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How Autism Obsessions Can Help YOU! (3 ESSENTIAL TIPS) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  This is how autism obsessions can actually help you with three
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  essential tips. All that's coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the aspy world.
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  My name is Dan. I have autism, ADHD, OCD, and
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  dyslexia, and I make weekly videos all about this type of
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  content. So if you're new around here and
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  Guys, what is going on? Welcome back to the place where
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  we think differently daily. What's up, different thinkers?
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  My name is Diane and today I'm doing a video all about autism
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  obsessions and how it's a good thing that can absolutely help
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  you so much. So having an autism obsession or
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  obsessive interest can be quite can be a negative thing
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  actually, because you could be a hoarder.
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  You could collect too much, spend too much money on things.
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  There's a whole bunch of things that having an obsession with
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  something contended to an unhealthy obsession, but but
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  there is a bunch of things that you can do which is super
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  awesome for like people who want to use it as a as a superpower
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  or a tool or a weapon in their arsenal, which is super, super
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  awesome. So I've done this video, but in
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  a way that I could basically give you 3 tips of how you can
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  actually use it for your your free advantage basically.
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  And that's basically it. So without further ado, let's
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  get into it. But before we do, I just want to
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  ask. If you haven't already and you
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  want to download my free Autism Life Hacks PDF book, then you
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  can do autismhacks.net. All right, let's jump into the
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  video. OK guys, so number one is
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  calming down. So if you find joy and comfort
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  from obsessive interest or a topic of interest and like, you
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  know you you you feel relaxed and calm and you're studying
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  Penguins, right? If you are in a situation where
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  you're worked up or you're stressed or you're going to have
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  a meltdown, then if you start your obsessive interest topic,
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  like if you start reading about Penguins or discussing stuff
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  about Penguins or looking at Penguin videos, then it's going
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  to calm you down and help you feel so much more at ease.
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  So you're using it as a tool to help you overcome something that
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  is, you know, detrimental or negative at that moment in time,
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  which my friend is a super awesome, super comfy hacker I
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  use all the time. No joke.
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  OK, so #2 is finding a job. So if you have an autism
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  obsession with, like, say you're really interested in like
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  computer science and coding, right, Then you could
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  potentially become a knowledge base on that subject and be
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  really good at it. Which will give you a really
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  good leeway to go for a job interview and potentially
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  getting a position in a company if you're really, really good at
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  a certain thing that the company really, really needs.
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  Which I think is really, really awesome.
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  Because, you know, people with obsessive interests and topics
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  become kind of like the the master in what they really,
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  really enjoy or mastering what they like, which is the thing
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  that they love. You know, you could be like a
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  game, kind of like Wizkid, and then you could get a job with a
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  gaming company because you'd be like a knowledge base more so
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  than anybody else, which is just absolutely fantastic.
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  So on that, let's move on to tip #3.
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  So tip #3 here is making friends.
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  Now, one of the biggest struggles I feel like people on
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  the autism spectrum do have is finding friends and making
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  friends. And this is due to a bunch of
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  different things. Social communication aspects,
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  social conformity. Loads of different things that
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  happen socially which do impact the person's to you know, act in
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  social situation. But there is an upside to having
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  an obsessive interest when it comes down to making friends.
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  If you are interested in a certain topic then you can go
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  and find friends within that certain topic.
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  So basically, if I'm interested in Star Trek, I can go to Star
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  Trek Forum, Star Trek conventions, sparker
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  conversations and discuss those things.
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  Because the people who will find you interesting, because they
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  will know that you are interested in saying things that
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  they're interested in. But you're like a knowledge
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  base, like a wealth of knowledge in it, which is super dope.
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  Like everybody's going to be like, well, this person knows
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  all the stuff on Star Trek and like, now we're like going to be
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  BFS forever, which is super, super dope.
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  So you can see how you can turn obsessive interests and being
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  something that people kind of go, Oh my goodness, they're
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  holding the house with all this junk to being something like
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  whoa, now you've used it as a superpower in your arsenal
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  because you're awesome and you you beat the system.
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  Guys, if you have anything to add, pop in a comment.
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  I love to read them all. And if you enjoyed this video,
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  give it thumbs up. And if you found value in it and
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  think somebody else could find value, please share on your
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  time guys.