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Autism Meltdowns (How to Manage Them) · 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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  Right, that's how you help manage an autism meltdown.
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  I'm going to answer all that right now.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the Aspy world.
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  My name is Daniel at Autism at ADHD and a very quick video all
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  about this stuff because I believe that it's my life's
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  mission and my life's goal to help increase the potential of
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  life in autistic individuals and help them reach their goals and
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  respective their life. So I'm here for you guys.
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  So guys also some meltdowns, something that happens quite
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  often for autistic people and and a meltdown.
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  If you're not autistic and you're watching this video is
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  where you become emotionally overwhelmed by too much stimuli
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  from from your environment that you then become a volcano of
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  emotions, to put it quite bluntly.
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  But there are no ways of overcoming these very quickly.
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  There are ways of overcoming these in the correct way and
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  there's ways of doing it an incorrect way.
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  So I'm going to share with you some tips and tricks and little
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  packs here that you can help overcome A meltdown quite
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  quickly. So the first thing I'm going to
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  say is that after you have a meltdown, you need to drink a
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  lot of water. I mean like 2 big glasses of
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  water. What happens is when you
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  hyperventilate and when you, when you start to get headaches,
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  your, your brain is, is using a lot of oxygen.
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  There's enough, a lot of water and you'll then get dehydrated.
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  Now, if you're dehydrated, what is going to happen is that
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  you're going to be prolonged in your recovery from a meltdown.
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  It could take 24 hours typically, but then it could
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  take 3 or 4 days because you've been dehydrated.
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  So you feel grogging horrible for two or three days
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  afterwards. So this would just prolong the
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  horrible feeling of having a autism meltdown.
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  Now, when you're in the middle of having an autism meltdown or
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  if you're feeling like you're going to have a meltdown, you
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  need to change your environment. ACP.
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  The quicker you can get out of that environment and go towards
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  a different environment will change your perspective.
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  Because remember, the environment is causing this
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  meltdown. Everything in your environment,
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  your spatial, your spatial awareness is causing this
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  meltdown. If you instantly go from your,
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  invariably it's causing you the harm at the moment to a
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  different environment, you will instantly remedy most of the
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  issues. You'll still be in an upset
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  state, but you'll definitely remedy most of the issues.
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  And what I'd like to do some good things.
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  So we're normally doing good things in life.
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  We're always going towards pleasure and away from pain.
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  So before you had the meltdown, you're probably doing something
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  quite pleasurable. You we walked to the mall to buy
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  a new equipment or a new pieces of clothing or whatever.
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  But then the meltdown happens in the mall.
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  So what do you need to do? You need to sandwich a negative
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  experience between 2 positive experiences.
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  So the positive experience is going somewhere because you
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  thought was going to be fun. That negative experience was a
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  meltdown. Take yourself out the situation
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  and put something on your phone or your iPad that you really
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  enjoy. It could be your your, you know,
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  topic of interest, your research topic, whatever it is, do that
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  because then it's going to give you pleasure straight away.
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  Those are probably these three most powerful things I could
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  tell you to do right now in the next time you've experienced
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  having an autism meltdown and this goes for parents as well.
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  Watching now guys. I have an autism Wifax PDF book
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  you can download from autismhacks.net.
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  The link is in the description down below and I'll see you in
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  the next video guys for 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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  subscribe. OK, guys.
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  See you in the next one. Peace.