 Hey Two days ago, I said the end of that video that Wasn't going to say what there was a big doubt, but that Video next day, which is now yesterday, and I didn't do video Hilarious bit of irony I Didn't do the video for the exact reason This video was supposed to be on but it wound up wound up working out Just a few hours ago, Kyle Hill put out about five years ago. He was diagnosed as autistic This is the first publicly come by him being autistic wound up being a major benefit for Exactly what we're going to be talking about attention the autistic Attention is an interesting thing the common stereotype Is that the autistic? hyper-focus True to some extent. There's also good reason why Autism is highly comorbid with attention deficit disorder now. Sometimes ADHD gets thrown in there. I would argue that it's not Typically the case that hyperactivity is an additional component. The autistic are usually less active The hyperactivity component typically is there like anything it varies There's nothing about the condition that excludes hyperactivity or high energy ridiculous amounts Based on the way the weather's been looking I should be able to do that really soon Fantastic, what's been going on the past year now? And I'm maybe shooting myself in the foot, but I'm not doing these videos for financial gain My viewer count is not high enough to do that I am not scripting this video partially to get the point on what I'm going to be talking about both ADD and autism seem to share a tremendous amount of disorganization in thought not necessarily a Material thing back the autistic tend to be very particular about organization not obsessive compulsive in nature, but very systematically organized Which can present as messy That's a whole other talk though. So I don't have the list that I You go you get in disorganization More like the freestyle discussion videos today That's also in part because we don't know why the stories organization happens if you think you have research that Explains why that's the case Send it my way. I'd be glad to review it and If it's good research, I'll do an update to this More likely than not From what I've read it's hugely inclusive and there's a absolute crap on a methodological interpretation errors and stuff that's out there But The video Something bad with time sequence I mentioned that the behavioral effects that you see as the result of these things They all converge into common patterns, which is sort of why Autism recognizes behavioral thing. It's not at its core But differences in the brain effect the way you think in very consistent ways So Unsurprisingly the effect on attention converges in barriers. You see this sort of break into two different things See normally people's attention is pretty Well rounded. I don't quite want to say evenly distributed, but I Much more so than you see about this thing um Most people Can keep pretty good track of the things in their life like where they put the keys You know, you still forget about them sometimes But Hill's video He's bad enough about it He developed a strategy for remembering By putting them on top of the food he was going to bring in the refrigerator because he'd remember the food And so if the keys were on top of the food in the refrigerator, you're forced to interact with them. I have a sort of similar issue with bills That was not a good thing to have an issue with I have automatic bill pay setup, which is a great adaptive strategy Love automatic bill pay because it just takes care of it Um, some people will argue. Uh, what if I want to pay a higher amount? Let the automatic bill pay do its thing and then put another payment in for a smaller amount to make The two add up to the whatever you intended the non-issue But when I get paper bills camping sometimes, uh, like the hospital I had Two paper bills sent to me If I don't pay those right away And I mean right away like that moment when I open the thing up I'll forget about it. I don't mean Oh, it's on my mind and it just keeps lapsing. I mean, I will forget about the bill. I will forget it exists Until the next month when I get another one Like, uh, hey, you didn't pay this shit luckily They get that out of pretty young age We're like a teenager not even paying bills yet. And so I um The very rare one slipped through but so I I developed a strategy for dealing with that um, some people like to sort of meant more meticulously plan things Um, which is where you see the rigid Rigid schedules in the autistic come from um I Just address things right away So if you've ever messaged me on like twitter or whatever, you know that I get back to you really quickly That's why because otherwise I'll click on the thing and like, oh, I can respond to this later and then never respond to it I don't want to do that. That's kind of kind of rude And it's no no the people who mean oh do that don't mean it pleasant when it happens to you Fuck it. I I have to respond right away. I'm gonna forget about it on the other side See hyper focus which is sort of more what's known in autism I uh This is this is what happened Me not doing video I got really Really focused on some programming. We're gonna have to eat I mean dinner. I don't think I drank enough water either because I woke up really Really thirsty And it's not in the middle of winter right now. So it's not like really dry air Fingers are all cracked feeling Shit, I hate the way my hands feel right now and because of dehydrated pounding water all day trying to make up for it hyper focus is weird Obviously enough. I don't hyper focus on these videos. Otherwise the quality of the content and the rate Which the videos would come out a lot better a lot more consistent Uh, this isn't my thing. This is something I sort of force myself to do. I've talked This is a sort of challenge to myself a little extra thing