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Autism Brain Do YOU Do This Odd Autistic Behaviour · 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 the autism brain is hyper complex and I want to know, do
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  you do this one odd thing? Hey guys, welcome back into the
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  aspy world. My name is Dan and I have autism
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  and ADHD. I make weekly videos all about
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  this stuff. So if you're new around here and
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  you want to learn more, remember to hit the subscribe button.
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  Look like the notification bell down below.
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  Guys, what's going on? I want to talk about the autism
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  brain as something really kind of odd or complexly interesting
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  that I do, and I want to know if you guys do it all that is
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  coming up. Guys, before we move on to the
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  video, I just want to say that I've come across the most
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  amazing app that's going to come to autism right now.
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  This app is called Collage. Now, this is kind of a community
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  dating relationship, friendship kind of app.
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  It's a lot better than some of the other rubbish that's been
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  out before. This app is absolutely ground
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  breaking. I think it's just amazing.
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  If you can jump on that waiting list and you're watching this
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  video actually might be out so you can just go and download the
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  app straight away. It's absolutely amazing.
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  I think this on its own is going to break the mold between
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  creating community or some relationships and friendships.
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  But more than anything, this is very much a verified platform,
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  which is very secure because you don't want some creepy weirdos
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  kind of going on downloading an absolutely.
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  But so the verification and the vetting process is very strict
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  and very secure. It's absolutely amazing and it's
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  a safe place for autistic people to find relationships with
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  friends and also potential intimate relationships.
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  So definitely check out College App right now.
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  The link is down below. You won't be disappointed.
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  Okay, roll the video. Okay.
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  So what is it? What is this one odd thing?
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  So I want to get into it. Let's talk about the autism
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  brain. Now the autism brain is hyper
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  complex. It has many difficulties but it
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  also has many strengths. It can problem solve easier, it
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  can understand complexities quite easier.
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  But also it has difficulties social communication, issues
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  with a language, other types of communication like sensory
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  processing. There's a whole host of things
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  that can happen when you're on the autism spectrum, whatever
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  you have autism combined with ADHD, then there's a lot of
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  things that can kind of really be destructive and kind of
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  really put a span in the works of life.
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  But there are things that you can do to help accommodate
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  those. Now the autism brain is super
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  fast, like hyper fast. My brain is going a bazillion
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  miles per second and I'm trying to keep up with it.
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  A lot of people watching my videos will comment saying, hey
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  done, can you slow down when you talk?
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  Because I can't understand what you're saying.
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  You're talking too fast, blah, blah, blah.
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  This is because my brain is going so fast and trying to keep
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  up with it by all the information that's coming out of
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  my brain to put into my mouth to tell you guys about it.
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  And this is a little bit difficult because having slowed
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  down your brain to talk an acceptable speed is really,
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  really difficult. But it also works the other way
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  around. When I'm listening to
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  television, documentaries, audiobooks, podcasts, you name
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  it, YouTube videos, they're always a little bit slow.
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  I'm like, Oh my goodness, like, it needs to get faster.
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  It needs to be faster. Ha ha.
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  Enter the most interesting thing ever.
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  About three or four years ago, I realized that was a playback
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  speed button on YouTube, on your phone for your audio, podcast,
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  audiobooks, whatever. And I was like, hey, what if I
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  put the books at two times speed?
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  So I change everything to two set speed.
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  What this does is remarkable. There's two things, there's two
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  sets here. One is it speeds up the audio
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  information, another visual information to match the speed
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  of my brain because my brain is going two times faster than the
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  things I'm seeing, hence why I speak fast.
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  But also, I can understand it a lot better and understand those
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  videos a lot better because they're at a faster pace of the
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  second component. Why this is awesome?
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  It's because one of the biggest things that autistic people have
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  is the worry domino, right? And worry domino is when you
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  know you want to learn something, like how to change
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  the windscreen wipers in your car.
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  So you watch a YouTube video, but there's so much bump in it,
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  and it takes such a long time to get to it.
