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Autism Cyber Monday Essential Tech! · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  OK so Cyber Monday is coming up and people are going to be crazy
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  dropping prices. Buckle up this is super awesome.
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  Guys welcome back to the aspy world.
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  My name is Dan and I make it my life's mission to help empower
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  improve the lives and and upgrade everybody on the
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  Autonisfaction to being completely awesome.
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  So if you want to come along that journey with me and help
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  everybody with the Autonispection reach their full
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  potential, make sure to hit the subscribe button by clicking the
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  notification bell down below this video and following all
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  social media I upload daily videos.
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  Super dope. Guys what is going on?
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  I am so pumped because I've never done a video like this
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  before, but I use tech daily, like I use tech all the time.
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  So I'm going to go down now and break down some of the the tech
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  that I think that you should definitely look out for a Cyber
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  Monday. Because look, this climate, this
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  economic climate, we're all looking to grab a bargain,
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  right? And there's no greater time to
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  get a good bargain than when Cyber Monday is happening,
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  especially the people on the other spectrum who will need
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  assistive technology to help them.
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  Because technology has saved my life.
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  And I mean that. OK, before I had an iPad and A
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  and A and an iPhone or a smart watch Or or not, I was.
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  Completely useless, like I couldn't remember to take.
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  On medication, I couldn't always get up.
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  I couldn't always go to class. My life is pretty much a must.
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  These assistive technologies, these accessibility technologies
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  have changed my life and I just wish I had heard about them
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  earlier. So here's my recommendations,
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  what you should be looking out for if you don't already have
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  them. OK, so the first one is
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  communication apps and devices. Communication devices, You can
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  get different ones for autism, They'll be like small like iPad
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  things or you can buy like a tablet.
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  So any tablet would do you get a tablet, it could be an Android
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  tablet, it could be an Amazon tablet, or it could be a Apple
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  tablet like the the iPad. And you can get apps for these
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  like Proloto to go. I hope I'm saying that right,
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  which is an app that allows you to hit symbols and it will speak
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  for you. But if you don't have that app,
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  you can actually just use the tablet to type out a word,
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  highlight it, and get the actual tablet to speak for you.
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  The accessibility functions of tablets have just absolutely,
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  exponentially increased. You know, if you have an issue
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  with typing, say you're dyslexic as well as autistic.
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  I use mine to dictate to my phone or my iPad and it will
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  type that out for me. I wrote my book Autism for
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  Adults, which came out this year, September 26th.
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  Now, Autism for Adults was written completely by me talking
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  to my iPhone. What's running on a treadmill?
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  Absolutely amazing. And that kind of.
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  Technology. It's just absolutely mind
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  blowing, so definitely keep an eye out for tablets and apps for
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  communication. The next one is sensory friendly
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  devices. Now you can find a lot of
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  different types of things like bubble lamps, strip lights.
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  I have a bunch of different lights in my you can see some
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  behind me here. And those are so good because
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  you can take change down the warmth of them, you can change
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  down the the brightness of them, you can change the colour of
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  them, you can have them match to music, make it really ambient
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  and also big to double. Amnesties are so good for
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  century friendly houses or century friendly rooms and
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  environments. I highly recommend checking them
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  out because these are always really good ones that are on
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  deal on Cyber Monday. Definitely check that out guys.
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  If you are interested in anything you're talking about
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  right now. I'm going to try and leave a
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  link to everything on Amazon that I think is handy dandy for
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  you guys so that you can actually check it out.
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  So check the description, see the link and come Cyber Monday,
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  if it's on your watch list and it's been reduced, then you'll
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  get an alert from Amazon saying hey, 1000 item in your watch
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  list has been reduced, which is super dope.
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  OK guys, let's get on with the video.
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  OK, so the next thing is educational or learning apps.
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  Now, there are so many educational apps and learning
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  apps, and what happens usually a Cyber Monday is that the app
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  stores will have this discount rate or they'll have a
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  percentage off of different types of apps.
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  This could be things like the language and speech apps that
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  could be learning for reading and writing.
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  Especially if you've got a tablet, you'd be like using a
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  stylus to read and write. Then it could be educational
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  apps that could help you boost things, like, you know, maybe
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  it's English, or maybe it's mathematics, or maybe it's
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  science. Keep on lookout for these apps
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  because they're always a winner. So the next one is behavioural
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  tracking and other types of wearable tech.
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  Now wearable tech like a smart watch or or maybe like a Fitbit
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  tracker. These are really good for
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  something. Now the thing that I find really
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  good at them is you can set up alarms that if your heart rate
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  is increased or it raises, it can send you a little bit of an
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  alert and tells you to chill out and take a step back and do some
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  breathing. That's fantastic for me it's
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  been amazing. Every time my heart increases
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  and it knows that I'm about to melt down, my Apple Watch or my
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  smart watch will say to me, hey, take some time, take a breath.
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  We can even do relaxation apps on the watch.
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  So different. Lookout for those wearable tech
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  behavioral trackers. They're super awesome and they
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  double up as watches and like fitness exercise things.
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  These are really, really good to keep track of all your data and
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  how your heart is fluctuating. OK, so these are the last two of
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  my favorites. You the first one is the virtual
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  reality. Now I'm a huge virtual reality
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  buff. Like I have a Metaquest Pro.
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  I'm going to Metquest 2 and I'm also going to buy the Metaquest
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  2 when it comes out. And the new Apple Vision, the,
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  ER, mixed reality glasses. But the reason I find it so
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  interesting is because there seems like job simulators on VR
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  headsets. You can play games, attracting
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  people socially. Be who you want to be.
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  The actual accessibility of having virtual reality headsets
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  opens the door to so much possibilities and learnings.
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  You can play things like Minecraft in VR.
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  You can meet friends in in whole new worlds and and really
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  interact with them and build social confidence.
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  This thing has been amazing for me.
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  I think without VR technology, I think my life would be a lot
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  more confined to just room. But now me and my entire team,
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  we work here on the as we will. We have access to each other
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  through VR and we can sit in like an office in a virtual
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  environment and it's absolutely amazing.
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  So definitely look out for things like the Metaquest and
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  the Pico. Those two are probably the
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  biggest ones right now. So I'll try and come down below
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  again. And the last one and I actually
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  love this smart home technology. Jen Alexa, Google Home Hub or a
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  Siri speaker. These are amazing and they're so
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  affordable. OK, guys.
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  I'll see you in the next video. Peace.