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Ok guys in this video,
I'm sharing with you five personal hacks that I use that have been tried and tested to help you
overcome sensory processing issues that you may find difficult. Also
right at the end of the video, I will check in on a bonus tip just at the end.
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Ok guys, so I wanted to share 5 hacks that I'd kind of made in this video
and some of them I made and you know some of them I just used kind of like because they're
just hacks and I've used them and blah blah blah, but I wanted to make something that you guys could
take away and hopefully benefit you in your life. They're like personal hacks or personal strategies that I
actually use in my day to day life. And I feel like these are good. So this is actually my third attempt
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So before I talk about anything else, if you have any hacks or tips and tricks that you want
to add to this video, please pop it in a comment down below. I read and reply to every single comment.
So, please let me know if you have anything to add, and it would be cool to share that with the audience here
on Youtube as well. Okay, guys, so is my five hacks.
The first one I'm going to talk about guys is noise cancelling headphones. And I know everyone's
gonna say oh Daniel noise cancelling headphones we've all heard it all before and you know, you've mentioned
noise cancelling headphones like a million times and like, you know. Well guys, that's because noise
cancelling headphones are amazing and I can't recommend them enough. So these ones
I have right here are the Bose 35 Comfort headphones. These things are amazing.
You just click them on, turn the button sucks all the noise away and you're left with complete silence
which is a bliss. Now, I use these because of a few things. I have a son, he's one
years old and any parent out there, I salute you because the job's a difficult one
to have one and it's it's not easy. But, it's rewarding at the end of the day, but with all kids comes
noise. Now kids have this way to make loads of noise, and this is just me in my
experience currently and this is one way I've used it.
So, you know when the kid's making the noise and you're thinking how can I like control what I'm hearing.
Because anybody with a sensory processing disorder will know that when you're hearing
noise that is super like triggering to you, it's not just annoying. It's actually making you
feel quite upset. It's actually hurting you, so one of the things I have to do is kind of take myself
out of the situation, but if I have to be with my kid because you know
It's your kid at the end of the day.
I use these headphones
like I clink them on and then I can sit there and have complete bliss and silence in my ears
and my kid can scream to his hearts content and get out all this anger and energy that he needs
to get out because you know, sometimes we all need to vent right. So I would say that yeah
These are amazing. Now, not only if I use them obviously when dealing with children and noise
I've actually used them in like busy shopping centers or shopping malls or going to a supermarket.
I actually used these on a plane and they were just ridiculously effective. Plane rides
with these are amazing. Now this is what I will say on it. These ones are quite expensive
so I will link them down below if you want to check them out
anyway, obviously.
I feel like they're the Rolls-Royce of the noise cancelling headphones as far as I can tell. But,
this is interesting. If you'd like to see me review different makes of noise cancelling
headphones at different prices and review them, and see which ones are best
for your buck and maybe you know
these aren't best for your buck. So let me know by giving this video a thumbs up because if you
give this video a thumbs up that'll indicate to me that you want to see a video on that and then
I can get on it and make that video. But yeah, I highly recommend noise cancellation headphones or
noise cancelling headphones because they just work so well. I mean you might have had experience
with other noise cancelling headphones. But me, I use these ones that were a gift from Naomi
and yeah amazing. Okay guys moving on to number two. Number two is something quite interesting.
It's those pesky tags on your clothing, cut them off.
So clothing normally comes with tags at the neck and sometimes you know
back of the collar and sometimes other side of your clothes as well. And you're thinking,
"What is this like porcupine spike thing?" it's like somebody's nails stuck to a brick inside your
top and it you shoved it under your top and then it's just there. And you're like, "What am I doing with this
like weird porcupine brick thing in my..."
Anyway, so regardless of having that weird bizarre experience that can be triggering and sensory unpleasing,
I would say this.
Grab the tag and just cut it off. And you can cut it off right close to the actual collar line
and it get rid of that awful sensation of having that tag just irritating there.
I found this really really useful.
There are a couple of videos online that show you actually how to do it where you can like do a perfect thing where it leaves
no kind of like cotton in there. One of things I'll say in that is like, you know
I actually try and buy all my clothes without tags on them. And so this one I'm wearing right now
is like Primark and H&M, they have tag-less clothes which is amazing. They just print on the collar,
like "More of this Please!" Because at the end of the day, we'll be using less material
and saving the planet, right?
I mean that's what we're all about right now is environmental stuff, and like Greta Thunberg
will be like, you know, clapping congratulating everybody for using less tags on the clothing.
We can't do enough to save the planet right now. And I think that's one way to do as well.
Hey, look, we're saving the planet one pesky tag at a time.
