Latest / Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD / Occupational Therapy for Autism?

Transcript

Occupational Therapy for Autism? · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

• 0:00
  So all the benefits for having occupational therapy if you're
• 0:02
  autistic? I'm going to get right into that
• 0:04
  right now. Guys, what is going on?
• 0:06
  My name is Dan, Welcome back. I have autism and ADHD and I
• 0:09
  make quick videos all about this stuff because I'm obsessed.
• 0:12
  I am putting it in my life's mission, my life's work to help
• 0:14
  as many autistic people individuals as possible.
• 0:17
  I will not rest until I am helping hundreds and thousands
• 0:20
  of millions of people on the autism spectrum complete goals,
• 0:23
  achieve tasks, and really get to awesomeness by unlocking the
• 0:26
  true potential on making them amazing.
• 0:27
  So if you want to come with me for this ride, this wild project
• 0:30
  which I've been doing now for like 5 years, drop a subscribe
• 0:33
  by clicking a notification belt down below and clicking
• 0:35
  subscribe because I want you to come along to this journey with
• 0:38
  me and you can also follow me on all the other social media
• 0:40
  platforms. I'm all on all of those and my
• 0:42
  links are down below. Also because I upload 4 videos
• 0:44
  every single day on those. OK, so guys, Occupational
• 0:48
  therapy and autism. Very interesting.
• 0:49
  I didn't have occupational therapy until I was 32 years
• 0:53
  old. Oh my goodness.
• 0:55
  I went all my life for occupational therapy, right?
• 0:57
  And I didn't really know about it.
• 0:58
  I was doing a talk for an autism conference in Wales, and it was
• 1:02
  a really big autism talk, a big autism conference.
• 1:04
  And when I was there, I bumped into some occupational
• 1:07
  therapists who worked for the Welsh Autism Association and
• 1:10
  they were amazing. And they offered me a session.
• 1:12
  I said, OK, cool. So I went to their offices and
• 1:15
  it was all to do with proprioception and the sensory
• 1:17
  diet, because autism comes to sensory processing disorder,
• 1:20
  right? With February, everyone knows.
• 1:21
  Oh and FYI guys, if you want your hands on my free autism
• 1:24
  life, in fact the PDF book, the link is in description down
• 1:26
  below or you can just go to autismhacks.net and download
• 1:29
  your copyright now. So with this occupational
• 1:32
  therapy, I didn't know what to expect.
• 1:33
  Now I went in there and I was mind blown.
• 1:36
  What an occupational therapist does is they look at the section
• 1:39
  of your your condition that you need most help with and they
• 1:41
  will help you with strategies in that just at 11 place of that
• 1:44
  condition. So for me it was appropriate
• 1:46
  section like I could open a door but not open it wide enough to
• 1:49
  go through because I wasn't sharing my spatial awareness and
• 1:52
  this is all to do with deep muscle activation.
• 1:54
  I couldn't. I wasn't activating my muscles
• 1:55
  so they gave me the sensory diet to do, which I put into one of
• 1:59
  my courses, which is the Autism Acceleration Academy.
• 2:01
  I'll leave a link for that down below if you're interested in
• 2:04
  checking that out. And in that course I I go
• 2:06
  through the sensory diet and it's kind of one of the main
• 2:08
  focuses of it because it's kind of like deep muscle activation
• 2:12
  so that you can understand your spatial awareness and it's crazy
• 2:15
  how doing muscle activation exercises help increase your
• 2:19
  spatial awareness and lower the negative impact of sensory
• 2:23
  processing disorder. Now for me, occupational therapy
• 2:26
  was life changing and I know a lot of people have issues with,
• 2:28
  you know, go to see therapists and things like that.
• 2:30
  But I'd highly recommend speaking to an occupational
• 2:32
  therapist if you have insurance that covers it or you have
• 2:35
  access to it with your healthcare system in the country
• 2:37
  that you live in. I know here I had it with the
• 2:39
  NHS here, which is our National Health Service, But you know a
• 2:42
  lot of people don't have access to to occupational therapy.
• 2:45
  There is other therapies available.
• 2:46
  I think that counselling was the second best therapy I ever had.
• 2:49
  Now if you're interested in having a counselling therapy
• 2:51
  session, you can use the app down below called Better Help.
• 2:54
  I've used this. They link you up to somebody
• 2:56
  specific to you for like ADHD or autism within 24 to 48 hours and
• 3:00
  you just use your phone like you can like talk to them on your
• 3:04
  iPhone, you can message them, you can video chat them and it's
• 3:06
  amazing. So definitely check out Better
• 3:08
  help link up and down below. I really enjoy it.
• 3:10
  I think it's amazing. And yeah, if you think this
• 3:12
  video is helpful please share it and leave me a comment.
• 3:14
  Love you guys.