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5 Odd Things ONLY AUTISTIC People Do! · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In this video I'm talking about 5 strange things that only
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  autistic people experience. This is really interesting.
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  All that's coming up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  Aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  So if you're new around here and you want to learn more about
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  autism and ADHD, hit the subscribe button down below
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  because I'm autistic and I make weekly videos all about this
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  stuff. OK, so there are certain things
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  that happen or that impact autistic individuals lives and
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  only they seem to know about it. And I'll give you examples of
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  all of these right now. So I'm going to cover five of
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  them. And how I came around this was
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  that after a certain amount of time, I realised that typical
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  people didn't experience the things in the same way I did.
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  And then I realised that all my autistic friends also
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  experienced those things. So I was like, oh, OK, so the
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  first one I'm going to talk about is light flickering.
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  Now I did a video on this and it went viral on Tiktok and
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  Instagram and I'll try and link it down below and in a card here
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  somewhere. And on that video, I take my
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  iPhone and I'm in a, a store, like a kids toy store and I'm
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  showing you how the fluorescent lighting that is above us is
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  flickering like a crazy, right? Like you'll see autistic people
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  do this right when they're like looking up at lights and they're
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  doing this because they're counter phasing the flicker.
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  So if you, if a light's flickering and you do this, it
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  stops the flicker impacting you. Why?
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  Because it's very irritating. Imagine being in like a constant
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  disco light always. It's horrible.
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  Hence why like offices, doctors, surgeries, clinics, things like
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  that, toy stores, department stores, grocery stores, they all
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  have this like fluorescent light and it flickers at a certain
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  frame rate. Now autistic individuals can see
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  that frame rate a lot more clearly than non autistic
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  people, so it doesn't bother typical people because they
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  can't see it. But when you hold your phone
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  camera up to those lights, you're able to see the flicker
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  on the screen. And I'll try and insert a clip
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  of that video here so you can see that.
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  So the camera actually picks up the flicker, but that's what I
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  can see in my eyes. I don't know why autistic people
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  can see that. How cool and weird is that?
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  Now, that was absolutely fascinating and one of the most
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  interesting things to to come of that.
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  When I put that video out, it was kind of like a test.
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  Can you see this? If not, then your brain is wired
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  neurotypically. But if you can see this in your
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  brain, it's probably wired neurodivergently.
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  And hey, yeah, probably on the autism spectrum, which is really
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  interesting. OK, so #2 is ultrasound hearing
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  now not ultrasound like when you're doing like baby stuff or
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  ultrasound doesn't? Like when you are an autistic
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  individual, your hearing is attuned a lot more clearly to
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  detail around you than the average person.
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  And an example of this is when I was attending a talk by the Ass
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  Bridges Association in my local area, in a place called London,
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  know, because I live in North Wales, be well, kind of, I live
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  in North Wales and Canada. So yeah.
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  And when I was in this meeting, it was packed, was sold, was
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  sold out. So then they had to open the
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  door of the cafe because like, you know, it was hot.
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  It was summer. And so I was sitting there
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  listening to this woman talk and people were walking past.
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  Now, every time somebody walked past, like, wow, so loud.
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  Like I always look behind me because they just sounded so
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  loud, you know, so annoying. And I noticed that the only
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  people that were turning around are looking and noticing the
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  noise were the autistic people. The other people who were there
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  who were not autistic were just like really engaged in the
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  speaker. And it's kind of interesting
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  because that is a distraction that happens.
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  And you'll see this a lot. Autistic individuals could be
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  really distracted or you can't adore.
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  They have an unshakable focus on something.
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  It's it's so interesting how polar that thing is, but we all
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  have really hypersensitivity to certain things and sound hearing
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  super, super fast, super really like detailed is very, very
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  interesting. Now before we go any further,
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  guys, if you haven't already followed me on Instagram, Tiktok
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  So have you experienced this so far?
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  Have you experienced the light flicker?
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  Have you experienced the sound? I want to know.
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  Drop a comment down below because you can be autistic and
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  not even know it. Let's open this discussion.
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  OK, so #3 is clothing tags don't just hurt because a lot of
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  people will be like, Oh yeah, well, seams on clothing and
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  clothing tags in, you know, in trousers or underpants or on
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  T-shirts that interests everybody's neck.
