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

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  So it'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 Aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  I have autism, ADHD, OCD and dyslexia and I'm making weekly
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  videos all about this stuff because it's important to me to
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  help you. It's like my life mission or
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  goal if you like to help autistic individuals reach
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  maximum potential and really just be awesome.
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  So if you want to be part of everyone, come along with me.
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  Oh yes, I don't sleep joking, I do sometimes.
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  Guys, what's going on? Welcome back.
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  If you're new around here, I have a free autism Wi-Fi PDF
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  book you can download now from 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 to different lights. You could be in a, an amusement
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  arcade, the lights are too bright or flickering and it's
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  really causing you 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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  mole and the noise is too loud and and you're making you cover
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  your ears. Now sensory processing disorder
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  comes comorbidly with autism and autism is a neurological
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  developmental condition which actually has a bunch of
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  different things Co occurring. It could be like ADHD, it could
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  be OCD, all kinds of stuff. Now I have sensory processing
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  disorder myself and it is very interesting that mine is like
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  texture and smell based and sound based.
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  But sometimes you can be also hyposensitive.
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  So a person could be less sensitive or more sensitive to
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  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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  hyposensitive to taste. So they could like have to block
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  out loads of sound, even if it's like the, the, the lowest sound
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  ever, like, you know, a mouse sticking of fat in the next room
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  and he 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 it just effects people on the oxy
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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 caring with like
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  autism or ADHD. Now, sensory processing disorder
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  can be very debilitating. And I know for me when I was
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  doing my degree in chemistry, you had to do a bunch of other
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  stuff 1st. And we were analyzing onion skin
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  under a microscope and I remember being in the room with
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  cut onions and I couldn't be there because I'm really
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  sensitive to the smell of onions.
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  I'm really sensitive to the smell of garlic as well.
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  So I can't be in the room with those things, which makes it
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  very difficult for me to cook because how can I cook when
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  they're the basis of pretty much every meal, right?
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  So it's really difficult and it can be very challenging.
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  But that being said, there are so many things to help overcome.
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  I mean, even though life hacked a book that I've linked down
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  below for free, I have some sensory processing hacks in
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  there that will help people who are hypersensitive to certain
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  things like, you know, tags on the back of the back of the
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  shirt or even seams, the socks. All those things are century
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  processing issues. I'd love to know your opinions
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  and your input on it. Pop in the comment down below.
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  Give this video a share if you think it can help somebody and
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  I'll see you in the next storm guys.
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  Peace.