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Autism Week DON'T DO THIS! · 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 is world Autism Awareness Week, acceptance week,
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  Understanding we will Autism week.
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  All right, let's go into it guys.
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  What is going on? Welcome back to the Aspy world.
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  Where do I start? OK, this video is kind of like
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  one of those long and edited. This is my mind.
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  This is what I'm thinking about kind of videos, right?
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  And, and I thought a lot about this because it's it's April,
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  first week of April 2024, which means it's world autism
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  acceptance week, right? Even that right, Acceptance
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  week, like you speak world Autism Awareness Week.
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  And I and I get it. People say like, oh, you know,
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  everybody's aware of autism now, but they don't always accept it.
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  I'm like, OK, well, if people don't accept autism, that's
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  their beef, That's their issue. What you're really interested is
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  to get getting people educated on it, right?
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  And I really, it gets to me, OK, because all I see like literally
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  all I see is hundreds and hundreds of self-proclaimed
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  influences. Like I know I'm an influencer,
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  right? OK, so I have YouTube channel
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  and this is my job. And like I do all these things
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  for, for autism awareness. Like I love helping and, and
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  gaining understanding global scale of autism and the
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  intricacies of those. You know, that's my job as my
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  due diligence. It's my, my, my mission in life
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  is to help you as autistic people's autistic community,
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  right? But I see people within the
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  community bitching, moaning, complaining, negative, like it's
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  unbelievable. Like you see people like this is
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  what you should say on what doesn't want this week.
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  It's acceptance week and this is what you need to do.
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  It's a what do they call it? Oh, it's it's people with who
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  have autism, not, not with autism or have autism.
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  It's an autistic person and always kind of first person
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  language when we start dictating to people like you should be
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  doing this or you shouldn't be doing that.
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  What we actually are doing is we're being very narcissistic or
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  we're being kind of like, I don't know, people say, oh,
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  well, narcissism could be potentially autism, but it's
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  coming across as narcissism. No, no, no, there's a, there's a
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  massive difference between narcissism and autism.
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  And, and some of those differences are like an autistic
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  person will do the things and be knowing that they're behaving
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  those ways, but a narcissist will do things in a way to
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  control the situation, to implement their ideas across the
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  board. Right.
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  And that to me is, is the definition of what's going on
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  here. We have the so-called
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  influences, which are people who just want, they just got a
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  really big voice, right? And they just shout on the
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  loudest. It doesn't mean that they're
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  better at any anything than anybody else.
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  And also they're changing the narrative.
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  I've seen a lot of this kind of weird like dangerous stuff where
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  they're like, oh, we're going to call it autism anymore and
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  autism or disability and you can't call it.
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  I got dry skin on my nose, guys. I could just, I could see it in
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  the corner of my eye and it's like, Bah, anyway, if you can
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  see the dry skin, I'm sorry. I've been doing a lot of facial
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  treatment and stuff anyway, just to make sure my skin stays fresh
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  and healthy. You go say care yourself, yo,
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  take care of yourself. But you know what I mean?
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  Like they're changing the narrative.
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  They're like, you can't say autism's disability.
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  Well, it is a disability. You know, it's debilitating.
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  It debilitates people daily. You know, sometimes my life has
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  been so difficult with autism. I sometimes think that if I run
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  alive or if I wasn't here, then things would be easier, right?
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  And it's difficult to talk about, difficult to say,
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  difficult to admit, but it happens, right?
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  But it's something that is apparent.
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  It's it's apparent because, you know, autistic people don't just
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  think it's a breeze kind of like on the same, you know, which one
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  is it? You know, like people, people
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  are like also not of disability. And then they say autism, not a
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  superpower. It's like, OK, well, it's not a
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  superpower, but it could be, you know, there's certain parts of
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  it that are super superpower superistic, like, you know, my
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  ability to digest information and retain that information and
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  recall it later date, you know, long massive pieces of
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  information. Like that's kind of like, you
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  know, the power that not neotypical people could have.
