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4 At Home Autism Therapies You Need To Try · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived, welcome to the as be 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.
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  Daniel Morgan Jones. Yeah, I know time is money and
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  money is so precious right now because of the economic climate
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  where in so I have come today with for at home or to them kind
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  of therapies that you can use with yourself or your child or
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  whatever. So I'm really excited about
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  this. Let's go into it right now.
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  It's not going to cost you a penny.
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  Let's do it, guys. What's going on?
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  My name is Dan, I have autism and ADHD.
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  So just reach out to me if you have any questions, right?
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  So at home, autism therapy that you can do right now and
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  starting today. The first one is special
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  interest time. Now having a special interest is
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  super useful because autistic individuals always have special
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  interests. Like, you can be Thomas the
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  train or it could be like books or could be like, Tamagotchis or
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  it could be absolutely anything with Marilyn Monroe.
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  It could be absolutely. Anything could be like car parts
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  or something, right? But having a special interest is
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  really useful when you want to reset.
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  Your mind or reset your mood. So once it's dick individuals
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  will find relaxation and therapeutic relaxation from
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  researching and obsessing over their obsessive interest.
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  So how this works is a therapy is that see having a stressful
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  day? Say you're a sick, child, or
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  yourself through artistic. So you having stressful day and
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  you want to kind of get back to zero and just kind of like I
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  really need to relax because autistic individuals find it
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  quite hard to relax. What I'd say to do is to
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  research or watch or play with or collect or whatever.
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  The topic of special interests that you have.
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  So what this does is it starts releasing endorphins, you stuff
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  your nice and Carmen. If you do this for like an hour,
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  you'll feel really, really good. And this is a really good
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  example of how you can use something like, as simple as
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  just resetting special interest to really help therapeutically
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  reset you to more of a relaxed mode.
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  So, number two is sensory exercises.
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  So I have this thing called the sensory diet, which I basically
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  put into my courses and my coaching programs, FYI, guys, if
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  you are interested in courses and coaching programs directly
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  from me on autism and ADHD, Email me, the ask me world at
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  gmail.com and I'll reach out to you and we can discuss if you
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  want to enroll in one of my programs and have some personal
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  coaching for me. This Century diet is basically
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  exercises because many issues that you have as an officer
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  personal data drive down to proprioception not being
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  activated, each muscle activation that you can do by
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  doing simple. Things like taking a shower
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  picking up a stack of books or pick up a chair going for a walk
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  walking, the dog running, you know, walking around your house
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  for 20 minutes. What happens is when you engage
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  those proprioception muscles, your spatial awareness becomes
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  more real and you'll have less sensory issues related to you
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  know walking through doors touching things because your
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  proprioception for sensory processing has been elevated,
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  okay. It makes a very complex, but
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  it's kind of like if you did nothing all day, you would be
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  less activating your muscles, which means you have less
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  spatial awareness. And more things can go wrong in
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  a roundabout sense, but if you kind of go over what I've gotta
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  shower, pick up his Tackle Box, move a chair, every kind of two
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  hours, you'll be good. Honestly, this dis change is
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  going to blow your mind. You come back here after a day
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  and leave a comment saying, dude, I did the sensory diet
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  exercises you win, okay? So, number three is fine motor
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  skills. Now, lots of autistic people
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  have issued and motor skills. You know, large of great and fun
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  but mine are fine motor skill issues, like picking up a key
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  for in the door, picking up coins them trying to do buttons
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  and Zips. These are really really
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  difficult but what you can do is Is you could find stuff like
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  these fly. Kites all these fidget coins on
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  my site. So if you if you're interested
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  there is a link on my Instagram for it.
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  But, you know, picking up a coin making Stacks out of coins.
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  And just twiddling with these coins, will help improve your
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  fine motor skills. You can also do things like
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  picking up Keys. Put in keys and door to get in.
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  And to get out, you know, practice opening kitchen drawers
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  closing, a kitchen drawer, doing it zipper on your jacket doing
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  the button on your jacket. All of these things are small,
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  fine motor skill practices that you could put into Minutes in
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  your day and it'll help improve your fine motor skills.
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  I found that after actually practicing fine motor skills.
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  My ability to do those things greatly increased because
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  practice makes progress, no matter who you are, which is
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  autistic, people have issues with those things.
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  So fine, motor skill practice is a really good self, home therapy
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  that you can do completely free, okay?
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  So number four is sensory therapy, so many of us to
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  people, obviously a sensory Seekers not just century,
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  avoiders is really interesting. So Century Toys, Light
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  Equipment, I actually have a new one on my my shelf behind me
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  here, which is like a squishy Easter Island head guy.
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  I got that new one and so when I'm wanting to seek something
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  Century to just Squish and just play with, I kind of go get that
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  guy because it is a sensory toy that can use that I have in the
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  house that's going to help me calm down and relax a little
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  bit. If I'm feeling a little bit on
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  edge, I'm feeling a bit like don't feel too great.
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  Such as therapy is really good to relax.
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  They also have different types of light and lighting but I can
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  put a different levels and temperatures in my room that I
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  could then just relax with and just really chill alongside do.
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  Things. Because since we therapy is just
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  so good because when your Centre seeking and you can get relaxed
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  and Century, play your day becomes a lot more manageable.
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  So essentially, it's super awesome.
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