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Autism Brain How Aspergers Affects YOU Learning (3 TOP Issues) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In this video I'm talking about the autism brain and how
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  Aspergers impact learning, including three issues that I
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  think are super important to know about all that coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the Ashby world.
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  My name is Dan, I have autism, ADHD, OCD and dyslexia and I
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  In this video guys, I'm covering three of the most interesting
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  things that you should know about that how it's how autism
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  impacts the learning capability of the learning brain.
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  Part of a person with autism. Right?
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  Let's come with it. Hey guys, welcome back.
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  What's going on? Oh man, I'm just loving tea out
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  So pop me a comment down below. Let's get on with the video
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  Okay. So I wanted to do a video all
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  about how like the learning experience and help someone with
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  like I have a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome.
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  And I was saying to myself, Dan, you know, how does how does
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  having asked which is impact your ability to learn stuff
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  right. And this can transpose not just
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  for education in the forms of like academic education or or
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  like you know, preschool education.
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  I'm not about like it's learning everything.
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  So I've kind of jotted down three of the things that I think
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  make learning an issue for people on the autism spectrum
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  and why this is apparent. Because I feel like if if we can
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  understand and learn and if you knew around here to this
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  channel, what I'm trying to do is is explain my my vision and
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  my my story and how I see things from the world through an
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  autistic person point of view to hopefully help engage with you.
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  If you're autistic, then have some camaraderie with you.
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  And if you're not autistic but you're helping support somebody
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  on the autism spectrum, have a relationship with you where you
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  can learn from me. And that's pretty cool.
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  So I wanted to do this video because I think that there is an
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  important lesson to be learned, which is quite interesting
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  because I'm talking about learning in the fact that the
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  learning style, learning types of a person with autism can
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  really differ. You know, it's an autism
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  spectrum at the end of the day. And we have to kind of take that
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  into consideration when we're dealing with people on the
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  spectrum and figure out how we're able to bought them
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  better. So I've written out this list of
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  three things which I'm going to explain about now and explain a
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  little bit back stories between those and see how this can maybe
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  help you. And yeah, that's super awesome.
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  this channel, I'd be so grateful if you could do that.
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  All right, so #1, it's a focusing.
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  Now focusing can be really tough challenge for people on the
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  spectrum. And this could be like a two
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  fold, right? It can actually work contrary to
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  itself. So someone with an autism
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  spectrum condition can have a really good focus on something
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  that they really want, like how many times you walked in and
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  somebody on the autism spectrums, like playing a game
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  and you've shouted their name like, hey, how's it going?
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  And they're just like, you know, tapping out on their like Xbox
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  or iPad or whatever, and they kind of zone out of everything
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  around them. Well, this kind of extreme hyper
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  focus let's the person then zone out and this is a kind of focus,
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  which is a laser focus for something that they're
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  excessively interested in. Now if you put that in a
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  schooling environment, it may be not the thing that they're most
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  interested in. So they're going to have
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  difficulty engaging with that protocol.
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  Not to mention, On the contrary, if they have a comaward
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  condition of ADHD, which most people in the autism spectrum
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  do, and I myself are one of those, then you're going to have
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  this conflict where they're going to be able to not want to
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  concentrate because they're going to be trying to switch
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  between different things. I remember when I was in school
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  and I was in preschool, one of the things we were having a
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  science lesson and preschool teachers and qualified
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  scientists. But they do teach science
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  because they just kind of read it from a curriculum book, which
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  I think is a bit of a really weird way of doing stuff, but
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  whatever. And I was always correcting them
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  in one story. I was correcting them because it
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  tries to tell us that sound travels faster than light, which
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  is complete bogus because we all know, like Charles faster than
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  anything we know of currently. And I corrected them and then
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  they got really annoyed about it.
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  So I just like focused out, you know, they I just kind of just
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  like, no, I'm not not doing that.
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  I couldn't focus on it because they weren't listening to me and
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  they, I couldn't have a relationship with them where
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  they were really understanding what I was saying.
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  My parents had this issue where they'd come in all the time and
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  they'd say, oh, Dan's been calling stuff out in class and
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  he's not, you know, engaging in the right way.
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  But I guess they just need to know how I focus on things and
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  the things that I wanted to engage with.
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  And if they could at least meet me halfway, then I probably
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  would have had a bit more of a focus on it.
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  But focus is a huge topic. It's a huge issue, and it's
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  something we need to kind of just look at.
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  It's not a bad thing. It's not a good thing.
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  It's just something that happens.
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  It's just apparent. And when something is apparent
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  about the person, then we should take that time to understand and
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  learn from that. OK, so #2.
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  OK, so #2 is verbal commands. Verbal commands.
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  Oh my goodness. I have this issue where my
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  girlfriend will come home right? And verbal commands are very
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  interesting. Let me before I tell you my
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  story. Verbal commands.
