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Autism Brain Do YOU Do This Odd Autistic Behaviour · 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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  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 the autism brain is hyper complex and I want to know, do
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  you do this one odd thing? Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  Aspy world. My name is Dan and I have autism
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  and ADHD. I have like weekly videos all
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  about this stuff. So if you're new around here and
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  you want to learn more for me to hit the subscribe button, click
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  the notification bell down below.
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  Guys, what's going on? I want to talk about the autism
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  brain as something really kind of odd or complexly interesting
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  that I do, and I want to know if you guys do it all that is
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  coming up guys, before we move on to the video, I just want to
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  say that I've come across the most amazing app that's going to
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  come to autism right now. This app is called Collage.
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  Now, this is kind of a community, dating, relationship,
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  friendship kind of app. It's a lot better than some of
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  the other rubbish that's been out before.
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  This app is absolutely groundbreaking.
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  I think it's just amazing. Now.
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  Currently, there's a waiting list.
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  If you can jump on that waiting list and you're watching this
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  video, then do it right now. The link is in the description
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  down below and I comment below this video.
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  Go to the Collage Collection website right now and sign up
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  for the waiting list or by the time you watch this video
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  actually might be out so you can just go and download the app
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  straight away. It's absolutely amazing.
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  I think this on its own is going to break the mold between
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  creating community or to relationships and friendships.
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  But more than anything, this is very much a verified platform,
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  which is very secure because you don't want some creepy weirdos
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  kind of going on and downloading an app.
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  So the verification and the vetting process is very strict
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  and very secure. It's absolutely amazing and it's
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  a safe place for autistic people to find relationships with
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  friends and also potential intimate relationships.
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  So definitely check out College app right now.
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  The link is down below guys, you won't be disappointed.
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  OK, roll the video. OK, So what is it?
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  What is this one odd thing? So I want to get into it.
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  Let's talk about the autism brain.
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  Now the autism brain is hyper complex.
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  It has many difficulties, but it also has many strengths.
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  It can problem solve easier, it can understand complexities
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  quite easier, but also it has difficulties.
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  Social communication, issues with language, other types of
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  communication like sensory processing.
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  There's a whole host of things that can happen when you're on
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  the autism spectrum. Now, if you have autism combined
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  with ADHD, then there's a lot of things that can kind of really
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  be disruptive and kind of really put a span in the works of
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  light. But there are things that you
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  can do to help accommodate those.
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  Now, the autism brain is super fast, like hyper fast.
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  My brain is going a bazillion miles per second and, and I'm
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  trying to keep up with it. A lot of people watching my
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  videos will comment saying, hey Don, can you slow down when you
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  talk? Because I can't understand what
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  you're saying, you're talking too fast, blah, blah, blah.
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  This is because my brain is going so fast and trying to keep
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  up with it by all the information that's coming out of
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  my brain to put into my mouth to tell you guys about it.
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  And this is a little bit difficult because having to slow
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  down your brain to talk at acceptable speed is really,
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  really difficult. But it also works the other way
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  around. When I'm listening to
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  television, documentaries, audiobooks, podcasts, you name
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  it, YouTube videos, they're always a little bit slow.
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  I'm like, Oh my goodness, like it needs to get faster, it needs
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  to be faster, ha ha. Enter the most interesting thing
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  ever. About 3 or 4 years ago, I
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  realized that was a playback speed button on YouTube on your
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  phone for your audio podcasts, audiobooks, whatever.
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  And I was like, hey, what if I put the books at 2 times speed?
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  So I, I change everything to two times speed.
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  What this does is remarkable. There's two things there's two
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  sets here. 1 is it speeds up the audio information and the visual
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  information to match the speed of my brain because my brain is
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  going two times faster than the things I've seen, hence why I
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  speak fast. But also I can understand it a
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  lot better and understand those videos a lot better because
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  they're at a faster pace of this second component.
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  Why this is awesome is because we one of the biggest things
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  that autistic people have is the worry domino, right?
