in this video I'll be talking about Asperger meltdowns so that by the end of
the video you'll know what it's all about
coming right up hey what's up I'm Dan I have Asperger's syndrome ADHD OCD and
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just want to ask you a quick question do you know anybody with an autism spectrum
condition and if so are they related to you via work or family members I'm just
interested to know so let me know in the comments below so we can start this
conversation so what is Asperger's syndrome really to begin with Asperger
syndrome is a lifelong neurological condition which affects certain parts of
the brain and impacts your ability for communications and things like that so
what I will do is I will leave a link in the card above here of what actually
autism and Asperger's is so you can check that video at the end of this
video so let's get started on a billion meltdowns so an Asperger meltdown is
where a person with Asperger syndrome has an overload of stimulation so they
they have an overload and then they start lashing or it could be
uncontrollable crying panic attack out of breath they could be thrashing about
that they've actually hit their head their hair they could maybe stomp their
feet or throw their hands about and actually break some of their limbs I've
actually done this I've broken my hand twice here and my wrist and my hand on
this one and it happens quite often and I guess it's more often than not that
you know that there's something kind of really like an outburst of anger like
you've reached your maximum capacity of what you can take with and that's really
what a meltdown is so it kind of like comes on comes on stronger and then boom
it happens you have this meltdown which is this outburst of the energy overload
stimulation overload and you just kind of just I don't know you know you just
everything just comes out so I can energy every energy piece that you have
in your body just blurts out in this meltdown so how does it happen now and a
meltdown could happen because of a trigger so there could be a single
trigger that will trigger somebody so it could be that that triggers I'm talking
about violent it could be that they have been losing a lot of sleep they're
getting really really cranky because you know having this condition also keeps
you up at night you a lot of people find difficult to sleep with absolutely
syndrome so having this and it could just push you to you're at the end of
your tether and then this is how a meltdown could happen there's other ones
where there could be an environmental factor an environmental trigger rather
than a personal trigger these are all very very in fact is of something that
could actually happen and why does it happen and an interesting one is why did
these happen why do these triggers occur now the trade has happened because
people with absolutely syndrome like routines to the like things to be the
same so say you know someone was doing the havoc of halfway through their daily
routine and then it changed suddenly this could cause a meltdown because the
overload of the the consequence of changing at the routine is just too much
so you know if we were planning on going up to this place to have dinner and we
booked everything to go up to this place for dinner so we thought all got that
for dinner but we get there and it's closed unexpectedly then that would
cause a huge huge panic a meltdown that'd be very involved there'd be
emotional triggers involved will be all kinds of stuff involved and this would
really cause and set the scene for a in emotional meltdown on McKenna and Albus
and Asperger's meltdown so that's how that happens we'd like to learn more
about the symptoms of Asperger's and autism I'll leave a card in the cab
here so you can go check that out or leave in a link in the description below
so you can check out after this video again so a lot of people ask what do you
do if you see someone having these outbursts these autism Asperger
meltdowns and the best thing to do is try and calm the person down it's
difficult to do because the person has gone through these kind of this motion
of okay let's put into perspective it's like you know say you say you're gonna
go to the store and pick up some bread before going to either birthday party so
you go to the that you go to get the bread but then the stores closed and
then you think oh so then you have to go your whole routine is thrown out you
have to like then find a bread somewhere else so then you have to you'll be late
for the birthday party it's not gonna go exactly how you planned it's not safe
it's not secure and then all these triggers are like a domino effect
imagine like hitting down loads of dominoes that you just can't get your
head around and you thinking oh my goodness house is ever gonna end so
that's what kind of mind state you're in if you are having an iceberg and
meltdown and then there's a controllable crying there's a panic attack from the
panic that's happening you get shot on to breath and you chest hit and you're
stressed and all the stuff is happening so my advice would be that if you see
someone having one of these meltdowns is that you have to comfort them and then
it's trying to find out what is going on you see where the problem lies and if
you can actually help that problem maybe you'll come up with a solution because
Plan B's actually do work and they help reduce a lot of stress so they say hey
you know there's another bakery down the street which I know so we can go there
to get the bread so those kind of things are our ways of like you know problem
solving for the issue that's a hunt and another one is to get the person to
breathe because breathing is really important real deep breaths because get
