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ASPERGERS MELTDOWNS: 5 Tips YOU Need! · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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I found the best way to deal with autism meltdowns.
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You're going to need these tips. Hey guys.
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Welcome back to the Osprey world.
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My name is Dan, I have Aspergers Syndrome, ADHD OCD and dyslexia.
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videos from me. In this video, I'm going to be
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discussing five tips for helping somebody overcome an Autism
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meltdown and Asperger's meltdown.
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And I just think these are so imperical for someone to live to
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use on a daily basis. If they are having meltdowns on
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Hello and a big warm welcome to everybody here.
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It's pretty good today, the weather is awesome and I wanted
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to do this video because a lot of people reach out to me all
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the time and ask like hey Dan how do you deal with meltdowns?
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And how do you deal with overcoming those issues that are
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meltdown presents and I'm like, hey it's a good idea.
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Maybe I should kind of make a video specifically on that.
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So guys, it is my Thursday upload a video and I love
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So autism meltdown. For Aspergers meltdowns.
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Now, one aspect is meltdown, is basically something that happens
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when someone on the Spectrum who has a condition, like, autism
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has too much overloading stimuli.
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So this could come from things. Like being overly stimulated in
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a shopping. Mall overly stimulated in a high
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school overly stimulated at a dinner table.
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And what I mean by overly stimulated, I mean that there's
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there's a lot of sounds and noises and like smells and weird
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things happening as a lot of people in the room.
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There's like the whole It's just kind of like a bit of a treasure
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Trove of sensory. Stimuli now, people on the
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autism spectrum have issues with dealing with sensory input
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because autism is a communication disorder at its
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heart. So, because of the said stimuli
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in those situations, the person on the autism spectrum can have
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the ability to become overloaded.
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And this of what causes a meltdown, now, people might have
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heard of like an automatic down. What the hell does that mean?
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That means somebody physically melts like, It kind of means
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that their brain, the way that their mind is operating, at that
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time, has a kind of like a traffic jam or like a stall,
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like, your movement of thought, can I get jammed?
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And that jam can cause so much destruction in your life.
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You see when somebody has a meltdown their body and mind
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start to kind of just crumble a little bit, so that they become
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unable to use the functions, which will normally do in
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everyday life. Like, yeah, do you know, they'll
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We'll start to shake, and I'll breathe and control of the, and
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they might hit themselves in the head, and they might cry, and
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they might just be on the floor and unable to think, clearly and
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stuff. And this is not not good.
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This is something we try to avoid with autism spectrum,
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disorders, completely. So I'm going to give you five
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tips that I would like you guys to try and follow and use them
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to your advantage. Oh yeah, I'm inside my son's
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that canvas Wigwam. It's kind of cool.
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Check it out. So I just thought it'd be a cool
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place. Start this video.
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Okay. Well Okay, that didn't actually
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work as well as I hoped it was going to work.
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But anyway, let's get one of these five tips.
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Okay, so I have had my fair share of autism meltdowns.
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What? Usually happens.
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And let's put a scenario where I'm sitting in here in the
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living room and my sons having dinner.
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And he decided to he wants to throw his dinner everywhere.
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And in my partner's, kind of like me washing the dishes or
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she's like baking a cake. And I'm like, oh my God, it's a
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freaking out. Because then I've got, like,
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food all over me. And then I started getting hot
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and then he starts crying and my girlfriend starts panicking, and
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then I start panicking. And then, oh my goodness.
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This Meltdown is about to happen and then the Meltdown goes on,
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right? And it happens.
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So one of the things that I've learned to instantly help me.
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And this is tip. Number one, is instantly remove
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yourself like on what I mean by that is simply this, when that
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happens and I start feeling like I'm about to kind of, like,
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explode on meltdown. I kind of leave the room and I
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go upstairs to our bedroom and I sit on the bed in, complete
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silence. And yes, I still have the
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Meltdown but not Not every thing about it is overwhelming, as in
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like, I started the Meltdown, but it's easier to overcome.
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Like, if I was in that situation that was melting down that
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situation while smiling down would actually make the
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situation worse like anything. You know, we think about it.
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Like if you're if you're in Sinking sound and then you start
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like rustling around and you still on the sound, you're going
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to sink deeper and it's going to get worse.
