ADHD YouTuber vs. ASD YouTuber: Main Differences

hello rains we're back here with Daniel from the ask me world because the last interview of the audio was pretty terrible [Music] basically what we're hearing from you guys is you want to know more about like the difference between ADHD and ASD and where those overlap I like to think of them as like close cousins yeah not exactly the same thing that there are a lot of similarities and you have an ADHD diagnosis as well right Daniel I do actually okay so I have a bunch of OCD dyslexia ADHD and ASD so he's like collect I don't know I know I can't believe it well I could believe it because of my life but it was interesting to have all those because then you have a you have like a basis to go off when you get the diagnosis you go oh okay you know which plants will walk and I think like some parts I HD and some props I'll like autism you know and I think that's very interesting so let's start with that so like what parts do you notice of what you struggle with our ADHD versus autism because like a lot of people in my community have ADHD have that diagnosis that they're wondering like but I also have like sensory sensitivities and social difficulties and like maybe I would also qualify for an autism diagnosis yes so I would say that I get super super hyperactive and I can run around and do crazy stuff and talk to lots of crazy people who are crazy things I would like I like running around just venting and just talking at people for ages now two things are happening here the talking Gussie honestly I have no idea why it's just because I think I get it so the two things happening when I'm like how that I talking something about my favorite topic for ages two things are happening one is that the ASD in me is wanting to go how that talking about my my topic moving Jessica vacation yeah and then it kind of like we call it a Luke we got I'm gonna loop on top of a bridge to confront forever but at the same time the reason I'm out there hi drunk they lose hat talking those Pleasence cuz I got ADHD and I'm just like buzzing to go and do something that's completely irrelevant so like social difficulties because I have social difficulties as someone with ADHD as well because there's a neurodevelopmental delay I was a few years behind my and warning like when it's appropriate so to say something like not tell people everything right boundaries are not know one thing that I learned so I had social difficulties and I knew that I wasn't a popular kid but you had social difficulties but how do you think they were different for somebody on the spectrum versus somebody with ADHD one of the ones is how do i how do i position myself in space with this person like i had no idea how close do you get to somebody i don't know how far away to go and another thing which is super difficult I don't understand facial expressions not well I don't know if somebody's upset until they're absolutely in tears I don't know if somebody's in a mood an affair ecstatically happy it's hard to judge this I would love to have like you know a lens glass that tells me you scum someone's face and sees without smiling or the front knee and tell me what that is no right and this is the biggest thing so I see people as being quite unhappy all the time so I'm not sure if somebody's upset if they're nervous I'm always like okay because having ADHD late I will miss like my best friend might be really upset and I might not notice it at all but it's because I'm distracted yeah as opposed to like I can't read it so like if I'm focused on them then I'll be able to pick up on how they're feeling for the most part but you're saying like when you're on the spectrum it's almost like you can't read social cues right because I don't recognize people often with a face I'd recognize people's hair shoes and voice I'm going to change your shoes it's visible but so that is one of those challenging ones is understanding if somebody's and even the tone of the voice I don't know if this person really you know and I'm trying to particularly it to say well how would I be in that situation I don't know it was to one thing you know it's complicated because how you would react might also be different from how they would react as well exactly and one of the reasons why I believe I don't recognize people at well is because I can't make eye contact so I'm not looking at the face so I would identify and I look into those shoes overhead you know right you're so much emotion is in the face right or is is in eyes but you you seem like you're making really good eye contact so there's a trick that you learned right yes so recently though because my Korean becoming way more professional there are more professionals but you should really try my best not try it so what I'm doing is I'm looking at cheeks and nose and just past the person's face because it's so awkward to look at somebody's eyes that still scares me but to look at the nose of the cheek and it's cool because you feel like I'm looking at you but in the eyes I'm not I'm doing a whole week with like the people I mean it's really impressive yeah and so I contact is uncomfortable for you to make and also to receive right yeah it's it's kind of like when you make outcomes of somebody this is almost as if you've just