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Autism Traits My Top 5 Most Impactful · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys, here are some of my personal autism traits.
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  I'm going to go through 5 to see if you were late and hopefully
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  you feel less alone. Well let's go.
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  My name is Dan. I am the Aspy world or you know
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  it's the aspy world. I have autism, ADHDOCD and
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  dyslexia. So if you're newer out here and
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  you want to learn all about that, remember to hit the
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  subscribe button by clicking the notification bell down below and
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  following this page for daily video.
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  I am showing you all about kind of my own personal autism
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  traits. Now one of the funniest things
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  is that I love to wear the same thing over and over again.
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  Now if you have a look in my closet here, you'll see that I
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  just have a ton of just black Tees.
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  Okay. And the reason I have a ton of
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  black Tees, I do have some other colors, but mainly just black is
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  because black is comfortable for me and I like wearing this.
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  I'm the same. I have black hoods.
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  Oh, by the way, I'm wrapping my new merch.
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  By the way, if you guys are a long time viewer here, then you
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  can grab my new merch line. This is a collaboration with
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  Born anxious. Amazing clothing line, limited
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  stock availability. This is Fight Club themed.
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  This is called project Mayhem. It's super awesome.
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  This is a long sleeve and we also have a pink hoodie.
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  I do have some others like this is my merch.
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  So I love pink as well. So this is the Project Mayhem
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  merch here look, the ASP world, the bondages again, limited
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  stock availability on these. So if you want one, go get it.
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  Well, it's hot baby. So yeah, Link will be in my bio
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  as well if you want to get your hands on my limited edition
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  merch. Fight Club theme, because I'm
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  obsessed with Fight Club, right? So why?
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  Why is this a trait of autism? OK, and the reason is because
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  autistic individuals love to know what they're going to do
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  next, right? So as an autistic person, I'd
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  love to know what is next, what is going to happen next.
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  And also thinking about getting changed in the morning, what
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  clothes I'm going to wear, what colours I'm going to wear.
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  This all plays havoc with my brain.
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  So if I know exactly what I'm going to wear, so I'm going to
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  wear something black because everything I own is black.
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  The world becomes a little less chaotic and more just normal.
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  By the way guys, full length OOP, how's it going?
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  So why does this make sense? Why is this good for autistic
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  individuals? It's good for one thing.
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  And the one thing is if you have a brain like mine, that's chaos
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  and you're thinking to yourself, I need a break and to even think
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  about getting dressed in the morning and to choose me out of
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  it is going to kill me. Then I always prep for the day.
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  Like, OK, I know that tomorrow I can just put on black T-shirt
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  and black jeans. I always wear the same kind of
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  thing. And very similarly, I want to
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  show you my bathroom here because I have something very
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  similar going on here. OK, so yeah, what up?
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  YouTube always give me like cool stuff.
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  OK, so this is my medicine cabinet.
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  Hello everybody. You're in my bathroom every now.
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  And also I made everything uniformed in here.
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  So I made it all black. So black toilet, black shower
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  and all that kind of stuff. So if we look at my medicine
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  cabinet, we have black Q-tips, black, the nail Clippers I also
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  have everything I own is black, right.
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  Shout. It says company if you send me
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  these. That was really nice of them.
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  And this is my deodorant, face mask, all this kind of stuff.
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  Even I have a black toothbrush. Yeah, I've got kids, so the kids
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  don't want any inlet. So.
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  And this is my beard brush. Now this is how I like to have
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  my things. All black, all organized.
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  Why? Because organization, uniformed
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  makes my mind feel more organized.
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  I always feel like this. A happy mind is always an
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  organized house, if that kind of makes sense.
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  Because if you have an unorganized house, you're going
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  to have an unorganized mind. If you've got an unorganized
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  mind, well, then it's going to be chaos.
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  OK, so obsessive interest. I have a few different obsessive
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  interests now. One of them actually is is
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  virtual reality and robotics. So I've got this virtual reality
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  kit here, Meta Quest, and I collect many things.
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  Now people only also Spectrum will collect a lot of different
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  things like it could be rock, it could be anything actually.
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  But mine is always technology. I love technology and different
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  computers and that type of thing.
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  So OK, this is a really weird shot because we're getting on
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  the floor. My specific topic of interest is
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  always social media, digital marketing, right?
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  And as such, I am obsessed with it.
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  That being said, I wanted to show you how obsessed with it I
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  am. OK, so here are some of my
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  books. OK, let's look at all these
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  books. I needed two.
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  This is double layered books. OK, so there's another book.
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  So these are all books for like social media marketing.
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  You know how you run a business? Like it's so interesting, right?
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  I, I absolutely love it and this is kind of my collection of
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  books. Now this is not only my
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  collection of books. I also have every single audio
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  book and digital book that you could possibly think of on them.
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  Really, if I just show you look, look at all these, right?
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  This is, these are 93 books in here, right?
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  And this is anything from PDFs to audiobooks because I'm
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  dyslexic. Audiobooks is kind of like the
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  way forward for me. And I just get obsessed now.
