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Occupational Therapy for Autism? · 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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  Of the benefits for having occupational therapy if you're
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  autistic. I'm going to get right into that
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  right now guys, what is going on?
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  My name is Dan, welcome back. I have autism and ADHD and I
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  make quick videos all about this stuff because I'm obsessed.
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  I am putting it as my life's mission, my life's work to help
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  as many autistic people, individuals as possible.
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  journey with me. And you can also follow me on
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  I'm on all of those and my links are down below also because I
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  OK, so guys, occupational therapy and autism.
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  Very interesting. I didn't have occupational
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  therapy until I was 32 years old.
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  Oh my goodness, I went all my life without occupational
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  therapy, right? And I didn't really know about
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  it. I was doing a talk for an autism
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  conference in Wales and it was a really big autism talk, a big
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  autism conference. And when I was there I bumped
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  into some occupational therapists who worked for the
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  Welsh Autism Association, and they were amazing and they
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  offered me a session. I said okay, cool.
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  So I went to their offices and it was all to do with
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  proprioception and the sensory diet because autism comes with
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  sensory processing disorder right?
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  With everyone knows. Oh and FYI guys, if you want
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  your hands on my free Autism Wifax PDF book, the link is
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  description down below or you can just go to autismhacks.net
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  and download your copyright now. So with this occupational
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  therapy, I didn't know what to expect.
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  Now I went in there and I was mind blown.
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  What an occupational therapist does is they look at the section
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  of your condition that you need most help with and they will
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  help you with strategies in that just one place of that
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  condition. So for me it was appropriate
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  second, like I could open a door but not open it wide enough to
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  go through because I wasn't sharing my spatial awareness.
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  And this was all to do with deep muscle activation.
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  I couldn't, I wasn't activating my muscles.
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  So they gave me the sensory diet to do, which I put into one of
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  my courses, which is the Autism Acceleration Academy.
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  I will leave a link for that down below if you're interested
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  in checking that out. And in that course, I go through
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  the sensory diet and it's kind of one of the main focuses of it
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  because it's kind of like deep muscle activation so that you
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  can understand your spatial awareness.
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  And it's crazy how doing muscle activation exercises help
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  increase your spatial awareness and lower the negative impact of
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  sensory processing disorder. Now.
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  For me, occupational therapy was life changing.
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  I know a lot of people have issues with therapists and
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  things like that, but I'd highly recommend speaking to an
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  occupational therapist If you have insurance that covers it
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  all. You have access to it with your
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  healthcare system in the country that you live in.
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  I know here I had it with the NHS here, which is our National
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  Health Service, but you know, a lot of people don't have access
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  to to occupational therapy. There is other therapies
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  available. I think that counselling was the
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  second best therapy that I ever had.
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  Now, if you're interested in having a counselling therapy
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  session, you can use the app down below called better help.
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  I've used this. They link you up to somebody
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  specific to you for like ADHD or autism within 24 to 48 hours.
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  And you just use your phone like you can like talk to them on
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  your iPhone. You can message them, you can
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  video chat them. And it's amazing.
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  So definitely check out. That's a health link will be
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  down below. I really enjoy it.
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  I think it's amazing. And yeah, if you think this
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  video is helpful, please share it and leave me a comment.
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  Love you guys. Hey, guys, thank you so much for
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  checking out this podcast. Make sure you are subscribed
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  because there are people listening right now who are not
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  subscribe. OK guys, see you in the next
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  one. Peace.