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Autism and ADHD Focusing Challenges · 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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  Guys, in this week I want to talk about autism and ADHD and
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  like coping with like all Christian change because these
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  are something that really effects people on the autism
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  spectrum, especially people with ADHD.
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  Let's get into it guys. What is going on?
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  A big hello to all of you there. And if you are new around here
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  and you want to learn more about autism, ADHD, my name is Dan and
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  I have autism and ADHD. Click the subscribe button
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  download by clicking that notification bell to make sure
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  that you come along this journey with me.
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  And before we get into it, I just want to say a big thank you
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  Okay guys. So I wanted to do this video
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  because focus is a huge issue, right?
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  Because autism and ADHD have this kind of like clashing of of
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  Titans, if you will, where you'll have ADHD wanted to do
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  all this crazy kind of stuff and you've got autism wants to sit
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  down and just do one thing and it crashes against each other.
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  But there are ways in which you can improve upon this and I'm
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  going to do it right now in this video.
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  So the first thing I'm going to talk about right now is creating
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  a routine and structured routine.
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  And establishing structured routine can help somebody stick
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  to going on tasks. Like if you if you don't have a
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  plan of action or a routine of action to execute something that
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  you need to do, like a task or something that you, you know,
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  you need to paint your shed or you need to sit down and write
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  your book or you need to do some work.
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  If you don't have a plan of action, how are you going to do
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  that? Then your ADHD brain will be
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  like, soon as you sit down, you have to do your task.
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  ADHD will just kick in and go, all right, let's get up and, you
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  know, watch cartoons or let's go and like, do something crazy,
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  right? Because that is basically what
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  the frame wants to do, wants to pull you in all directions.
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  But if you have a structured routine, you have it in front of
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  you that will tell you to keep on track, keep on focus, and
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  keep doing that thing. OK, so #2 is to break down those
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  tasks. Now this is a hack for
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  organizing the thing that you're going to do.
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  So you know your plan of action. You've got like, you know, step
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  one is that paint the shed, let it dry, put the door on and
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  drill the base to the floor, right.
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  Each one of those tasks needs breaking down.
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  So the paint, where do we get the paint from?
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  I need to get the paint from the store.
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  I need to get a paintbrush and make sure I've got all of the
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  mats available so I know exactly what I'm going to do.
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  Every task needs to be detailed breakdown to a smaller portion
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  of a task within it. So phase one is to get the
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  paint, what, what is in there? Break that down.
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  It's all the steps you need to get the paint.
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  Get money out of the bank. You will find my credit card,
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  You know, drive to the store. Everything that you need to do,
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  structure it. Because without that structure
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  you have no focus. With no focus, we're going to
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  stay on task. Super important.
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  OK, so #3 is providing a quiet workspace.
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  A lot of the time. Attention to focus and stay on
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  track with something is majorly war because we can't stay on
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  task because our mind is is looking at the the picture on
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  the wall or the the cool like bottle I have my desk or like
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  you know anything other than the task at hand.
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  If you have a nice, clean, private, quiet working
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  environment, you'll have a greater success of sitting down
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  to actually do the thing you want to do.
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  And this goes anywhere, including if you're trying to
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  sleep, you know, if you're trying to eat, everything needs
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  its place. Like a bedroom is a place where
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  you go to sleep, so there should be anything else in there to
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  distract you. You know your office should be a
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  place to work, so there should be only things in there that you
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  need to work with. Super important.
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  So #4 is visual aids. Now this is kind of going off
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  the first two and creating those ideas of all the plans on that
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  structure into visual aids. You could use like emojis to
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  create a visual aid. You could use an app, you could
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  use a calendar, you can use checklist, you can use A to do
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  list as long as you have it visually in front of you.
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  It's going to make a reference point for you to refer back to
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  when you are creating those individual executions.
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  So when you're like OK for the honesty little stuff I've been
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  take, you know what I mean. Like you need to see that
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  because what also happens for ADHD and autism brains is when
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  you take a task off the list, create dopamine.
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  And that, my friends, is what we're all after.
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  There's a #5 something I've spoken about quite a lot,
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  especially my Instagram. So if you haven't already
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  followed me on my Instagram, go to Instagram and type in the
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  aspy world and you just follow me on Instagram and tick tock.
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  Now I do videos on these channels.
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  I do videos on TikTok and Instagram about smaller issues
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  that I can help in, you know, a couple of minutes or a minute or
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  so. And one of the big ones is
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  mindfulness. Now if you practice mindfulness,
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  you'll be able to actually attain a lot of self-discipline
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  and going, OK now I need to sit down and do a task or hey, now I
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  need to go and do this XY and Z thing.
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  So guys, with that I want to know do you have anything to add
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  to this puppet? And comment down below.
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  Give this video a like and I'll see you in the next one guys.
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  Hey guys, thank you so much for checking out this podcast.
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  OK guys. See you in the next one.
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  Peace.