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3 Odd Aspergers Symptoms (MUST SEE 👀) · 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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  Odd Asperger's symptoms or autism traits you probably not
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  come across before in this form. Guys, welcome back to the aspy
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  world. My name is Dan, I have Waters,
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  I'm an ADHD, and I make weekly videos all about this stuff.
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  So if you're new around here and you haven't already subscribed,
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  I highly recommend checking that notification belt down below to
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  make sure you subscribe and don't miss the video.
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  Also if you're on any other platform just click follow be
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  grand guys, what is going on? I want to do this video because
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  I was in an event recently. I went to Llandudno which is
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  like a city near where I live and I went there to do an event
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  or talking about odd and kind of misunderstood traits and or
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  symptoms if you will. People don't really use some
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  symptoms that much, but the the term trait is used.
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  But traits of autism or Asperger's syndrome, depending,
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  you know, what you're diagnosed with.
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  And I kind of blew people's minds with things.
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  So I wanted to go over those today in a video because I think
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  it's going to be really interesting for you to learn.
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  So we're going to get straight into it right after I tell you
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  that you can download my free Autism Life Facts PDF book from
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  autismhacks.net right now. All right, guys, let's get into
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  it. OK.
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  So the first one I want to talk about is changes.
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  Now, when you think about changes being, you know, an
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  issue with change for someone on the autism spectrum, you think,
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  OK, yeah, you know, people on the autism spectrum do have
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  issues with change, which is true.
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  They do. But it's not always what you
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  think. People think that, you know,
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  hey, we're going to go to a McDonald's and then get ice
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  cream, but then, you know, the halfway the cow breaks down.
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  Yes, that is a change. And yes, that could upset
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  someone on the spectrum, but that's not the only type of
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  change that will cause someone on the spectrum to be upset or
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  or wound up or even maybe 'cause a meltdown.
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  The change I'm talking about is things from evolving spaces, the
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  sensory impact of buildings. Say you go outside and there is
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  a building that used to be there, but now it's disappeared.
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  That visual sense or visual aspect of where you are in the
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  city or your town now has changed.
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  Now that is something that people don't really think about,
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  because when you think about architecture and modifications,
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  you think of improvements, right, And something that's
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  going to be good. But actually for autistic
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  people, those landmarks and those markers in their life are
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  actually huge changes. You know, like one day you're
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  walking on the street and there used to be school here.
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  Now it's a big field or these be filled there and I was a block
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  of flats or an apartment block for you American folk.
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  But those type of things are changes that people don't think
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  about because you're only thinking about, you know, micro
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  size changes. But on a macro scale things on a
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  macro level things change rapidly, especially with
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  architecture. And I find this is so
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  interesting, it's quite an odd thing to think about, but it
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  definitely happens. So you could be like evaluating
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  everything like Oh my kid, you know, walking down the street or
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  I'm walking down the street and you know, I'm suddenly triggered
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  and I've gone through all my triggers, everything and it's
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  just not happening. So this is something that would
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  actually cause that to happen. Okay No2 is sensory issues.
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  Now we all talk about sensory processing disorder and sensory
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  issues for people on the autism spectrum.
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  And we all know that people on the autism spectrum do have
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  issues with, you know, sense of touch, taste and all the other
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  stuff. But but there's something more
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  important that we don't really talk about, and this is the role
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  of temperature in your sensory experience.
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  Now, for instance, when I'm doing DIY, I I guess so hot and
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  flustered because I'm having to do something that I'm not
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  comfortable with. I'm not very comfortable with
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  DIY because I have terrible, fine motor skills.
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  But also the attention that it takes to actually do DIY is
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  quite difficult for people in the autism spectrum.
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  Because of that, my temperature increases and the temperature
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  increases quite dramatically and I'm already a hot person, so
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  that temperature increase causes me to be completely disoriented.
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  So I have to kind of like strip down to just my underpants to do
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  the DIY, which FYI guys is super funny and I'll have a good
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  laugh. But that whole experience, it
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  reminds me of the fact that, like, I'm always hot and
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  temperatures really trigger me. So I go into a room that's
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  slightly hot or a little bit too hot for my liking and it's I'm
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  on the edge. I'm already, my cup is already
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  full. I've got no more spoons left.
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  If you don't. Spoon theory is where you have
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  like certain amount of spoons, you can use it during the day.
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  And I mean, you're all spoons. It's meltdown time.
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  Yeah, But that experience is definitely something that people
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  forget about when they think about sensory experiences.
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  They don't think about temperature experiences, but
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  those do trigger people on the ultimate spectrum, which I think
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  is quite odd. Think about on a massive scale,
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  Okay. So the last one I'm going to
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  talk about here is clothing choices.
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  Now, people on the absence spectrum do have issues with
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  sensory textures, right? So the textures are clothing.
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  So kind of like having tags on the back of your shirt.
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  You want to take those tags off because they feel like razor
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  blades. It could be all kinds of sensory
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  input, you know, soft clothes, tight clothes, like there's a
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  whole bunch of things that come with it.
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  But really, really forgotten about all the time is the
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  oddness of the fact that colours and shapes on clothing can also
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  trigger an autism brain to want a meltdown.
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  So like when I was a kid, I couldn't have jeans because of
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  the the shape of the jeans. Like at one, you know, in the
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  90s I had the shape of jeans. They were always very just like
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  straight down, no shape to them, very square, very cardboardy.
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  And I couldn't have those on. And same with like logos.
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  I used to love like getting T-shirts with loads of logos on
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  it. But as you guys probably already
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  noticed, I always wear like plain T-shirts or just a small
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  logo here because the logos that were here were too triggering
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  and too too kind of like stimulating for me.
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  So I was always getting distracted by the logos on my
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  T-shirt because I may not like them or those logos were like
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  overriding my experience to stay focused and stay you know, kind
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  of in the moment. So those things are really
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  interesting and I find so fascinating.
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  Peace. Hey guys, thank you so much for
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  See you in the next one. Peace.