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  Autistic individuals will just obsess with different things.
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  I've always been interested in robots and technology, hence why
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  I actually wanted this loop timer, which you've been helping
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  me with work. And I'm just going to show you
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  that clip right now, guys. I've been using my loop timer
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  all morning. Want to check it out.
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  I've been using it to keep track of all the jobs I'm doing.
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  It's about to go off. It's about to go off Ready,
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  ready. Hey, so and then I set it
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  another 30 minutes, right? And then you press this button.
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  So I've set it for 30 minute intervals because I'm going to
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  do another 30 minutes on a different task.
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  And I click, click and there we go.
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  Because it's helping me keep track of all of the things that
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  I need to get done. But I, I get too into things, I
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  get too hyper focus, right? But this is amazing and the
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  light around it makes it visually just amazing.
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  But look, this is so aesthetically pleasing.
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  It's actually the best timer I've seen on the market.
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  And I actually came across it by accident and I was like, I need
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  one of these. And I, I got in touch with the
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  owner. I said, dude, I have to see
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  this. So he said it to me.
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  Now you can get your very own one.
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  I'll leave a link in the description of this video so you
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  can get your hands on one of these timers, but I actually
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  swear by it. So thank you so much for sending
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  this over to me Because of that, I just love technology like I
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  love. I love technology.
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  I love building businesses using technology.
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  All of that stuff just makes me want to just be obsessed.
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  Like I, I can't get enough of it.
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  My when I go running, I'm running, listening to
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  audiobooks. OK.
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  And why am I doing that? There's a really interesting
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  reason for that. And we're going to go downstairs
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  and I'm going to tell you all about it.
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  So trait #3 is tactile feedback for learning complex ideas.
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  Now, reading's always been difficult for me.
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  And learning in the typical sense.
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  Now we know that autistic individuals aren't typical
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  learners, right? And what that means is that
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  autistic individuals don't just sit down and go, OK, I'm going
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  to sit in a classroom, an average classroom, an average
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  classroom, and figure out what the teacher's saying.
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  We don't learn like that. We learn in different ways.
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  And this is how I learn. I learn by teaching myself.
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  When I did my degree in chemistry, I actually was going
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  to the lectures, recording lectures, coming back home and
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  then teaching myself. Why?
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  Because I needed it at a faster pace to listen back.
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  Hence, this is how I do it. This is how I learn.
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  So now I download audio programmes to my phone, I set
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  them to two times the speed and then I go out running and when
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  I'm running, I'm listening to the books.
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  I mean, on my mind. Then even before you had
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  finished, a lot of people's face that like a lot of people think
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  that like that's too much and people think I talk too much.
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  Now if you are one of these people who think I talk too
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  much, comment down below. That'll be amazing.
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  So I want to know. But this is something that
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  really, really interests me because it's not just me.
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  I found other autistic individuals like to learn
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  through tactile feedback and tactile feedback is basically,
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  you know, if I said, Hey, how are you doing?
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  And you're like, oh, OK, cool. But if I said, Hey, how are you
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  doing? And I hit you, I pushed you,
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  you'd be like, Dan, I really felt that.
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  Hello. Right.
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  Which is obvious because I'm, I'm pushing you.
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  So when I'm out running and I'm listening to an audio book, it's
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  recording, It's it's registering in my mind like that.
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  OK, so that is how tactile feedback through audio learning
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  is achieved for me in autism. OK Now trait #4 which is one of
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  the ones I think is most interesting about me is that I
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  actually have sensory processing disorder.
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  Oh guys, if you didn't know, I'm actually Welsh.
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  So check out this bread look bacco small means like Anglesey
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  Bakery. And this is the island I live
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  on. When it says I look crafted in
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  Welsh, it says crafted just for you.
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  Anyway, I thought you'd like that.
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  So why is sensory processing disorder aligned with autism?
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  Because it's down to a few different things.
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  You can have situational sensory processing disorders.
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  So like if you eat a certain snack or a certain food, you
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  have to be sitting in a certain place to do it, right.
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  Or if you maybe you like pancakes when you go to the
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  store bought pancakes. But if you go to a restaurant,
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  you can't have pancakes, right? Because it's situational.
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  But other things as well, like textures, if foods touch each
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  other, we, we like this like we have this plate in my house so
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  that we can have foods, we can have foods here and sources here
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  so that they don't touch even though you like both of them,
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  maybe you don't want them to touch, right?
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  And this is how we maintain a way for you to have different
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  textures on the same plate without them touching.
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  This is very interesting. Now I have a mega century
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  aversion to garlic and raw onion, right?
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  So my partner blesses, she's an amazing cook.
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  She's like this amazing chef, right?
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  And she, she wanted onions for the house.
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  So she's put onions in 2 clear plastic bags and in a pot and
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  kept it at the bottom of the fridge.