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  But I don't think autism in general is a superpower.
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  I don't think there's anything super about having those
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  neurological difficulties, right, and disabling
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  disabilities. But there are profound
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  differences, right? You have people on the autism
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  spectrum who, who can't, you know, verbally speak, who can't,
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  you know, change themselves, can't use the bathroom on their
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  own, you know, and loads of people like this.
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  And, and me as an autistic person, I get kind of like
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  impostor syndrome about this quite a bit thinking like, oh,
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  you know, I've got a diagnosis that's similar to this other
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  person and, you know, they have way higher support needs than
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  me. And, and that's OK.
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  Like it's OK to feel like that. And it's OK to feel kind of
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  like, oh man, but I still have my own issues, right?
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  And not on the scale of this person does, but I do have my
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  own issues. And actually my scale of other
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  issues could be greater than that, right?
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  And that's OK. But we should never forget those
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  people. Those people are artistic
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  people. That's exactly why I started
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  this channel. A voice of people who don't have
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  a voice, right? Making autism less lonely.
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  My entire brand now is, is about making autism less lonely.
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  That's, that's what I'm trying to do.
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  Because there's so many lonely people on the autumn spectrum.
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  We're going to get even more lonely if we start segregating
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  each other. Because people say don't support
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  Autism Speaks, right? Don't light up blue.
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  Don't let it create a light of gold and red instead.
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  And Oh my God, oh, it's a colour, right?
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  It's a colour. Nobody cares, right?
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  What are you do? What are you physically doing to
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  help, right? Going online and telling a mum
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  who's spent the last three years as part of her local Autism
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  Speaks group, right? And raised over $1000 for their
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  local autism club to buy iPads for the kids who were
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  underprivileged and didn't have access to iPads.
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  But now they can. And now they have a voice.
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  Don't come at me, don't come at anybody.
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  Tell them that they're wrong for support on Autism Speaks in that
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  manner, You know what I mean? Like, that's just stupid.
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  Like, you know, Autism Speaks have a shady past.
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  Yes. And they have shady history and
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  they've got all this kind of weird stuff going on and we're
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  going to get to them. Not in this video.
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  I'm going to do a video all about it.
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  And and I'm no way in shape or form saying that I'm an Autism
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  Speaks supporter right now. Like, I'm not saying that.
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  I'm just saying that like you can't just target, you know,
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  mums of autistic kids. And that's another thing people
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  use this day to bash other autistic people.
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  Like, oh, you know, you can't use the term Aspergers and oh,
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  no, your information is is toxic or poisonous.
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  No, dudes like it. This is one.
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  This is why I didn't put information out on world awesome
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  one estate. What I did instead is this
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  video, which I'll try and kind of put a snippet in here.
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  I put it on Instagram or TikTok, Facebook and and YouTube just
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  saying like, hey, it's world awesome acceptance day or
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  whatever, a world autism day, you know, rather than me tell
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  you about autism, ask me questions.
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  How can I help you? How can I serve you, you guys
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  and my audience, you guys, you know, this is my community, this
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  is my tribe. Like I want to hang out with you
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  guys, you know, and like the, the, this is my artistic empire,
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  you know, like I'm big up to the artistic empire, you know, like,
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  and it annoys me because changing narratives like saying
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  that like, you know, like you can't say with autism or how's
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  autism or you have to use an autistic person.
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  You don't have to do shit. You can do whatever you feel is
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  right. You're an autistic person.
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  You have your own right, your own initiative, your own, you
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  know, we live in a society where we're allowed to call people
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  plural, where I'd say they and them, right for a single person.
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  And that's fine. I don't care.
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  You can use those pronouns because that's you.
