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5 Aspergers Symptoms in Adults - Aspergers Syndrome Explained · 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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  So we always hear about kids on the autism spectrum.
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  That's all great, but have you ever wondered what are the
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  Asperges syndrome traits in an adult?
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  Because everything is geared towards kids, right?
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  In this video I'm breaking down 5 and the most interesting eye
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  opening traits of Asperger syndrome in adults that you can
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  understand. OK guys, what's going on?
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  Welcome back to the Aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  I've got diagnosis of Asperger syndrome, ADHD, OCD and dyslexia
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  making weekly videos all about this stuff.
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  And if you're watching on my other social platforms, then if
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  they come. So Asburger syndrome in adults
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  is really interesting. It's actually quite fascinating
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  because Asburger syndrome actually refers to something
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  called a low support needs autism individual because they
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  took the term Asburger syndrome out with the DSM, which is kind
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  of like the diagnostic criteria way back in 2013.
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  But the interesting thing about it is that people still look for
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  and understand the term Asburger syndrome to talk about what I'm
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  talking about right now, which is the high support needs,
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  autistic individuals, the people who fly under the radar really
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  easily. So I'm going to go through some
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  of this right now. So the first one is delayed in
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  onset of emotions. Now, when you are an autistic
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  person of low support needs or Asperger's syndrome, then you're
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  around more people because you can hold down a job or you may
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  have a relationship or you may have lots and lots of friends
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  and you're going to do a lot more than someone typically with
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  higher support needs, right? And in this situation, you'll
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  find yourself kind of having to deal with lots of emotions, lots
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  of feelings, and lots of different people's insurance and
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  outs of conversion. Now, one of the most interesting
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  things in this specific one is there's a delay in the onset of
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  the emotions. An autistic individual with
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  Asperger's syndrome may have something happen to them that
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  they may feel intently irate about or sad or emotional about,
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  yet they won't display how they feel or even understand how they
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  feel until a little bit afterwards.
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  This is also to do with something called Alexa thymia,
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  which comes kind of comorbidly Co occurring alongside autism.
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  It's kind of part and parcel of it.
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  And because of that, the person will feel the emotions way
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  afterwards because what we have is the word emotion comes from
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  energy in motion and we feel the energy, but we can't identify it
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  yet to put it into motion. So that's delayed.
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  And this is very common in autistic people.
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  So you may find that like and it happens with jokes.
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  You may tell somebody a joke like Darren, your friend, you
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  don't know if he's autistic or not.
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  You tell Darren a joke and then a day later he may text you
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  saying like dude, that joke was so funny.
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  Or he may have just burst out laughing days later.
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  Tell me about that joke. I have this all the time.
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  Jokes is one of my biggest issues because I don't
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  understand and also social settings.
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  I don't understand the social setting until afterwards.
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  I'll have to process and think about it and think about it.
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  And then I kind of think, Oh yeah, I get it now.
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  So that delayed onset of emotions is very prevalent in
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  Asperger syndrome. OK, so #2 is scripted
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  conversation or rehearsing socializing?
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  This is so interesting. Me and my partner bless us all.
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  We do this quite often. We'll script what we want to
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  say, especially with telephone conversations or like if we're
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  going to meet new people, we're going to script like how are we
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  going to go about this? We're going to, we're going to
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  think about it in this way and we're going to script it.
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  So we kind of prepare ourselves for the social conversation and
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  you'll see somebody practicing this or thinking about it or
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  going over in the head what they're going to say to the
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  person or what they're going to say in that situation or what
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  they're going to say on the phone.
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  This is just so indicative of Asperger's syndrome because the
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  rehearsing scripted conversation for socializing is something
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  that nobody does unless you have an issue with socializing.
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  Socializing issues on communication levels happen for
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  people on the autism spectrum, and people with Asperger's
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  syndrome will display this more openly because of their lowest
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  opponies, meaning they're going to be around those situations a
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  heck of a lot more than the average autistic person.
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  OK, so #3 is sensory seeking through internal sensations.
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  Now this could be a whole number of things.
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  And one of the things I will give you as an example is people
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  with Asperger's syndrome may hum to the vacuum cleaner because
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  that's kind of like an internal sensation of stemming or self
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  symmetry behaviour or sensory seeking through internal ways.
