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This Is Why Autism And Pokemon Is Popular (SUPER INTERESTING) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  This is why autism and Pokémon is very popular.
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  All that's coming up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  Aspie world. My name is Dan.
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  I have autism, ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia, and I make weekly
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  autism content. What is going on guys?
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  Welcome back to the Aspie world, the place where we think
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  differently daily. What's that different?
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  Thinkers. My name is Dan Boom, so I wanted
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  to do this video for a very long time.
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  Being an avid fan of Pokémon. Just yeah, just super, super
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  love Pokémon. It's awesome.
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  And like, yeah, if you guys actually want to get my free
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  autismhacks.net. Completely free.
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  It's an awesome, cool download book, so definitely check that
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  out. So Pokémon is is kind of one of
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  these phenomenons that happened. And I remember in the 90s when
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  it first kind of like launched. I was a kid and I was really
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  into it. And when I was in high school,
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  ever into it, You know, we have like the Pokedex and we have,
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  you know, the best game I ever played ever with the Game Boy
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  Pokémon Red, which is I had a Game Boy Red for I had a Red
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  game, but I still got it. I still literally still have it.
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  Right now it's in my, it's in my games drawer, whatever.
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  So I have the the Game Boy Red with the Pokémon kind of
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  cartridge of Pokémon Red and just love it, the best game I
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  ever ever played. It's the only game I completed
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  or the first game I completed, should I say.
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  And I just loved it, you know, and it was something about
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  Pokémon that kind of reached back my interest.
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  Anyway, moving on from that, it seems to be that a lot of
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  autistic people are actually very much into Pokémon as well,
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  and Pokémon seems to be a a kind of phenomenon within the autism
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  industry. Now, there are reasons for this.
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  It's not kind of like Pokémon was never targeted at autistic
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  people, but I think autistic people resonate towards Pokémon
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  for a few different simple reasons, right?
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  And so, you know, let's talk about the story as far as
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  Pokémon goes, right? The guy who invented it is a guy
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  called Satoshi Tajiri. I think that's how you say his
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  name. Please forgive me if I'm saying
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  this wrong because it is Japanese and I don't really
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  speak Japanese that well. And he actually is on the autism
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  spectrum. So he has an autism spectrum
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  disorder himself, which is kind of fascinating to think about,
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  right, that so many autistic people resonate towards a thing
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  that was made by an autistic person.
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  I think it's just, it just blows my mind and I love that kind of
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  stuff. But he is super super clever,
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  very interesting guy, and he is on the autism spectrum and he
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  also created Pokémon, right? So if we kind of go a little bit
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  further than that, there is some very interesting differences in
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  Pokémon to any of the kind of franchise I can come across,
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  right? And the notion of having
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  different types of Pokémon of different kinds of, you know,
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  levels and all this stuff. There's there's so many Pokémon
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  and so many different things. There's like species, there's
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  taxons, like there's all kinds of stuff to think about when you
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  think about Pokémon. And the most interesting thing
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  about that is the fact that it's a it's so detailed, it's so
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  finely detailed and put into like little bits and pieces that
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  it becomes almost like a collector's ideology or
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  mentality. Now, people on the autism
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  spectrum love to collect things and and look at things and get
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  really into a genre that has complex levels, which is kind of
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  what Pokémon does, but it does it in a way which is absolutely
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  amazing because it's graphically detailed.
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  It's an anime cartoon and it has this, you know, visual approach
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  to Pokémon. You can see them, you can see
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  what they do. You know, there's no, like,
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  there's nothing that's hidden behind that, which is why I
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  think autistic people resonate towards it.
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  You know when when autistic people are resonate towards
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  stuff and have affinity for things, it's usually things that
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  they can really dive a lot of factual information from and
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  things that come with like encyclopedias and a lot of
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  literature. Because you when when you're
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  getting excited about a genre or something, you want to really
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  get into it and there has to be a lot of content for you to
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  digest and consume for you to really be into something.
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  But a lot of things don't really have much.
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  You know, you think about pogs, you go, OK, well as I'm seeing
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  million pogs and that's kind of cool.
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  But with Pokémon, there's so many new Pokémon, different
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  Pokémon, different levels of different places they live.
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  Each Pokémon has a habitat and it evolves to different stages.
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  You know it can, you can fight with this one and different
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  things habit, it's just absolutely phenomenal.
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  And that phenomenon of having like this this intricate kind of
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  play of different animals and creatures and these things
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  called Pokémon just really resonates with people on the
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  autism spectrum. I think also the vibrant colors
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  or actually help a lot and the fact that all the facial
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  expressions are overly dubbed with.
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  When you think about anime cartoons, the facial expressions
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  are really like vibrant and kind of like, wow, they really
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  shockingly come to life. So you can almost kind of
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  guarantee that you can understand how Ash Ketchum's
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  feeling in a certain part of the show because they show it, you
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  know, they show him crying, they show physical tears.
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  You don't have to kind of get on is he upset or they show you,
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  you know, And because people in the autism spectrum have a
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  difficulty in looking at somebody and thinking, are they
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  upset, are they not? You know, it's difficult to
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  figure out some facial expressions.
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  But when you're dealt with a graphic of like anime, they tell
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  you that the story through that graphic because it's sometimes
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  it's subtitled. So you have to kind of literally
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  rely on the image to tell you half of the story, what's going
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  on. So that is typically why I think
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  that the relationship between Pokémon and autism is very much
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  entwined. I'm yet to come across somebody
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  who's on the autism spectrum who doesn't really find Pokémon
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  interesting at the very least, let alone be really obsessed
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  with it. I'd like to know, do you like
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  Pokémon or do you not put me a comment down in the comment
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  section below? Let me know what you think about
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  Pokémon, because I'd love to have that discussion and I read
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  every comment. So that's never wasted.
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  Arrive. I'll see you in the next one,
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  guys. Peace.