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Autism and ADHD the Same? (YOU Need To See This) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In this video, I'm just guessing, is autism and ADHD the
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  same thing? I'll come from all that right
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  now, so don't go anywhere guys. Welcome back to the Aspy world.
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  My name is Dan and I have autism and ADHD and I make weekly
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  videos all about this stuff. So if you're around here and you
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  want to learn more, hit that subscribe button down below by
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  clicking the notification bell. Guys, we are talking today about
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  autism and ADHD and are they the same thing?
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  And the profound difference between the two, but also the
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  unlikely closeness they both have.
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  Really interesting. Let's get into it, guys.
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  Back when I started this channel, I was already diagnosed
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  with autism and ADHD. And for me, I thought everybody
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  had autism and ADHD together. But what I didn't know is this
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  causes confusion within the community and in the greater
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  community of society when they're trying to learn about
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  autism and ADHD retrospectively and interconnectively.
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  That's a lot of kind of complex words and I'll break it down
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  really easy right now. So autism and ADHD are both
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  neurological developmental conditions.
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  Now, this means that they were formed because of the brain's
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  neurological possible forming in a different way when that person
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  was being created. That's being that I know a
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  person who's diagnosed just ADHD and I know a person who's
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  diagnosed just autistic. Now ADHD is a detention deficit
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  hyperactivity disorder, doesn't always encounter hyperactivity
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  in the hey, I'm going to run around, jump off the walls and
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  drink sugary candy all day. And that's not kind of what ADHD
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  is. They used to have a separate
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  term called ADD, which was attention deficit disorder.
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  And then they came up with ADHD, which is such a deficit
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  hyperactivity stuff, but now they're just fusing together.
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  So just ADHD because a person can actually be hyperactive
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  within their mind and their mental state rather than in the
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  physical appearance of the physical body.
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  I actually have both those. I'm very hyperactive.
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  I talk, talk very fast. So apologies if you're watching
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  this video. I'm trying my best to kind of
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  slow everything down in in my videos so that you guys get all
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  the information you possibly couldn't want.
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  And I also have the hyperactive to my brain.
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  My brain goes 1000 miles an hour.
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  I'm doing a video on that very, very soon.
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  There's quite an interesting video, but before we get into
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  the second part and why autism and ADHD are related, I just
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  wanted to say that if you are having mental health issues and
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  you're on the autism spectrum or have ADHD, there's an awesome
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  app I've used called Betterhelp Therapy.
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  You know, it's an online app where you can log in on your
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  browser or on your phone. And basically what you do is you
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  pay for therapy through the app and you can have one-on-one
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  therapy with somebody over the phone, over voice call, over
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  text messaging. The cool thing about it is that
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  you can do from the comfort of your own home.
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  And this is the most awesome part.
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  You actually tell the person what your conditions are, like
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  ADHD or OCD or, or you know, autism or anxiety, and they'll
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  find and link you to a therapist specialized in that field within
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  one day, which is like, wow, like, that's awesome.
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  I used it personally, I think it's amazing.
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  So the link is in the description down below.
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  Check it out. And yeah, it's an affiliate
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  link. So you know, I do get some
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  benefit from it, but I do actually, honestly use it.
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  Never promote anything that I think is rubbish.
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  Anyway, let's go back to the video.
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  So ADHD and autism, they are closely linked.
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  Now let's think about we talk about ADHD in general.
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  So when someone has ADHD, they will be switching from task to
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  task. They will have an irritability,
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  like they can't sit still that tight.
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  They may have restless legs syndrome or less restless hands
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  and German that want to get up and they have a hard time
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  focusing on the one single task at a time.
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  That is typically ADHD, right? But you can have ADHD where you
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  don't have the hyperactivity attached to it, like I said
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  before. So you may have difficulty with
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  focusing because your mind is jumping from thought to thought
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  to thought to thought. And if this is you, drop me a
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  comment down below. I want to know do you have ADHD
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  and do you have autism or do you have both?
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  Drop me a comment, let me know which condition is you in the
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  color style below. Now with autism, the most
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  interesting thing is autism of hyperfixation or hyperfocus on
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  specific items of participation. So you could be like building
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  Lego, right? And you could be building Lego
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  for hours and hours on end with autism, now there's a battle and
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  a conflict. If you have autism and ADHD,
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  your ADHD brain will want to kind of do random scatty things.
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  But your autism brain is like, we have to like look like a
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  tractor beam and do this one thing which is very difficult
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  for the authentic person. So they're pulled this way and
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  that way, however, they do kind of work in harmony sometimes
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  where you'll want to switch from topic to topic, but actually be
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  really focused on each topic you switch to, which means that you
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  can do multiple things at once, which are pretty amazing.
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  And I actually have a video coming out where I'm talking
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  about just those things. So don't forget to subscribe and
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  give this to you or like if you find this interesting.
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  Now this is where the interesting part comes in.
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  A person can be diagnosed with autism and ADHD combined.
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  Actually, most people in the autism spectrum will have a
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  combined or a comorbid diagnosis of autism and ADHD together, but
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  some people can just have no satisfaction condition.
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  Now, I actually believe that people who are diagnosed just
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  with autism haven't had the ADHD diagnosis yet, and they probably
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  will do because I think that these things work in how many
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  together and they come as a package.
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  That's just my personal belief. I'm not, I'm not a doctor or
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  practitioner in healthcare, but I am a person with autism and
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  ADHD and I see how it is and I think that these things are
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  apparent. Now, autism and ADHD are both
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  spectrum conditions basically. So there's an autism spectrum
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  where you can go all the way down here to kind of like ADD or
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  ADHD and then you go all the way to the other end.