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  And you're absolutely right, it does irritate us.
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  But actually what, what it does, it hurts us on an emotional pain
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  level. So we don't just feel it like a
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  pain, like, oh, it's annoying. We feel it, oh, intensely
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  internally. It's almost like an awkward
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  feeling. It's kind of like being
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  submerged in ice cold water. Imagine how uncomfortable that
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  would feel, right? And that's what that feeling is.
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  It's not just a feeling of like, oh, a sharp thing scratching
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  your neck. It's an irritation that impacts
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  your entire higher beingness. So you go from being just like,
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  Hey, I'm going to put on a T-shirt, poop and then be like,
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  ah, this T-shirt is making me emotionally unstable.
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  You know, it's making me completely freak out.
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  It's it's, it's upsetting. It's, it's just disturbing my
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  whole reality right now. And that's really, really
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  interesting. That's why a lot of like
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  clothing makes up for autistic individuals don't have tags on
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  them, which is really, really amazing.
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  Now this top, I think I got this from, I don't know, Tesco, which
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  is like my local Walmart type of store.
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  They sell clothes. I think I got it from there and
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  this doesn't have tags on it. So all the clothes I buy either
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  pull the tags off or I buy them without tags on the back, which
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  is so good. One of those annoying places for
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  tags is inside here and this scene here and I cut them all
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  off. I'm like, it's horrible.
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  It's so annoying. But that's something that
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  autistic individuals feel deeply and they're the only people I've
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  here somewhere in this video. OK, so #4 is the buzzing sound
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  of electricity. Oh my goodness, the amount of
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  people who cannot hear the buzzing sound of electricity
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  definitely impacts my ability to understand that, hey, it's only
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  autistic people who hear this. Now, like I was saying about the
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  light flicker, those lights also buzz.
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  It's like an electrical buzz. And we can hear that deeply,
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  like super deep. And because of that, we as
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  autistic individuals can notice that sounds kind of similar to
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  the ultra hearing, the ultra kind of sound hearing, but it's
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  on a different level. It's kind of like it's through
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  electricity, like these lights are making a small sound and I
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  can hear that sound and autistic people can hear the sound.
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  It's so interesting if you're one of these people, if you, if
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  you know exactly what I'm talking about, you have to give
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  a zero thumbs up. I want to know where my ultra
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  supersonic hearing peeps are because this is so interesting.
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  And it's only autistic people I know that have ever commented
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  the same thing as me, that they can hear the buzzing sound of
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  lights. And sometimes with certain types
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  of cabling, especially if I'm not on a train or if I'm
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  somewhere I have like industrial cables, I can hear that sound
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  like it's, it's like as if someone's got a vacuum cleaner
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  next to me. Like it's like whoa.
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  It's like super loud. Very, very interesting echo.
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  So #5 This is super interesting. Now autistic individuals will
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  feel physical pain from eye contact that's prolonged and
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  certain words. This is so interesting, right?
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  It's like a hypersensitivity, but to certain things.
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  So if you hear a certain word, like if I hear a certain words,
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  it hurts. Like it's like pain.
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  It's the only way I can describe it.
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  It's not like somebody's punched me, but it's like a pain that
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  I'd get if somebody had punched me, you know what I mean?
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  Or like the prolonged eye contact becomes physically
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  painful. It's like it starts hurting your
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  body and being this, I can see you smiling right now and
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  understanding exactly what I'm talking about.
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  I, I, honestly, it's so interesting because there are so
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  many things we can do to, to help overcome this.
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  And I actually, I noticed this because because I'm talking in
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  a, you know, so I coach cripple 1 to 1.
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  I coach autistic individuals 1 to one.
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  They, they book with me. If you're interested, actually
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  you can just go to theaspyworld.com/dan book and
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  you can book a session with me. I could coach you one to one on
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  a call. But when I'm coaching these
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  people one to one, what seems to happen is I realise certain
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  trends that only autistic individuals experience in life.
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  And this is where this video came from, which is fascinating,
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  which is why the eye contact and certain nomenclature, when you
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  hear those words, it like gives you physical pain.
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  Absolutely fantastic. I'll see you in the next video
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  guys. Peace.