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Aspergers in Girls: The Role of Therapy in Treating · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Last pages in Girls. What is the role of therapy?
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  I'm going to go through all of that right now.
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  Let's get stuck in guys. Welcome back to the Aspy Gold.
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  My name is Dan and I have autism and ADHD and I read quickly
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  It's my mission in life to help you reach your potential as an
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  autistic person, As somebody who advocates for autism, we're
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  going to do this together. We're going to build a
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  potential, a world future full of awesome opportunities for
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  artistic individuals. I want you to be there by my
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  side helping me bring this to fruition.
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  It's going to be amazing. You guys are awesome.
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  Let's get us stuck in right now, Guys, Aspergers and girls.
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  Aspergers is a term that we don't really use anymore.
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  We use kind of like lower support needs autism spectrum
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  disorder. It's a bit of a long winded way
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  of saying it, but the reasons for this.
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  However, we're here to talk about the role of therapy in
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  helping autism, right? So The thing is, you can't cure
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  autism. Autism is a incurable
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  neurological developmental condition, but you can treat
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  symptomatic issues of autism right?
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  So one of the things I would say is therapy is the best way to do
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  this. I do take medication and I have
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  therapy now. I've had all kinds of therapy
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  from in person counseling to digital counseling over my using
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  my iPhone with an app called Better Help, which FYI guys, I
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  actually recommend. So if you are interested in
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  checking out using an app to you know as your therapist you can
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  talk on video or voice call or you can just text them better
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  help is amazing because within 24 to 48 hours they hooked me up
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  with a specialist in autism and ADHD because you put new
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  credentials. It's absolutely amazing and I
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  did from the comfort of my own home.
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  I was actually sat in bed at one point so it's amazing.
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  I definitely recommend it. So check them out below.
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  However, I've done all types of stuff occupational therapy all
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  down to like intensive kind of like counseling.
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  What I would say is that therapy is the quickest way for self
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  realization and self knowingness, and when you have a
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  therapist that works on things that are specific to you as a
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  person, nothing compounds to it. You can take a medication which
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  will take off some kind of issues and maybe take the edge
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  off certain things like anxiety and depression and stuff like
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  that. But when you say I have a
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  problem in this area of my life, I need, you know, specific help
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  in this one area. And a therapist says, hey, I can
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  help you in that one area. You win every time.
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  It's kind of like the golden ticket to realizing that one
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  thing. So I actually work one-on-one
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  with a lot of clients. I do coaching, so I coach people
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  who, you know, so say you wanted to reach out to me now and know
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  more about certain things. You'd e-mail me and say, Dan, I
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  want to, you know, do coaching and I'll send you my coaching
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  link and you book in and I work on a specific thing.
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  So you said to me, oh, I'm having a difficult time in a
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  relationship with my partner, my spouse, and we work on those
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  issues. So therapy actually has a very
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  important role and actually has one of the most important roles.
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  Yeah, I think it's the least thought about thing when people
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  think about autism. Because when you go online and
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  you look for stuff and you read about things, reading and
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  looking is one thing. But when you're actively getting
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  tactile feedback, when you're sitting with somebody, when
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  you're when you're trying stuff, when you're when you're getting
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  told to do protocol and practices and you follow them
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  through, you actually win every time you do that because
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  practice makes progress and you win every time.
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  Now, guys, I have a free Autism Wife Hacks PDF book at
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  autismhacks.net that you can get right now.
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  And if you have anything to add this video, pop in a comment and
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  read every single one and share this video if you think somebody
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  can benefit. All right, guys, I'll see you in
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  the next one. Peace.