 What supports can an autistic adult or, I'll do the adult part again, but, or a parent of an autistic child use to reduce centre of things? Where could they start? My starting place and what I encourage parents to do as well is do an assessment of your home. What art? Where are the sounds coming from? Where are the smells coming from? And for our home, I keep small kitchen appliances in the garage, so the coffee grinder, the blender, those are in the garage. I close the door behind me to use them. I'm really aware of the cleaners that we use and soaps and detergents. Unscented. I close the curtains if there's a lot of like bright sunshine or contrasting. I'll try to close the curtains before my son comes in the room, especially in the morning, going from dark to light, that big contrast. We've replaced fans. It's like our bathroom fan. We replace them. Oh, hey, there's yeah. It's the ones that connect to the lights when you put the light on as well. Yes. That's and even in the community, we keep track of what bathrooms have fans that come on with the light switch. And that kind of goes along with the assessment thing of during your due diligence. I look for soft materials. So replacing anything that has buttons or zippers or feels scratchy, especially if you have a person who experiences self-injurious behaviors, making sure that you're not pulling in a pillow that has buttons and zippers. That would be dangerous. So you can also look at your decor. Maybe you have too many colors and it's visually too much input. You can look at if your child or the person autistic person has spatial awareness challenges. Can you put some cushions on the corners so that they're not injuring themselves because they're spatial awareness? A lot of it just really is being diligent and assessing the environment. To say that kind of because I would agree with you as well. I think the best course of action is to remove things at the source. You want to remove things before adding in things that could help because I feel like if you can remove the sources of the stress, it's better than having the sources of the stress tools or having ways to deal with that stress. You just want to get rid of it first. So it's just not a special environment. Maybe this isn't the time to run the dishwasher. For my son, it's hard for him to eat if the dishwasher is running. So I'll just put it on pause. It's not a big deal. In terms of adding things back in, we have a swing and when my kids stop using it, I know it's time to put a different swing attachment up. For my daughter, I use the TheraPressure brush or lotion. We talk a TheraPressure brush. They call it the Wilberger protocol, but we don't follow it exactly. But it's kind of like a little silicone bristles that fold easily and it gives some good for pre-acceptive input. You just do long strokes like on the arms, legs, or the back. She actually will take it with her to school in her pocket and just use it on the palms of her hands. I might need to get one of those. It's pretty cool. It just gives them nice deep pressure. Two different occupational therapists have recommended it at different times. One for my son and one for my daughter at different times for different purposes. But she really seeks that out and lotion for her as well. If she comes home dysregulated, that's kind of one of the first tools. I'll be like, okay, let me let's do like a little lotion on your arms and co-regulate. But removing sensory input and then pulling in the right sensory input is so important. We use a lot of cool lights. So the, you know, like the galaxy projector lights, that has been really successful in our home. That's really fun. I pulled this out on the OTNL podcast. Oh my God, I haven't put my flashy thing on in the background, as usual. Oh, it's not, it's not connected. I've got, I've got, I've got this, I'll put it on in a sec. But I've got this bag, which I really love. I also had this, this jellyfish light as well. But I just haven't, I haven't put the batteries in in a while. And I need to get on that because it is like, if I'm like working and I'm just like, I need to have a little bit of a break, I can just sort of stare at the jellyfish, listen to my music. I think that that's really important. I know the focus is autism, but with ADHD and because they are, you know, co-occurring so frequently, adding in that, that hit of dopamine with the cool lights or the music to stim too. Sometimes we'll do like a piece of gum or a piece of candy just to get get us motivated. You know, the body doubling, there's so many tools. And when you look at it like tools, it helps us to to cope and and be the person that we want to be like nobody wants to be dysregulated. So if you're looking at sensory input like that, it makes sense. Yeah, I think from, from the kind of the autistic adult side, I think, you know, a lot of those things could definitely be transferable. You know, wherever you're a child or an adult, you can use stuff like that. It's like, I recently did a post on oral motor needs. And a lot of people didn't even know what they were and that they had them. And a lot of people like bite their lips and like, you know, grind the tea for, you know, snack a lot. That was a big one for me. I just wasn't getting that that oral motor stimulation. So, you know, things like chewing things is quite a big thing. Yeah, we have a collection of chewy chew necklaces. Yeah, yeah. Or you can be like carrots and schools from it from what I've heard. They're not the most like, they're not the most accommodating for that. Like, you know, that's a child thing, like, you know, you know, my daughter has heard so many rude comments about her chew necklaces. So many times. Yeah, and trying to teach her how to advocate for why she needs it that she's no, she's not teething. And no, she's not a baby. This is not a baby teething necklace. Like it helps her with sensory input and combat anxiety. There's the advocating is relentless. But that's what it's so important to teach our kids to advocate for themselves. Hey, YouTube, I hope you have enjoyed this podcast clip so far. And if you have, why not check out the full episode which you can find on my YouTube channel or on other streaming services like Google, Apple, Spotify, you can find it pretty