowns. Oh my goodness, guys, I have
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  pretty much daily meltdowns but there are ways I can prevent
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  them escalating to something, more than that.
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  And also, there are ways where I don't actually have them all
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  down, because I prevented it by doing certain things.
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  Now, I've listed out five of the top ones that I use, I'm going
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  to go through all of these right now with you guys.
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  Before I do that, if you want to download my free autism, life
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  hacks PDF book, you can do it, autism hacks dotnet right now.
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  Okay, so the first one I'm going to talk about here.
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  It's planning. Now planning is key for autistic
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  people and it's keep for a few things to prevent Many mountain
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  recurring, a lot of autistic people have meltdowns because
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  they've maybe forgotten an appointment that's going to
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  happen or they're supposed to be somewhere like a class and they
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  don't have the right time table. So they don't know what class to
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  get to and this dropping the ball notion of thinking I should
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  have been some. I should be doing that, but I
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  forgot it. And I've let myself down can
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  cause a huge like ripple effect and cause a lot of people's have
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  meltdowns, I surely have one of these like this, I was in
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  college and I was doing a access to science and I was doing a
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  chemistry prep work. And I was supposed to have a
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  doctor's appointment to see my doctor, because I'm on
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  medication for my condition is stuff like that, and I forgot to
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  go because I didn't write it down.
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  I don't remember. It was even on a plan or
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  anything and then the doctor Phil me left, a message saying,
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  you missed your appointment and I was so worried those subsets
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  and it cost a meltdown in the class.
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  I was just a whole thing. And I've never wanted to do that
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  again. So now I completely use like my
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  iPhone is kind of like my lifeline my iPhone and iPad.
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  If I didn't have an iPhone IPod. I literally wouldn't be able to
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  function, so I kind of have a planner on my iPad and my
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  iPhone, which I use quite a lot. I'm going to do an in-depth
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  video on some of the new apps that I use.
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  So, let me leave me a comment down below if you want to see a
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  video, you know, if you think it's a good idea to see a video,
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  I'll just give this video a thumbs up if you think would be
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  good to talk about the apps. I used to plan my life, but I
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  basically have apps that I can list out, like, my to dues, that
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  semi little reminders. And one of the main ones is the
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  Apple reminders on here is pretty good.
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  So if you've got an iPhone or Android phone, you can use the
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  reminders app to tell you. Or alert you and something
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  happen. So soon as I get like an
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  appointment or a call come in, I say ramayana state that are
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  going to go here, that works so much and it helps really reduce
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  the potential for meltdowns. Okay, so number two is
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  disconnection breaks. I learned this one from going
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  through my recent book of therapy with an Autism
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  specialist. Now a lot of the time we think
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  that you know an autistic person needs to, you know, sit down,
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  relax, go to a spa, you know, go away for the weekend.
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  That's not how it is to people. Relax.
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  But, you know, autistic people need to be in the environment
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  that they're comfortable in, but be disconnected from the things
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  that are demanding of them. So my work in this office is
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  demanding on me, right. But if I were to, you know, take
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  a break, I want to still be in the office playing games or
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  watching movies or whatever or playing with my virtual reality
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  games but without the demand of my work demanding off me and
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  what happens is you don't if you don't take breaks from having
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  demands then You'll have this pressure build-up or an
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  accumulation of pressure will look, that will eventually cause
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  meltdown shut down burn out, all kind of horrible nasty stuff.
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  So, my my advice is to create like weekly, you know, routines
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  where you take one or two hours every day to completely
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  disconnect from anything that is demanding of you.
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  So this could be just having a meal with your family, or going
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  for a walk or playing video games or something, that's
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  completely chilled. It's super important to do this
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  because it's giving your brain that breathing space.
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  It needs. So number three is interest
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  engagement, a lot of people forget about this but making
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  sure to implement time to do your special interest a gaming
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  or reading books or whatever or researching stuff is super
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  important. Now as we get older our life
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  becomes way more demanding you know.
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  So School takes over and we have less time to play games all the
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  time to you know we have study coming in here and there every
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  we got homework and all this kind of stuff and it's kind of
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  like when do I get the time to research the stuff that I really
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  enjoy? But if you set aside time, And
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  to make sure that you implement your special interest, which is
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  sometimes demanding, it's not, I'm not saying this is the same
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  as the disconnection breaks because this is a totally
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  different thing. This is making sure that you do
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  follow through with your interest because what happens is
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  when you exercise your interest, a special interest for something
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  like, say you're into cars, or you're into like virtual
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  reality. When you express that in for
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  you, it soothes, your brains chemical massage for your brain.
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  You know, I love learning, I can't stop learning.
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  So, To relax and to really get into something.
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  That's like really interesting to me.
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  I am learning to speak Chinese Mandarin.
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  And so, I think, like, you know, that soothes, my brains, I
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  always have to learn when I'm not learning.
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  I get really depressed and that could cause me to have a
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  meltdown. So, this is really important to
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  make sure that you are taking care of your special interest
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  first, and we can show you do that, okay, so a number four is
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  So you don't need to go to doctor get a prescription for
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  consult your doctor because let's face it, something we work
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  What it does, is it really just kind of takes the edge off all
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  that anxiousness and irritability and it helps
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  Okay, so number five is hydration and food.
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  This is a big, big, big one, talk about hydration.
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  I'm going to come right now. So, keeping well hydrated and
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  fed, like check in on meals, is a fantastic way to avoid
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  meltdowns. Most of the models happen in the
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  evening for me, because I forget to eat now, one of the main
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  things will autistic people is that they get, so, hyper focus
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  on something like work or or, you know, their special interest
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  or something else that they forget to hydrate.
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  Sounds of water super important because being dehydrated will
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  give you headaches because a lot of stress and that could cause a
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  meltdown. But also eating when your body's
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  not fueled, especially artistic people have really actively fast
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  pacing brains. And those brains need to
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  constantly have this, like, burning of energy.
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  Now, if you don't have your energy levels topped up, then
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  how on Earth you supposed to function in any way manner shape
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  or form? Especially getting rid of
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  meltdowns. So, I have a complete meal in a
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  box called a Huell, which is kind of like a Powder that you
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  shake or like a pastor and powder that you've in the
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  microwave and you add water and that's a complete meal with like
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  vitamins in it. And I use that because in the
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  morning I always forget to do breakfast but I can just pop the
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  shaking the night before and I've got my meal sorted.
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  But having a reminder reminding you when to take lunch breakfast
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  and dinner and also went to drink water is a great one.
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  You have to keep on top of water and food intake, to make sure
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  that you're at Tip-Top capacity. And you are not going to melt
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  down. This is so important, guys.
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  And keeping yourself well fed, it's super important and I was
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  not He sometimes will Lifestyles and also sometimes you know food
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  is expensive. I get it, you know?
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  So just do your best and I'm rooting for you.
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  I know you can do it, guys. I'd love to know your comments
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  pop in the comment down below. I read every single one.
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