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Autism High School Issues (Will Make YOU Think!) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So autism High School issues. This video is going to make you
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  think differently. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  Asbury world, the place where we think differently daily.
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  My name is Dan. I have autism, ADHD, OCD, and
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  dyslexia. Now if you are new around here
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  and more autism content. Guys, what is going on?
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  Welcome back here. I just want to let you guys know
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  that I have a free Autism Life Hacks PDF book available for
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  download right now at autismhacks.net.
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  Please go ahead and download that.
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  That is super awesome. But today I just want to have a
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  discussion with you about autism in high school and the issues
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  that that people encompass whilst being on the spectrum and
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  in high school. Because I've been to high
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  school, I went there, I was that kid who struggled and I was
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  actually undiagnosed in high school as well.
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  So it was very difficult for me to go around.
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  And you know, one of the things I think was really interesting
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  about autism in high school is that there's there's a certain
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  kind of perception that people think like that you're going to
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  be a certain way and think a certain way about certain
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  things. And so there are so many
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  individuals who are struggling right now, you know, on the
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  autism spectrum at school and the format in which the learning
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  environment is presented. So it's all to do with the
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  learning styles and all learning types.
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  Now the school system uses a single model of teaching to
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  teach every single student that they come across.
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  So every student goes in there, they use the same model of
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  teaching for every single one. Now, I'm not genius, but I know
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  that people are so individual that not one of those people are
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  going to have the exact same way of learning.
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  So how on earth can a schooling system say that they provide
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  equal access for everybody when the school system isn't even set
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  up to to give accessibility to the people who go there who
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  aren't on learning difficulty spectrum disorders, right.
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  So this is like handing out the same size school uniform to
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  everybody regards their size. It would never work.
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  You wouldn't be able to handle the same screen involves
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  everyone because nobody's the same.
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  Nobody's the same. It's never gonna work, right?
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  And this is all down to the fact that we think differently.
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  Everybody on the Austin spectrum thinks differently, but people
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  in general think differently, right?
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  So people who think differently, like people on the autism
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  spectrum will also learn differently, they will have a
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  different learning abilities. So people on the autism spectrum
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  are more of like visual based tactile learners as well.
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  So this means like looking at the whiteboard and that typical
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  kind of like we're going to like whiteboard or looking at screen
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  with the presentation on it is going to be completely just mind
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  numbing for someone on the autism spectrum and that is
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  never going to work. Even if you have like textbooks,
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  kind of like you know reading out textbook, that learning type
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  for people on the office and spectrum is never going to work.
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  It needs to be engaging, it needs to be visual, it needs to
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  be representative, it needs to be tactile.
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  You need to pick something up and feel it, look at it, hold
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  it, understand it, learn it, participate in that thing.
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  This is why people on autism spectrum excel in areas in
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  school, whether it may be creative arts, it could be
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  woodwork, it could be something that's way more creative.
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  Because when you're around creativity, you're part of its
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  movement. Creativity is a fluid motion of
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  ideas coming in and out to a succession.
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  But when you're sitting down learning, it's looking at a
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  stagnant board. And somebody's telling you this
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  is something, something, something, something, something.
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  This doesn't work. This is not engaging.
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  The brain isn't engaged and the autistic brain isn't engaged.
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  They they want to touch it, feel it, experience it, be part lot
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  of it. Now this learning type can be
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  achieved when changing to a more hands on approach, right?
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  So when using props and models to teach, So when you're
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  teaching mathematics, you could use Lego bricks to teach
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  mathematics, right? And I use this and I used
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  Minecraft. So actually my dissertation, my
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  my end of year university project, I actually created a
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  teaching tool in Minecraft to teach kids or anybody how to
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  understand molecular molecular symmetry in Group theory which
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  is a physical chemistry complex theory.
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  But I could teach them in seconds very very easily because
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  I was using Minecraft, I was using the tool that they could
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  go in and look around and play around right because this is
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  more of a hands on approach. So when you have you know at
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  least using things like you know models and and and infographics,
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  not the very least use like cartoons to represent stuff like
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  on a visual based learning experience you'll get such a
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  great succession. Now if you're watching this and
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  you're a teacher, then maybe switch some of your stuff up to
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  having more or visual based props rather than just text
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  based. And if you're watching this in
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  your autistic person, why not ask the teacher to try and
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  explain it to you using props and physical actual
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  manifestations to show stuff moving?
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  Because that to me is key. It's where it's where it's at.
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  It really kind of rocked me to my senses.
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  When I when I started using Lego bricks to understand
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  mathematics, I was able to do math so much easier.
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  And now I love mathematics and I'd actually would do a degree
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  in math. If I had the time and the
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  ability to do that, I would go to do a degree in mathematics.
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  But when I first started my, you know, university career, I mean
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  there was no way I was learning math.
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  I thought I was going to fail miserably because I didn't
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  understand the maths until I got it, you know, and I got it
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  because I realized it was I was more like hands on learning, you
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  know, I'm a I'm a tactile, I'm a I'm a thinker in a different
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  way, which is exactly what this channel is about.
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  Now guys, if you have anything to add to this discussion, let
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  me know. Drop in a comment down below and
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  let's talk it out. I love listening.
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  I read every single comment and I love talking.
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  So that'd be really cool. If you think this video is
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  you next time guys. Peace.