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Autistic You 100% Have this Sensory Issue · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  OK, so this is probably via weirdest sensory autism issue
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  that I have. And what is it got to do with
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  tomato ketchup? All that's coming up Don't go
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  anywhere. Hey guys, welcome back into the
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  Aspy world. I have a interesting, albeit
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  slightly unusual trait of sensory processing disorder that
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  comes with autism that I think you'll relate to because I feel
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  like my mother and my partner both experience this as well.
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  So I think that like this is always good to, to talk about.
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  So if this is you, you have to let me know in a comment down
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  below because I read every single one.
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  But it also helps the community, right?
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  It helps us all understand each other properly.
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  OK, So what is it Now I want to talk about the fact that autism
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  comes alongside or A diagnosis of autism comes typically
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  alongside a diagnosis of something called SPD or sensory
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  processing disorder. Now sensory processing disorder
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  can have two connotational sides. 1 is that you'll have
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  sensory seeking and the other is that you'll have sensory
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  avoidance. And what this means is OK, so
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  sensory seeking could be like enjoying like fidget toys and
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  that kind of thing and, and really liking the textures and,
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  and all that kind of jazz. And then sensory avoidance is
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  maybe you don't like those textures.
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  It could be like suede or leather or all this like crushed
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  velvet style. Like you maybe don't want those.
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  And you kind of also really avoid those at all costs.
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  And it's not just touch for sensitivities.
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  It could be sound, smells, lighting, I hate temperatures,
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  tag of clothing. It could be absolutely anything.
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  And this is funny because you can have both together because a
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  lot of people would say like, OK, well, if an artistic person
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  doesn't like this, but they do like this, then it's simple,
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  right? Like you would be like, Hey, you
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  like, I don't know the, the, the you like LED lights of different
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  colours, you know, like the ones that you have like a gaming PCs
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  and they'd be like cool, but then maybe the person doesn't
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  like tungsten yellow lights. You know, the type of lights you
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  have in a living room. Now, if you put that person who
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  likes LED lights flashing colourful ones in a room that's
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  pitch black, but with just LED lights, they'll probably love
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  it. Put them in a room with normal
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  like lamps and and room lighting and put the LE DS on.
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  They'd probably really dislike it.
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  So this is called situational sensory processing disorder.
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  And a person can have a mixture of all of this going on.
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  This sounds so complex, but it's very interesting.
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  Now I'm going to give you an an example of when I was a kid
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  about sensory processing disorder that's situational, OK,
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  specifically about food. Now you mums are watching this
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  right now are going to relate so much and so are the adults who
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  are on the spectrum, not just the parents of the kids on the
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  spectrum. Now one example of this before I
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  give you my personal example, and there's a true story of my
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  first example, is that when a autistic person has situational
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  based sensory processing disorder, it can be like this.
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  Your kid or you, your own special can go to a restaurant
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  and eat pepperoni pizza and then you can love the pizza.
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  It's awesome. Then you go home and you make
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  your own pepperoni pizza at home or your mum makes you pepperoni
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  pizza at home or you make pepperoni pizza for your
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  autistic kid at home because you know, you liked it, liked it in
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  a restaurant. And then they despise it.
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  They they're like, Oh, no, I hate pepperoni pizza.
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  And you're like, what the heck, What the heck is going on a
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  minute? But you just destroyed one
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  yesterday. And this is because it's
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  situational based to where they had it.
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  And let me give you an example of this, a real life example.
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  And this is from me. So when I was a kid, I used to
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  love going to the the kitchen in school and having, you know,
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  the, when we had food in the food hall in school, in, in
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  kindergarten, primary schools, we call it in the UK.
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  And I used to love going there and having custard and they'd
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  have custard and it was great. Now this is really interesting
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  for my parents because when I was at that age in my life at
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  home, I had I was a fussy eater or I thought I felt the fussy
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  eater, but I was more of a selective eater because of my
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  sensory processing disorder. And by the way, guys, my name is
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  Dan and I have watched as many ADHD.
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  So if you want to learn more about those things and help me
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  but also helps me out because I want to grow this channel and I
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  want to have a big community here that I can help more
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  people. So if you do that, it'll be
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  amazing. Thank you.
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  Now at home, I had such limited food options because of my
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  sensory processing issues that my, the only thing I was already
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  eat was like roasted vegetables with like chicken or Turkey with
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  gravy, right? So much so that my mum meal
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  prepped like dozens of these and then froze them.
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  So I'd have that meal every single day.
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  Now, not only that, it was quite interesting because we did,
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  we're able to transition to more foods using a method that we
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  kind of used as trial and error when me and my mum were doing
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  this. Now, if you're interested in
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  learning more about that, give this video a thumbs up and I
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  will. It would be a good indicator for
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  me to know that you want to see a video on how to transition
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  from picky eating and fussy eating, so selective eating,
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  sensory processing to more broader palette.