much anywhere you want to. If you have enjoyed this, make sure to like, subscribe, drop a comment down below, even if it's something simple like sending me a heart or an emoji. It really, really does help me with the algorithm. All of my links to my socials like my daily Instagram blog posts are down in the description. But other than that, I hope you enjoy the rest of this clip. Because you're not always around them, especially if they go to school. Yep. You know, and it's hard, isn't it? It is hard. That's, you know, in terms of like sensory support for adults, I'd say, you know, common things to use would be sunglasses, or like what you're saying about those FD, FD 41, yeah, FL 41, nearly got it. The things like those can be helpful. I mean, my belial like glasses help. Yeah, to help more with with calming me than ice cream. But I find those quite helpful. There's also things like headphones, earbuds, ear defenders, the D-Bud, earplugs. I use lips. They're probably similar. Yeah. And also things, sensory toys, you know, it could be things like acupressure rings, which I really like that you can just put on your finger. You can keep it in your pocket. They're just things that you can just roll up and down your finger. And it's quite sort of proprioceptive in that sense. There's also compression clothes, which I actually utilized a lot when I was a teenager. Like, you know, you get those compression clothes like sports and stuff. I find that a lot of my anxiety comes in through my legs. Like it's the first place that that really starts to become an issue when it when I get anxious or overloaded. So I used to wear compression bottoms like under my school clothes. That really helped. For a lot of people, I think sometimes, sometimes people like tight clothing, sometimes people like loose clothing. I'm definitely on the I like the tight clothing side of things. But I mean, it could be just some something simple like opting for wearing some stylish joggers, some trainers that kind of look a bit bit more formal. Even, you know, soft, softer hoodies, hats, you know, there could be a lot of things that you could you could use sort of on a daily basis. How some of these are one of my staples. Even at home, you know, utilize any flaws that you have to lay on them if you're feeling stressed. Yeah, that's what I do. It's like I come home from a speaking event or a hard day and I'll just lay on the living room floor and chat to my mum about like my day and stuff. And that really helps doing like stretches and things like that stretching. A lot of people find weighted blankets or weighted toys, plushies quite helpful for them. It's not something that I like. I feel a bit restricted. I like to move around a lot. But I've heard that it can be quite helpful for some people. There's this company called Fidget Gem. No, Fidget Gem. I'm combining company names. Fidget Bum. I don't know if there's still going on, but I used to chat to their sort of company founder and they do these. It's kind of like a sock formatress. And it provides the pressure through like the tension of the elastic material rather than the weight of the blanket. And you can sort of move around in it and you can like adjust the tightness of it and stuff. And that has been really helpful for me. I still don't know if they do stuff like that, but it might be worth having a look at that kind of thing. I think the issue was with it is that the actual product, it worked really well, but the problem was it kind of looks a bit restrictive. And they didn't know whether it would kind of get past health checks and stuff because, you know, it is like basically you kind of binding yourself to the bed a little bit. Yeah. But I think that could be problematic. Yeah, exactly. But I see the intention. My husband definitely, he likes the sheets to be super tight and kind of like a body sock that is used for that proprioceptive input. I can see like Russian children get where they get like swaddled after they get. Yeah. Yeah. I like swaddling for babies. Like that's a common practice. And from the sensory perspective, like now we can see why do babies love to be swaddled. It's not just the feeling of being in the womb. It's that deep pressure. And that need doesn't just vanish because they turn into a toddler. I mean, I quite like to go through perhaps some of the things that I use. I mean, just just for examples, just things that I have about fidget cubes, different things that you can push and click and fiddle with if you if you're feeling like you need to some for your hands. There's the typical fidget spinners. Of course, I've gone for a very gothic style school fidget spinner. I got from Thailand. And there's also this fucking I find them like massage and deep pressure and vibration really helpful. So I have this sort of this foot massager that I have under my desk that I can put my foot on in it. It just vibrates and it's got like these rolly things that you can sort of use. Just having that under my desk. Yeah, sure. It kind of resonates throughout the house a little bit, but if it helps you complete the task, yeah, that's good. Or simply having a blanket that I can just kind of put over myself and just, you know, just stuff like that, little things like that. It kind of adds up. It does. And especially if you you struggle like focusing and stuff, just having different things that you can do to kind of modify your central environment on a daily is quite, it's quite useful. Yeah. And then lastly, there's noise cancelling headphones, of course, and music. Yeah. That's a big one. I think it's important just to note that but if you are assessing somebody else's sensory needs, like as a parent, that it's not going to be the exact same every day and just recognizing that maybe yesterday they needed to spin, but today they need to run. Like just recognizing that it's not like they talk a lot about sensory diet. And I think that that's something that is important to be added to the conversation is that and maybe their capacity for it changes day to day. What they could tolerate yesterday is intolerable today. It's just so important to recognize that. Yes, absolutely. The the compiling effect of appointments and demands placed upon them, just recognizing that that it's not the same every day.