Hey Guys, in this video, I'm talking about autism shutdowns and three
personal secret hacks that will help you.
Next time you have one, all that's coming up.
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So autism shutdowns, autism shutdowns are a big issue and actually they
happen more often than people realize, but people don't actually really know
when they have a shutdown because they.
They're they're probably so used to having a shutdown that it doesn't
really register, but all of a sudden shutdowns are pretty much the similar
reasons to why meltdowns happen.
It could be an overload of stimulation and over energy of doing your daily activity.
Maybe you've just gone to do something like a big shopping trip or going to
the mall or seeing your friends or.
Just anything really, but with the shutdown comes as disabling feeling.
When you have an autism shut down, it begins to create this like disabling
emotional overload that is like information overload that then causes
you to kind of just completely shut down, just get all quiet, get all
self inside and just like, well, you know, it's kind of like, When
you just have no energy to give.
So you just, you've just completely flat lined and that flat line does a shutdown.
You don't want to talk, you don't to do anything.
You can't really register.
You can't process information.
You can't talk to people.
It's pretty much not a good deal.
And I actually, haven't quite often now I know that you will know
exactly what I'm talking about.
So if you know what it feels like in what I'm talking about here,
please give the video a thumbs up.
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Okay.
So I decided that I would write down three pretty awesome, uh, hacks or
secret tips to help you with autism shutdowns, which we're going to get
into right now, because I love you.
Okay.
So number one is this is very easy.
Is it probably a simple one?
And it's a no brainer.
This one is alert somebody as soon as possible.
Now, if you are having a.
A shutdown or you feel a potential shutdown coming on, or you've got to
the end of a very long day and you feel like I just don't have anything else to
give, you know, I'm feel like I'm just shutting down and you know, you're not
feeling it and it's not going great.
The best thing to do is to reach out to somebody and say to them, Hey.
I'm not feeling well.
I don't feel good.
I'm feeling like I just want to be on my own and have a bit of a, you know, I'm
feeling an autism shutdown coming up.
Well, what this does, it breaks up the problem rather than you feel like you have
the problem and then passes the problem on to somebody else to then help you with.
So it's a problem.
Shared is a problem halved, and that is.
Definitely the key to this super secret hack.
So basically if I'm feeling like I'm not having a good day and I feel like I
shut down, it's about to come on, I'll tell my girlfriend about it, and then
she'll be able to talk to me about it.
Or like make some tea or get me in a comfy position, get more
relaxed or do something a bit more outside of the realm of.
Oh, my goodness, this is going to stress me out and that
will help you to just know.
And that's just so good.
It's a super good hack because it's a no brainer, but it's something
that people don't always think about.
So by just bearing that in mind and being aware of it, you'll definitely be able to.
Make a difference next time this happens.
Okay.
So number two is one that I kind of discovered when I was, um, I was
playing a show, so I play music.
Right.
And, um, I was playing a show and I was out with my band and we were playing
in this club about, I dunno, we were about five miles away from my home.
Um, and it was right on the beach and there was this, we were playing in
this club, but the, the weird thing is.
That the stage is right next to the door.
So we were setting up all the equipment as people were walking in and I started
getting really, really nervous and then not nervous kind of turned into what
it was shut down because I was so many people coming in as we were setting up
and people trying to ask us questions and bumping into us and all this stuff.
And I felt a bit overwhelmed that situation that kind
of started shutting down.
But then I realized that.
I had some homework I needed to do, because at the time I was studying a
science course, so then going to do my chemistry degree and the science course
had an exam coming up in mathematics.
So I decided to just do some mathematics.
I feel like if I occupied my mind with something, the way I
thought about it was if I was.
Thinking about something that's quite intense, like maths, math test, then
maybe it would take away the idea of being, you know, having a shutdown.
So I then started to do some, you know, just equation stuff.
And then I, uh, I actually was counting in my head.
So I had to count from one all the way up to, well, however much I could count.
And, uh, that actually really did help.
So this secret hack, this a secret tip is to simply we count, count in your head.
You can count a lot if you want to, but if you are starting to feel
that you are getting overloaded, you're going to have a shutdown.
Then why not try to count?
Counting is great.
And it's a good fun exercise to stimulate and calm the mind at the same time.
It stimulates the right part of your mind to get you engaged in something that
gives you focus, but also comes the mind because it's a nice, repetitive, soft,
self-soothing kind of a repetitive thing where you like one, two, three, four.
It's so soothing.
And I love that.
I actually really enjoy counting.
I don't know if anybody else does.
If you enjoy counting, pop me a comment down below and be like done.
I'm a counter.
Because I love it.
I love the food.
I just love counting.
It's super awesome.
So that was hack number two.
Okay.
So hack number three.
This one is a really interesting one and I discovered this hack by accident.
So a friend of mine, Tom and I were doing a degree in chemistry and
whilst we were doing the degree yeah.
Um, chemistry comes with all kinds of stuff where you have to learn
all, you have to learn how to draw it and how to be good at maths.
You have to, don't have to be good at computing and you have to learn,
um, all kinds of like theoretical things in like in your head.
You have to imagine how things move around and stuff.
There's a lot of things to remember.
And friend of mine, Tom, who's a very clever actually
probably the cleverest person.
I know.
Um, Tom actually said that he had this hack where he would remember things.
He would like squeeze his hand really tight, like make up.
Fist.
And when he did that, he held it for like five seconds.
You'd be able to recall things that he'd.
Um, he was trying to dig down deep and I, wondered it this worked, so I
tried this to remember to do something or when we were trying to remember
something in exam, uh, it actually did work for the memory thing, but
something else magical happened.
And I was in the exam.
I was getting kind of stressed.
And then when I get stressed, like it can I agitated, but then it moves from
agitation to then an autism shut down because I'm about to tip into that area.
So I'm kind of stressed.
I'm feeling like a shut down coming on and I'm in this kind of test environment.
So I squeezed my fist, but by doing that and holding it for five
seconds, I start to feel a little bit camel because I was focusing
all my energy and intent on my fist.
So then I kind of did it again.
I did it like four or five times, and then I was okay.
I didn't feel the shutdown coming on anymore.
So number three is to simply get your fist and squeezes.
as hard as you can for five seconds and do that five times in repetition and.
You should be feeling a lot better, which is pretty interesting.
But considering that I didn't even think about this as being actually a hack.
It was just something that came to me and I thought, wow.
And so I've been using it ever since I do this quite often.
So if you ever see me in an event and I'm squeezing my fist, do
you know what's about to happen?
But usually I have like an assistant with me, so it's kind of, okay.
Now I would love to know if you guys have any more tips to offer to the
community, pop it in a comment down below.
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