But most of my merchandise that I sell actually in the carousel under this video
apart for my hat because there's no tag with a hat. Well, there might be actually a tag with a hat.
No there's no tag with a hat.
The merchandise should come without any tags on it. I try to make sure that all clothes I actually sell
don't have tags on them because I mean like who wants tags that thing's weird?
I mean who gets enjoyment out feeling a tag rip in the back of my neck
it feels like it's a small lion and they're scratching your neck, right?
Whoever can relate to this drop me a comment down below if you getting this same experience as me.
Okay, guys, let's move on to number three so number three
is very interesting, actually. I always think about things like hacks for sensory processing
hacks here for Sensory Processing Disorder, we're talking about all the negative things that
SPD has, like the negative stuff that gets you triggered like third party stimuli.
But I never really thought about sensory
positive stimuli like what can I do to help us feel a bit more relaxed or a bit more kind of like less anxious.
Now some people may get super triggered, right.
They maybe having a really bad day or a really anxious day or really anxious about anything
really in general, and then all of a sudden, they just can't take no more
and what do you do at this point? But one of my hacks that I found is that if you get a
weighted blanket and just like
pull that bad boy right over you just sit under for like 20 minutes half an hour,
even have a small nap if you will. This will help you feel way more relaxed and less anxious.
It's amazing what will happen. Because you're having this sensory
experience with a weighted blanket. Now, I did a video all about weighted blankets on one specifically,
so if you want to check out the card above or the link down below the description for that video.
I'll leave it so you can check it out and it's kind of like a
weighted blanket that
It's quite a heavy one. It's really really good.
And I love it and I'll try and link the weight blanket, but definitely check out my video.
The link is in the other video as well.
But I think that this is a great experience because it's giving you positive sensory processing
you know experience and it's kind of like this, right. Imagine going in a restaurant and like
somebody comes out and gives you like you know, I don't know, poo on toast. So something really gross.
So poo on toast was the best example I could come up with, really? Come on Dan. Poo on toast?
I'm just editing this video right now. Then you have to eat it and like, "Oh my goodness, this tastes like
complete garbage." It's poo on toast.
But then they come over and they give you like this double decker pizza, and say you are really into pizza.
And you take this slice, and you're just "Mhm" have this pizza and it's like amazing.
So you come from having a really bad sensory experience, but you can combat that with a really
positive sensory experience. Kind of like how I do with mindfulness, you know you're having like a involuntary
negative thought but you put it in with a positive, voluntary thought and then bang the negative
all goes away and you got a positive thought. And you're bit more pumped, you're
a bit more excited about the day.
So this is my experience with like relaxing and feeling a bit more de-stressed from using a weighted blanket.
Super awesome hack. I can't believe like come on. Come on guys. I mean, come on.
Okay, number four and this is a really cool one. So, look number four is a really easy one,
but I'm gonna talk about it anyway.
Now, sometimes when I go to the supermarkets
I want to go to certain stores or even somebody's kitchen right here in the UK.
We always have these kind of unusual lights that are like tube lighting that
have like a gas in them, I'm guessing.
And these tube lighting can be really triggering,
right, so it's kind of like your getting this tube lighting its super triggering, so
my way of dealing with that is putting on a pair of sunglasses.
Now these bad boys are a pair of sunglasses
I got for free from Vid IQ when I was at VidCon
last year not this year and one of the cool things about it
is that when you have sunglasses on it kind of like stops the brightness because two things happen. One is that
the lights are so bright, they're super triggering cause you're getting like annoyed at how bright the lights are.
You're like "Ah I don't know what to do" and then the other thing is that like they're flickering.
So they're really really annoying like, you don't want to be annoyed and annoyed at the same time.
It's like having annoyed on annoyed, it's like annoyed on toast. It's like why would you even want that?
It's the most ridiculous thing ever. Okay so apologies for the second toast reference in like two minutes.
But I actually, um so I have these glasses. I actually have a collection of different glasses and my favorite make
of sunglasses is actually Ray Bans. I have them in my drawer here. And Ray Bans
are kind of like more of the expensive sunglasses, but one of the things I found about them
is that the more expensive you go with sunglasses the better they are.
So these are some of my Ray-Bans I actually have aviator ones as well and
one of the reasons why I kind of use these a lot is because I live in the Western Hemisphere
over here in the UK. The Sun is quite harsh. It's super like
it's like hash in the winter as well. So what happens is that it's sometimes so bright that I can't
even like function I'm thinking "Oh my goodness. I can't even see outside and it's getting so bright."
So I wear these quite often actually. I see myself wearing sunglasses quite a lot of the time. And I actually enjoy it.