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  I've split me to two categories here.
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  So there's most people on the spectrum will have issues with
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  understanding commands of any type, especially verbal command,
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  because we're not very kind of like imagination thinkers when
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  we're trying to think of something on the spot, if that
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  makes sense. We're very creative and we have
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  very, you know, photographic and vivid imaginations.
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  But when you're trying to explain something, which I'll
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  explain in a second in a, in a verbal command, it's hard to
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  kind of picture that and it's hard to visualize that in your
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  head when you haven't got any reference point or nothing to be
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  completely solid, right. For instance, my girlfriend will
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  be like, yo Dan, go to the kitchen and get XYZ and B and
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  whatever. And then I'll be like, all
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  right. And I get there.
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  I'm like, I have no idea what I'm doing.
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  I had, I don't even know why am I in the right room?
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  Like you know. And so unless you, like, write
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  it down says get this, this, this and this from here, from
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  there. The detail is the important
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  part. When you're asking someone on
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  the spectrum to do something, you need to write it down or
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  draw it out but also put in the detail where it is.
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  It's next to this. This is is this color and it
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  looks like this, like there's no ambiguity that someone can get
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  when they're on the Austin Spectrum.
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  There has to be precise, has to be detailed.
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  This is golden. So when you're trying to give
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  something football command to do something like that always
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  remember they are going to be having difficulties
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  understanding what on earth you were talking about.
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  And it just, it's the one thing that I kind of think I wish I
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  was better at, but it is what it is.
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  Now. The second type of verbal
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  command is a list of something. When you give somebody a list of
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  things like, hey Dan, you know, I used to work in a multimedia
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  company and they said to me like, hey, Dan, can you do this,
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  this, this, this and this, and then e-mail me over the reports
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  and I'm like, what? Like, so I would then have to
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  say something, right? OK.
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  What I need you to do is write that down, e-mail it to me with
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  a little picture and then I will digest that information and then
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  I can get you what you need. Giving a listed format in verbal
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  communication is so difficult for on the autism spectrum to
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  kind of visualize, grasp and then hold on to that
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  information. It's something that is quite
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  difficult for for many people when you're just giving like,
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  you know, verbal lists and stuff like that.
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  You need rocks, like you need like actual detail.
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  Like I need hard, solid detail because I'm going to go crazy.
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  That kind of really, really messes with me.
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  But that's the beauty of the autism brain.
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  It has this really amazing function of being so diverse
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  that it just, it rocks all kinds of stuff.
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  Like it'd be the best Minecraft in Fortnite play in the entire
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  world. We can like up every Pokémon and
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  a Pokedex. But when it comes to like, hey,
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  can you just do these four things that I've asked verbally?
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  It's a real issue, which is what makes it so fascinating, right?
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  And if you agree with me, you've got to smash that thumbs up
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  button. I love you Okay.
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  So #3, the last thing I'm going to talk about here to do with
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  autism and in how it affects learning is the speed and time
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  or time duration of someones learning experience.
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  So we all have everybody in the world, not just people who are
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  autistic. Neurotypical people also have
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  different learning types and different learning speeds, and
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  we all don't learn at the exact same speed.
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  But people with autism need a little bit extra help sometimes.
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  And that being said, when you're in a class full of people and
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  you're trying to learn something, getting up to that
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  speed and everybody moving forward at the same time, it's
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  so difficult because you'll have people on the spectrum who will
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  just drop off and just zone out of that whole learning
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  experience because they haven't had enough time caretaking to
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  give them that experience that they really could benefit from.
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  So I might. I remember sitting in class and
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  then we'd go through something on the board and I'd be like,
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  oh, okay. But then I'd be like, oh, I
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  don't really understand that. Before I had a chance to really
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  think about it and kind of time to digest that, they were like
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  six or seven steps ahead and everyone in the class is zooming
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  ahead. So I just ended up being like
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  okay, Well, I'm never going to get that.
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  So I'm just going to zone out and not get it.
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  You know, it's not a good experience.
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  It's not something that is advised, but it's something that
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  happens. And so when you're having a
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  learning environment, try and take the time to assess who is
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  there, assess what the learning speed is because it's just takes
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  a little bit of extra time sometimes to explain something
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  or to rationale with somebody or or have that kind of, you know,
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  conversion of thought with somebody.
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  But that's pretty much one of the the main reasons why I
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  sucked at school. You know, school was really bad
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  and I know you guys are probably have the same experience in
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  school. And if you have an same
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  experience in school, drop me a comment down below it.
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  Let me know what you think about it and if you've any comments or
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  stories, I'd love to read them and you know and talk to you
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  guys. So that being said guys, these
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  are all very, very important. I hope that this made sense.
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