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Autism Meltdown vs Shutdown (5 Essentials YOU Need To Know) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Sorts of Difference Between Autism Meltdowns Versus Autism
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  Shutdowns. In this video, I'm going to be 3
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  essential informational tips that you need to know.
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  All that's coming up. Hey hey guys, welcome back to
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  the apps we world. My name is Dan, I have autism,
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  ADHDOCD and dyslexia, and I make weekly videos on this type of
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  videos. Guys, welcome back.
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  What is going on? Good to see you here.
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  To the place where we think differently daily.
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  What's up, different thinkers? Yeah, I'm really excited.
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  I wanted to do this video for a while because I feel like a lot
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  of people don't understand the difference between an autism
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  meltdown and autism shutdown, And I wanted to kind of really
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  just marry the idea together that there are differences
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  between those. And we're going to we're going
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  to go through that. But first, if you haven't
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  Awesome. OK, so what's the difference
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  between awesome meltdowns versus shutdowns, right?
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  Because a lot of people, it really irritates me because a
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  lot of people say that it's a shutdown or or it's a meltdown.
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  A lot of people don't even understand what a meltdown is.
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  And I'll try and leave some more references and links to
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  meltdowns and stuff that other videos I've done specifically on
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  meltdowns in the end slate and in the in the description.
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  But in terms of this video, I really want to cover the
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  difference between a meltdown versus shutdown, because there
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  are differences. And I wanted to just categorise
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  that and actually go through five of the most interesting
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  essentials, really, that you need to know on this.
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  So we're gonna go diving right through that right now.
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  Buckle up and yeah, I hope you enjoy this content.
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  OK, so the first one is an optimum meltdown can be
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  characterised by an emotional outburst and reacting to the end
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  of your century overload, right. So basically when a meltdown
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  happens, you're you're basically kind of lashing out your your
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  emotional emotionally overloaded and emotional.
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  It's just gone right over the edge and like you know, and
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  you're just bursting out with all this kind of emotional
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  overload stuff. Whereas like a shutdown would be
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  something where you are kind of becoming more more, you know,
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  inward and conservative in your effort of emotional approach.
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  So you can obviously see straight off the bat where a
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  meltdown is an outburst or something, but a shutdown is a
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  shutdown or something, which is quite self-explanatory.
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  But in the terms of this, a lot of people don't understand the
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  difference. But obviously This is why we're
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  doing this video. So #2 is when too many
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  communicational inputs are overloaded into an autistic
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  person's mind, they will end up having like a burnout, which
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  seems like as a similar to like meltdown, but it can be noted as
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  feeling of this despair, hopelessness of a situation.
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  So basically when you have, you know, when you have an outburst
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  or like a meltdown outburst which kind of like you you've
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  you have an overload of communication from input and
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  stuff. And rather than kind of like
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  emotionally outbursting like crying or or you know, just
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  being erratic with your behaviour, you kind of almost
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  become like a feeling of despair or hopelessness.
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  The situation kind of topples down on you.
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  And this is kind of how AAI suppose shutdown would be
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  characterized. You kind of like shutting down
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  into into yourself and becoming very kind of like desk.
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  You know you're desperate. You're kind of like I have no,
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  you know, it's a feeling of despair And and I think that's a
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  really good way to kind of like think about, you know, I don't
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  know. It's just like, yeah, it's truly
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  interesting. OK, guys.
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  So #3 is with autism shutdowns, a person experiences the last
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  straw situation and can't control the the environment and
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  they just kind of give up. So within with a meltdown, it's
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  more like they've been pushed to an edge and then like, you know,
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  they've fallen over the edge and their meltdown is kind of like
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  exploded and it's catastrophic and everything just like sucks.
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  But in terms of a shutdown, it's more like they've they've had
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  enough. They've had the last straw and
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  that's it. They feel like they can't do
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  anymore. They can't give anymore.
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  They're just kind of like, Oh my goodness, this is it.
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  No, I've just shut down because I have nothing to give.
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  I have no more. There's nothing else in this
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  kind of like arsenal that I can give to the situation
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  emotionally, socially, whatever the situation.
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  And that's that's the difference from those situations, how they,
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  how they actually come around, which is really interesting.
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  So #4 is that the giving up is a result of the lack of control or
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  lack of understanding of the situation that they are
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  currently presented. So when when someone gives up on
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  a situation in a shutdown, they're giving up because they
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  don't have control over it. And it's not like a, you know,
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  this is where it kind of gets blurred line because a meltdown
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  is that there's no control over the sensory input that's coming
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  in from the situation around you.
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  But it's not like you're trying to control a situation around
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  you and that you just kind of give up and like, you know,
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  resign from it. But that's So a shutdown is when
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  you resign from the situation, but the meltdown is when you
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  have no control, but you, you lose control of your emotions.
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  And a shutdown is just kind of like, you know, admitting
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  defeat, really. That's kind of like the
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  difference when you shut down a meltdown in a position where you
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  lose control in this situation, if that makes sense.
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  I'm sure it does. But if it doesn't make sense,
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  pop me a comment down below. I read every single comment and
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  I'd love to have the discussion with you if you.
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  Yeah, if you have anything to add to this to clear anything
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  up. So #5 is that the person will be
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  quite silent and docile when they're having a a shutdown and
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  there'll be no input from the situation from that moment on.
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  So they won't. So when you're having a
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  meltdown, there'll be lots of input.
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  You'll be like shouting and screaming and crying and all
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  this kind of stuff. And there'll be loads of input
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  to the situation around you, you know, because it's output from
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  you input to the situation. But with a shutdown, there will
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  be no input from you at all to the situation that surrounds you
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  or you're presented in. You'll just completely close up
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  and be self, self inward and should be like, oh, I've had
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  enough. There's no more.
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  There's no, I'm not going to. There's nothing left.
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  That's it. I'm dunzo.
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  I'm out. You know.
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  And you just honestly, we don't even talk.
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  You'll just be completely so kind of like shut down and kind
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  of like inwards. You'll just kind of just it's
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  just not going to happen and that's kind of basically how it
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  works. Now if you found this info
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  I will see you in the next one guys.
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  Peace.