You guys welcome back to the Aspie world what's going on with my hair so today, we're looking at five
Autism life hacks that you need to get you from being like this
to be more like this
Coming right up, big hello to everybody and happy autumn, and I hope that these like autumn weather
It is not kind of making too many of you sad
I know that not only do I have Asperger's syndrome?
But I also have sads which is season affective disorder were like you
The cold weather and the dark weather makes you feel a bit more less motivated and a drain of energy anyway
I have a sunlamp that helps me get up in the morning. I'll link it below
Everybody's interested anyway, but moving on with the video I'm just going to read out one comment for my youtube comment and the comment is from Lucille
Liberty, and they said any video maybe on getting diagnosed late question mark like an adult and how to cope with this I
Find it kind of hard to look back and to adjust on life, and that's a really really good question now
I want to do a video on this if you all think would be a good video
About getting diagnosed later on in life what to do how to get it done and what to do after the diagnosis and please give
The video a thumbs up and maybe I'll do that video in the near future, so let's roll along with the vid ok guys
So here are 5 like life hacks that I think would be very essential to people on the spectrum who?
May find daily living quite difficult, so these are just five hacks
And I want to do more of these type of videos
so please leave me a comment if you'd like to see more of this kind of video and
give this video a thumbs up so I know that you like this kind of stuff ok so moving on ok so I have a
pair of noise cancellation headphones called Bose headphones
Basically you put them on and they have a function which is like noise canceling so normally so you can listen to music basically
Anywhere and have a very isolated sound so basically they're made for professionals like musicians and things like that studio mixes
So you give these headphones on councils are all as a noise and you just hear what's going into the headphones
via your iPod or whatever
But the interesting thing about these headphones is they have a noise
Cancellation feature when you put the headphones on you click a button and it kind of get rid of all noise
I don't know how it works, but it's pretty cool
So I would highly recommend getting your hands on a pair of Bose Comfort headphones
I'll leave a link in the description for anything
I'm mentioning here today, so you guys can check out for yourself, but I find them super super helpful
and it's probably one of the most easiest ways that I can just relax so I put these headphones on turn the noise cancellation a
Feature on and then I just I'm able to just relax a little bit and kind of just have no noise no, it's like
Instant peace it's super awesome
Okay
Guys so the next thing I'm gonna talk about is shoe laces now obviously have Asperger's syndrome and shoelaces do not agree with me
So I'm gonna take up one of my shoes and show you
Okay, so this is my shoe
this is a Vans shoe normally Vans shoes come with a load of laces now the laces are super annoying because
laces
Come undone you have to get you hand coordination right you have to get the technique right you have to
tighten it
Correctly you have to put the right strength on the tighten or that but not enough so that it doesn't you can never get it
Off okay look it's super confusing, right?
so I don't shoe laces really get to me and because of that I
Found difficult to find shoes that I like so I mean wearing slip ons for about I don't know maybe five or six years
Since trying to figure out I used to wear velcro shoes before that and but anyway
I found this other hack these are rubber laces so basically. They're they're like little
Little implant things that you put you take all your laces out
And then you stick these little rubber ties and this is what they look like do you stick like whose rubber tie through that as?
I don't know if you can see that, but so basically it just goes through the shoe
And then you pull it through and then it's just you just put them in place the laces
And they're just really simple these are super super cheap, and I think I paid about
ninety cents maybe one pound something like that for
First set to do both shoes now
I will link in description below, so you get to get hands on them, but they've been absolute lifesavers. There's no more stress with shoelaces
There's no more trying to find out what shoes I can wear with shoes
I can't wear this turns every shoe into a slip-on and I think it's absolutely
Amazing so I will link that in the description below because yeah
it makes you wouldn't even know it's the shoe you wouldn't know it was a
not a real
Shoelace okay, so hack number three. I'm a
Notorious for leaving stuff somewhere forgetting it was there and then moving away
I have this really bad short-term memory issue
I think a lot of people on the spectrum
Do have show up some memory issues
And I'll actually link this in an I card above so you guys can see the video I did on autism and memory
but anyway moving on from that the
Fact of the matter is I can be notorious for leaving my phone or my keys or something somewhere and a forgetting that they are there
so I have found a hack which I've been using pretty much my entire life to make sure I do not lose my wallet because
My wallet had everything in its got my social security number in it. It's got my credit card bank cards all kinds of stuff
It's got my autism alert card in there
So I found a hack and the hack is to have your wallet on a chain so you can see this is on a chain
We've got my keys inside, and then this is the wallet on the chain here so basically what happens
I put one into my belt loop
And then I have one end on the wallet the wallet comes into my pocket the cool thing about it is I could just like
Forget about it walk away, but it would always be attached to me and it will fall
And hit me so it's a cool way to never lose your wallet
You can also apply this to anything else like maybe you want to put your phone on a lanyard around your neck that would be
Kind of cool, too
or you can have a
Like a retractable one for just like small wallet where it's like more like a zipline thing and that works pretty cool as well
But a lot of people use those things for keys
But I totally have to use them for my wallet and my keys because again I'd forget okay
So this is hack number four now I find this one quite interesting. This is not a physical object
This is more of a technique now
I can ask this question a lot a lot of people ask me like how do you deal with like being?
P***** off in public or being around social anxiety or getting like overwhelmed and stuff. Let me try different techniques now
I mean seeing councils for ages, and I've got like therapists, and they're really cool
So I've been combining all the information that I can get to find like a really simple hack now
I've got a really really cool hack where so if you're out and there's somebody really like you know getting to you or something's getting
Overwhelming and you can't go anywhere the best thing to do to calm yourself down instantly
Is to breath in, so the idea is that you deep breathe by breathing in
Hold it for a second, and then breathe out and count to five
By doing this it releases an endorphin it actually helps you become more calm
and it actually stabilizes the situation about moves and blood around your brain and
Yeah, and it really does count me down. It's pretty cool
How that works okay so our fifth and final hack here is something to do if you have a mobile phone
But and you're out in public and you forgot your fidget spinner or fidget, cube or something that keeps you occupied
Whilst out and keeps you calm because I know a lot of people do especially pull the ADHD
Asperger's syndrome and autism have like fatigue fidget cues and fidget spinners around with them when they're out and about because
Sometimes it can get a bit kind of crazy and you want to chill, but if you've forgotten it at home
But you have your mobile with you
There's this awesome function on Google where you just type in fidget spinner on Google, and then you have this
this digital fidget spinner where you can just play about with until your heart's content, which is pretty cool because
This is a really good one, say if you are with somebody say one of your friends has Asperger's syndrome
Or your kid has Asperger syndrome or autism and you're out and you forgotten their fidget spinner
But you have your phone on you because I'm pretty much everybody has their phone on them
You can just go to google type in fidget
Spinner and get that person to play with the digital fidget spinner on Google
Which is super super cool?
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