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Odd autism symptom · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Guys, what's going on? This has to be this has to be
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  the most not talk about trait of autism and everybody I know I
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  speak to experiences it and let's talk about it guys, what's
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  going on Welcome back to the Aspy world.
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  My name is Dan. What is going on?
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  I have autism and ADHD. So I wanted to do this video
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  today. There are traits of autism and
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  ADHD that we all understand that we all kind of know and that
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  narrative that that understanding of like, oh, you
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  know, we don't like eye contact. We have difficulty socializing,
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  we have issues staying on task and we have difficulties
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  focusing and all the everything in between.
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  And I understand all that. But I also understand that there
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  are traits and things that occur that we don't always talk about.
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  We don't always always associate as being like, hey, this is part
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  of the autism spectrum. This is something that's
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  happened because I'm autistic and it came to my attention
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  recently about this because my partner was like, we were on the
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  OK, so picture this. OK, it's New Year's Eve 2025 and
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  me and my partner, we were in separate countries this New
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  Year's. So I was in Wales shooting
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  Canada. And so we're on FaceTime and
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  we're just watching TV. I'm like, oh man, it's cold in
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  this house. I, it's super cool.
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  So I got up and I was like, let me check my thermostat, see what
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  temperature is. I go to the thermostat and
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  temperature is 7°C which is like what's that in Fahrenheit?
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  Alexa, what's 7°C in Fahrenheit? 7°C is 44.6°F.
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  So you can see that it was very, very cold.
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  Now this is the middle of December.
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  It was snowing outside and I'm like, well, the end of the time
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  it's not outside. I'm like, I'm cold.
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  I was wearing AT shirt and ripped jeans.
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  I think these jeans actually these these ripped jeans.
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  So I'm wearing AT shirt and ripped jeans and I'm like hmm
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  that is interesting but why didn't I feel the cold until the
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  moment that it was just like overwhelming cold?
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  I mean like as soon as it dropped down below like 1918°C
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  you kind of have the inclination that it was cold.
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  Now this leads me on to something else.
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  Not realizing how cold it was also reminded me and around my
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  partner that I also feel heat too intensely.
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  And what I mean by that is if I have to do any tasks like say I
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  have to do a DIY project, build something, make something,
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  anything that involves any physical activity, I, my, my
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  body temperature just increases exponentially and I just can't
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  control it. I'm much like I get hot, I burn
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  up all the time. And so having known that it
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  isn't my thyroid, but also knowing that if I have to do
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  DIY, I have to do anything like physical, I can't do it with
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  clothes on. I have to do it in my
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  underpants. And that sounds really weird.
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  So it used to be really awkward. People used to come out to the
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  house and be like, why is Don putting a shelf up in his
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  underpants? Because I get too hot.
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  And then the irritation from clothes that make me more hot or
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  even hotter would then irritate me.
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  Now I realize this is like, I can't regulate my body
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  temperature. Why?
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  Because I guess it's a sensory input that I can't regulate due
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  to autism sensory processing disorder.
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  Oh man, that's a good cup of tea.
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  I love the mug. Why is this apparent?
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  Well, it's apparent because we talk about autism sensory
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  processing disorder. We know that a lot of people
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  have issues with like sight and sounds and maybe smells and
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  different things like textures and clothing and things like
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  that. But what we never think about
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  what we don't incorporate typically is that people on the
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  awesome spectrum who have sensory processing disorder will
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  obviously have some kind of issue processing temperatures.
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  Now it could be that it's the temperature of food, right?
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  And so for me, I can't have anything tomato based.
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  If it is cold, there has to be one, right?
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  And so I did a whole video on this is really interesting.
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  This this whole topic of like food sensitivities with the hot
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  and cold and different textures and stuff.
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  But for now, for the sake of this video, I'm just going to
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  say that like, and I'll try and leave that one in this video
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  here somewhere. I'll leave a link for that
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  video. But in terms of the senses
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  So the biggest thing to me is that like what what do we do
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  about how can we regulate our temperature?
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  And The thing is because we can't regulate our temperature,
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  because temperature regulation, it can't happen if you're
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  suffering with this type of sensory processing disorder,
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  like where do we go? What do we do?
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  So there's a few rules of thumb here.
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  And a couple of people asked me this.
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  I posted about it on Instagram. And if you don't already follow
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  me on Instagram, you can definitely check it out at the
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  Aspy World. People are asking me like, hey,
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  what if my kid doesn't feel the cold and goes outside and the
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  temperature is really, really cold, kind of like me in the
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  house. Well, there's a rule of thumb
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  set a reminder of like, well, look, if I'm going to go outside
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  and play in the snow, I need a coat, right?
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  And if I'm going to stay indoors, I want to check the
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  temperature and make sure it doesn't drop below 19.
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  So it's kind of like having like a fail safe safety net.
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  Like, hey, if my temperature is going to, you know, if the
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  outside temperature is going to be below, I don't know, 12°,
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  then I'm definitely going to need a jacket.
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  But if it goes like below 9, then you're going to need a
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  coat. You're going to need to stay
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  warm, OK, And just take the coat with you.
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  Even though the the kid or the person or you in this, you know,
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  scenario, I don't know, you may not feel the cold, but it's
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  there. It's prevalent and it may impact
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  you in a way that's negative and you don't want that.
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  Now, in terms of everything else, how do we regulate it?
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  Well, we can't. We just have to kind of accept
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  the fact that we can't regulate temperature.
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  And it doesn't mean that we're weird, doesn't mean we're odd.
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  It just means that it's part of the condition that we have that
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  gives us this inability to regulate temperature.
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  Now, I'd highly recommend, you know, setting up these fail safe
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  safety Nets and putting them in place so that, you know, you
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  don't lose, you know, your health over it or you don't lose
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  kind of like, you know, days over it.
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  Because The thing is, if it will impact, it may seem like, oh,
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  temperatures like an interesting thing.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it will actually impact your
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  ability to work, to be around people if you get sick, if you
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  can't be around people, right. But know your limits.
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  I'm trying to implement those accordingly.
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  Now, I don't know if it's something that you'd be into,
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  So e-mail me or click the link down below if you're on YouTube
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  and I'll see you in the next one, guys.
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  Peace.