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What You Need to Know About Sensory Processing Disorder · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Today's everything you need to know about Sensory Processing
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  Disorder. Don't go anywhere guys.
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  Welcome back to the Astro world. My name is Dan, I have autism,
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  ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia, and I'm making weekly videos all about
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  this stuff because it's important to me to help you.
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  It's like my life mission or goal.
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  potential and really just be awesome.
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  So if you want to be part of the movement coming on with me,
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  Oh yes, I don't sleep. I'm joking.
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  I do sometimes. Guys, what's going on?
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  Welcome back. If you're new around here, I
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  have a free Autism Wifeax PDF book you can download now from
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  autismhacks.net. Completely free.
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  The link is down below. So sensory Processing disorder.
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  What is it? So Sensory processing disorder,
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  sometimes called SPD, is a form of different types of sensory
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  hyper or hyposensitivities to sensory environments.
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  And this is third party stimuli. So this could be that you are
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  told different lights, you could be in a an amusement arcade, a
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  light too bright or flickering and it's really causing you
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  harm. Or there is a an event going on
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  and the noise is too loud. Even could be walking through a
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  mall and the noise is too loud and making you cover your ears.
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  Now sensory processing disorder comes comorbidly with autism and
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  autism is a neurological developmental condition which
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  actually has a bunch of different things Co occurring.
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  Could be like ADHD, could be OCD, all kinds of stuff.
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  Now I have sensory processing disorder myself and it is very
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  interesting that mind is like texture and smell based and
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  sound based. But sometimes you can be also
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  hyposensitive, so a person could be less sensitive or more
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  sensitive to something. It's really quite interesting
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  and sometimes you can have a combination of both.
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  So someone could be like hypersensitive to sound but
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  hypersensitive to taste so they could like have to block out
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  loads of sound even if it's like the the the lowest sound ever
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  likes you know a mouse sticking a fart in the next room and he
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  could be like really sensitive to that sound.
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  However you could sit and eat like spicy food until the cows
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  come home because it just effects people on the autism
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  spectrum differently. Now up to date I've not really
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  come across many people who have just a sensory processing
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  disorder diagnosis. It's usually Co occurring with
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  like autism or ADHD. Now sensory processing disorder
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  can be very debilitating and I know for me when I was doing my
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  degree in chemistry, you have to do a bunch of other stuff 1st.
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  And we were analyzing onion skin under a microscope and I
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  remember being in the room with cut onions and I couldn't be
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  there because I'm really sensitive to the smell of
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  onions. I'm really sensitive to the
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  smell of garlic as well. So I can't be in the room with
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  those things, which makes it very difficult for me to cook
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  because how can I cook when they're the basis of pretty much
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  every meal, right. So it's really difficult and it
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  can be very challenging. But that being said, there are
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  so many things to help overcome. I mean, even the Life Hacks book
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  that I've linked down below for free, I have some sensory
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  processing hacks in there that will help people who are sent
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  hypersensitive to certain things like, you know, tags on the back
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  of the back of the shirt or even seams, the socks.
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  All those things are subject processing issues.
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  I'd love to know your opinions and your input on it.
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  Pop in the comment down below, give this video a shave if you
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  think it can help somebody and I'll see you in the next on
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  guys. Peace.