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Autism and Eating Disorders in Girls · 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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  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 autism in girls is no exception to the rule.
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  Girls are autistic. It's just as well as boys are
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  autistic. So how do you communicate better
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  and how do you create better communication?
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  I'm covering that right now in this video.
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  Don't go anywhere guys. Welcome back to the ASP world.
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  My name is Dan. I have autism and ADHD and I'm
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  making weekly videos all about this stuff because I believe.
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  To my. Purpose in life to help autistic
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  individuals grow and flourish into amazing individuals and
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  really like just set fire to that like ambition of them to be
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  the best they can do really get their potential out and to look
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  for the better. So if you want to come along
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  with me for this journey, this mission, this awesome movement
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  we have going on right now, remember to hit the subscribe
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  videos every day on every social media platform.
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  So yeah, check me out on anything, even threads and weird
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  things like 0 guys, what's going on?
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  Communication is the core for autism instruction condition.
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  There's there's two things that I think are most important with
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  autism that are kind of the most debilitating. 1 is anxiety,
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  which I have covered in other videos.
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  And if you haven't, go check out my other videos.
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  There's loads of anxiety. But the other is communication.
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  How do you communicate better with autistic individuals or how
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  do you help girls in the all sense functional communicate
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  better? Well, girls are quite an
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  interesting example here and talk about females.
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  Now males on the open spectrum are less susceptible to masking,
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  which is basically like putting on a front, a kind of, well,
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  putting on a mask or an act if you will, to overcome a certain
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  social situation or a situation of communication that is
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  uncomfortable. So boys in the open spectrum
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  will be more susceptible to just melt down on that situation or
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  completely shut off from it, whereas girls will have more
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  tendencies to mask or to pretend to be comfortable in a situation
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  when in actual fact they're dying inside and they just want
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  to go home. And yeah, it's just not a
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  comfortable situation for to be in because what happens is they
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  go home and after masking and then have a complete meltdown at
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  home and then it falls their entire time.
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  Now before I go any further guys, if you want to download my
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  life hacks PDF book for autism, you can do at autismhacks.net
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  right now. It's completely free.
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  So there you go. Like if you.
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  The link is down below if you want to check it out.
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  So how do you communicate better?
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  How do you teach people to communicate better, especially
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  girls in the autism spectrum? The first thing is validation
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  and acceptance. You have to teach that they
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  should accept themselves of who they are.
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  If they're not comfortable in the situation, then then that's
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  okay. Validate their feelings.
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  Tell them that like, hey, it's okay to feel like that.
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  It's okay to struggle with communication and that is fine.
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  That's who you are. So once they validate their
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  feelings, once their feelings are heard and they know that
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  what they're doing is nothing wrong, then you can implement
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  things like confidence. How do you build confidence in
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  someone who's feeling terrible at communicating where you say
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  to them, what medium do you feel best at?
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  Maybe they want to send emoji text messages.
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  Maybe they want to send a voice note.
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  Maybe they want to send emails. Maybe they're going to film a
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  video and send you the video. Maybe they even want a Zoom
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  call. When you find the format in
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  which they best relate information, encourage and get
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  them to use that. Or when they are using that,
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  they will feel so much more in control of their life.
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  And when you have control, you have confidence.
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  When you have confidence, you have validation, and when you
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  have validation, you being like the sun, you are able to fully
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  be who you want to be. Nobody's holding you back.
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  This is the best way to increase confidence and communication
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  between girls and autism. This will stop a lot of masking
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  going on when you're trying to communicate because obviously
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  when you're masking, you're not actively communicating in the
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  proper manner that you want to relay information.
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  And at the same time, it's going to build have so much more
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  confidence in the person and make them just a better
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  communicator all round. Now guys, if you enjoyed this
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  video, please share on social media and give me a comment down
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  below. I read every single one.
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  OK guys, see you in the next video.
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  Peace. Hey guys, thank you so much for
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  checking out this podcast. Make sure you are subscribed
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  See you in the next one. Peace.
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  Hey guys, thank you so much for checking out this podcast.
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  OK, guys. See you in the next one.
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  Peace.