And I not something I intend to monetize It probably would be 2025 before I even start making a few pennies off these videos Keep doing them in Kyle Hill's video, which Could I say a link to that? I will have a link to that. He's a much bigger creator You'd have an easy time finding it anyways, but I will link he talks about Hyper focus being a major part of why he's able to produce the high quality content that he does a great He does and it's a huge benefit and it it is it's a huge benefit At the expense of other things like I said, I forgot to eat yesterday Sometimes you forget to shower, which is embarrassing gross Schedule your showers There's no No other way around that the schedules With the autistic, this is this is why you don't schedule It's not an anxiety thing if you don't schedule Just forget to do it and you need to do it You need to eat you need to take a shower you need to Other things Schedule you forget about Cell phones have been an absolutely fantastic advantage to the autistic as you can Not the basic cell phone, you know smartphones became a thing PDA is combined with cell phones put your whole schedule down in there in the calendar You've got the right thing set up. You can even sync it between multiple devices Drop something down in my phone and have it come up on my computer I happen to be here like hey you have this appointment that I know you're going to forget about Which used to happen too You gotta You gotta do that. I um I remember used to read non textbooks a lot more Read the first three or four Harry Potter books It's not being interesting to me. It was one one night Got The new book and read through the entire thing that night didn't even sleep read through the whole book because That's what I was focused on there are A lot of times where we'd be programming seven o'clock in the morning to Nine ten o'clock at night pop up to my computer in case you're gonna forget about it It's useful I don't want to It's useful, but you got to learn how to have a deal with it if you're the your parent start Setting these things up get them in place fairly early. It's going to help immensely just It's not It's not necessarily anxiety. I mean it can Anxiety can be a component of it, but that's usually because it may be a component of it Just just get them in place Note that it usually doesn't need to be extremely rigid. It's not like oh 1205. We do lunch Usually not that bad. Yeah Something else I wanted to talk about this What was it? What was it? So I will wrap it up then you can see it goes much better if I List which is also why You should make the list Uh might even be why? And a script parts of conversations I'll let Others who talked about this and did not Show the level of disorganization and thought and then they scripted the video Explain this in much more entertaining ways Yeah, uh attention In autism as a I would describe it fairly simply as just Rather than being nice and well-rounded. It's kind of lopsided Focus really intently on certain Maybe we get to do basic self-care. He highly beneficial a disproportionately large amount of autistic and a disproportionately large amount of people with ADHD that won't be entrepreneurs This is partially because of difficulties in the workplace that will not be accommodated for there are Some that I disagree with who are overly focused on Trying to get everybody to accommodate tend to be rather hostile. I'll call everybody aid lists. Shit that obviously I'm not being hostile with these videos. I'm Explaining things. Hopefully that perspective helps But it's also to help those who've been diagnosed or parents of those who've been diagnosed the Is not something I'm bitching about as much as it's just sort of it's not just a Disability thing that happens all sorts of things is actually Partially the result of the oxytocin and group binding bonding thing that I talked about in a previous video Um, just part of biology to do that Really hard to undo thousands of years of evolution. So Disproportion and amount of autistic and ADHD go on to be entrepreneurs Because it works. There's in both cases. There's really nothing that gets in the way of the job itself other people in both cases you think differently than other people and There are nice problems it's Not a disability of The job I don't know of any stance or autism But ADHD there are ADHD is four times over represented among entrepreneurs So that is one of the rates of ADHD right now the sample entrepreneurs They're four times more likely to have ADHD Among successful entrepreneurs there are also five times more likely again. I don't know the stats for autism But it's expected to be pretty similar because it's the same underlying thing going on The entrepreneur is more likely to have ADHD and Is more likely to be successful Because of that hyper focus you learn to deal with it Can actually be a huge asset Let's face it The world isn't going to accommodate you I mean you're gonna accommodate your customers They only care They want the product Good product good service They really don't care That's the best kind of accommodation and That's not Oh woes never that's actually like the best way to be Mind and not be negatively judged it's a lot easier to take The things that you're good at Ability to hyper focus the the incredible passion you have things the incredible attention to detail It's a lot easier to take that for aerial skills than it is to do what we did for decades berating the person for and not being able to do Things the same way that other people began The attention is different. Not good. Not bad Be different Use it the right way You'll be glad I have no idea what i'm going to do for the next video Maybe like last time where I knew but I wasn't going to say I have no idea what I'm going to do for the next video so Tell that Have a good one guys