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Now this video is all about Aspergers and emotions because autistic people
have huge issues trying to portray their emotions, communicate their emotions,
and talk about things emotionally.
So people on the autism spectrum, I have a difficulty with
levels of communication, right?
So you could be able to communicate really well verbally and yeah.
To have a conversation about a topic of interest.
But when you try to describe how you're feeling, maybe a bit blurred.
So yeah.
Autistic people really see things as black and white, you know, either is.
Everything or nothing.
There's no kind of in-between part, but emotions are more
complex than black and white.
It's not just happy and sad.
There's half a year sad.
There's I'm miserable is moody.
Then there's slightly happy.
There's content, there's satisfaction.
There's comfortable.
There's loads of different types of emotions.
And with that comes a conundrum.
You have a person whose brain is wired to just see black and
white and have like happy and sad.
But then they have these feelings that are in the gray part in the middle.
And I have no way of, of explaining these.
So autistic people usually will get into trouble with the way that they can't
communicate their emotion, feelings, you know, how, how are they feeling?
How are they, how, what is the ability to know oneself and one's feelings?
And then how do you alert project that to somebody and tell them how you feel?
So this could be difficult for people in relationships.
It can be difficult for any type of relationship.
If you're a parent and your kids on the spectrum, and you don't
know how they're feeling and you're asking them and they get frustrated
because they can't tell you.
It's because they ha they haven't the ability to communicate how they
feel, but there are ways around it.
You can use symbols, and, symbol kind of sheets, so you could use them.
What would you use to say, like pick the emoji that best describes how you feel?
How are you feeling?
I'll just use an emoji to tell me how you feel right now, or what's going on.
And that emoji will represent a feeling and an emotion and that
feeling and emotion would be the best way for you to kind of digest that.
Another way is to have like a piece of.
Paper with like happy and sad, and then a line in the middle to show the gray area
of it and say like, this is really happy.
This is really sad.
Where are you on this scale?
And get them to like draw an X on the scale.
That way you'll gauge where they are, whether emotions are, I
know it's very basic and quite a primitive way of doing it.
But when you're dealing with the fact that autistic people, you know, we
have issues trying to communicate those issues are the best of times.
Let alone, when you are.
Uh, you know, maybe you're having an overload, maybe having a meltdown,
maybe you're feeling sad or angry, or there could be all kinds of stuff
going on at that moment in time.
When you're trying to explain your emotions.
Now, emotions also come from the fact that you know, how other people feel.
You can put yourself in their perspective.
Yeah.
And then you can also kind of guess how they're feeling from stuff, but
autistic people cannot do this because knowing what another person's doing
is kind of like the unwritten rules of society that nobody tells you.
You have to kind of just pick this up.
And for autistic people, it's difficult to communicate that because
it's not how our brains are wired.
Other than that.
Also checking out people's faces for emotions.
You can convey emotion through your face, but autistic people can't read
this signal from people's faces.
So you can just imagine when it comes to an autistic person, trying to
communicate how they feel through their face and their facial expressions,
it's never going to happen because you, if you can't communicate it verbally,
then you won't be able to communicate it through your facial expressions.
This is why those.
Um, icons and images are probably the best way to communicate certain ways
of feelings and emotions to another person because of the way that people
deal with emotions and feelings.
Now, the, you know, the, the takeaway from this basically is that autistic people.
Do you need a little bit of extra time support and help when dealing
with emotions and it's not to go in all guns blazing and being like,
Hey, you know, you guys need to do this, do that, and blah, blah, blah.
It's more like an understanding.
Okay.
I understand that.
You know, you have a difficulty with emotions.
You can't read facial expressions, you can't explain your emotional feelings
and to communicate your emotions.
It's a difficult task.
So find ways around it.
Find ways of communicating.
It's all part of this kind of, um, understanding.
Uh, perspective that you will have when you go, okay, I get it.
They can't understand like that.
So let's do in other way, like I said, try use emojis, try use icons,
try, use symbols, try use the chart.
There are so many different ways.
Communication.
Isn't just a one set thing for everybody, you know, just think about yourself.
I'm sure there's other ways that you don't communicate the same as somebody else.
Right.
And because of that, You need to just give that leeway to people
on the autism spectrum and just say like, okay, well look at it.
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