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High Functioning Autism (What You Don’t See!) · 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. So you might know somebody with
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  autism and they may come across as you know, typically high
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  functioning. We don't really use functioning
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  labels but that's typically what people would probably say you
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  know you're gonna run make food stuff but there are things that
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  you don't see like hidden things that every 10 address.
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  So I've kind of listed out five the main issues that people on
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  the autism spectrum who have a low support needs kind of face
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  challenges every single day like these.
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  So let's get into it guys. What's up?
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  My name is Dan. I have autism and ADHD and I
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  Okay, so going through my list, these are the things that I feel
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  that autistic people don't present on the outside.
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  These are things that affect them on the inside and so much.
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  So that people forget that these hidden issues that people with
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  Autism, are struggling, with every single day because you see
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  someone on the autism spectrum and you kind of think.
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  Oh, well then, you know, In find a doing gray.
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  You know the girls career you got some kids that but there's
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  loads of other things are going on.
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  So the first one I want to talk about here is fear now.
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  Autistic people are extremely fearful of busy places, holiday
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  events, and social events. Gigs anything that you go to is
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  not going to a pub, right? For a meal could seem like a
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  typical thing, but the fear of going to a pub for on.
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  So sick person is overwhelming because there are so many social
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  interactions that may take place.
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  There's so many choices that are outside of the comfort zone, you
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  got to take into consideration sensory.
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  Some disorder, the smells that the, the texture, the heat, the
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  the temperature you're sitting on what you're going to wait and
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  we call those hides and warm inside, all of these things and
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  Compass difficulty for people on the autism spectrum to actually
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  go out and do something, which is basically the fear of wanting
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  to go out and do something. So the people who who are on the
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  autism spectrum, we don't go out.
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  It's because they're fearful a lot of people would say that,
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  you know, when I was growing up little said, I'll come to this
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  birthday party, you know, your best friends on a bit about,
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  you're not going to come, I'm like, oh, you know, they don't
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  want to go and it is and I was fearful of it.
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  But Sort of being people who just like you are arrogant, or
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  you didn't care about that person.
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  Which is kind of like a understand where they're coming
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  from, but the same time, I'm like, it's like, come on, really
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  this your friend because their faith or something.
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  This is the stuff that people don't see, it's very important.
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  Fear is probably the number one and the most important one
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  you've listened to in this whole video.
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  Okay? So the next one.
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  Number two is anxiety crippling anxiety.
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  That may lead to burnout shutdowns and probably
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  eventually a meltdown. What is it going to videos?
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  I have so much anxiety, like they get anxious over the fact
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  that they may work. Look Billy may be anxious that
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  we're going to play. I just want to eat today and
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  just about to close up on today because of how they brush their
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  teeth today. And there's a bunch of OCD is
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  that come up with autism and other types of stuff that will
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  also create an anxiety for you. Doing anything in your typical
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  day. So, anxiety, again, is something
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  that is not self or physically presenting.
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  You can just look over here that person suffering with a lot of
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  anxiety right now, but something is happening on the inside and
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  eventually it could lead to burnout or shutdown or even a
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  big meltdown. A person could feel completely
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  just like garbage which is really really interesting and
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  it's always good to remember because if you're looking after
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  autistic person, these are the things that you kind of that are
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  affecting them that you don't see and because you don't see
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  them York. They're not at the Forefront of
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  your mind. You kind of like dead at the
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  secondary idea. So always keep us at the
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  Forefront in mind when dealing with an autistic person that
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  these things are going on inside as well.
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  So just have a little bit more kind of like I don't care
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  understanding for these things. Okay, so number three is a GI
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  issues or gasps. Oh, Intestinal issues and this
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  could be stuff like there is a bowel syndrome.
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  You know, autistic individuals will suffer mainly from g.i.
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  issues issues with like constipation or or you know,
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  irritable bowel syndrome and having to go to the toilet a lot
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  more or less than other people feel really uncomfortable,
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  feeling bloated, and all this kind of stuff, you know.
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  It also depends on like the food you eat and how it affects you.
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  A lot of the earth Studios do have Crohn's disease as well.
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  So there are a bunch of different things are going on
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  there, inside a body of an autistic person that you don't
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  see any outside and You know, you're probably wouldn't even
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  think of, but having this knowledge is producing knowledge
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  of having that kind of like, to help them feel a bit more
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  comfortable in the environment. Will definitely go a long way
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  and help Leaps and Bounds without assistive person's
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  needs. So with that, I'm gonna spend so
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  much time talking about poo. Moving on number four, Panic
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  based, anger issues. Oh literally.
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  If I had a dollar for every single time somebody thought I
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  was angry, right? Because I have anger management
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  issues. I would be like a bazillionaire
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  because I would say that like, well done, you know, you have
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  anger management issues and you're an angry person.
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  I'm not an angry person. This is issues that are
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  resulting in self-harm lot of the time, right?
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  Because not autistic person will Panic for a situation which
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  would basically come from fear and then that Panic will will
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  make that person going to fight or flight mode which will then
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  come across as anger and this could come across as like
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  self-harm by like hitting themselves in the head or could
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  lead to extreme depression or panic attacks in situations like
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  that. And it's really interesting
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  because people don't see that side of it is really Because
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  they don't go, oh, you know, this person's artistic and
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  they're and they're struggling with fear.
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  They just goes personal artistic, but they're also
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  dealing with some anger management issues in this guy,
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  you know, needs to calm down and that's the worst thing
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  imaginable. He's, like freaking out because
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  they're panicking about a life and death situation, is sort of
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  come down, it's gonna be fine. I mean, it doesn't work doing
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  could never you never do that. So Panic, based anger issues are
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  something you have to be aware of their not anger management
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  problems. They are fear problems so you
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  need to cap the fear and the anger will dissipate, okay?
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  So number five is executive Of function issues are man.
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  So having difficulties in life, like simple tasks, like we
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  cooking or washing clothes, or even folding laundry, put in
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  cups, down on the site that you could just like try and put a
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  bottle on the side of the table. And you could, you can miss, are
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  you could like Drop it, you don't know the weight of the
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  actual product. All of those things are some
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  issues that are coming from a an executive function issue, right?
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  But people don't see that, you know, the clumsiness and all
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  that other stuff in the difficulty, to work, washing,
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  machines and cookers, these are difficult.
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  Is that autistic people face on a daily basis because their
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  brains aren't working in the way that neurotypical people
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  designed those things to be understood which is a very
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  interesting concept so rather than so I'm being lazy or being
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  silly or being clumsy. No, it's actually an issue
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  called, you know, executive function issue and so it's
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  always good to remember that when you're dealing with an
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  autistic person. So you don't feel like you're
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  not alienating them but you're not kind of saying that they
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  just being silly or stupid that they're actually having an issue
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  with that thing. I'd love to know your thoughts
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  on all this stuff and if you haven't already, download my
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  free. Life hacks, PDF walk for autism.
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  Autism, hacked dotnet. I'll see you guys in the next
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  video. Peace.
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