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Autism Repetitive Behaviours_ What YOU Need To Know · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys, welcome to this episode.
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  Today we're talking about autism and behaviour and routines of
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  repetitive behaviour. All that plus more is coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the Aspy world.
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  What's going on? My name is Dan and I have
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  video. Awesome.
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  So repetitive behaviour and autism.
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  This is really interesting because we all know that
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  autistic interviews like repetitive behaviour, but why?
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  What is it? What what is it that what what
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  is ticking there? Why does that happen?
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  And actually it's a very complex process, which is pretty
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  Let's go down with the still autism and routine.
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  Still, why repetitive behaviours?
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  Why do autistic people have repetitive behaviour?
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  Well, it's really simply down to a security or a potential lack
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  there of security. You know, if you like the same
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  food, say you like eating pizza, right?
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  And you want to eat pizza. You know when you know that you
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  eat pizza and it's fine. And if you go to a fancy
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  restaurant and they don't have what you want, you sit there
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  thinking, mad. If I just had pizza, I'd be so
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  much happier right now rather than trying to find some like
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  fish souffle off the off the menu, which you don't even know
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  what it is even. What is that like?
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  OK, I'm just made that up, but you know what I mean?
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  And so autistic individuals will find repetitive behaviour a form
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  of security or self security because you know that thing,
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  it's comfortable, it's relatable, you've had it before,
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  it's easy and you don't have to worry about it.
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  And you've got to think the mind of an autistic person is going
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  like here, there everywhere all the time.
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  It's got these sounds and inputs and and lights and everything
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  coming at you at 1000 miles an hour.
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  The last thing you want to do is worry about what I need to eat
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  for dinner that day. So you it's simple, you pack a
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  freezer full of the same thing you want all the time pizza,
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  easy peasy. Check a pizza in the oven, you
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  know, a few minutes, it's done. That is the security measure
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  that autistic people have with certain things.
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  Now that can be actually applied to anything.
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  It's not just food, it's where they sit, the clothes that they
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  wear, the the shows that they want to watch.
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  Like as an autistic person, I love watching the same things
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  over and over again because those things bring me joy and
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  also the they allow me ability to just be in that moment and
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  not worry about all the other things.
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  It's kind of like taking away a potential worry measure.
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  Now this is just one of a few things, right?
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  You know, autistic people don't try any foods anyway.
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  So, you know, I guess the chicken nugget scenario is is
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  going to be always the the winner here.
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  But in terms of other things, there are dopamine chasing
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  abilities that follow autism. Now, dopamine is this kind of
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  awesome chemical that's released into the brain when you find
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  pleasure in something. Now this could be, you know, I
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  don't play sports or you know, eating awesome foods or
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  something that just makes you feel really engaged in the thing
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  you really love. Now this is what happens with
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  autistic individuals. They are dopamine deficient,
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  meaning their brain is burning through many amounts of energy
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  constantly. And I did a video all about the
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  autism brain, which I'll link to at the end of this video and
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  I'll put it in the description down below.
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  But they're they're wanting to chase all this dopamine all the
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  time. That's why the autistic
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  individual could become obsessed or, or really, really, really
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  into one thing because that's basically, you know how their
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  brain works if they're trying to find dopamine all the time.
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  So if you're finding that eating a pizza every day gives you
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  dopamine or sitting on that part of the couch gives you dopamine,
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  then what are you going to do? If you're a dopamine deficient
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  person chasing dopamine constantly, you are going to do
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  the things that bring you dopamine.
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  So it's kind of like a why wouldn't you?
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  You know what I mean? It's like if you drink your
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  favorite cup of coffee or favorite cup of tea every day,
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  you're going to because drinking dopamine is why we do all these
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  things is why we do things repeatedly.
