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Emotional Regulation in Girls with Autism · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So why is emotional regulation important for females on the
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  autism spectrum? I'm going to get into all of
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  this right now because it's super important.
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  So just hit me up guys. You know, emotional regulation
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  is difficult for autistic individuals.
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  Now, girls on the autism inspection will have issues with
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  emotional regulation, down to the simple fact that females in
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  the autism spectrum have a stronger connection to emotions.
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  But there's still the issues with emotional regulation.
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  Now, emotional regulation is regulating how you feel about
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  emotions, how you feel with your emotions.
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  Are you able to express emotions?
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  Are you able to talk about your emotions?
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  Are you able to tell someone how you really feel about your
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  emotions? Now, emotions come from the word
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  energy in motion. Now, what this means is that
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  you'll have a buildup of energy that you want to express in a
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  certain way. And emotion is how you express
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  it, right? So you feel a certain way, you
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  want to express it, you feel really, really happy.
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  You'll smile and laugh and joke around.
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  It would be great. But autistic individuals,
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  because autism is inherently a communication disorder, the
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  communication between yourself to know this is an emotion and I
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  want to put that into motion or it isn't energy and I want to
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  put it into motion. It's not there.
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  It's disconnected. There's a, there's a, there's a
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  disconnect. So instead we have emotional
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  dysregulation or no emotional regulation at all, where you
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  could be seen to be having a really stressful time in an
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  event, which is really, really happy because you can't say, oh,
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  you know, I'm actually really hot sat next to the window in
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  the sun, can I move? You can't figure that out
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  because your emotions are overtaking and you don't know
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  which emotion you're going to put into motion, into an energy
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  that is the way that you want it to be heard.
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  So the importance of actually having emotional regulation is
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  tenfold. You know, I mean, they have so
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  many, so many areas. So let's go back a bit.
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  How can we get this? How can we get it to a place
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  where we understand if we think about energy in motion, again,
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  it's really interesting if we break it down to two parts, you
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  have energy, you have emotion. We all know how to motion.
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  If I said to you, hey, you know, flap your hands, you just flap
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  your hands, right? That's motion.
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  If I said to you think about an energy, you'd be like, OK, I
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  want to think about energy of feeling sad or think about
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  energy of feeling happy, or think about energy of feeling
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  hungry or the energy of feeling thirsty.
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  You know all of those energies, right?
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  So all we do is this. You need to analyze your
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  position, your situation when you're in it, say, OK, I am
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  feeling annoyed, annoying is the feeling, but how do I want to
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  put that into motion? Stand up and talk verbally, so
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  on. I am feeling very stressed, very
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  anxious at the moment. I want to do something
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  different. I'm uncomfortable.
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  I need to move. Remember, choosing the energy or
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  identifying the energy and then choosing the motion in which you
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  relay that energy to somebody else or to the world is how you
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  regulate emotions. Practice always makes progress.
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  So this is what I this is what I tend to do.
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  I tend to just tell randomly like my partner and my friends,
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  I'll be like, huh, I'm feeling hungry right now.
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  Because the more I practice understanding my own emotion,
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  the better and more regular those emotions are going to be
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  understood. So I can regulate my emotions
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  more easy by practicing. Practice makes progress.
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  autismhacks.net right now. I love you guys, peace.