So autism meltdowns.
What's the difference between an autism, meltdown and a
tantrum, all that coming up.
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Um, two or three months ago, I was asked to do a video with a friend of mine,
Russell, uh, who is an autism advocate.
He's called the autism advocate on Instagram, actually.
And he was doing a video all about autism tantrums versus meltdowns
because some people are ignorant and they don't know the difference between
an autism tantrum, and a meltdown.
Now sometimes it's not because you're ignorant, you don't know the difference,
but in this video, I'm going to clear up all those misconceptions
and all those things, because it's very important that we know this
difference because people aren't just going to have tantrums because they.
Uh, well, let's get into it.
Okay guys.
So there is a difference between autism and meltdowns and autism, um, kind
of tantrums or tantrums in general.
Um, and a lot of people kind of get mixed up because they don't know
if their kid is having a township.
If their kid is having an autism meltdown, if their kid is just being awkward.
So people will often call an autism meltdown, a tantrum,
but it's simply not the case.
And this is definitely why.
And autism meltdown is caused by an overload of information that
could be sensory, auditory, any stimuli that comes from outside
coming inside and it's too much.
Then the autistic person has an outburst of emotions, but they
can't get on top of our control.
Um, and these outbursts of emotions are gained from the miscommunication from the.
Emotional communication side because they can't communicate their emotions properly.
And then you have this outburst and rage of anger, which isn't their fault.
They don't want this to happen.
It happens.
And then they feel bad that crying is an emotional outburst.
And it's not a good thing.
It's just an uncontrolled way because they can't understand the situation at hand.
They can't understand the information that's being presented and then maybe an
overload of information stimulate coming into that person's field of interest.
Right.
That it's just completely making them just mouth down.
It's typically what is happening here now?
That is an autism meltdown and it's an involuntary action.
That's caused by emotional differences right now.
The, um, the, the difference between this right, um, and controlling,
uh, you know, the control of it and meltdown is uncontrollable, right.
But when you think about a tantrum, a tantrum is a voluntary action.
That's happening in a situation where the person wants to, uh,
Th th their initiative, the, the, the needs of a person is not met.
And when the needs of a person's wants are not met, then they
will have a voluntary action to scream and kick and cry about it.
So the person who's creating the tantrum is able to stop it at any time
and is in full control of the tantrum.
And this is why, um, you know, during the tantrum, you could probably, um,
get a child to come down and you can eventually get child to come down.
But during a meltdown, this would never happen because the
person who is having a meltdown.
You have to ride it out in the meltdown has to stop before you can,
um, calm the person down and then start the after kind of care process.
But with a tantrum, it's just getting that person to stop at a moment in time.
And everybody knows that you can get person to stop with a
tantrum because you can just be like, Oh, they are having a tantrum.
And they'll calm down , but with an autism meltdown.
It's kind of like this ongoing emotional thing and that
begging for help and support.
It's not like they're just kicking off cause they want ice cream while they
wanted to sit and video game or whatever.
There is a huge difference here.
And it's, it's important that we create a world where we can understand the
difference between a meltdown and a tantrum and act accordingly on that
because you need compassion for autistic people and you need to be able to help
autistic people in that daily life.
And so if you know, what does autistic person know that they'll never probably
have a meltdown because the thing that we want, most of all, this is
just have normality in neutral kind of playing fields and just have like a.
Uh, a drama free life, but it's going to happen because these involuntary actions
and of the meltdown happens all the time.
Same with shutdowns burnout and all the other stuff that comes with autism.
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