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  You're already worried that the time's taking you to watch how
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  to change some into white, but has then added time onto the
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  rest of your day like a domino, it's it's knocked over something
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  else, and something else is going to be delayed and blah
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  blah blah. So when you're speeding up a
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  video to watch it, not only are you able to understand it
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  better, you also free up the time that it would take you to
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  watch it, which gives you extra time, which frees up some of
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  these dominoes. A lot of autistic individuals
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  struggle with these dominoes. We actually have a free PDF book
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  for Autism Life Hacks. You can go to autismtips.net
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  right now. There is a link in the
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  description if you want to to download my Free Autism Life
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  Hacks book and it helps with things like this.
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  But you know, what's interesting is we're trying to diminish the
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  amount of dominoes we have, increase the amount of dopamine
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  we can access, and really have a more pleasurable, more
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  accessible experience for autistic individuals.
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  Now, this may not work with everybody.
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  I know a lot of people watching my videos and a big thumbs up to
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  you guys. If you are watching videos and
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  you watch about two times speed, please put a comment down below.
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  And like this video said me because I want to know if you're
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  watching my videos at two times speed because I get comments
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  like this quite often. People are watching my videos at
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  two times speed and I'm already talking super fast.
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  Like I already think I'm talking really fast.
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  But also when people say in real life, people say to me like you
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  know, hey Don, can you speak a bit slower?
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  I can't understand you especially my family.
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  It really kind of, it's a bit annoying.
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  It's kind of like they don't respect that.
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  That's how I am. It's kind of like me saying so,
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  well, can you speed up talking? You know, imagine saying
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  something. Hey, you speak at you slow speed
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  up. It's quite rude, isn't it?
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  So to tell someone to slow down when they speak is also super
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  rude. So it's hard to balance that
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  out. And and I tried my best, Jack,
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  you know I am a performing artist out.
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  I'm in a band called Straight Jacket Legends.
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  We have a record out in Japan. We have a record out in the US
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  and you know, I've toured all over the world, play music.
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  And one of the things I get a lot of the time is people say I
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  couldn't assign what you said. You know, you're speaking too
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  fast on on stage and when you're performing or giving keynote
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  speeches, you know, and I do keynote speeches for autism all
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  over the world. You know, I did the first ever
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  autism speech in Vid Con in Anaheim near Los Angeles in 2019
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  with Jess from How to ADHD. Good friend of mine, she took
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  out a book out as well. So go check out her new book.
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  And you know, it's kind of like people come to the keynotes,
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  never say, hey dude, slow down, you're speaking too fast because
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  they get it. There's energy, there's passion.
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  There's like this, this wanting to to get the information out.
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  But I find out some people can't be quite rude with it.
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  And this comes down to another thing where a lot of people
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  dismiss autism. So I use my secret weapon to not
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  only digest stuff, but to kind of feed that feeling you're
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  going. It's OK to speed things up.
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  It's OK to to have things at a faster pace because we're
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  artistic. People like we should be
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  accepted for who we are now. It doesn't work with everything.
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  Some videos, if I speed them up, they are kind of complex in the
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  in how they've been uploaded and it kind of doesn't really flow
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  well most of the time. It does though, because the
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  technology now is so advanced that when you do speed something
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  up, it kind of just speeds it up without breaking the thing.
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  I want to know, is this something you do?
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  And if it isn't something you do, how do you overcome this and
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  do you experience this? A lot of people tell me that
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  they don't experience it, but most autistic individuals tell
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  me they do experience it. I want to know, do you
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  experience it? Do you know?
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  Drop me a comment down below. Let's have a discussion.
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  I read every single comment and I reply to pretty much all of
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  them as much as I can. Now these videos are all to do
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  with autism and ADHD. I have a bunch more videos, so
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  please check out the links in the description down below.
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  You guys have been amazing. I'll see you in the next one.
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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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  because there are people listening right now who are not
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  subscribed to this podcast. I can see you.
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  Make sure you subscribe. OK guys.
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  See you in the next one. Peace.