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Autism Sensory Overload (3 Top Tips) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Here are a few tips to navigate sensory overloads and autism.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the Ask Me world.
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  What's up? My name is Dan, I have autism
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  and ADHD, and I make weekly videos all about this stuff.
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  So if you're new around here and you want to join this movement
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  of people empowering other people just like you, my mission
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  to help autistic individuals 10XL life.
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  Then to make sure to click the subscribe button by clicking the
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  notification button down below. So sensory overload is something
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  that happens to autistic people quite often and essentially
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  overloads one of our main causes of autism, meltdowns.
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  Now if you're familiar with autism, you're familiar with
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  meltdowns. This is uncomfortable outburst
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  of emotions that happens when there is a loss of control in
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  the environment of the autistic individual and it's not good.
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  I myself do have these from time to time and I have to manage
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  with them. So I've written down 3 tips to
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  help navigate your way through these things.
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  Now if you're new around here and you haven't downloaded my
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  Autism Wifax PDF book, you can do right now from
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  autismhacks.net and it's completely free and the link is
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  in the description down below. OK guys, so the first one I'm
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  going to talk about here is headphones Now always carrying
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  noise cancelling headphones with you wherever you go.
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  Now I actually have the Apple Airpod Max, I think they're
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  called. Now these are noise cancelling
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  headphones and they're just absolutely fantastic.
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  As soon as you put them on, it kind of blocks out all the
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  noise. And you can just actually, if
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  you're in an environment that's sensory triggering, like an
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  environment where it's too loud, noisy, it could be shopping,
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  world train station, anywhere, put these headphones on and it
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  just really does help. It dampens the noise.
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  And it's kind of like one of those things that I would never
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  leave home without because if I'm going somewhere, I know it's
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  going to be noisy. I want to take my headphones
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  because I want to kind of detach from that environment.
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  That's a bit crazy and chaosic, right?
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  So #2 is comfort over class? And I always use this rule,
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  especially when I'm travelling, it's that I'm put on like
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  pajamas or like sweats or anything that's super, super
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  comfy because I want to be comfortable rather than looking
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  stylish, right? And so if I'm travelling on an
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  airplane or a bus or a car or whatever, I'll just really chill
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  and just get into like the company's clothes ever.
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  Now, as soon as I want to my destination, I'll just go to the
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  restrooms and change into like professional clothes and I'll go
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  into the event that I'm supposed to do.
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  Now this is amazing because it gives you that control in the
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  environment that you really need, especially when
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  travelling, whereas travelling can be kind of quite out of
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  control. So comfort over class wins every
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  time. OK, so #3 is sunglasses.
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  A lot of people overlook the fun, but carrying sunglasses is
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  a really good way to navigate through social situations.
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  And also people with sensitive to light sensitivity, like if
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  the sun's too bright, if light are too bright, put sunglasses
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  on helps kind of dampen that light going in and it dampens
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  that effect of that century input.
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  And also, if you're talking to somebody, this is a pro tip.
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  They believe that you're looking at them in the eyes, even though
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  it's difficult for a set of people to look people in the
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  eyes because you can look anywhere around them, but you've
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  got sunglasses on so they won't even know.
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  Guys, if this video is life changing for you and anybody
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  else, please share it in your social media account or leave me
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  love to interact. Also, guys, give this view a
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  like and I'll see you in the next one.
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  Peace.