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Inside The Brain Of Autism - The Most Important Next 30 Mins Of Your Life · 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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  spectrum, your autism ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  Ever wonder what's inside the brain of an autistic person?
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  What are they thinking about? How are they just doing life?
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  I'll explain all of that right now because I myself, I'm an
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  autistic person as what's going on.
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  Welcome back to the SB world. My name is Dan.
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  I have autism in ADHD and a bunch of other stuff.
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  If you are interested in learning more about autism in
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  ADED, then make sure to hit subscribe button here on YouTube
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  and the follow button on all of the social media platforms if
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  you're watching on something else.
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  So basically I wanted to do this video because a lot of the time
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  people look at me strange when I say certain things, right?
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  Like I'll, I'll, I, I do something called info dumping,
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  right? And by statistical ways, if you
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  do info dumping, you know exactly what I mean.
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  Basically, I love to understand and retain knowledge and, and
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  information on things and facts and just really interesting
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  information. And then I'll regurgitate that
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  randomly all the time. No difference.
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  I'll just be like talking to somebody like, Hey, did you know
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  how Like, you know, I don't know, the people in Pompeii were
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  buried under ash and what it looked like.
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  And did you know that, you know how nuclear weapons, I made it.
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  What about, I don't know, like, I'll just talk about crazy
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  stuff. Then people are like, wow,
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  that's fascinating. And then I'll go into kind of
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  more detail on it. People will be like, you know, a
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  lot of information. And I'm like, well, yeah, don't
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  you? And they say, no, this isn't
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  typical, right? So I thought, well, maybe I
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  should talk a little bit about what it's like being autistic or
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  how it is experiencing the world.
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  Please share this video if you think it's helpful for somebody
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  and also tag your friends in the comments to see if they would be
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  interested in this video. And the first thing I want to
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  talk about is conversations. Now I have conversations with
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  people all the time, right? Because I work in social media,
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  you know, I, I make videos and I work with brands and businesses
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  to build their social media and, and that kind of stuff.
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  If you're interested in that, I'm always looking for people to
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  work with. So you can always drop me an
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  e-mail the ASPB world@gmail.com. But when I'm talking to people,
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  I listen to the conversation and I record the conversation.
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  Now it can be difficult to instantly reply to the needs of
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  the conversation there and then because sometimes I only tend to
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  process it. But what never changes is the
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  fact that I've recorded the conversation and I'll remember
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  that forever. And so this can happen where
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  somebody could say something in a conversation and then two
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  weeks later, I'll be going over that conversation repeatedly for
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  so any conversation I come across a new conversation, I'll
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  be going over that repeatedly for about two weeks in my head.
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  Now you can understand that. How many conversations does a
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  person have in a day, right? So I'm going over lots of
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  conversations simultaneously in my brain, just trying to sift
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  through them to find out the knowledge and the information
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  that I need to retain to regurgitate later on.
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  That's kind of going to be useful to somebody or it's going
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  to be useful to the project or the thing that we're working on.
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  So somebody could say something to me and then about two weeks
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  later, I could be like, ah, yes, that's what it was.
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  And then I'll message them saying this is what I needed to
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  send you. And they're going to be like,
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  down what on earth you did. Like this ended ages ago.
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  Like, you know, the project was done and dusted.
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  And now you come in to me with the answer.
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  And I'm like, oh, OK, well, it's even that one to process it.
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  I always remember conversations and everything that people have
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  said to me, which is really interesting, but also kind of
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  frustrating, especially for jokes.
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  Like somebody will tell me a joke and then about a month
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  later I'll be sitting down and I'm like, I get the joke now
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  because it takes that long to process it.
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  It's not like you can just say something and then I can just
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  think about it and quickly message, message or think back,
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  unless it's something that I'm extremely engaged in, like my
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  work. I love digital media, social
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  marketing through social media marketing and I love building
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  funnels now funnels basically sales funnel where it's a
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  journey of a person. How do you give them more value
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  and a service through entrance to exit right.
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  And I love that stuff and like I, I live for it.
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  Like all my books that I digester about it, all my
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  training courses that I download are all about it.
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  I love it. And in terms of if someone came
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  up to me and too spoke to me about it because it's my topic
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  of special interest, I'd be able to just kind of like, you know,
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  go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth because
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  it's effortless. I already know the data that
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  they're going to want to talk about and I already know kind of
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  like what the premise of the conversation's going to be.
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  Now, in terms of anything else, literally anything else that
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  just goes away. You know, the second thing is,
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  well, the third thing in this, this instance is future proofing
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  or future planning events and things.
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  Somebody says to me, you're done.
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  I have a, an event, my birthday is coming up on the 18th of
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  January. Come along.
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  It's going to be in this social club somewhere.
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  I'm like, OK, cool. Never going to happen, never
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  going to remember that unless I write it down, it's never going
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  to happen. So I actually use my phone.
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  I use the Siri assistant on my phone to input stuff into my
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  diary automatically for me. And then I have the Alexa that
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  basically shouts out when, you know, I have just a heads up for
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  all the autism parents out there.
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  for Autism Parenting Magazine. So it's a really good magazine,
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  very festival and it's been around for a while, so
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  definitely check them out. I've actually been featured in
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  this magazine too. But if you got 50% off you want
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  to do, she tells me when I have an event or a calendar update.