instantly lost all your clothes it's like being naked it's nothing yeah it's it's intense but you know those two thing Utah you touched on sensory issues now in terms of essentially issues and I was saying about how far it's not somebody who I have another issue which stems with something deeper called proprioception feel familiar yes so it's a muscle working and I didn't know since when my occupational therapist told me about it because I went there for help because I was like I I don't know what's wrong because they they suspect they have dyspraxia because when I go to put glasses down in this look I missed the table and the bus goes down or if I get a glass or the cupboard okay I hit myself with a cupboard door because I don't know how far away the cupboard is and this is a big issue of Bruce or my house it's total so my occupational therapist said look it's it's just a proprioception issue from sensory processing disorder so what you need to do is have a sensory diet and I was like well and once means is that yeah you kind of build proprioception in the morning so I do like work out the morning and that was two or three hours and then midday I'll be like take a shower right morning you only have to do about half an hour to 45 minutes of work but it'll last the effect of the property ii lost two hours every two so every two hours you're trying to just top-up but you can do it like breakfast lunch and dinner time just do some company and it can be like just literally doing wall press ups or something and i tried it and it was unbelievable but i found a hack and I did this in a video I did a video on such a process in to solder my hacker I think yeah you can link to it's fine I put a like under AMA tight vest on them as well as doom was compressing my my muscles which was giving me proprioception so I didn't have the workout because when muscles were getting these signals of the proprioception because I have this like tight vest on it wasn't like I have restless leg syndrome along my ADHD here on to the point where like I eventually had to start taking medication for it because it would wake me up in the middle of the night and I wouldn't be able to get out to sleep in it was really really bad so I don't like like a lot of tight things on me but it is kind of a thing without somewhere you need that sensory pressure right like so FS or weighted blanket yeah so I have a way of like actually talking across the best nice they've ever had so what does it do for you because you don't have that deep rooted muscle proprioception feeling you almost feel a bit disconnected and you feel quite uncomfortable in your own skin a little bit it's kind of like feeling a bit out of place in a in a restaurant or something you know you go to restaurants in suits and ties any other and shorts and t-shirt it's kind of feeling like up so but when you have that like tight cookie you almost feel like you fit in you feel your body a bit more and you feel a bit more in space it's bright lights a thing for you is like noise I am sensitive to certain smells to certain light almost light and noisy noises but what's not the worst when you have quite a lot going on and I'll give you an example so garlic and onions super triggering for me it makes me feel upset and in the same way up certain words make me feel angry it's like feeling pain I don't know if it's like imagine every time I heard the word like blooper somebody smack you in the face so when I hear certain words it's like I mean instantly I need them because they hit I'm hurting it is that to say yes so the lights and stuff I I okay so we're doing with a bunch of people today we're in a summit and we go to dinner in Google's now they have all kinds of foods on and there's loads of smells I so I'm like avoiding the smells and if it's just one thing you can kind of manage you're like okay it's just the smells I can move around and I can try and focus on something else but you're doing with the smell and then all of a sudden you don't have sunglasses on you and then the lights and they're in really bright so you're like oh shoot you know I'm trying to I'm doing the smells I'm doing the lights and then it gets louder or while because those are people in that and then it becomes critical point like you can't do anymore this everything anything you can focus on you you can't you can't focus on a good nice soft lighting you can't focus on a nice happy smell and you can't focus on silence because all those things are good so it's like plugging up holes like just and then you just gonna explode you feel yourself going there's no there's no way to stop it it's horrible so what happens if you stay in an environment like that or somebody forces you cause like that you know some parents might like insist like you know no we're here we have to stay here like what happens if a kid like that is subjected to staying in that environment catastrophic endings will result in a mountain and if it doesn't result in mountain Rosales shut down and mutism for ages so what's the difference between a meltdown and a shutdown for you so a meltdown is an outburst of like emotional energy that pent-up and you can be hot you just have to release because it's like this like a champagne won't be checked but in terms of a shutdown its way