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Do You Have Autism And OCD? (MUST SEE) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  The connection between autism and OCD and do they differ?
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  Let's talk about right now. Let's jump in guys.
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  Welcome back to the world. My name is Dan and I have autism
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  and ADHD and actually in fact have OCD too.
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  So it's my life work, my life mission to make videos, help
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  educate and change the lives of millions of city people.
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  And I won't rest until I have helped as many people as
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  possible on the autism spectrum. Increase potential, reach their
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  full potential and goals in life and be the people they want to
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  be. Don't just exist.
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  Let's just like, let's live, let's live together.
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  It's be awesome. So if you want to join me on
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  this humble journey and help me be a part of this team so I can
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  platforms. That's including Facebook,
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  think of. Guys, I want to talk about
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  autism and OCD now. This is something that has been
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  on my mind for a while. I suffer from OCD and I suffer
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  from many mental health issues, but I also have autism and ADHD.
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  Now there are two types of kind of like OCD within autism.
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  OK, you can have OCD as a separate diagnosis and you can
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  have autism which comes with more of a a compulsion to do
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  stuff. Now I want to talk about these
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  two separately, but first of all, I just want to do a small
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  disclaimer. OCD can be very damaging to
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  someone's mental health. I mean it.
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  For me, it it was very some of the DACA times my life is
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  because of OCD and it really does spiral and becomes the
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  thing that grows on you. And I don't like it.
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  And so if you're having issues with OCD, therapy is really,
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  really good for it. And if you want to use a therapy
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  that's easy and helpful to use, I use Better help on my iPhone,
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  which is basically just an app that you download.
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  The link is down below in the description of this video,
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  Better Help. And they can talk to you on your
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  phone via text or video or voice and they hook you up within 24
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  to 48 hours with a therapist and you can pay through the app.
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  It's amazing. It's absolutely amazing.
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  So definitely check it out if you're struggling with mental
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  health. OCD is on it's own something
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  that is happening because you're compulsed to do it.
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  Like you have a negative impact if you don't do it.
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  So say say The thing is you have to turn all lights off in the
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  house two times, like on and off 2 times before you leave the
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  house. That is an OCD compulsion and
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  the reason for doing that. You do not enjoy doing those
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  things. You feel like you have to do
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  those things otherwise something terrible will happen to you or
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  your life or somebody in your life.
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  That's OCD in in general. But OCD within an autism
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  spectrum disorder, where they have a compulsion to do stuff
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  where they like doing the same thing over and over again, like
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  turning the lights on and off. They will actually have pleasure
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  from doing those things because it's a routine.
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  They like to follow through with those routines.
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  And I did a video all about routines and why routines are
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  important. Now when you're following a
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  routine because you find comfort from it, that's OCD for an
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  autism, which is just more of a compulsion to do those things
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  because you enjoy it. Whereas if you were doing
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  something that you didn't enjoy but you had to do it, that's
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  true. OCD.
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  A lot of people think OCD is just like cleaning, you know,
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  terribly cleaning and being being a germaphobe, which
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  sometimes it can be, But it's also more than that.
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  It's a, it's a, it's a routine, it's a repetitive action that
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  you have to take every single day.
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  You have to always do these things in order to actually
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  achieve some some sort of kind of stability in life so that
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  nothing dangerous happens to anybody.
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  And that's what that's what's going on in your mind.
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  That's what's going on in your life all the time.
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  Now there is a connection between those two and because
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  autism comes with mental health issues and OCD sometimes and a
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  lot of time is Co occurring or coexisting and Co diagnosed with
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  autism. Now if you have anything to add,
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  pop in the comment down below. I read every single one and I'll
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  see you guys in the next video. Peace.