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  And worry domino is when you know you want to learn something
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  like how to change the windscreen wipers in your car.
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  So you watch a YouTube video, but there's so much bump in it
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  and it takes such a long time to get to it.
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  You're already worried that the time's taking you to watch how
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  to change something, right, but has then added time on to the
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  rest of your day like a domino. It's, it's knocked over
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  something else and something else is going to be delayed and
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  blah, blah, blah. So when you're speeding up a
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  video to watch it, not only are you able to understand it
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  better, you also free up the time that would take you to
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  watch it, which gives you extra time, which frees up some of
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  these dominoes. A lot of autistic individuals
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  struggle with these dominoes. I actually have a free PDF book
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  for autism Lifehacks. You can go to autismtips.net
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  right now. There is a link in the
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  description if you want to to download my free autism Lifex
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  book and it helps with things like this.
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  But you know what's interesting is we're trying to diminish the
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  amount of dominoes we have, increase the amount of dopamine
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  we can access and really have a more pleasurable, more
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  accessible experience for autistic individuals.
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  Now this may not work with everybody.
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  I know a lot of people watching my videos and a big thumbs up to
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  you guys. If you are watching videos and
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  you watch about two times speed, please put a comment down below.
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  And like this video said me because I want to know if you're
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  watching my videos at 2 times speed because I get comments
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  like this quite often. People are watching my videos at
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  two set of speed and I'm already talking super fast.
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  Like I already think I'm talking really fast.
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  But also when people say in real life, people say to me like, you
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  know, hey Dan, can you speak of it slower?
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  I can't understand you, especially my family.
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  It really kind of, it's a bit annoying.
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  It's kind of like they don't respect that that's how I am.
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  It's kind of like me saying so well, can you speed up talking,
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  you know, imagine saying to me, hey, you speak at your slow
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  speed up. It's quite rude, isn't it?
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  So to tell someone to slow down when they speak is also super
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  rude. So it's hard to balance that
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  out. And I tried my best.
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  I am a performing artist out. I'm in a band called
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  Straitjacket Legends. We have a racket out in Japan.
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  We have a racket out in the US And I've toured all over the
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  world playing music. And one of the things I get a
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  lot of the time is people say I couldn't understand what you
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  said. You speak it too fast on stage
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  and when you're performing or giving keynote speeches, you
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  know, and I do keynote speeches for autism all over the world.
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  You know, I did the first ever autism speech in Vidcon in
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  Anaheim near Los Angeles in 2019 with Jess from How to ADHD, good
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  friend of mine. She took out a book out as well.
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  So go check out her new book. And you know, it's kind of like
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  people come to the keynotes, never say, hey, dude, slow down.
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  You're speaking too fast because they get it.
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  There's energy, there's passion, there's like this, this wanting
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  to, to get the information out. But I find out some people can't
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  be quite rude with it. And this comes down to another
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  thing where a lot of people dismiss autism.
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  So I use my secret weapon to not only digest stuff, but to kind
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  of feed that feeling you're going, it's OK to speed things
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  up. It's OK to to have things at a
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  faster pace because we're assisting people like we should
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  be accepted for who we are. Now, it doesn't work with
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  everything. Some videos, if I speed them up,
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  they are kind of complex in in how they've been uploaded and it
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  kind of doesn't really, really flow well.
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  Most of the time it does though, because the technology now is so
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  advanced that when you do speed something up, it kind of just
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  speeds it up without breaking. The thing I want to know is this
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  something you do and if it isn't something you do, how do you
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  overcome this and do you experience this?
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  A lot of people tell me that they don't experience it, but
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  most autistic individuals tell me they do experience it.
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  I want to know do you experience it?
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  Do you not drop me a comment down below?
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  Let's have a discussion. I read every single comment and
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  I reply to pretty much all of them as much as I can now.
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  These videos are all to do with autism and ADHD.
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  I have a bunch more videos so please check out the links in
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  the description down below. You guys have been amazing.
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  I'll see you in the next one. Peace.
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