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The Essential Autism Gift Guide (Must See) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys, in this video I'm going to go through some.
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  Essential autism gifts that I think you are going to
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  definitely need. Guys, what's going on?
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  Welcome back to the aspy world. My name is Dan and I have autism
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  and ADHD. I make weekly videos all about
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  this stuff. So if you want to come and be on
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  this journey and help improve the lives of people with the
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  spectrum, make sure they hit the subscribe button down below so
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  you can get notified by clicking the notification bell when I
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  upload a video. So gifts are a huge thing when
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  it comes to like people wanting to buy gifts for people on the
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  office spectrum. Want to buy gifts for people who
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  may have ADHD is all thing right?
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  And so I put together a lovely list of seven items which I
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  think are just perfect for like you know, gift ideas that going
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  to get you thinking, stimulating.
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  If anything I recommend that I can find a specific item for.
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  I will have linked it down below so make sure to check the
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  description of this video. But also if you want my free
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  Autism Life Hacks PDF book completely free for sure to go
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  to autismhacks.net or click the link down below the links there
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  as well. So guys, in terms of the first
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  thing I want to talk about is century toys and tools.
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  So Century Toys and tools are kind of like gadgets and gizmos
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  that are like fidget spinners, you know, fidget boards,
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  anything fidget related. These things are like century
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  seeking types of of ideas or gifts.
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  Now this also comes under the umbrella of like tube bubble
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  lights and kind of like strip lights and lights like this one
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  in the background. Anything that's century seeking
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  it even could be slime or putty. Those type of toys, textures and
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  colours and movement based which are really really helpful for
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  sensory seeking dopamine hungry autistic individuals.
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  So if you're thinking about a gift, anything central related
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  is awesome. Now here in the UK there is a
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  toy manufacturer called Smith's or a toy warehouse called
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  Smith's or Smite. Now they actually have a home
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  fidget toy section. So if you are in the UK or
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  Ireland you can go to Smite's or Smith's toys and actually look
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  in there. Fidget toy section.
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  Super awesome. Recommend it and then I'll leave
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  a link down below to my best fidget kind of toys.
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  Ones I think are the best. There's quite a few independent
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  ones on the Internet. I think they're amazing.
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  So yeah, just check out the links #2.
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  Is visual. AIDS.
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  Now, visual aids are for communicative issues, right?
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  So people on the office spectrum need help with everything from
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  from daily life organization to going to bed to getting dressed
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  and all those things I would highly recommend using as a gift
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  using things like visual aids. Now this could be things like
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  visual timers, communication tools, it could even be a a
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  poster, like a schedule chat or a picture grid.
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  And you can get a lot of these off Etsy as well, which is
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  pretty amazing. Or you can go on like Pinterest
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  that find go on download it and print it off yourself, laminate
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  it and you can make the whole gift yourself.
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  I'm going to leave a link to Etsy for some of the stores I
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  think are pretty cool. But this is the kind of gift
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  which is not only awesome, but it's like super practical.
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  Like it's really fun because you know that the person taking
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  interest you know in you, if you're a gift receiver and some
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  give you a gift is going to help you in ways that you didn't
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  expect, then that's cool. But thinking about you in all
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  the right ways. OK.
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  doctor first just to make sure that everything is kosher.
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  Okay guys, let's get on with the video Okay so #4 is adaptive
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  clothing. Now what I mean by this,
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  Autistic individuals have sensory processing disorder,
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  typically Comorbidly Co occurring with the diagnosis of
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  autism, which means not all clothing is made equally.
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  So they'll be like seams and and and tags and stuff that's really
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  going to annoy autistic people. You can get sensory adaptive
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  clothing that are kind of like seamless socks.
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  You can get, you know, no tag T-shirts, really comfy trousers.
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  There's a bunch of different ones and I actually have worked
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  with a bunch of different brands.
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  What I'm going to do is link down the top of three that I've
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  worked with sensory socks. There's one.
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  A new one that just come out. That I did on my Instagram, so
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  if you haven't already followed. Me on.
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  Instagram Highly recommend checking me out on Instagram
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  right now I upload videos every single day on Instagram and
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  Instagram Stories. And there's a couple of as I've
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  worked with in the past, so definitely check out Adaptive
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  clothing. Really good, Super helpful.
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  I'm very practical again. OK, so #5 is therapy or
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  education apps. You know, if I didn't have an
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  iPad or iPhone, my life would be a whole lot different.
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  Actually it would be much more complex and I would hardly get
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  anything done. But with the use of certain
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  apps, I'm able to expand my relationship with schedules
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  because the apps will remind me that apps will keep me on track
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  of how much medication I've taken, how much water I've been
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  taken, You know, all of these things.
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  There's a bunch of different apps out there, some amazing
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  words and not only that, there's communication apps like Pro Alto
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  to Go which is an amazing app that you can use.
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  It puts the other visual stories of little kind of like graphics
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  and then you press them and it speaks for you.
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  So may say somebody is a non speaking autistic person, then
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  you could use this gift to really just change their whole
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  life. So I'm going to leave a link to
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  some of the apps and recommendations that I have
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  double as well. So you can definitely check
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  those out. But it's a great gift idea and
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  you can always gift apps. So if you're an iPhone user or
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  an Android user, you can go to the store, the App Store, go in
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  it and say gift this. As long as you got the person's
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  e-mail address that you're going to send it to, you can gift them
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  the app and then you pay for it and they receive it.
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  It's a great digital awesome gift, especially for your long
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  distance. Number six is art and creativity
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  kit. Now artistic individuals love
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  different types of hands on play.
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  Kinesthetic learning which is like using paint to make like,
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  you know hand paint drawings or or pencils and colouring things
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  and even colouring is therapeutic in itself.
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  So always think about creativity and art kits.
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  These things are going to be awesome for artistic
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  individuals, but make sure the person you're getting these for
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  is OK with paint, or is OK with it and their hand's dirty or is
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  OK with felt tip pens. Or you've got to make sure that
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  the needs of the person is met also when you're doing gifts.
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  But this is just an idea. I'll link down below.
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  Some of the ones I think are very creative.
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  There's an amazing company called Lucky Kid from the United
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  States and they do a lot of this kind of creativity type of stuff
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  but for autistic individuals. So I'll link you to those as
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  well. And #7 is a no brainer.
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  Everybody in the autism spectrum will have a topic of special
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  interest, right? So that they're obsessed with
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  that they just want to talk about all the time.
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  Yeah, I know, mums and dads, watch this video.
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  You get what I'm saying, right? But in this specifically, if you
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  know what your kid is into, or you know what your loved one or
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  your friend or cousin or whatever, whoever is on the
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  spectrum you're buying for, if you know that they're really
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  into cars, they're really into, like, I don't know, snakes or
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  something like animals or whatever, get them something to
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  do with a specific special interest.
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  It will always pay off in dividends.
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  It's something that will treasure forever.
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  And you might think, oh you know, they may have this already
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  and blah blah blah dude, I can never have more Fight Club
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  stuff. Like I have Fight Club stuff
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  like all over my office right now.
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  I'm obsessed with Fight Club and if anybody want me duplicates
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  I'd be like, well, thank goodness I've got a duplicate
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  because now if one breaks, I got a backup.
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  Guys smash that like button if this is helpful and share this
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  video if you think it's going to change somebody's life and how
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  would give me ideas. Love you always.
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  Peace out. See you in the next one.