I like wearing sunglasses, but like I said the Ray Bans for me are the best ones because like
I had to save up to buy them because they're quite expensive I know that. And not everyone is blessed
with the ability to go out and buy these, but all I'm saying is that if you can buy the highest
quality that you can get your hands on and you can afford, that's the better experience
you're gonna get pretty much. And that's what I found especially with like Ray Bans and things like that.
Okay, so sunglasses cool done. We're done with the sunglasses part, you know just and thanks
Vid IQ for giving me these sunglasses. Hashtag this is not sponsored. They didn't just give me the sunglasses.
Oh guys, while I'm here I was actually just thinking about starting a vlog. If you'd like to see like
vlogs of like my daily living with like an autism spectrum condition and all the challenges that face
this and the day-to-day life, and all the crazy cool stuff I get up to as well as you know,
how to deal with all those things, please let me know in a comment down below. Let me know.
Say "Yes Dan I'd love to see a vlog" or whatever because I'd love to know I want to judge it on you guys
being awesome. Okay guys, so let's move on to number five. Now, this is mind blowing guys.
Like I came up with this hack and like nobody else I've seen do it and I love this one,
because like this is cool, right? Okay. This is what it is. I get super triggered when I go to the supermarket,
because they have this deli counter there and the deli counter stinks.
It's got garlic, some onions, and vinegar and all kinds of devilish things on it, like horrible
and I'm like, "Ewwhh". I can't deal with those those smells.
So, how do I overcome those things? Well
I've got a couple of options. I can walk to the other side of the store and never see the other side of the store
where the deli counter is, which I don't think is a practical way to live, and I got another one where I just
avoid the store completely,
and if I do that then I'm not ever seeing that store and I'm avoiding that store and the stuff in there
that I want to see, I want to buy, I want to use or whatever.
So, how do I deal with this? I can get an idea hack and it's simply this
carry some mints around you or some strong smelling like mints or like sweets or something that you can
whip out of your bag or whatever and just smell them as you're walking around the store, and what this does
is that it blocks out the gross smells and you have just a really good smell, so you're
kind of like on cloud nine. You've got like a positive good smell going in that nose, you're feeling
everything's great. I was having a good time. And you can walk around the store, you can even
walk past the deli counter as well, you know within a few feet while smelling whatever it is.
I mean I use mints a lot of the time and
another one is having like hand sanitizer on you, you can just whack that open.
But this is a great one.
Find a chapstick that smells like the smell you love. Could be chocolate, mint,
could be like, you know, I don't know, strawberries or whatever.
And then, you find the chapstick and then it's like a tiny little thing, you know
and then you put in your pocket.
You can put in your bag,
you can put it in like a you know
whatever, and you have this like chapstick and then you can just whack it open and you know smell
whenever you need to smell something good rather than something bad. Then it will stop you getting so
triggered that you kinda get overwhelmed and meltdown, and all kind of crazy horrible stuff happens.
So yeah number five was chapstick coming to the rescue. Just positive smell versus negative smells and
trying to make sure you are having positive smell input in your life. Super awesome. Right guys.
Now, I wanted to do
a bonus tip here right at the end of this video just for you guys because like I wanted to
just give you guys a
bonus like something awesome to go with. So this is number six, which is unofficial
this is like a bonus one but it is number six and basically, this is a
hack that is like a last resort I guess, but it's definitely helped with me.
So sometimes like you know, I'd have to go to certain places
and go to city centers to do something, like I'll have to go for work
Or I'll have to go with like family or something or other. But, that was really triggering with me.
Being around all those people all the time, it's just too much for me. And I can't just do it
and I get super anxious, I get social anxiety, I get nerves, I get like IBS, everything just all falls apart
you know everything's just falling apart when I go to the place when I can't deal with.
So one of the ways I deal with this is very very simple. I just don't go there.
I avoid it like the plague and
avoiding something that you know is going to give you a trigger that could probably cause a meltdown
it's the best way to just avoid stuff.
It's kind of like in karate where they teach you like the best, you know
the best fighter in the world the best karate student in the world will never get into a fight.
But this is avoiding danger protecting your body from danger. It's not actually going there.
Like the guy said, you know the sparrow never lands where the tiger roams and it couldn't be more,
you know close to the truth like you don't go to the place that's gonna make you triggered. Go somewhere
that you're gonna feel comfortable because by going somewhere that's triggered
it's not overcoming for you, it's just gonna put you in a compromising situation and you'll probably have a meltdown.
And that's not gonna be good for you. It's not good for your mental health, not good for physical health.
It's not good for you, avoid it. And that is my bonus tip. Guys have you enjoyed this video?
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Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time guys. Peace.