into deep breath will help them calm down and then make sure that they try
not to hit themselves or hit of war or hit the floor or something because again
this is something that I've come across where I may be lashed now I'll hit my
hands here hit my hand there and then it would just break my hands I'll break my
toes and it's not good so you want to try to avoid any of that and also
hitting head ideas quite a lot on them if and I've learned how to deal with it
now so I don't do it as much but now there are ways of reducing meltdowns so
I'm going to talk a little bit about reducing marathon's so if you you know
taking care of somebody with Asperger's syndrome or somebody with Asperger's
into myself this is what me and my girlfriend managed to do to help reduce
some of my mouth pounds and that's basically
pre-empting what's going to happen so you kind of think ahead
a little bit so you think okay well we're gonna go to a park or we're gonna
go for a walk of a mountain or in a field or something and we're gonna know
we're gonna be there over lunch time so rather than me freak out when it gets
lunchtime we're worried now I haven't had food and
I don't think staff to eat at certain times and stuff because I get kind of
worried about all these things my partner would then say okay well we'll
take we'll take food with us and we'll also take notes and foxes and we'll also
take a lot of water with us and we'll take everything every event reality that
we can try and cover we'll cover because the more eventualities that you can
cover for the best so if we say we're going to go into this restaurant today
but if they're closed we're going to go to another one or another one so you
have a plan the a B and C this again is covering all eventualities and this is
very very powerful so you may be able to really reduce some meltdowns that may
actually happen because you've already thought of hey if that doesn't go to
plan what's the next plan and if you also go through those Plan B's C's and
DS maybe with the person who had thought in the spectrum condition then they will
understand that better they will understand the fact that there are other
plans and then you they'll see a route with those plans so that's another way
doing it another one is looking out for triggers so sometimes you know that they
may be sitting triggers so maybe certain noises or certain smells can set off a
meltdown so if someone is having essentially overload to smells and
sights so you know to avoid those areas where the smells are present so say it's
a deli and the person doesn't like the smells and the deli because they trigger
there's meltdown then you avoid the deli if it's a store and the lights are too
much for the century overload and they can't deal with the lights then you
don't go to that store and you avoid those type of lights so these are ways
of reducing it so it's always kind of thinking clever and that's what we've
learned and like I learnt from my partner because she is a professional
working in the field with autism Asperger's so she kind of helps me with
all those things and I want to relay this information to you guys so for me
one of the the main things is that after you have an Asperger's meltdown you're
completely drained emotionally physically mentally everything is just
drained and you just feel like you know you just this lethargic bauble that just
sits on the floor like well I mean just slumped you can't move it
your hands are tightly all the muscles are tight your chest is tight it's
horrible and one of the things is that recovering
from that takes such a long time I feel like a recovery from a meltdown can take
anywhere from three days to a week which is crazy because it completely just
disfigures you for that the whole week off about three days when you want to go
on and do those things that you normally do so one of the things that I will try
and do is try and find ways of coping now ways of coping with it I found two
things at work one is eating foods that make you feel comfortable that you know
so I eat healthy most of the time and I try my best to be as healthy as possible
but I know that I have comfort foods so having comfort foods helps really relax
me and helps me kind of less tense so this is something that I would advise if
you have a certain type of food that you really like and you have a meltdown then
after the month I'll maybe try have that food and the second one I think this one
really really is like the big one for me and this really helps me a lot is that
when I'm high so I've had a meltdown and then I'm feeling like crap and in a day
after all the same day I come home I'm sitting on the sofa and I'm just really
really just lethargic and I don't know what to do and I've got these like
downer feelings because it also dips your mood and your Muto's write down one
thing I like to do is I like to create things like creating videos or making
music or making websites or creating or will create and focus on work and one of
the things I like to do to create those things is look for instructions and
people in our field so say you're interested in motorcycles or BMX bikes
then you go on the internet and you search for how to build BMX bikes or
whatever is your usual research pattern is and then watch that information so
you're you don't have to do anything physically you'd have to concentrate or
focus your mind but you can still get that information for the thing that you
really enjoy and I found that that works the best out of anything is that when
you watching something that or reading something that you really enjoy that
your main focus or obsession of interest is this helps so much with overcoming
and coming around from having a meltdown we'd like to learn more about autism
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