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3 Odd Aspergers Symptoms (MUST SEE 👀) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the ASPY world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  You have arrived. Welcome to the ASPY world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism Ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  Odd Asperger's symptoms or autism traits that you've
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  probably not come across before in this form.
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  Guys, welcome back to the aspy world.
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  My name is Dan, I have autism and ADHD and I make weekly
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  videos all about this stuff. So if you're new around here and
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  That'll be grand. Guys, what is going on?
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  I want to do this video because I was in an event recently.
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  I went to Llandudno, which is like the city near where I live.
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  And I went there to do an event or talking about ODD and kind of
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  misunderstood traits and or symptoms, if you will.
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  People don't really use the term symptoms that much, but the the
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  term trait that is used but traits of autism or Asperger's
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  syndrome, depending, you know, what you're diagnosed with.
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  And I kind of blew people's minds with things.
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  So I wanted to go over those today in a video because I think
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  it's going to be really interesting for you to learn.
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  So we're going to get straight into it right after I tell you
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  autismhacks.net right now. All right, guys, let's get into
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  it. OK.
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  So the first one we'll talk about is changes.
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  Now, when you think about changes being, you know, an
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  issue with change for someone on the other spectrum, you think,
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  OK, yeah, you know, people on the other spectrum do have
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  issues with change, which is true.
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  They do, But it's not always what you think.
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  People think that, you know, hey, we're going to go to a
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  McDonald's and then get ice cream, but then, you know,
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  halfway the cow breaks down. Yes, that is a change.
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  And yes, that could upset someone on the spectrum, but
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  that's not the only type of change that will cause someone
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  on the spectrum to be upset or or wound up or even maybe 'cause
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  a meltdown. The change I'm talking about is
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  things from evolving spaces, the sensory impact of buildings.
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  Say you go outside and there is a building that used to be
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  there, but now it's disappeared. That visual sense or visual
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  aspect of where you are in the city or your town, now it's
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  changed. Now that is something that
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  people don't really think about, because when you think about
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  architecture and modifications, you think of improvements,
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  right? And something that's going to be
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  good. But actually for autistic
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  people, those landmarks and those markers in their life,
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  actually huge changes. You know, like one day you walk
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  on the street and used to be school here, now it's a big
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  field or they used to be field there and I was a block of flats
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  or an apartment block for you American folk.
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  But those type of things are changes that people don't think
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  about because you're only thinking about, you know, micro
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  size changes. But on a macro scale, all
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  things. On a macro level, things change
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  rapidly, especially with architecture.
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  And I find this so interesting. It's quite an odd thing to think
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  about, but it definitely happens.
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  So you could be like evaluating everything like, Oh my kid, you
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  know, walking down the street or I'm walking down the street and
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  you know, I'm suddenly triggered and I've gone through all my
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  triggers, everything, and it's just not happening.
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  So this is something that would actually cause that to happen,
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  Okay. So no two is sensory issues.
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  Now. We all talk about sensory
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  processing disorder and sensory issues for people on the autism
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  spectrum. And we all know that people on
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  the autism spectrum do have issues with, you know, sense of
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  touch, taste and all the other stuff.
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  But there's something more important that we don't really
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  talk about. And this is the role of
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  temperature in your sensory experience.
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  Now, for instance, when I'm doing DIY, I I get so hot and
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  flustered because I'm having to do something that I'm not
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  comfortable with. I'm not very comfortable with
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  DIY because I have terrible, fine motor skills.
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  But also the attention that it takes to actually do DIY is
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  quite difficult for people in the autism spectrum.
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  Now because of that, my temperature increases and the
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  temperature increases quite dramatically.
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  And I'm already a hot person, so that temperature increase causes
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  me to be completely disoriented. So I have to kind of like strip
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  down to just my underpants to do the DIY, which FYI, guys is
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  super funny, you know, and I'll have a good laugh.
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  But that whole experience, it reminds me of the fact that,
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  like, I'm always hot and temperatures really trigger me.
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  So I go into a room that's slightly hot or a little bit too
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  hot for my liking and it's, I'm on the edge.
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  I'm already, my cup is already full.
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  I've got no more spoons left. If you don't spoon theory is
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  where you have like certain amount of spoons, you can use it
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  during the day. And I mean, you're all spoons.
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  It's meltdown time. Yeah.
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  But that experience is definitely something that people
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  forget about when they think about sensory experiences.
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  They don't think about temperature experiences, but
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  those do trigger people on the opposite spectrum, which I think
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  is quite odd. Think about on a massive scale,
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  Okay. So the last one I'm going to
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  talk about here is clothing choices.
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  Now people on the option special do have issues with sensory
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  textures, right? So the textures are clothing.
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  So kind of like having tags on the back of your shirt.
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  You want to take those tags off because they feel like razor
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  blades. It could be all kinds of sensory
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  input, you know, soft clothes, tight clothes, like there's a
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  whole bunch of things that come with it.
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  But really, really forgotten about all the time is the
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  oddness of the fact that colours and shapes on clothing can also
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  trigger an autism brain to want to melt down.
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  So like when I was a kid, I couldn't have jeans because of
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  the the shape of the jeans. Like at one, you know, in the
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  90s I had the shape of jeans. They were always very just like
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  straight down, no shape to them, very square, very cardboardy.
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  And I couldn't have those on. And same with like logos.
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  I used to love like getting T-shirts, a lot of logos on it.
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  But as you guys probably already noticed, I always wear like
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  plain T-shirts or just a small logo here because the logos that
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  were here were too triggering and too too kind of like
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  stimulating for me. So I was always getting
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  distracted by the logos on my T-shirt because I may not like
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  them or those logos were like overriding my experience to stay
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  focused and stay, you know, kind of in the moment.
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  So those things are really interesting and I find them so
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  fascinating. If you found interest in this,
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  please share this video and drop.
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  Leave me a comment down below. I'll see you next time guys.
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  Peace. Hey guys, thank you so much for
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  See you in the next one. Peace.
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  Peace.