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  And I think it's great that you have the ability to do that,
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  just as I have the ability to use the term aspy or aspirin is
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  or whatever. It doesn't define you as a
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  person. Your actions towards the group
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  define you as a person. And this, this is what this is
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  what I'm talking about. Like let's stop being
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  narcissistic, let's stop being negative, Let's stop going
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  against the grain. Why don't we encourage the
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  communities to come together? Why don't we do something as a
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  group? What are you doing to encourage
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  the betterment of the group? Every single piece of my
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  business, when we make a decision, when me and my team
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  sit down and make a decision and we think, is this going to
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  better the group as a whole? If the answer is no, then we're
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  not going to do it. Is, you know, is a video
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  bitching about autism mums giving them a back on slap
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  because they're learning in this journey, in this process and
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  they're doing the best for their kid.
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  You know, is it right to bash them?
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  Well, no, course it's not. Is that going to best for the
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  group? No, it's actually going to
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  segregate the group or it's going to make those mums scared
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  of reaching out for help. Do you think you're going to
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  meet someone head on with negativity and they're going to
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  be like, oh, great, thank you so much for that.
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  It's amazing. I think you're just so cool.
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  No, it's BSI. My nose is really itchy now
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  because of this Tri skid. I called windows do my head and
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  but guys, the the biggest the biggest take away from me from
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  all this is that like the stop dictating what you should be
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  doing with your life on the autism spectrum, right?
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  We're here to help and advocate. If you're an autistic influencer
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  watching this, then come with me on this journey of, of helping
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  and accepting and, and, and learning together with the
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  greater community of stop segregating out or stop saying
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  that somebody can't do this or somebody can't do that and you
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  need to do this and you just lay a green or red, whatever gold or
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  whatever. It's like those things don't
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  matter, right? That doesn't matter.
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  What actions, what steps are you taking to improve the condition
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  of the group? That's what matters.
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  How are we pushing ourselves forward, urging ourselves
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  towards an existent that's full of potential of joy, laughter,
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  help support equality. That's, that's the difference.
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  You know, I set up a, a company with a guy called authentic and
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  we're making accessible tools for Google Chrome, which will be
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  apps soon as well, which are kind of helping people
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  understand emotions. Like you could highlight over
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  somebody's face and be like, what emotions is this person
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  having? Or you could, you could do in
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  real time over zoom and be like, you know, is this person happy?
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  I said, and it'll tell you, you know, that improves the quality
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  of the group, that improves our, our existence towards a most
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  successful interaction, because what we're trying to do with
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  autistic people is decode the world around us to make it more
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  accessible, right? That's what we're doing with
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  everything, the technology, the videos, the understanding, the
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  books, everything is to make autism, the world for autism
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  more accessible. And, and if you're not doing
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  that, then what are you? What are you doing right?
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  Offering support is great because it helps make access to
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  the world. When you get somebody grounded
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  to a level where they can understand things, you're
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  creating access, you're creating a level of support, but just
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  gnawing and bitching and moaning and complaining and being
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  negative and you know, this person's bad because you have 10
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  autistic influencers who are just fake or telling us what are
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  you talking about? You know what I mean?
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  Like, that's just, no, that's not why I started it.
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  I'm like the first autistic influencer, right?
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  Nobody was doing this to YouTube for me and that's not why I
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  started it. I didn't start to bitch about
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  anybody. I encouraged everyone to go on
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  the platform. I encouraged people to reach out
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  to me. It's like I want to make me do
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  it you know lol you know Connor Ward, Thomas Henley, Spectrum
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  girl, Paige Lyall, Matt Recklebum, Bloats, fathering
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  with autism. All these people I know all
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  these people, they're all good people, they're decent people.
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  Tailor Heaton, the mum on the spectrum, you know, great decent
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  people who are just trying to do their best with autism.
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  And that's how we do it. We come together as a community,
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  as a group, we stop bitching, we stop complaining and we move
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  forward. That is our message for autism.
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  Where this day. Lucky guys, I love you.
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  See you in the next video. Hey guys, thank you so much for
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  checking out this podcast. Make sure you are subscribed
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  Make sure you subscribe. OK guys, see you in the next
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  one. Peace.