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  And I can still smell it. I don't like going in there so
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  much so that we agreed that she could get garlic powder because
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  it's less potent, right? And the powder is kept in this
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  tub. I don't know if you say this in
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  this tub in 2 bags at the bottom of the shelf that I never go
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  into because that garlic powder is way too overpowering for me.
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  And I can't deal with it because it almost is like sensory
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  processing disorder is almost like the, the smell or the sound
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  or the feeling, but gives you pain, right?
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  So for me, like there's certain words that give me pain and
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  people say, oh, how does the word give you pain?
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  And I'm like, well, it's, it's kind of like, imagine being like
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  punched in the face with a word. It's kind of like that.
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  I don't know, it's a weird thing to say.
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  Sorry, the lighting is off here. I'll get back to good lighting
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  now. So how does that work?
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  I don't actually know the full response for that because it is
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  a difficult one. If you have pain because of a
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  word, how does that work? It's to do with the
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  communication in the brain, right?
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  Autism is a communication issue and Tower will hang in here
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  kids. And how does that work?
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  Well, it works with a few different things.
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  One is that it's kind of like if you, if you have synesthesia,
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  which is where you see colour as a visual thing or you see
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  visual, you hear words and see different colours.
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  It's similar to that, but it actually goes the other way
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  where if you hear a word, it causes pain because the
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  communication between liking something and disliking
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  something audibly can sometimes we get mishapped, right?
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  And that is that that's a that's a big one, right?
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  Talking about kids, Number 5 is audio sensory processing issues.
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  OK, now this happens a lot. Oh and FYI get how would I just
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  sit on my phone? OK, the most ADHD video ever.
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  I'm sorry. This is a Rubik's Cube.
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  So my partner, bless her, she also is autistic and ADHD, same
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  as me, but she is a genius. She loves doing Rubik's cubes so
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  we always buy different ones to kind of see if she can solve
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  them, which she can because she's a genius.
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  And this one is a chemistry one because I told you I did a
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  degree in chemistry. So I got her a periodic table
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  Rubik's Cube, which is kind of cool, right?
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  So I wanted to ask you, the last one is sound sensitivity for
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  adults or especially me with autism and how do we deal with
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  that? Well, me and my partner both
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  have autism and ADHD. And between us we have five
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  children, which is crazy, right? So we don't always have all 5
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  together, but dude, even having like 2 together and having one
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  is bad, you know, like for your sensors sometimes.
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  So how do we deal with it? I'm going to show you right now,
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  these are Apple, the Apple Airpod Max or Apple Airpod Pro
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  Max, which is Apple's noise cancelling headphones.
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  Now you put them on and they instantly connect to your phone
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  and then they use a noise cancelling technology to stop
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  all of the noise kind of batting your face and your head, which
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  is pretty amazing. Like this, this technology is
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  outrageous. And also, you know, if someone
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  phones you, you can pick up the phone.
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  It's very comfy even on an aeroplane.
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  Like we've travelled all the time because we live between
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  Canada and North Wales where we are now.
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  And how do we deal with that? Well, we put these headphones on
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  and it just helps with the noise.
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  The battery lasts so long. I love it.
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  So noise cancelling headphones are amazing.
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  I used to have the Bose ones, but the Bose 1 is good and I
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  think that the Apple ones are definitely, I am obsessed,
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  obsessed with getting the best out of people.
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  Did you know that you're an autistic person and you're on
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  the cusp. You're on the breakthrough of
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  amazing things. Think about it.
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  Autistic people built the world. Minecraft are built by an
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  autistic person. Greta Thunberg's changing the
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  game for environments. She's on the autism spectrum.
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  Elon Musk, love him, I hate him. He's made the best, safest
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  electric vehicles in the world, but more importantly, he's
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  putting people on Mars. Dude, this guy built a space
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  program from the ground up. Absolutely incredible.
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  Because these people are just like you and I, autistic
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  individuals, autistic adults. But they have something that you
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  may not have already done. Now, if you find yourself
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  feeling like you are not enough or you can't do this or you
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  can't do that because As for other people, not you, you are
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  wrong. You're an autistic person and
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  you are the pinnacle of innovation and just amazing
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  mind. Now if you want in, there is a
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  free checklist of how to build a bulletproof brain in five steps.
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  Now you can download it from the link in my description, link in
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  my bio, or you can just go to autismtips.net and download this
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  free book. It's APDF book.
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  You can download it and it teaches you from me how you can
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  build a bulletproof brain. Now the bulletproof brain, of
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  course, nobody's brain is bulletproof.
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  What I mean by this is a bulletproof mind, a bulletproof
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  brain that stops you being like lack of motivation, feeling
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  useless, not feeling good enough.
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  I'm going to change that. I'm going to rock that out of
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  you. So if you want in and if you're
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  watching this on Instagram specifically, you just reply for
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  a comment and type in brain or send me Adm saying brain and
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  I'll send you the link to download the book, but just go
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  to autismtips.net if you want that book.
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  OK, let me know guys. Are you a person who feels less
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  confident, feel like you are not enough?
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  You are, and I'm going to help you do that.