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  So that's how I organize my life in terms of those things because
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  if I didn't have those, I'd probably never be able to
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  remember anything. So my brain is going 1000 miles
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  an hour. I am constantly digesting and
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  analysing everything that I see. I analysed the small details and
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  everything. I analysed the larger details
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  and things. I see a picture and I see the
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  small individual pieces because those individual pieces like
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  anything in life, like chemistry, if you go down to
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  those molecular structures, those build up the bigger
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  pictures. So we have to understand the
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  final detail in order to understand the bigger picture,
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  right? The, the, the proof is in the
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  micro and the pudding is the macro.
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  And I always kind of people say, oh, you've got great attention
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  to detail and it's not, I have great attention to detail or I
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  have a knack for attention to detail.
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  The difference is I am looking and paying attention to detail
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  and that's what artistic individuals are very known for.
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  And this to me is kind of like one of my strengths, right?
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  The, the paying attention to detail is really good because it
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  allows me to look at things in a different way or a different
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  perspective. But it does have its downfalls.
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  I'm never fully asleep or I'm never fully relaxed.
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  My brain is always going 1000 miles an hour.
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  My speech is up and also it's hard to relax.
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  I find that relaxing is probably one of the biggest tasks that I
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  can never get around to. And it's normally due to the
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  fact that when I'm trying to relax, the only thing I can do
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  to relax is to watch something like a documentary or listen to
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  a book or watch an educational podcast or something like that.
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  Because those things are going to allow me to relax because I'm
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  enjoying the information, I'm enjoying the data, I'm enjoying
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  the feedback, right? And I need that feedback.
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  I'm kind of intellectually thirsty all the time.
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  That's what it feels like. It feels like I'm desperate for
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  a drink of water all the time with knowledge.
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  So somebody said to me, hey, there's a free lecture on kind
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  of Hadron colliders down there, John, go see, I'm going to get
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  100%. Like I'd be there in a shot like
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  every month I buy like a course to take to learn about
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  something. And also I actually did a degree
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  in chemistry because I was really bored.
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  That's how my brain works, right?
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  And I was able to do the balancing of chemical formula
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  equations in my head where normally people have to kind of
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  map out this thing just to make sure you get it right.
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  But I loved it so much. I learned so much about it that
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  I really enjoyed doing those things.
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  Now some of those kind of common misconceptions people think
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  about autistic people, they're all good at maths, right?
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  And I, I am pretty good at complex maths, at algebra, but
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  like some of the simple maths I'm not real so good at.
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  And actually a lot of my friends who are autistic are terrible at
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  maths. It's not about being good at
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  maths, it's about being good at the thing that you're really
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  good at. And I know it sounds kind of
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  weird to say, but it's kind of like, you know, some of my
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  friends are savants, right? And so they're really good at
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  playing a piano. And then I have an autistic
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  friend who's really good at writing books.
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  Like they can write every kind of fantasy book you could
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  possibly think of. You know, you, you wouldn't
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  think it, but there's a skill involved in actually collecting
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  memorabilia and categorizing it because those things are really
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  interesting. Now, the last thing I want to
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  say about the autistic brain and how it interacts with things is
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  very interesting. An autistic person may collect
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  things like rocks. I was doing a talk once and a
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  parent said to me, my son collects rocks from the beach,
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  from the garden, from the walk. We go on and he cuts rocks.
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  We got rocks all over his room. And it looks like a bloody
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  jumble sale, right? Which is basically a British
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  term for the second hand store. And she said they had all these
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  rocks everywhere and it just looked weird, right?
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  And she would want to throw them out because it was a mess.
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  I said no, no, don't throw them out.
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  And she said why does he feel the need to collect rocks?
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  Why does he need them? He likes rocks.
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  He can look at pictures of rocks, he can talk about them,
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  but why does he need boxes of them in his room?
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  I said because the way autistic individual people learn is
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  different to the way that typical people learn.
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  Typically people will sit down at a desk, listen to a lecture
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  or a teacher and try and retain that information to regurgitate
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  into a test, right? However, an autistic person will
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  want to have the presence of mass.
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  So say I wanted to learn about this water bottle and I want to
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  learn everything about it. If I didn't have one in front of
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  me, if I didn't have the presence of mass in front of me,
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  well, how the heck am I supposed to know what it looks like,
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  feels like touches like, What's the temperature like?
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  I want to know everything about this.
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  I need to learn about this. So the rocks are giving this
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  boy, this young boy, tactile feedback for learning and
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  understanding whilst touching the rocks, whilst being around
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  the rocks. It's not a Mario Kondo thing
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  where it's like I'm around the things that bring me joy, you
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  know, it's not those things. Or maybe they do bring him joy,
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  but that's not why he collects him.
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  He collects him because he's getting tactile, physical
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  feedback from having the presence of mass to the thing
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  that he's most interested in. And by the term mass, we just
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  mean something that has a presence, right?
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  An actual physical presence. That's what mass means.
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  And so when you think about it, the autistic brain is trying to
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  learn at a rapid rate, which could cause all these kind of
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  blunders. And think about this, if you're
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  learning all of these things, you're going to trip over some
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  time with other things like social skills and eye contact
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  and all those other things that autistic individuals may have
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  issues with. And this is basically why I just
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  want to suggest in this video here to let you know that
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  confidence is one of the main issues that hold autistic
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  individuals back from their full potential.
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  This is why I read a course which is the Chaos to confidence
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  in 90 days blueprint, which means I can take an autistic
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  person from complete chaos to being very confident and acing
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  their life. So if you're an autistic adult
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  and you want access to this program, you can check it out.
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  The link is in description and down below.
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  Or you can go to the aspbworld.com/C to C right now,
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  the number 2 and get access to this program.
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  Hey. Guys, thank you so much for
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  one. Peace.