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  And I can do video all about that and how we did it from our
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  perspective now. So my mum learning that I ate
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  custody in school, she was like dad, maybe custody at home
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  didn't like it. So she's like OK, so then she
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  was like, I'm going to get the exact recipe from the school and
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  see what they say. And then she got the recipe from
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  school and I didn't like it at home.
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  So then she said went to school and said hey, if I buy some of
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  the custards off you and heat up at home, I want to test this.
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  And I still didn't like it. So my poor mother was trying
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  everything and pulling her hair out of the time and then it
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  clicked. It was situational based.
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  I only like the custard in that environment.
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  So those things go together. The the experience of eating
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  that thing and the experience of being in that place may go
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  together. Now my actual son has the same
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  thing. He's not diagnosed anything
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  right now, but he does have this same issue.
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  And if you're experiencing this thing, drop in a comment down
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  below. I'd love to kind of read all his
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  comments but also have community input for other people going
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  through different things because maybe we'll understand each
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  other a little bit more if we share more about each other.
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  You don't have to, but if you wanted to that'd be awesome.
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  Now this situational based food issue was really interesting
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  because I feel like it has always followed me my entire
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  life. So I know what you're saying
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  down what on earth is any of this got to do with tomato
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  ketchup and anything tomato based?
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  So tomato, tomato, I don't care how you say it, it's still the
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  same thing. Now this is Heinz ketchup.
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  Now I love Heinz ketchup, but I also despise it.
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  And what I mean by this is I like pizza with tomato bases, I
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  like tomato soup and I like tomato ketchup.
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  But there is conditions for this.
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  It has to be warm. And what I mean by this is very
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  simple, I love tomato soup, but as it starts to get cold and it
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  gets colder and colder, I can't eat it and I get a sensory
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  processing issue from it. Which is hence why I actually
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  avoid eating tomato soup that often because I get scared that
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  it's kind of cool before I have a chance to eat it unless I heat
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  up the bowl first, which I possibly could do.
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  I'm thinking about right now, maybe I'll try that.
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  But Needless to say, when that gets colder I instantly go from
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  liking it to despising it. Not the same.
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  I couldn't eat cold pizza for a very long time because until and
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  actually still don't eat a lot of cold pizzas.
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  There's only certain types of pizzas I can eat cold because
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  the tomato base sometimes was thick and it would be cold.
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  So if there's a thick cold tomato base, like the puree of
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  the sauce, it's too sensory overwhelming for me.
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  But I do like hot pizza, right? So if the base of the pizza is
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  like got lots of tomato sauce on it, then I have to heat it up.
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  But if it's only like a small kind of thin layer, then it's OK
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  because it can't really notice it because it mixes in with the
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  cheese and it's OK. Now ketchup, though, my partner,
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  bless her soul, she's amazing. She's autistic and ADHD as well.
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  She is a typical person. She keeps ketchup in the fridge
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  with all her other condiments, right?
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  Even though she's autistic and ADHD, she still has the urge to
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  keep our condiments in the fridge.
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  Now I don't do this and I don't do this because I want this
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  catcher to be warm or at a higher temperature.
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  So if I'm in her house having hot dogs because she lives in
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  Canada and she's a Canadian citizen, she lives in Canada,
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  but I also, I live in Wales. But we do visit each other.
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  Obviously we're in a relationship and we are spending
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  some of the time in Canada, some of the time in the UK.
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  And because of that, when I'm in her house, I have to kind of I
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  put the ketchup on the bun 1st and then I put the hot dogs in
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  the bun, veggie hot dogs on the Rotary.
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  But I wait for it to heat up first because if it isn't heated
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  up I can't have it, which is really interesting.
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  But she always keeps her sauce in the fridge.
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  Now when she comes here to my house and say, if she comes with
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  the kids, she'll put the sauce in the fridge and I'm like,
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  because my, my sauce to me doesn't live in the fridge.
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  I mean, I get it in her house. I understand it.
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  But what's really interesting is that when we're having like, say
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  we're having veggie Nuggets, she will have like a pot of sauce so
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  we can dip the Nuggets in. But the interesting thing is if
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  I do that and, and the sauce is being, you know, straight out of
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  the fridge, straight into the thing and the Nuggets are ready
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  and we're dipping in, it kind of gives me a bit of a sensory of
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  version, which is why I don't like a lot of salsa with chips.
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  You know, like you get like the tortilla chips and you put them
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  in salsa like the Ritos or whatever.
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  I like the taste of salsa dip, but it has to be warm, as weird
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  as that sounds. So in her house, there's a
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  secondary to this. And this is where she also has
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  an issue. So I have this funny joke with
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  her where she's like, I love Maple syrup because she's a
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  Canadian. She's originally from Brazil,
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  but she's Canadian. She's an amazing woman, by the
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  way. And she she's a great cook.
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  So she'll make pancakes and she'll have Maple syrup.
