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Children With AUTISM What NOT To Expect (ESSENTIAL) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So children with autism, this is what not to expect from them.
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  This is a must see guys. Hey welcome back to the aspy
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  world. My name is Dan, I have autism,
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  ADHD, OCD and dyslexia and I make weekly videos on this type
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  From me, because you're awesome. So children with autism, I
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  wanted to kind of like do a video on it because I feel like
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  there's so many expectations from children.
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  There's expectations. Parents have so many
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  expectations of their kids, it's unreal.
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  But parents expecting stuff from autistic kids, We have to be
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  realistic here. And so I've listed out three
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  things, three essential things to remember and think about When
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  you have a child on the autism spectrum, you're dealing with a
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  child on the autism spectrum and what not to expect from them.
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  Because I think by showing you what not to expect, it may be
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  easier than to try and say what to expect.
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  Because who knows what to expect, but we know what not to
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  expect in a roundabout way, if that makes sense.
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  If I'm not making sense, you can drop me a comment down below
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  anytime and say Dan or if you're talking about I read every
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  single comment. So yeah, it's worth you doing
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  that. So anyway, guys, so here are
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  three kind of examples of things that are expectations that you
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  should never kind of think you're going to have from a
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  child with an autism spectrum condition.
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  So first one I'm going to talk about is eye contact.
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  Now look, children with autism will will struggle to make eye
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  contact and struggle to maintain eye contact.
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  This doesn't mean they're being rude, doesn't mean they're not
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  listening. It just means that they have an
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  uncomfortable situation when trying to make eye contact.
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  And so some children will try to to make eye contact when they're
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  on the autism spectrum and when they're dealing with you, they
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  might just try and do eye contact.
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  But we know as I know, because I am an autistic adult and I've
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  been an autistic kid, that making eye contact is
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  uncomfortable. It's difficult.
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  It's hard to do. You know, looking somebody
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  reaching into their soul and talking to them is really like a
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  personal thing. It's really bizarre.
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  It's really hard to even look my partner Naomi in the eye, you
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  know, for long periods of time. I think it's quite, quite a
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  struggle, but it's something to remember because people expect
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  kids to look at me when I'm talking to them.
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  And you know, and it's all these things that eye contact has this
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  like pre notion that like you're only being nice when you're
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  looking somebody in the eye or you're only really listening
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  when you're looking somebody in the eye, which is complete
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  bogus. I remember being on them.
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  Good Morning Britain with Piers Morgan.
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  And he, you know, I had loads of comments after being on the show
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  because we were talking about my book, but I didn't make eye
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  contact, obviously. And everyone was saying I didn't
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  make eye contact with them and I was really disrespectful.
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  But it wasn't the case. It was just the fact that it's
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  really difficult for me to make eye contact.
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  And you know, autism presents those difficulties in that way.
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  So the second thing you should never expect is responding to
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  their name right now lots of the time due to zone out.
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  Which basically means that when you like zone in on something
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  and you kind of like an autistic kid will zone in on something
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  which they'll zone out from the world around them.
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  You could be calling their name for hours being like, hey Dan,
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  hey Dan. Hey Dan.
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  And I'm like, we just zoned into this thing that I'm really
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  obsessed with. And then the parents think,
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  well, there's only two things that's going on here.
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  A, they're just ignoring us because they dislike us and
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  they're just wanting to be awkward.
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  Or B, they're deaf or have some kind of hearing issues.
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  And both of those are bogus, that none of those are true.
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  It's just that when you're zoning in something and you have
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  hyper focus on something like what comes with autism, when
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  you're looking at something and you're really focusing on it,
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  then everything else kind of gets blurred out and pushed to
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  the back as a kind of secondary. And it just doesn't stop with
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  children. This carries on their entire
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  life. I can't tell you the amount of
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  times in a week. Dan.
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  Dan, Dan, you listening? I'm like, whoa, I don't know.
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  You're talking to me about like, I'm just coming into this new
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  from the start. So responding to names can be a
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  task, but you just have to keep at it.
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  A little trick is to ask them a question, like, hey, where's my
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  nose? And not get distracted from the
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  thing focusing on. Then they'll touch your nose and
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  say there's a nose and then you can ask them, hey, Dan, what you
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  want to do or whatever. So that's a little table little
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  take away for that one, but definitely don't think too much
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  of it and don't expect too much of it.
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  OK. So the third one, the third
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  expectation to not expect right is hugs and cuddles.
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  Now because autism comes with a host of sensory processing
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  issues and emotional communication issues, autistic
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  children may not want to or may not enjoy hugs and close contact
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  from people because they may sensory trigger them and that's
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  fine. You know, it doesn't mean that
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  they hate you or dislike you or anything like that just means
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  that they they don't want to hug or they they don't like kids.
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  Maybe they want to show affection in other ways.
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  Maybe they want to play games with you or maybe they want to
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  draw with you or maybe want to paint or something.
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  And there's loads of way of expressing emotions often to hug
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  or cuddle. And I know it's hard because
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  parents just want to hug their kids and kiss their kids because
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  you know that they that's their pride and joy.
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  You know, it's their kids, their little baby and and I get it.
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  But at the same time you have to respect the kids boundaries and
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  understand where the kids coming from.
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  Otherwise you're going to have a really upset and distraught kid
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  And so you know no parent must upset their kid.
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  Nobody wants to make anybody destroy.
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  And so just bear in mind that don't expect too much hugs and
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  cuddles. If they do voluntarily want to
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  come and give you a hug or a cuddle or sit with you and do
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  all this kind of stuff, then always welcome it with open arms
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  and maybe it will progress into more common.
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  But the time don't force it. Kind of like with the eye
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  contact thing, don't force it and don't expect it either.
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  And that's absolutely fine. Guys, if you want to carry on
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  this conversation, drop me a comment down below.
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  I'll see you next time guys. Peace.