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  But in terms of assisting individuals, they will do things
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  again and again repeatedly because they want that dopamine
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  hit constantly. Now there is a downfall for
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  chasing dopamine assisting individuals could get obsessed
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  with things like alcohol or illegal drugs, even prescription
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  drugs. And because they're giving
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  dopamine hits. This also goes for like, you
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  know, pornographic imagery and and stuff like that, which isn't
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  the best and you can see why this happens because they're
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  giving short spurts of dopamine constantly.
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  So This is why it happens. Another factor is the control of
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  unpredictability. Now autistic individuals do not
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  like unpredictability. They like routine.
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  You know, they like knowing what they're going to do because a
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  surprise in unpredictability. You know, if you're saying I'm
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  going to go to the store, I'm going to go down there, the
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  store's going to be open and going to pick up bread and walk
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  home. You get to the store and it's
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  closed panic stations because you didn't predict for the store
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  to be closed. You actually thought it was
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  going to be open. So that unpredictability within
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  your routine of what you thought was going to happen has just
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  disrupted your whole day and like a whole pack of dominoes
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  just wipes out the rest of your day.
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  This is kind of what happens when an assistant person
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  appearances burn out from a sensory input, and this sensory
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  input in this time could be emotional overload from going
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  somewhere and having the routine cut short or, or changed or
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  something different about it. So having a structure where you
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  do the same thing over again, it's predictable.
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  I know that I'm going to wake up and drink the same coffee I've
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  always drunk. I know that I'm going to sit in
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  that part of the couch. I know that I'm going to put
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  those clothes on. That predictability allows ease.
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  Again, it goes back to the first point where it's taking away
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  from the struggle of choice and thinking, oh, I have to do this
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  or I have to do that, or you know, what choice do I want?
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  Well, the choice is already made-up.
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  You've already planned it. You've done it 1000 times.
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  This is why it's easy. So autistic people find this
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  really soothing and very comforting.
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  Now there is another factor. Now, this is the control factor.
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  Now autistic individuals find they have somewhat of a lack of
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  control within life. And it's not because other
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  people are controlling their lives.
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  It's because the world seems so chaotic to the autistic brain
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  that it's hard to know when you're in control something when
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  you're not. Because everything feels out of
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  control. The tip, the lights, the sound,
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  the smells, the people, conversations, academia,
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  everything is overwhelming but and it's out of control.
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  You can't control those things. They're just happening
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  simultaneously all the time and it's just jamming your eye full
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  of input. But there is certain things you
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  can control, like when you're in your house, you can control the
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  temperature of the thermostat, you can control what you're
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  going to eat. You can control where you're
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  going to sit. You can control what you want to
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  watch on television. You can control what you're
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  going to wear. All of these things opened up
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  the sea of possibilities that autistic individuals can control
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  certain things. Now, if you felt completely out
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  of control all of your life, and then somebody said, well, you
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  can control that part of your life, you'd want to constantly
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  control that part of your life. Now there are ways that we can
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  implement other parts of control into our life so that we can
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  experience more to life than just a repetitive routine in
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  certain areas. But what I'm trying to highlight
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  is this is the reasons why autistic people have repetitive
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  behaviors or why it's not actually a bad thing.
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  Then this is similarly to how people get into obsessive topics
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  of interest or special topics of interest.
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  Not autistic people are notorious for having a specific
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  type of interest or a topic of interest.
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  And this again is down to the fact that it's dopamine, you
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  know, efficient, it's soothing and self kind of like
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  controlling, you know, it, it's repetitive, it's comfortable to
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  you. And this can be actually a
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  lifeline if you're going through a difficult time.
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  If you start focusing on the things that bring you joy and
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  dopamine, then the difficult time kind of moves away and he
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  starts to feel more at ease or calm in a situation.
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  It's a good way to calm somebody down if they're having a
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  meltdown. No, I find all this stuff
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  fascinating, but I want to know, are you a person of routine?
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  Are you a person, not a routine? Drop me a comment down below and
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  Mind. OK guys, see you in the next
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  one. Peace.