I'm talking about autism in ADHD and some of the things I've personally
experienced coming up to the world my name is Dan I have autism ADHD OCD
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this video I'm discussing five things that I feel are super insightful about
autism and Asperger syndrome and how they kind of interlock with ADHD so yeah
these are all my personal kind of like the background bits I think it's gonna
be super interesting okay guys before I get into the video I just like to read
out some questions and answer them that you guys have asked me over in Instagram
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video like this okay so the first question here is from Sophie's Scituate
and they said getting a new class suggestions on how to empower them from
day one the thing is you have with with schooling you have to listen to the kids
and see what they need and when they need a mat then you can come in with
empowerment so empowerment comes from fact you look at what they're good at
and when you find them good at something you give them a bit of extra time to do
that thing that they're good acts and they'll just excel in it super awesome
okay next question here is from hate al Hartnett and they said could you make a
video on us Vegas in school so to ollie scroll on YouTube okay ah let's go I'll
check you out so will I make a video on autism school
yes absolutely I'm actually wanting to do a series on the autism of schooling
and things like that for parents and for the kids who've gone to school and then
for college and universities and things like that let me know in the comments
below if you'd like to see that video okay the next question here is from
Russia and it's called pH is ed and they said do you do podcasts and if so and
I'm sorry and if you don't I think you should and absolutely I have a podcast
out and it's called the the number one autism and Asperger's podcast the
absolute world and you guys can get that in a link in the description below those
my podcasts there I do weekly podcasting and it's super awesome so please check
it out we've got like 35 or 39 thousand listeners it's crazy so please check out
the podcast okay guys so you know I have a condition of autism spectrum disorder
and ADHD now that is really interesting I know a lot of people have that as well
but this is my diagnosis my diagnosis is autism ADHD OCD and dyslexia and it's a
very interesting mix and it's quite common you obviously this mix it happens
a lot but I just wanted to discuss it because I feel like a lot of people are
searching for it and they want to talk about it and so I thought I'd discuss
five things that are kind of like super interesting to me from my point of view
of having both ADHD and Asperger's syndrome so here are five things that I
want to discuss the first thing is that ADHD in house villages or ADHD and ASD
which is autism spectrum disorders they are commonly comorbid which means they
are commonly called occurring together so using this one has a diagnosis or an
official diagnosis of autism they would I would say it's about 90% of the time
they'll have a diagnosis of like a DD or ADHD now this is super interesting like
I find it's just fascinating because they can flake them I'll talk more about
the confliction later on but it's really interesting that when I when I meet
someone who's on the spectrum they all say like hey I'm not special or cystic
and I go yeah oh yeah I have ADHD like most of the time that happens it's quite
interesting actually that you know so I know a couple of people who don't have
ADHD but I think it's just that they haven't been diagnosed with ADHD but
they have been diagnosed with autism and all other time I guess you know without
diagnose autism they're kind of like they're not really getting the HD part
because they think is on the autism part that you know how they test I'll be it
says for not satisfaction condition I find that just fascinating okay so
number two the second thing I want to talk about is how food and drink impact
my ADHD versus my Asperger's syndrome so with
autism I find that like it comes with like GI issues and gastrointestinal
issues like anybody who does like it often some fashion condition watch and
this will all know all about the IBS and all the other kind of fun
lovely issues that come with an autism spectrum disorder I don't know why but
it just does and it's a right pain in the backside but in terms of food and
drink sugar directly impact me so if I have sugar or something that is like and
would think sweeteners or something I got like beatings did anything it's
sugary like even juice to a certain extent I just hit the roof I get super
hyperactive my parents banned orange juice in my house when I was growing up
because he had a me and especially extended to like the English LED light
and I was like climbing the walls crazy but I kind of stay away from sugar and
you know now as well the past 10 years I haven't have any caffeine because a
caffeine also impacts me because the weird thing okay so this is how it
happens when I have caffeine I am just super like just hyperactive is hack like
I think I'm hyperactive now what am I like caffeine I'm hyperactive is ever
like I can't sleep so if I have caffeine that we lay in bed like you know because
I can't go to sleep and also on average sugar its anything up it's I can't go to
sleep I think the melatonin is go to sleep
sometimes people get so I productive during the day having caffeine and sugar
just super directly impacts my life it's so bizarre but it's something that I
have to live live with and learn to live with and something I've kind of overcome
