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4 At Home Autism Therapies You Need To Try · 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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  Yeah, I know time is money and money is so precious right now
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  because of the economic climate we're in.
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  So I have come today with four at home autism kind of therapies
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  that you can use with yourself or your your child or whatever.
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  So I'm really excited about this.
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  Let's go into it right now. It's not going to cost you a
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  penny. Let's do it guys.
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  What's going on? My name is Dan.
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  I have autism and ADHD. I do weekly videos on this
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  topic. So if you're new around here and
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  on that every single day and I love talking to you guys.
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  So just reach out to me if you have any questions, right.
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  So at home autism therapies that you can do right now starting
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  today, The first one is special interest time.
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  Now having a special interest is super useful because autistic
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  individuals always have special interests, like it could be
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  Thomas the Train or it could be like books or it could be like
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  Tamagotchis or it could be absolutely anything, it could be
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  Marilyn Monroe, it could be absolutely anything, it could be
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  like car parts or something, right?
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  But having a special interest is really useful when you want to
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  reset your mind or reset your mood.
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  So autistic individuals will find relaxation and therapeutic
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  relaxation from researching and obsessing over their obsessive
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  interests. So how this works with a therapy
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  is that say you're having a stressful day.
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  Say you're autistic child or yourself if you're autistic.
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  So you're having a stressful day and you want to kind of get back
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  to 0 and just kind of like really need to relax because
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  autistic individuals find it quite hard to relax.
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  What I would say to do is to research or watch or play with
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  or collect or whatever the topic of special interest that you
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  have. So what this does is it starts
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  releasing a dolphins. You start feeling nice and calm
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  and if you do this like an hour you'll feel really really good.
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  And this is a really good example of how you can use
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  something like as simple as just resetting special interest to
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  really help therapeutically reset you to more of a relaxed
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  mode. So #2 is sensory exercises.
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  So I have this thing called the Sensory Diet, which I basically
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  put into my courses and my coaching programs.
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  FYI guys, if you're interested in courses and coaching programs
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  directly from me on autism and ADHD, e-mail me the aspy
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  world@gmail.com and I'll reach out to to you and we can discuss
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  if you want to enroll in one of my programs and have some
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  personal coaching. For me, this sensory diet is
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  basically exercises because many issues that you have also
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  personal daily life are down to proprioception not being an
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  activated deep muscle activation that you can do by doing simple
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  things like taking a shower, picking up a stack of books or
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  picking up a chair, going for a walk, walking with dog, running,
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  you know walking around your house for 20 minutes.
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  What happens is when you engage those proprioception muscles,
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  your spatial awareness becomes more real and you'll have less
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  sensory issues related to walking through doors touching
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  things because your pro perception for sensory
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  processing has been elevated. Okay.
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  It may sound very complex, but it's kind of like if you did
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  nothing all day, you would be less activating your muscles,
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  which means you have less spatial awareness and more
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  things can go wrong in a roundabout sense.
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  But if you kind of go for a walk, go for a shower, pick up a
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  stack of books, move a chair every kind of two hours, you'll
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  be good. Honestly, this this change is
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  going to blow your mind. You come back here after a day
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  and leave a comment saying dude, I did the sensory diet
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  exercises, you win. OK, so #3 is fine.
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  Motor skills. Now lots of autistic people have
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  issues in motor skills, you know, large or great and fine,
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  but mine are fine. Motor skill issues like picking
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  up a key for it in the door, picking up coins, them trying to
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  do buttons and zips. These are really, really
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  difficult. But what you can do is you could
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  find stuff like these. Like I'd sell these fidget coins
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  on my site so if you're interested there is a link on my
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  Instagram for it. But you know, picking up a coin,
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  making stacks out of coins and just twiddling with the these
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  coins will help improve your finite motor skills.
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  You can also do things like picking up keys and putting keys
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  in door, take it in and take it out.
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  You know, practice opening kitchen drawers, closing a
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  kitchen drawer, doing a zipper on your jacket, doing a button
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  on your jacket. All of these things are small,
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  fine motor skill practices that you could put into 20 minutes in
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  your day and it will help improve your fine motor skills.
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  I found that after actually practicing fine motor skills, my
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  ability to do those things greatly increase because
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  practice makes progress no matter who you are.
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  But it's just autistic people have issues with those things.
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  So fine. Motor still practice is a really
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  good cell phone therapy that you can do completely free.
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  OK, so #4 is sensory therapy. So many of sort of people
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  obviously are sensory seekers, not just sensory avoiders.
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  This is really interesting. So sensory toys, lights,
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  equipment. I actually have a new one on my
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  my shelf behind me here, which is like a squishy Easter Island
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  head guy. I got that new one.
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  And so when I'm wanting to seek something sensory to just squish
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  and just play with, I kind of go get that guy because.
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  It is. A sensory toy that I can use
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  that I have in the house that's going to help me calm down and
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  relax a little bit. If I'm feeling a little bit on
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  edge or I'm feeling a little bit like oh, I don't feel too great.
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  Sensory therapy is really good to relax.
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  I also have different types of lights and lighting that I can
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  put a different levels and temperatures in my room that I
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  could then just relax with and just really chill alongside
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  those things. Because sensory therapy is just
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  so good because when you're sensory seeking and you can get
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  relaxed from sensory play, your day becomes a lot more
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  manageable. So sensory play is super
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  awesome. Do you?
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  If you have anything that you want to share with me, I'd love
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  to know, so drop in a comment down below.
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  And if you haven't already, pick up my Autism Life Hacks PDF work
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  from autismhacks.net. Love you guys.
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  See you in the next video. Hey guys, thank you so much for
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  See you in the next one. Peace.