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But if somebody pulls you out of that, you know, you can like
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Shuffle around and it's not going to get any worse.
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You're still going to be yet covered in sand.
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You're not going to get any more stuck in that situation.
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I guess a bad bad representation of what I'm trying to say.
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Yeah, but you get the idea. Instant removal equals instant
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therapeutic time and I know you might be saying like, well done,
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you know, just taking yourself outside of a situation isn't
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very therapeutic but it is because you're treating your
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body and mind with the respect that it need.
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And the instant difference that it needs because by staying in a
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situation where you've got like sensory stimuli or overloading
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overloading stuff, that's going to make you way more like
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agitated, you're going to need to try and You know, overcome
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those issues and if you're not going to an environment like
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that, so you need to get yourself to a clean cam
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environment now. It is it possible that, you
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know, you are going to be somewhere where you won't be
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able to get that kind of environment.
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But I highly advise that you try to eat like if you're in a
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restaurant for instance, and you started freaking out and you
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feel like, oh my goodness, I'm gonna have a meltdown, then I
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would go to the toilet in the restaurant.
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All that, you know, the use, the restrooms are go to like the
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lobby of the restaurant somewhere.
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That's quieter just catch yourself with just a moment
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because all you need is that bit to catch yourself?
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It's case I've grounded back to square one and start again
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because we're all adults and we try to kind of like do the best
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we can and we have loads of things to do.
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So we really need to get ourselves kind of like
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overcoming very, very quickly. But this also works for
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children. I'm not saying this is video
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Just For Adults. I'm saying that this would work
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for people who have children on the Spectrum who are also having
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meltdowns and you want to help them kind of overcome those
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issues again, get them to a place which is quiet and can.
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Okay guys, so, No idea why I'm driving on this pillow right
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now. It's funny, my view right now is
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actually very, very funny because I'm looking at my son's
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toy cars. Check it out.
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Look, we have like toy car, set-up just here.
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So, you guys in the privileged living room right now, need to
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film all my videos on here, but I started to not, I don't know
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why I just buried, okay, so, my next tip is very, very simple.
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When you deal with autism meltdowns, they happen because
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of certain reasons, but things can make them worse kind Like
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that game Buckaroo, you know what you like, pie loads of
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stuff onto like a horse and then like or camel or a donkey.
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Anyway, you pile this instances four-legged creature and it's
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like bags and stuff and at the end it just kicks in it all goes
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everywhere. It's called Buckaroo.
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Now the idea is in what I'm trying to say is that like the
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more things you have on the worse, you're going to feel and,
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you know, you're going to be closer to that Tipping Point of
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an Autism meltdown. Now, one of the ways to reduce
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this and this is like Mental blockage is likely, you know,
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mental health State, blockage and kind of like, freeing up
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some not space in your mind. It's to exercise.
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Now, I don't mean go and run a marathon or do like an Olympic
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sport. What I mean, it's just go out
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for a walk. Maybe take the dog for a walk,
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maybe do some swimming, maybe play a sport, if you're
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interested in playing sports, you know, give me football
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badminton of whatever like racquetball anything.
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You think of what I'm trying to say is just a grunt, get some
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air, get some oxygen moving around that body.
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And this always reduces Stress and Anxiety.
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Which means your You're less closer to having an Autism
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meltdown because you're less closer to that Tipping Point is
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what I'm trying to say. Yes, I know that awesome
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meltdowns are involuntary in, they're going to happen
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regardless, but if you can try and reduce your overstimulation
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because you might be feeling agitated about something that's
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going on in the background and then you go to another situation
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and that's an eye on you and then are you got, you know
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you've got your concoction to create an Autism explosive
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meltdown but if you've if you're not feeling agitated cause you
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went out and exercise and I kind of went away then you've just
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got a situation that you can deal with.
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At that moment in time, which is very, very handy.
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I actually do exercise a lot, I do a lot of running and I do
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some weight, a single lot more weights, but I don't do them as
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much now but I know I do it because I know how important
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working out is for people. And I know how important like
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exercises in general just to keep you kind of like your
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mental state in your mental capacity moving forward in a
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very good and awesome fashion. So that was tip number two.
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Get some exercise. Regardless how you do it to make
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sure you get out there, get some air.
