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5 Odd Things ONLY AUTISTIC People Do! · 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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  In this video I'm talking about 5 strange things that only
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  autistic people experience. This is really interesting.
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  All that's coming up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  Aspy world. My name is Dan, so if you're new
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  around here and you want to learn more about autism and
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  ADHD, hit the subscribe button down below because I'm autistic
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  and I make weekly videos all about this stuff.
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  OK, so there are certain things that happen or that impact
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  autistic individuals lives and only they seem to know about it.
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  And I'll give you examples of all of these right now.
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  So I'm going to cover five of them.
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  And how I came around this was that after a certain amount of
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  time, I realized that typical people didn't experience the
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  things in the same way I did. And then I realized that all my
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  autistic friends also experienced those things.
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  So I was like, oh. OK, so.
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  The first one I'm going to talk about is light flickering.
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  Now I did a video on this and it went viral on TikTok and
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  Instagram and I'll try and link it down below on an account here
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  somewhere. And on that video, I take my
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  iPhone and I'm in a store like a kids toy store and I'm showing
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  you how the fluorescent lighting that is above us is flickering
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  like a crazy, right? Like you'll see autistic people
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  do this right when they're like looking up at lights and they're
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  doing this because they're counter phasing the flicker.
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  So if you, if a light's flickering and you do this, it
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  stops the flicker impacting you. Why?
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  Because it's very irritating. Imagine being in like a constant
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  disco light always. It's horrible.
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  Hence why like offices, doctors, surgeries, clinics, things like
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  that, toy stores, department stores, grocery stores, they all
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  have this like fluorescent light and it flickers at a certain
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  frame rate. Now autistic individuals can see
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  that frame rate a lot more clearly than non autistic
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  people, so it doesn't bother typical people because they
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  can't see it. But when you hold your phone
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  camera up to those lights, you're able to see the flicker
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  on the screen. And I'll try and insert a clip
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  of that video here so you can see that.
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  So the camera actually picks up the flicker.
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  But that's why I can see in my eyes.
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  I don't know why autistic people can see that.
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  How cool and weird is that? Now, that was absolutely
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  fascinating. And one of the most interesting
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  things to to come of that when I put that video out, it was kind
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  of like a test. Can you see this?
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  If not, then your brain is wired neurosypically.
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  But if you can see this in your brain is probably wired
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  neurodivisionally. And hey, yeah, probably on the
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  autism spectrum, which is really interesting.
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  OK, so #2 is ultra sound hearing now not ultrasound like when
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  you're doing like baby stuff or ultrasound doesn't like when you
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  are an autistic individual, your hearing is attuned a lot more
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  clearly to detail around you than the average person.
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  And the example of this is when I was attending a talk by the
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  Ass Bridges Association in my local area in a place called
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  Slundered know because I live in North Wales.
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  Be well, kind of, I live in North Wales and Canada.
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  So yeah. And when I was in this meeting,
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  it was packed, was sold out. So then they had to open the
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  door of the cafe because like, you know, it was hot.
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  It was summer. And so I was sitting there
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  listening to this woman talk and people were walking past.
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  Now, every time somebody walked past, I'm like, wow, so loud.
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  Like I always look behind me because they just sounded so
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  loud, you know, so annoying. And I noticed that the only
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  people that were turning around are looking and noticing the
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  noise were the autistic people, the other people who were there
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  who were not autistic, who were just like really engaged in the
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  speaker. And it's kind of interesting
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  because that is a distraction that happens.
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  And you'll see this a lot. Autistic individuals could be
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  really distracted or you can't adore.
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  They have an unshakable focus on something.
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  It's it's so interesting how polar that thing is, but we all
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  have really hypersensitivity to certain things and sound hearing
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  super, super fast, super really like detailed is very, very
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  interesting. Now before we go any further,
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  So have you experienced this so far?
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  Have you experienced the light flicker?
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  Have you experienced the sound? I want to know.
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  Drop a comment down below because you could be autistic
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  and not even know it. Let's open this discussion.
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  OK, so #3 is clothing tags don't just hurt because a lot of
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  people be like, Oh yeah, well, it seems on clothing and
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  clothing tags in, you know, in trousers or underpants or on
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  T-shirts that interests everybody's neck.