it becomes you're trying to cope with emotional over stimulation but but I'm not trying to hold that in so you're pushing it down and then you just you just you lose sense of hope I guess he just everything just goes dissolve a bit I am meltdowns too but it's more like I've been ignoring my knees and like pushing myself and pushing myself and not really recognizing that yeah so Care is what is that it won't last that long do you think you experience good sensory input yeah more strongly as well yeah so I have so the sentence models I really like about it small plastics I also like with plastics like yeah it's a resin plastic so you know like smell and they also like the smell of diesel gasoline basic violence's and by the way like sensory sensitivities can be present with ADHD as well like I have a strong aversion to certain sensory things and I have a strong like desire for other sensory things but yeah what do you think is the difference I think the difference is the way that you can deal with it I think because annex communication so an ASD I am NOT able to compute the communication of this sensory input is coming in whether I like it or not it's having an effect on my emotions that I can't control but I think in ADHD you will understand that there's a smell on you need you probably know what to do to get away from that and then okay this one gonna do to the smells that triggered me do you think that doing this kind of work working creatively on YouTube the way that your brain works differently has given you any advantages I don't think so a few few advantages and one of the main ones is my ability to look at something analytically and really take it apart like it's detailed like a puzzle and I didn't take it like this at first I was just putting videos on the internet trying to explain my story then I realize that people really need to find my story to resonate with it right and so then I got into the hole and I talked to Matt loads like SEO and marketing how do you get videos online and this I just loved it it was almost like because it's Olga rhythmic changes which are mathematical patterns I love it and so I was just obsessed and because of obsession it led my channel top exponential growth ruined you know and on twelve months which is amazing this is how I clear my channel and and so much so that everywhere I go and this is true everybody wants me to audit the channel or or did their content I think this is the advantage I have it's it's given me the ability to hone in on a skill that I didn't know I had I'm really into this concept of neurodiversity and appreciating that different people's brains work differently cuz yeah your brain makes it so that you're you know amazing at SEO because you can really dig in and like obsess over that I I can hyper focus on an episode but also like I have a very like insatiably curious brain it's always bouncing around like trying to figure out why and so I'll have like ten twenty thirty you know order you browser windows time and I'm just like flipping back and forth to like different articles and like research studies and all this and I can take in like all of this information and then process it in a way where I can see things that other people might miss you know there there's differences between brains and your brain is different from my brain and you know your brain is also gonna be different from the next person with ASD and my brain is gonna be different from the next person with ADHD but there are a lot of similarities and even communicating with you I feel like you know yeah we go to because we I think it's because we understand that the struggle sometimes and that's not always a struggle but there are some struggles and I think like we can sympathize with each other on that which is amazing thing because doesn't have an off to me yeah but we're getting as a society we can talk about it so um speaking of talk about it we'll talk a little bit more on Daniels channel you can check out that video yeah we'll talk about what we do like on a day to day basis how we cope absolutely use things like that strategies like what our schedules look like so we'll check that out and go check that out on his channel and if you happen to be going to VidCon yeah we're doing a panel on neurodiversity room 208 2:30 p.m. on the 11th of july 2019 is gonna be a blast and I'm actually super excited for it like it we also yeah so it's gonna be me moderating Daniel be there Katie more like Ollie's all these people will pop people around the tea the squad squad calls you have to ask a super weird question what's going so like you're more sensitive than most people to like sensory input right how did you get tattoos I guess fishing a lot up it's offered like this I love humming along to my Hoover because whatsoever I love humming along to a vacuum now when you get a tattoo because the paint is so overwhelming it becomes almost nothing your brain engages with the the almost therapeutic and it's consistently giving you this perfect timing it's it's amazing although it is painful it's therapeutic I can't explain any more than just it feels nice amazing like it's so weird

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Length: 14min 15sec (855 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 04 2019