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We also Am I sitting on? Okay, so my next advice for you
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guys to help with autism, meltdowns and ask big amount is
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very simply this. Try to get enough sleep.
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Like we all have issues with sleep.
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I am no stranger to issues with sleep.
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In fact, I've done a bunch of videos, actually, I'm a playlist
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all about autism, and sleep, and I'll try and leave that linked
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somewhere above here for you guys.
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You can go check out all the videos I've done and how to
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help, you know, sleeping for autism, but my advice is so So
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simple, find something that works.
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If it's drinking tea, taking, you know, supplements, if it's
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exercising. If it's using a weighted
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blanket. If it's listen to music,
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whatever it is, do your best to get enough sleep.
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Because when you sleep again, you take huge chunk of stress
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anxiety out the equation, which keeps you lower than expected to
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have not as a meltdown. For instance, when I don't get
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enough sleep, I know that I'm like, agitated and I'm groggy,
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and I'm kind of like a guy, you know, about to explode anytime.
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But when I get loads and loads of sleep, I'm able to be a
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little bit more. Um, and I know that like if
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something takes me off, then it's not going to take me over
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the edge because I'm well rested your mind.
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Need rest, your body needs rest and when you rest a both of
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these, you come a little bit more content in the surroundings
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that you're placed in. This is why I feel like a lot of
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autistic people are very agitated because we do have
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issues with sleeping. So aspect is meltdowns, can
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happen because of a lack of sleep, but not exclusively
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because of a lack of sleep. It's just that lack of sleep
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doesn't help when you're trying to reduce those things.
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Is happening. So just like think about it.
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When was the last time I mean logically.
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What was the last time you had hardly any sleep and you felt
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awesome like never okay, you know you do need sleep like have
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you ever done a thing where you stay up all night and you might
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sleep for one hour and then you feel like total rubbish.
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That feeling is not a good feeling and that's not going to
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make anybody feeling any more secure in their surroundings or
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securing a situation that might be heightened or stressful.
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So it's important. We get enough sleep.
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I'm actually In my room right now, and it's so important that
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you make your bedroom a calming area as well, because
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overstimulation to like pictures on the walls and like loads of
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things going on and lights everywhere and stuff can keep
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you awake at night. That's why vacuum is very, very
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calming. As you can see, it's super
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monotonal, it's super coming and it should Ted relaxing.
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That's not something that like, you can have things in your room
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saying that they just think about it.
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You know, you want to have things a bit more calm and be
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more sleep to reduce that stress.
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All right? Cancel the next tip guys.
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And anyway, you feel. It could help somebody and also
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because it can help somebody else and let me know and I'll
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talk to you then. Okay.
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So this tip for Aspergers, meltdowns is an amazing one,
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that helps you recover quickly after actually having a
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meltdown. So we've been through stuff or
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how to help prevent meltdowns, what to do during meltdown, but
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what do you do after you have Like, how do you recover from
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such an event? Because it's not going to be
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good. You know, you got to think about
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it, a big, big ordeal melt don't like that.
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Can leave someone feeling exhausted, sleepy, thirsty,
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hungry. I just like counting dwarfs you.
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But, you know, at the idea is that like they, they will feel
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somewhat of a compromised situation after having some kind
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of autism meltdown. And, and that's not good.
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So, this is tip. Number 4, If this tip is simply
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this, after having a lot has a meltdown, as soon as you catch
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yourself as soon as you can of like, okay, come around a little
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bit. Do the thing that you love doing
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the most, if it's playing like Minecraft pop G kind of World of
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Warcraft, whatever it is that you want to play go and do that
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game or like, watch a documentary or go to your
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favorite restaurant or like make your favorite meal.
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Your favorite snack do those things?
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Because what will happen is that your body will start kind of
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like feeling itself against that feeling, it's normalization,
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because it's kind of like, - experience can only be offset by
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voluntary positive experience. So, when you have an involuntary
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negative experience like not in a meltdown then put in a
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positive 1 that you can control, it's all about making.
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You better making, you feel more comfortable and coming around to
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the realization that like, you know, you can deal with this
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because you can deal with this. I know that you can deal with
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this. I have confidence in you.
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Okay it's not the end of the world.
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It may feel like it at the time and it may definitely stress you
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out and calls. All kinds of horrible stuff but
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it's okay because I got you back dance here for you.