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  And you're absolutely right, it does irritate us.
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  But actually what, what it does, it hurts us on an emotional pain
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  level. So we don't just feel it like a
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  pain, like, oh, it's annoying. We feel it, oh, intensely
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  internally. It's almost like an orca
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  feeling. It's kind of like being
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  submerged in ice cold water. Imagine how uncomfortable that
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  would feel, right? And that's what that feeling is.
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  It's not just a feeling of like, oh, a sharp thing scratching
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  your neck. It's an irritation that impacts
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  your entire higher beingness. So you go from being just like,
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  Hey, I'm going to put on a T-shirt, poop and then be like,
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  ah, this T-shirt is making me emotionally unstable.
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  You know, it's making me completely freak out.
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  It's it's, it's upsetting. It's, it's just disturbing my
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  whole reality right now. And that's really, really
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  interesting. That's why a lot of like
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  clothing makes up for autistic individuals don't have tags on
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  them, which is really, really amazing.
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  Now this top, I think I got this from, I don't know, Tesco, which
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  is like my local Walmart type of store.
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  They sell clothes. I think I got it from there and
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  this doesn't have tags on it. So all the clothes I buy either
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  pull the tags off or I buy them without tags on the back, which
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  is so good. One of those annoying places for
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  tags is inside here and this scene here and I cut them all
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  off. I'm like, it's horrible.
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  It's so annoying. But that is something that
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  autistic individuals feel deeply and they're the only people I've
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  OK, so #4 is the buzzing sound of electricity.
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  Oh my goodness, the amount of people who cannot hear the
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  buzzing sound of electricity definitely impacts my ability to
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  understand that, hey, it's only autistic people who hear this.
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  Now, like I was saying about the light flicker, those lights also
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  buzz. It's like an electrical buzz.
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  And we can hear that deeply, like super deep.
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  And because of that, we as autistic individuals can notice
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  that sounds kind of similar to the ultra hearing, the ultra
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  kind of sound hearing, but it's on a different level.
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  It's kind of like it's through electricity, like these lights
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  are making a small sound and I can hear that sound and autistic
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  people can hear the sound. It's so interesting if you're
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  one of these people, if you, if you know exactly what I'm
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  talking about, you have to get a zero thumbs up.
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  I want to know where my ultra supersonic hearing peeps are
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  because this is so interesting. And it's only autistic people I
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  know that have ever commented the same thing as me, that they
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  can hear the buzzing sound of lights.
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  And sometimes with certain types of cabling, especially if I'm
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  not on a train or if I'm somewhere I have like industrial
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  cables. I, I can hear that sound like
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  it's, it's like as if someone's got a vacuum cleaner next to me.
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  Like it's like whoa, it's like super loud.
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  Very, very interesting echo. So #5 This is super interesting.
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  Now autistic individuals will feel physical pain from eye
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  contact that's prolonged and certain words.
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  This is so interesting, right? It's like a hypersensitivity,
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  but to certain things. So if you hear a certain word,
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  like if I hear certain words, it hurts.
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  Like it's like pain. It's the only way I can describe
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  it. It's not like somebody's punched
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  me, but it's like a pain that I'd get if somebody had punched
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  me, you know what I mean? Or like the prolonged eye
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  contact becomes physically painful.
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  It's like it starts hurting your body and being this, I can see
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  you smiling right now and understanding exactly what I'm
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  talking about. I, I, honestly, it's so
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  interesting because there are so many things we can do to, to
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  help overcome this. And I actually, I noticed this
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  because because I'm talking in a, you know, so I coach 111 to
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  1A, coach autistic individuals 1 to one.
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  They book with me. If you're interested, actually
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  you can just go to the aspyworld.com/dan book and you
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  can book a session with me. I could coach you one to one on
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  a call. But when I'm coaching these
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  people one to one, what seems to happen is I I realize certain
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  trends that only autistic individuals experience in life.
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  And this is where this video came from, which is fascinating,
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  which is why the eye contact and certain nomenclature, when you
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  hear those words, it gives you physical pain.
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  Absolutely fantastic. I'll see you in the next video,
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  guys. Peace.
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