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This Is Why Autism And Money Can Be An Issue (5 MAIN POINTS) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In this video I'm talking about why autism and money can cause
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  issues and in fact, I'm covering five points.
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  All that is coming up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  aspy world. My name is Dan, I have Autism,
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  ADHDOCD and Dyslexia and I make weekly videos on this type of
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  content. OK, guys, what is going on?
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  Good to have you all here and see everybody just chilling out
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  having a good time. This video is jam packed full of
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  awesome stuff. But before we get into that, I
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  Awesome Okay guys. So autism money right?
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  Now. Here's the thing, there are a
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  lot of people on the autism spectrum who have difficulties
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  managing, maintaining money, finance and all that kind of
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  stuff. I myself have had crazy issues
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  with trying to. I myself have had crazy amount
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  of issues of trying to like organize money and finance and
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  stuff and I actually can't do it.
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  So I have my partner, Naomi. She actually helps me manage all
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  the money and stuff because it's really difficult to keep on
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  track of like what's going in, what's going out, how do you pay
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  for things like it's and there's not a bunch of things that go
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  with it, right? So I've listed out five of the
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  main points that kind of like we go over here and where they
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  where the issues may lie. And now the idea for this is
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  that if you can identify where the issues are, then you may be
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  able to ask for help in those areas.
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  So I'm going to go through the points, hopefully.
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  Hopefully you resonate with those points and then you can
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  take them to whoever kind of like helps you out in your life.
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  And then you can ask them for help and it should be pretty
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  awesome. OK.
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  So the first one we're talking about here is bad organizing.
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  Now autistic people may find it hard or may find it like chaos,
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  dealing with loads of like insurance and outs of money, you
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  know, daily bills and all these kind of like, you know, there's
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  a, there's a current flow of transfer of money coming in and
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  money coming out in livelihood, right?
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  And this can be a huge issue, right?
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  This could be a big cause because it's not, it's not an
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  easy thing. You know when you're when you're
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  having to deal with something when it's just you dealing with
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  it, it's easy to do because it's just you and you've got your
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  things and you can control what happens there.
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  But when you have things that are going outside and inside,
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  you know money comes in, money goes out.
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  It's kind of like exterior resources that are having like
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  third party effect, which obviously causes a lot of stress
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  and having money coming in, many coming out on a daily basis
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  knowing how much to kind of use. And it can be very, very
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  difficult. I'm just so glad I have somebody
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  to help me with all of that because it can be a stress.
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  So if parents are watching this right now, make sure you write
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  down a list, get out of pen and paper and write down these
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  things because these are the areas that you're going to be
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  wanting to help educate your kid in.
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  So yeah, that'd be super, super awesome.
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  Okay. So #2 is Lack of consequence
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  awareness. That sounds a bit of a bit of a
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  mouthful, doesn't it? But what this means is, you
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  know, autistic people may have, you know, the idea of
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  consequence, break it down like this.
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  So the idea of consequence from spending money may be difficult
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  for people who are autistic because the idea of if you spend
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  money, then you can get this. But if you spend money, you
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  can't get this, you know, kind of like prioritizing money.
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  And this could be a huge issue and could cause major problems
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  like if you, you know, if they spend money on one thing or if
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  like I spend money on something, then I've used that money up and
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  then I don't have money for this.
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  So the consequence of actually spending money to buy something
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  has a knock on effect to my future purpose.
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  And I feel like this is a huge one.
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  This is what I always have issues with.
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  So I just have to consult with Naomi before I buy anything
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  because I buy like loads of books and stuff to kind of learn
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  and train myself in my business. But in terms of everything else,
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  kind of like, you know, the stuff at my desk right now I
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  just bought, you know, like I bought two of these actually two
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  of these mark safe charges. I'm just anyway, so no, we gets
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  run by everything and she kind of approves it if we need it.
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  So let's move on to #3. So #3 is short term memory
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  issues. Now autistic people will have
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  issues with short term memory like not remembering, you know,
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  if somebody says, hey, can you meet me over there by 3:00 and
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  they'll be like, yeah, OK cool. But then the autistic person
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  will be like, oh completely forget about it and then it's
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  just gone gone away, never going to meet them.
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  If you just like there's no way I'm going to remember that,
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  right? So having having shorts of
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  memory issues with with money and bills and stuff could be not
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  being able to remember how much money you have to spend on
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  something versus like the actual price of the item.
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  So maybe there's an item that costs X amount of money, but
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  then you only have a certain amount of money, but you can't
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  remember how much money you've got.
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  So you try to buy the item and then it doesn't, the transaction
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  is void because you you're not able to purchase that.
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  Now this is a big issue as well. It's a big learning curve as
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  well, learning to to recognize what value you have.
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  This is the value of the thing that you need to purchase.
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  It's a big learning curve and it's something we all have to do
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  in life. But I feel like it's excessively
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  difficult for people who shot some memory issues and this
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  comes kind of like with an Austin Spectrum disorder Okay.
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  So #4 is budgeting issues, right.
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  So budgeting is a skill that anyone, including neurotypical
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  people have issues with, right? Because budgeting is is creating
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  a creating a way around sort and organizing your money.
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  But however, like autistic people can have major issues
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  trying to prioritize budgeting. Like knowing that you're having
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  a prioritize list what what needs the most attention.
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  When you have a budget and you have to distribute money between
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  certain things, which thing takes priority and which thing
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  can be left alone? Like you know say you have these
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  bills for utilities and rent but then you also want to get candy
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  you know and so you kind of think well sweets and candy like
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  least on your on your priority list and the essentials that you
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  need to live with should be on the on the on the forefront and
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  the priority list. But that whole that concept is
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  sometimes very difficult to grasp and to when you're in the
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  swing of things, going through stuff to to sort out bills and
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  manage but saying it's very difficult.
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  I use budgeting apps and stuff like that and obviously, of
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  course they only helps me. So that's how we keep on track
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  of it. But it isn't always awkward.
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  I, you know, it's it's difficult.
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  It's difficult the best of times.
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  Okay. So #5 is forward planning
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  issues, right. So as you know, short term
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  memory is something of an issue with autism.
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  An autistic person may forget to pay a bill in the future or
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  forget to say or forget to set up recurring payments for the
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  future. So knowing that you have to pay
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  for something in the future with short term memory loss comes a
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  consequence. You'll be like, oh shoot, I
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  forgot to go and pay that. And then by no fault of your
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  own, because it's not your fault, obviously you have memory
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  issues, you've forgotten to pay something and then this could be
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  a real issue. But saying that, you know, there
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  are ways around it. People can help you know with
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  you, with your budgeting and your whatever else It is forward
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  planning and everything like that.
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  And there are loads of apps out there to help.
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  Now if you'd like to see in a video all about apps for helping
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  people manage money, please pop it in a comment down below.
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  Let me know you want to see that and then I will make that video.
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  amazing. And as always, guys, I'll see
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  you in the next one. Peace.