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And if you are enjoying this view guys please give it a huge
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thumbs up. I really want to hit like four
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hundred likes on this video or a.
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Actually if you can get like 450 likes on this video it would
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just be amazing. Would be the most amazing thing
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ever. So thank you so much and it
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would be amazing if you could just give this video a thumbs
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up. So that being said, doing a
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favorite thing, like one of the things I love to do as I love to
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research like aliens and stuff. So if I've had like a meltdown,
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what I do is I like going like research Straight after work is,
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I don't want to think about the Meltdown.
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I think what something fun, and something I'm interested in.
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I mean, it's just like, it's like having, like, it's like,
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having something to smelling really bad.
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Like a garbage can like a rubbish, you know, garbage van
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in your living room. And I'm pushing that out and
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bringing in something that smells super nice, like, air,
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freshener something, awesome, like a bowl of fruit, that
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that's the difference. That's what you're doing.
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You're pushing out the rubbish and pulling in something.
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Awesome. So remember to do that, I know I
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keep disappearing and reappearing in different places
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in my house. It's because like, I'm just, I'm
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just cool like that. I just want to make you guys
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happy, you know, it seemed like different places in my house.
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So cool. Is this.
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This is the other side of our room.
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This is like a curved wall here. We actually live in like a
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unusual house is kind of triangular shape, but the
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upstairs, our bedroom is like this circular thing.
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We'd has a balcony side is super cool.
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Anyway, on to tip number five, this is tip number five, okay,
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Channel five's very, very simple as well but a lot of people
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don't do it. Tip number five is called
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breathing. Okay?
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Anything and and you know, you covered breathing loves times
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but As we forget breathing, if you feel like you're having a
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lot of the Meltdown or about to having a meltdown and if it's
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after a meltdown, this will always work breathing.
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No, breathing comes from different techniques.
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We breathe subconsciously anyway because it's the, you know, the
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main way that we get oxygen into our body to stay alive and we
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all need it like aerobic respiration.
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But in terms of how it can help heighten your mood and make you
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feel more comfortable and less kind of triggered is very very
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simple. See the yoga teachers the The
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Yogi's and the Buddhist always do this kind of breathing
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technique, where you breathe in, and count to five.
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So, you breathing, like, 12345, hold your breath for five, and
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then breathe out 45, and you do that five times.
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And what this does is it pushes oxygen around your body and
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instantly calms your brain. Calms your mind.
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This is an amazing technique. I challenge you pause this video
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right now and do it right now. On a bet, you'll feel calm.
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Okay. Welcome back to the video and I
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bet you feel calm if anyone's just done this and you feel calm
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right down below. So down I feel super calm.
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That was a great Tip, that was awesome because I want to know.
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I want to know how it works. If it didn't, let me know as
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well because I'm interested to know why it didn't, but
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breathing is fantastic. It's one of the one of the main
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ways you can come with us. Now, one of the main ways, it
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you can feel more like you straight after having something
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crazy happen, like a horrible negative event or something
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where you are feeling down or anxious or having an Autism
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meltdown. Honestly, this is an amazing
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tip, but I don't want to pass it on to you but that's not it.
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Guys will not stop in there. I have a bonus tip for you and
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it's very, very simple. Okay, this is a weird angle but
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we're going to go for it anyway. So my tip sort of like cushions
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was a okay. My last tip for you guys for
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helping with Asperger meltdowns and Asperger's meltdowns, and
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autism out front and everything else in between.
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It's simply eat good foods. Now, if you're eating, like
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rubbish, like if you eat like, hamburgers, and candy and snacks
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and stuff like that, your brain isn't going to have a rest.
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It's gonna just be like, motivated on like junk foods.
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And they have like, Color for sugar intake, and it drops to
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like dramatic lows, and that's not good, because that actually
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can cause a lot of things like, stress and low moods and even
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depression in some cases. But if you're eating good things
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like strawberries, and pineapples and bananas and
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blueberries and stuff like that, your body will Peak and it will
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stay at a peak because he's like, Happy Foods.
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So if I was you, I would just Google Happy Foods.
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See what foods can make people happy and try and Implement some
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of those into your diet because by doing that, you're going to
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eventually feel way. Way better.
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19:08
rld so that as be World. Alright guys thanks