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Autism Education: How To Overcome The Difficulties (My Story) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  I saw autism and education. Here are my three top tips on
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  how to overcome those obstacles of autism and Academia.
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  And being on the autism spectrum are being somewhere where you're
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  in a learning environment. Don't go anywhere, it's coming
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  up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  apps. We world.
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  My name is Dan, I have autism ADHD OCD and dyslexia, and I'm
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  making weekly videos all about this stuff.
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  So, if you're new around here and you want to kind of learn
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  more about to hit the Subscribe button here on YouTube to see
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  more videos by clicking on notification Bell.
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  And also if you're watching on Facebook, Instagram Tick Tock
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  then make sure to follow this page for daily videos or yes
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  daily videos guys. What's going on?
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  I have put together my three top strategies because not only have
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  I been to primary school and I went to secondary school or high
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  school. Then I also went to college,
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  which is in the UK a little bit between University and high
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  school, which is like, basically a technical college.
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  Then I went to University now, I've done it all, I went from
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  nothing to having a degree in chemistry, and I really want to
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  share that with you because I think there's some value there
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  to be had. Now I didn't do it just like any
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  other kind of typical kid. And then I actually have to
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  create a commendations and I have a an accommodation team
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  with me and that I learnt all these skills from.
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  So it's kind of like a bit from me and a bit from the people I
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  learnt from who are kind of taking care of me, who the
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  disability kind of Advocates of the school that I was in.
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  Okay. So without further Ado why have
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  I got ink on me? That's weird.
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  But further Ado guys, let's get into it, okay?
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  So the first one is audio, recordings and Camera Eclipse.
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  So using a smartphone, like I have my iPhone with me most of
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  the time on an iPad. I would actually say it to
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  dictaphone mode. And record the, the lecture, or
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  the speech that the, the lecture was giving, so I could refer to
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  it back when I'm going over my notes which was super, super
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  awesome. One of the things I did quite
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  often was if there was something on the board that I didn't, you
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  know, I couldn't write down quick enough because I'm
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  dyslexic as well, I kind of hold my phone up like this and I take
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  a picture of the Whiteboard, so I had an actual physical copy of
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  the of the Whiteboard later on. Because obviously, when they're
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  writing things down, they may go to something else.
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  And if you are notes are incorrect, then if you're not
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  writing down, exactly. As they are, you could be very,
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  very confusing. But I use this so much because
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  when I went back home, I was able to listen to the lecture.
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  Look at the notes, as if I was sitting there again and it
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  because being on the autism spectrum, it takes a lot of time
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  to really digest a lot of that information.
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  And so, yeah. So let's get on to step.
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  Number two. I hope you enjoyed the first 10
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  guys. For we do step number two, I
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  just want to let you know that I'm hosting a free autism
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  masterclass webinar on the 20th of July 2022.
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  Sorry if you're watching this in the future and it's It's going
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  to be hosted at 8 p.m. London time, London UK time, but
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  it's all for parents and caregivers of people on the
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  autism spectrum, and I don't want you to miss out.
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  Now, you can go to the as we world.com forward, slash steps
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  to register right now. For your chance to be in this
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  master class, there is a limited amount of space because of
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  holding holding it on Zoom. So you're going to be in with a
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  chance to get it. You got to go on the right now.
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  The ass will.com for / steps and sign up right now, it's going
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  amazing. I'm talking about three major
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  steps to increase, happiness of creativity understanding
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  communication, add a cover. Jeans for autistic children with
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  parents. It's really amazing.
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  See you there. Okay, so, number two is label
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  and date or paperwork. One of the things that you find
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  in Academia, is that the so much paperwork.
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  You get that, you know, sheets of paper and hand out.
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  Your may be taking notes. I'm so many passages, something
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  else. And the end of the day, or the
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  end of the week, you have stacks of stuff, and they're completely
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  uncoordinated, and you don't know where they go.
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  So, what I used to do is I'd write in the top corner of the
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  first page page, one. And then the date.
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  And then, I get the second one page to another date.
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  So, at the end of the week, I have a date.
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  I used in time, you know, the first page to the last page I
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  got on that day organized so I can staple them together.
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  Put them in a pocket and I've got them all ready for my notes
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  when I doing revision, etc, etc, which is pretty amazing.
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  And that was probably one of those profound things, I learned
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  while still in University, even though I did a degree in
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  chemistry, that was probably the most amazing things that I did
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  learn. Okay?
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  So number three was a buddy system / Mentor.
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  Now, I had both of these. I had a huge, like, believe it
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  in buddy, systems and Mentor systems because I feel like they
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  are the things I'm going to get you through some difficult
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  times. When you're in University or
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  school. So I had a friend called Tom and
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  he was amazing and Tommy's to come and meet all my classes.
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  He was in the same classes and mean, we used to ride the car
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  there together to go to university, but Tom was also a
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  pistol to lean on when I needed help.
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  And he also helped me kind of like, read things over and over
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  again, when a lot of people would kind of get a bit annoyed
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  about that because of autism, right?
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  Don't always just take in all the stuff that I know.
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  I want to talk about it and process it a little bit more.
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  Now, I also was set up the student mentor, and it was a
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  lovely woman and she was from Germany, actually.
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  And so I'd come and see her. Her.
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  Every I think there's every week had gone to see her and she
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  talked to me about anything that's going on and he issues
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  are worries that I had. This is crazy good.
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  Now let's just set up because the university I went to had a
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  great Disabled Student kind of process and a system, not all
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  universities and schools will have this so definitely check
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  with your sink or your special educational needs coordinated to
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  see if this type of support is available, maybe you have even
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  better support where you are, but a buddy system is great and
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  mental system is even better. So I would suggest having both
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  them. If you And if you can't just
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  have the buddy system that works.
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  Well, and how I got the buddy system was that made friends
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  with somebody, I made friends, somebody who was on the same
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  class as me, who is doing the same thing as me and I could
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  relate to you. So just try and find someone
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  like that. That was super awesome and the
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  university will help you do that as well.
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  Pretty much all universities and schools have a system to help
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  pair you up with like a big brother or a buddy system, so
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  that we super awesome. And we guys don't forget my
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  master class, go to autism. Go to the astral.com forward
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  slash steps right now. Register for the master classes
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  can be absolutely amazing. I will see you.
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  They're all on the call, it's just going to be so dope.
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  Okay guys, I'll see you on the call, please.