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  We have like savant syndrome and very high support needs,
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  autistic individuals with profound learning disability,
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  but all of it is a big broad spectrum of neurological
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  differences. So or neurodevelopmental
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  conditions on differences on the spectrum.
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  That's kind of why they call it an autism spectrum.
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  So the simple answer is no, autism and ADHD are not the
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  same, but autism and ADHD are both on the spectrum and can be
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  diagnosed together. Now I actually said have both of
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  those diagnosis together which is really interesting.
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  And most of my friends who I know are diagnosed autism have a
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  comorbid diagnosis of ADHD. Now a lot of them don't always
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  have the hyperactivity. Now, this is something really
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  interesting as well. Autism can come with a
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  hyperactivity because the brain is going 1000 miles an hour.
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  An autistic brain is so overcapacitated, it's trying to
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  digest many amounts of data, having communication disorder
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  issues because that's what autism is in its core.
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  And then it's trying to put out all of that energy to keep
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  going, keep going. Kind of like why people with
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  autism and ADHD or people with HD or people will just autism
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  will have an addiction or a kind of an affinity for a likeness
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  for sugary foods, junk foods, fatty foods, energy drinks, that
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  kind of stuff. Because their mind is going 1000
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  miles an hour. They need the energy to be kept
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  up and kept up. And so you'll see a really bad
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  dive for people in your spectrum, which cannot be helped
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  with things like smoothies and other kind of supplements to
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  kind of keep those dopamine cravings at Bay.
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  And this is leading to this next part where I'm going to talk
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  about the dopamine hit. Now ADHD is a dopamine hungry
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  condition, which means that dopamine is a kind of like a
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  chemical good guess gets released into the brain when
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  something nice happens. This could be enjoying food,
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  playing games, watching a movie, listen to music, having
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  intercourse, you know, all those things stimulate dopamine, which
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  is kind of how people get addicted to stuff.
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  I'm going to tell you, people with lots of ADHD can get very
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  addicted to things. And because of that, the
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  dopamine kind of chasing in you is constantly trying to chase
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  dopamine rich experiences. Autism also has dopamine rich
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  experience chasing, which means that an autistic person will get
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  mass amounts of dopamine release when they're surrounding
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  themselves with their favorite subject of interest.
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  And subject of interest is something happens.
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  So you have obsessive interest in autism and ADHD, which is why
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  I think they're comorbid. They coexist, they're together
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  as one. And that means that you'll be
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  obsessed with something. Like a friend of mine was
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  obsessed with Marilyn Monroe, like obsessed with evidence she
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  ever did. And we went to a house in
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  America and kind of like looked at all the stuff, kind of
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  unusual, but you know, that's it.
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  You know, I have a set of sessions.
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  I will go through them now. And if you're interested in
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  hearing me talk about my own obsessions, pop in a comment
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  down below and we'll go over it. That is a dopamine chasing
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  experience. Now there's nothing wrong with
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  that unless it's for something kind of like negative like
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  narcotics or or alcohol or even sex and pornographic imagery.
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  Those things can be highly addictive because they get
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  instant dopamine hits. But don't be tricked.
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  Those things are short lived dopamine and they're not
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  satisfactory dopamine. They're actually destructive to
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  your brain. So you want to replace any kind
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  of negative dopamine addictive behaviour with good healthy
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  addictions like gardening, you know, exercising, cooking,
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  Lango, something that is creatively exploratory because
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  the dopamine hit you get from creativity is higher and longer
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  lasting than you would do from short kind of drug fixes like
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  sex and alcohol and drugs and things like that.
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  So dopamine is the main cause that really links Autism Aid HD
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  together because they're working together to find this dopamine.
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  They're like a dopamine hungry monster.
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  That kind of makes sense now, not all the time that you're
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  going to want to sufficiently kind of like collect dopamine
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  because an autistic person can really fill up a dopamine and
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  then you'll have it kind of like reserved.
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  You'll have a reserved of dopamine.
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  Like for me, I really love learning about marketing and
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  learning about social media and all that kind of stuff.
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  And if you're interested, guys, I actually have a free PDF
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  download book all about hacking autism daily life.
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  So if you go to autismtips.net, the link is in the description.
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  You can get my free autism Lifehacks PDF book right now.
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  And if you say I love Star Trek or I love marketing, right?
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  And I watch marketing videos now I do marketing courses now I do
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  a little video every night that that I watch for about 40
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  minutes and that keeps my dopamine at Max efficiency,
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  which means that like I'm enjoying all that stuff and I
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  and it keeps enjoyment for a long, long, long time.
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  Whereas if you went out and kind of like got drunk to feel a
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  dopamine here the day after, you'd be feeling so bad about it
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  because you'd be like hungover and your body be dehydrated and
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  all that kind of stuff. You'll kind of want to chase it
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  again. But but if you're standing to
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  release big hits of dopamine from your obsessive interests,
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  all the things you really enjoy, it was a game changer for you.
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  And it's all about game changing.
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  And here in the FCP world here, my business, my brand,
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  everything I do is about changing your life for the
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  better and really increasing that capacity to unleash your
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  potential and make you the better version of yourself.
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  So I want to know, is this video helpful?
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  Please share on social media and check out the video next to me
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  right now because I think this is going to really benefit you
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  too. So please check out the video,
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  hit the subscribe button. I'll see you in the next one
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  guys. Peace.