by just making sure I treat my body well and I kind of replace like juices for
like water and stuff like that and I don't have like caffeine and fizzy soda
pop and stuff of that coca-cola Mountain Dew and stuff like that but you know the
past 10 years you can get Mountain Dew 10 years ago here in the UK anyway so
one of it okay so I really want number three I want to talk about how ASD and
ADHD conflict' with each other because I have both conditions it's very
interesting it's team conflict now when I want to try and hyper focus on an
obsession because if anybody has an autism spectrum condition will know that
you have like hyper focus where you'll find an obsessive topic or interest or
something make you want to hyper focus on and you're like really get into that
and you really want to learn about it and you want to get on to that one thing
do it really really well now that's all well and good but we're matey HD kicks
in it's like you don't agree that you don't do this I'm also this and also
that and also this is not so that and also this an awesome
I think all of these things just like around me I have like a million
unfinished products project I have a million unfinished project because my
brains just splay me all over the place my macbook window has like an a million
tabs open at any one time I have like anyone like maybe four or five projects
on the go I added like two videos at a time because my brain is just like split
and divided down the middle I'd rather just focus on one thing but then the
other time I'm like no but I can do so much more and it's so weird like it's
the most weird thing I can I could try and explain it I mean I don't find
explaining this like well enough but it'sit's how it is that's what I
experienced before and this one is an interesting number four is like how ADHD
impacted me in a caution right so where I was in a classroom I had ADHD and it
made me like super irritable like I didn't want to be there cuz I was like
here sit I don't wanna sit down on this chair for too long and then like I
couldn't like focus and stuff and maybe super and happy because like I'm just
irritated the whole time were together for just like lots of energy you know on
it and it was just Martin and you look at like being destructive if teachers
caught you like getting up off your chair you have to sit down to me you
know the kids in general I'll make you sit down for such a long time these
little plastic chairs it's horrible like they really need to kind of you know
realize that not all kids are gonna be able to sit down for that amount of time
especially kids on the spectrum I mean it's just stupid to think otherwise but
that was really interesting because like that made me like anyone to focus on
stuff I couldn't focus on the board I liked writing stuff down or learning
like certain techniques and stuff like that but my autism also made me super
bored in costumes because like as a kid that was like super bored because I knew
a lot of the stuff the teachers are talking about I'd already like learned a
lot of stuff actually crafted the teachers a few times so I had this
conflict of like being like really irritable and really bored and it wasn't
a good combination and I really didn't enjoy primary school all the first few
years of high school until I found music but like the first thing it was just
yeah it just didn't work you know I get the school system when I went to it was
never set up for anyone with autism ADHD autism and ADHD it didn't work okay guys
number five is this is interesting actually so I'll go say before like SD
and ADHD are commonly comorbid or comparing when they get diagnosed
on the contrary to that ASD sometimes it's misdiagnosed as a DD now this is
really fascinating so people who actually have a SD actually getting
diagnosis of ADHD or a DD because the Assessors are finding it really
interesting that they have the same traits like a zoning out obsessive
interest hyper focus they're super smart they're very creative all that kind of
stuff adds to the fact that they go oh no no this person actually has a DD and
but they don't care about the social aspect it's a social aspect that
actually determines the the autism but it's the other part like that
hyperactivity and the and the other things that are like more links like
ADHD or a DD switching from topic to topic very very quickly and not really
deciding on those things but again it's ADHD in a DD so rather than really pick
out the bit in between and say oh it's ADHD and autism or ASD they're actually
saying it's one or the other a lot of the time and this is a big issue for
kids who have both they're not getting the support for both if that makes sense
so it's a very interesting one to think about this is really common misdiagnosed
it's just like in girls you know girls on the spectrum of misdiagnosed bipolar
disorder before they get their actual official diagnosis of autism it's just
interesting but hopefully videos like this and communities like ours are going
to help build that kind of understanding and help build a secure structure so
people can get correctly diagnosed as and when they need it
okay guys they were like my five things I thought you needed to know about ADHD
and water them together and autism and ADHD and how they relate to each other
and I have super fun telling you this video unlike the reliving simple like my
memories for the past and going down memory lane and do all those kind of
things so if you guys have anything to add to this please leave me a comment
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