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  Another way to do this is that maybe they're always crunching
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  on lettuce or celery because that need for sensory stimuli,
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  they're getting that internally through those things because
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  it's it's making them feel a certain way internally.
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  Another way would be to remember a sound or remember a time or
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  remember a feeling that will give you satisfaction and
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  unleash dopamine in your brain. This is something that autistic
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  individuals, especially people with Asperger's syndrome will
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  do. They will think about something
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  that gives them dopamine because it's a sensory seeking activity
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  through internal stimuli. And I think this is absolutely
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  fantastic. Similar to why I have so many
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  tattoos because that that vibration of the tattooing gives
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  me a sensory stimuli calming feel.
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  It's super awesome. I actually have a tattoo book
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  for next week because I just love getting tattoos because of
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  OK, the next one is hyper logical empathy.
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  Now empathy comes in a very interesting way.
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  Empathy to be empathetic means to see something from somebody
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  else's point of view and feel their feelings right?
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  How would you like it if you were in a situation, etcetera.
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  Now, autistic individuals will not be able to specifically get
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  that. However, what we do have for
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  people with Asperger's syndrome, low support, needs autism.
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  We will have hyper logical empathy, meaning that we can
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  look, analyse the situation logically, think how would that
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  person feel and then think, OK, if I was in that situation, I
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  would do this, that and the other, oh, I wouldn't say this
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  or whatever. So we can analyse, we can
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  confront that situation, see it directly head on, analyze it
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  logically, come out with an algorithmic distribution of
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  outcomes and then choose the best outcome for that.
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  So it's not really understanding empathy, it's understanding
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  those things. And so for example, an autistic
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  person may give you this example if you are non autistic and you
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  have a friend who's had something happen to them and the
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  the autistic person you think may not understand them, you
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  say, oh come, I have some empathy.
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  Like think about it from their point of view.
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  Now the person with Asperger syndrome may turn around and be
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  like, OK, give me some variables.
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  What is the process? What's happened?
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  How do they do it? And may I ask you more questions
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  than you probably thought was socially acceptable about that
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  thing. They're gaining that
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  information, that data to process an outcome, to
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  understand, to be empathetic in that moment.
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  And this is so interesting. I used to get so much trouble
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  for this from people because I didn't understand the situations
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  without understanding more information about it.
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  And that's OK because we're autistic and we need to gather
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  that data before moving forward with our conclusion or even our
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  empathy. But this is something very
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  interesting and it is prevalent in autism and Asperger's
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  syndrome specifically. OK, my last final one, but not
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  the least is emotional flashbacks to social failures.
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  Now autistic individuals, Asperger people, people with
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  Asperger's syndrome will always flashback to situations in
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  social situations that they failed in.
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  They may feel like, oh, I was on a date with a girl, it's going
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  so well and I said something stupid.
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  Oh, and that would just flashback constantly and just
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  sit there and, and make them feel rubbish.
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  Or they'll think about a time when they were in school and
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  they they didn't have many friends because they were
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  socially unable to deal with a situation that presented itself.
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  Or like gym class or any situation could be going out on
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  to a club and trying to, you know, meet friends or do
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  something interesting. But no, the failure will always
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  flashback and give you kind of like this trauma where rather
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  than just letting go, we'll obsess over the fact that, oh,
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  we did this thing wrong, we did it wrong or we failed and we
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  failed. It's OK, like I, I literally
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  coach autistic individuals one-on-one with how to increase
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  their potential towards life and be the most awesome people they
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  possibly can. Now if this is something you're
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  interested in, I'll leave a link down below where you can
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  actually book a one-on-one consultation consult with me.
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  Or you can just go into the aspyworld.com/dan book and you
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  can book a session with me and speak to me directly.
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  We'll have a hangout on Zoom and I can help with all areas of
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  your life. But it's so interesting, the
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  emotional flashbacks for social failures haunt autistic people
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  to no end. And I know I can see you.
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  I can see you like smiling right now because you know you do it.
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  I can help you. So give this video a thumbs up
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  and subscribe if that is something you deal with.
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  OK guys, I'll see you in the next one.
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