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Celebrities With Autism: Why Alex Reid Was Different (ALEX REID AUTISM) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys, in this video. I'm talking about Alex Reid and
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  why he thought he was different until he got his autism
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  diagnosis, talking celebrities and autism right now.
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  Okay guys, so this video, I've got some tea because it's quite
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  interesting to me. Rhymed.
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  It's a terrible rhyme anyway, so there is a gentleman called Alex
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  Reid. Now, he is a famous.
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  He's like a British celebrity, but he's been made famous
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  because he's an MMA fighter or a Miss mixed martial arts athlete,
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  which means there's a lot of fighting and that's how we kind
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  of grew to fame. But also Alex Reid was actually
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  quite famous for marrying and then divorcing a British model
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  and entrepreneur called Katie Price.
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  Who his stage. With Jordan, if anybody doesn't
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  know kg prizes, but the interesting thing about this
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  story is that Katie Price. Had a son with another guy
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  before she married this Alex. And that's an has an Autism
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  Spectrum condition. So it's really interesting, how
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  kind of like, you know, things spin round and round in there.
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  Anyway that that young man is called Harvey and yeah, and I've
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  done it, a lot of work with companies who support him which
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  is really cool like born anxious clothing, you know, they do a
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  lot with him and there's Anna Kennedy as well, who do stuff to
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  as what have you, so there's a lot of cool stuff and she does
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  have lots of porn. So I kind of threw her for
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  making sure that he does have the best support.
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  Anyway, moving on from his ex-wife.
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  I wanted to talk about Alex Reid.
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  Now, this is really interesting. So Alex being an MMA fighter,
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  you know, he was he'd always had issues when you know, he was
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  trying to socialize or whatever and you know, he's had issues
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  with his whole life. He's always felt like different.
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  He thought he was really different and really odd, right?
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  And then he kind of basically was taking his kids to school
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  and people would be like, hey, you know, you're on the Spectrum
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  and he'd be like no like what's going on.
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  And then the parents were like, okay?
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  And then other people noticed that when they'd seen him in
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  interviews and some interviews. He was like completely on it,
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  you know what he's talking about and he could just like nail into
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  view and then other interviews, you kind of being quite, I don't
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  know how his interview style kind of really differed, and he
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  just looked a bit of a mess. Like he wasn't doing very well
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  in the interview. And they were like, what the
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  heck's going on here since I'm like him, it seems like he's
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  having some issues so they can convert him said to him like,
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  Hey, you know, it looks like you are having issues in these areas
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  and he was like, yeah, I don't know what those issues are how
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  to solve them. So he basically Went over and
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  said what, why don't I have an Autism stutzman?
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  See what that's about. It's about see if it's autism or
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  if it's a TD or whatever, you know, well, you're a vhd, you
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  know, they don't really use the term add anymore.
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  So he did an awesome assessment and found out he was on the
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  autism spectrum. So this is really fascinating.
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  He got a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome.
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  It used to be called Asperger's Syndrome.
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  That's called autism spectrum disorder and it got a diagnosis
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  because of the traits and the his ability to do things in a
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  certain manner, which showed his Rate in a way.
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  And, and that was really, really interesting because it kind of
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  highlight a few things here. Right?
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  So Alex had a autism diagnosis that came on later on in life.
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  So people have missed his cues all the way through life, you
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  know, just thinking, oh, that's Alex.
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  He's just a bit odd or whatever, but more frustrating for him, is
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  that he got his whole life thinking, I'm really weird.
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  I'm really odd. I'm like the odd one out here.
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  And then the this, you know, this this fascinates me.
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  I love this because like late diagnosis, like, what the heck,
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  how do people go into the radar that much?
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  And it's The reason I'm doing this, we don't want to highlight
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  this about celebrities with autism is because, you know,
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  there are so many people who are misdiagnosed autism younger, you
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  know, when they're younger and then they get diagnosed properly
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  officially later on in life, which is fine.
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  But the interesting thing about it is that when they, you know,
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  eventually get a diagnosis, the kind of feel quite alone like,
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  oh, you know, house I missed off, you know, all these kids
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  have all these cool to bring in the stuff, but I want to do this
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  video because even people like, you know, Alex Reid is celebrity
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  a mixed martial arts fighter, very famous, you know, with my
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  virtual model Guy have those same issues.
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  There is no difference. It doesn't kind of like skip
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  celebrities, you know, it doesn't do that.
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  Think what I want to do is show that some grounding and
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  normalizing of the situations that people go like.
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  Oh, yeah, I get it. You know, it happens.
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  It's not, there's nothing wrong with having a late diagnosis.
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  No wrong with having an Autism diagnosis.
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  It just happens, right? So that is where this video came
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  into play now, I think Alex Reid is really interesting.
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  He's really empowering it. His wife is really his new wife
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  and his ex-wife. She's really kind of, you know,
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  taking it on board and and really Helping encourage him do
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  the things in his life that can help him with support.
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  But now, he knows who he is. He says, he feels a lot better
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  about it rather than kind of bumping around in the dark
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  thinking like, oh my God, you know, what?
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  Am I doing? What am I going?
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  Who am I now? He knows like well I'm me, but I
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  also am on the autism spectrum and that's cool.
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  That's empowering and he's using that as a way to communicate to
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  audiences and also share his story and I think his the in
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  most interesting thing I've seen on him is his Instagram page,
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  which I'll try and leave a link for if I remember His Instagram
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  page has a video section where he uploads videos with him, and
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  his wife and his kids, and he talks about stuff and it's
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  really interesting seeing his wife's perspective, because you
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  don't always get to see the partners perspective or
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  something like that. Especially not later on in life,
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  like diagnosis and also special not later on live.
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  Diagnosis of autism in celebrities.
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  So this is really fascinating. I found it just amazing.
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  And I really think that I think that to me, this is quite
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  inspiring, and it's really good for people to kind of,
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  especially young people to be like, whoa, you know, Blown Away
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  by By this idea of celebrities with awesome do exist.
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  And, you know, they're everywhere and they're they're
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  encouraging people and someone to look up to in their Heroes
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  and their role models and there's nothing wrong with that.
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  And you know, it's Skies, a decent guy is really good guy
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  and strong man, and you know all those things guys.
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  I want to know what your info on this is.
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  Do you know that about this? Do you have anything to add to
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  any input about this whole except season autism and late
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  diagnosis? I'd love to have this
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