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  And I'm like, dude, you like Maple syrup.
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  You're eating Maple syrup right now.
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  She's like, yeah, no, but it's like it's this one make of Maple
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  syrup, which is the one I like. All other Maple syrup is not her
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  jam. And I'm like, what the heck?
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  So she only likes like condition based Maple syrup.
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  There's one make of Maple syrup. She says that Maple is too Maple
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  Y. So if we go like Tim horton's,
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  which is anybody watching knows anything about candidates, you
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  know, this is like the gospel of Canadian culture.
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  Everyone goes out for coffee and doughnuts.
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  And there's we like about two weeks ago we went there and we
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  had a Maple doughnut from, from Tim horton's.
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  And the Maple doughnut was really nice, but she said it was
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  too Maple Y. Now she gives a Maple sauce, oh,
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  Maple syrup in the fridge. So when I'm there and she makes
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  pancakes and by the way, she makes the most amazing pancakes.
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  Honestly, she's just incredible. But if she makes the pancakes on
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  that like leaves a stack for a little bit and then puts the
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  cold Maple syrup on it jars me a little bit.
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  I'm like whoa, because I expected it to be warm.
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  Now I only like Maple syrup when it's warm.
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  Now McDonald's does really, really well.
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  Like when they're making the pancakes, they also heat up the
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  syrup on the little, you know, the little prep count to where
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  it's like warm ish. They keep the syrup warm, which
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  is great because I love that and I can have that.
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  But in terms of in the fridge, it's a no go from me and I never
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  keep Maple syrup in the fridge. And it's funny because my mum
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  also has something very similar. Now, I did a video and I was
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  talking about something else to do with autism.
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  I'll leave a link here somewhere.
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  And it's basically outlining kind of, you know, your issues
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  or your autism traits that kind of get passed down from your
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  parents. And in the video, I explained
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  that like, if your mum has some traits and dad has some traits,
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  they may not be, you know, officially diagnosed autism
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  because they don't have the triad of impairment, which is
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  kind of like the main diagnostic criteria for autism, but they
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  have some traits. And then it comes together and
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  they have a baby and you're the baby and you have all of those
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  traits. And that is how those genetics
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  pass on and you kind of become more autistic because the the
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  difference in neurological behaviour is a long story.
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  Anyway, my mom has some autistic traits and one of the most
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  interesting things, and this is fascinating, she has conditional
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  based sensory processing with milk.
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  Now she drinks tea because she's British, you know, born in
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  England, she's British person, so big up to my British farm.
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  She has tea with milk in it and obviously the milk is warm
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  because it's in the tea. Now if my mum has cereal, she'll
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  always opt in for typically like oatmeal or or porridge because
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  it's warm right Now one of the most interesting things is she
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  doesn't like milkshake because the milk is cold in a milkshake.
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  And she can never drink just a glass of milk because it's cold,
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  because she doesn't like milk when it's cobbled, which is
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  funny because milk by default is cold, right?
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  And the other thing is that when she's going to have cereal, she
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  will eat cereal, but she will microwave the milk to heat it up
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  to have microwave cereal. So she doesn't have cereal that
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  often, which is really interesting.
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  Kind of like me and my tomato soup.
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  I don't have tomato soup that often because I'm scared of it
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  cooling down before I get a chance to eat it because it's
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  going to be, you know, outrageously cold you.
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  So that is probably, I think the strangest experience I have.
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  And it's all down to tomorrow. Ketchup.
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  And I realized this when I was in my father's house when I was
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  having hot dogs with ketchup and then we were having Nuggets with
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  ketchup. I was like, holy smokes, there's
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  a different experience going on here.
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  It is probably the weirdest thing and it all relates to
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  smart ketchup. And This is why I did this
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  video. I do a lot of teaching to help
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  autistic individuals, autistic adults and parents.
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  Now, one of the things that I have noticed about autistic
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  individuals is that we lack confidence.
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  And it's probably one of the main things that impact our
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  life. And if you can cure the
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  confidence, if you can increase confidence, then you win life,
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  right? And autistic individuals need to
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  know these three things. One is that confidence isn't
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  person based, as in anybody can become confident.
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  Yes, you have the ability to become confident and you can
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  learn it very, very quickly. I actually teach this on a 7 day
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  programme, but I'm actually giving the first module away
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  completely for free so you can get it started.
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  You can start building confidence right now with the
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  Building a Bulletproof Brain for Autistic Adults completely free.
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  All you have to do is go to www.bulletproofbrain.org right
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  now. I'll leave a link in a card and
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  in the description down below where you can just go there,
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  download this and take it. You don't, it's completely free,
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  but I can assure you that when you build confidence, when you
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  start to build confidence in Autistica dot, you will start
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  winning on multiple levels. If you found this video
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  interesting or useful, please share it with somebody or tag
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  them in it if you think it's going to be useful for them.
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  All right guys, I've got to go. Peace.