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Junaid Hussain

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207 total appearances

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

Absolutely. So he develops specific hyperbolicies and then he's exceptionally good at them. And he gets to an extremely high standard very, very quickly because he spends that much time on it. The danger at times with this, and we've noticed it with him, is that it can go unregulated and can become morbid at times. So let's take history as an example.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

Absolutely. So he develops specific hyperbolicies and then he's exceptionally good at them. And he gets to an extremely high standard very, very quickly because he spends that much time on it. The danger at times with this, and we've noticed it with him, is that it can go unregulated and can become morbid at times. So let's take history as an example.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

Absolutely. So he develops specific hyperbolicies and then he's exceptionally good at them. And he gets to an extremely high standard very, very quickly because he spends that much time on it. The danger at times with this, and we've noticed it with him, is that it can go unregulated and can become morbid at times. So let's take history as an example.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

He wants to learn about World War I and World War II and the battles and the trunks and all this military gear and everything else. Great, wonderful, all the maps and so on. But then it can creep into morbid obsessions around dying or how did this occur? And you want to know the details of certain things, which are not necessarily age appropriate.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

He wants to learn about World War I and World War II and the battles and the trunks and all this military gear and everything else. Great, wonderful, all the maps and so on. But then it can creep into morbid obsessions around dying or how did this occur? And you want to know the details of certain things, which are not necessarily age appropriate.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

He wants to learn about World War I and World War II and the battles and the trunks and all this military gear and everything else. Great, wonderful, all the maps and so on. But then it can creep into morbid obsessions around dying or how did this occur? And you want to know the details of certain things, which are not necessarily age appropriate.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

So it's both a massive strength when that focus, but it also unchecked at a young age can sometimes lead to obsessions that are a bit morbid or a bit dangerous for the child as well. So it can't be left unchecked.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

So it's both a massive strength when that focus, but it also unchecked at a young age can sometimes lead to obsessions that are a bit morbid or a bit dangerous for the child as well. So it can't be left unchecked.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

So it's both a massive strength when that focus, but it also unchecked at a young age can sometimes lead to obsessions that are a bit morbid or a bit dangerous for the child as well. So it can't be left unchecked.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

So he definitely has meltdowns, and we've had to work with speech and language therapists and occupational therapists and psychotherapists to understand those meltdowns and those tributes, and again, what can lead to that eruption and how to mitigate that as well. There's various different strategies that we use, but yeah, we do know what to say with him.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

So he definitely has meltdowns, and we've had to work with speech and language therapists and occupational therapists and psychotherapists to understand those meltdowns and those tributes, and again, what can lead to that eruption and how to mitigate that as well. There's various different strategies that we use, but yeah, we do know what to say with him.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

So he definitely has meltdowns, and we've had to work with speech and language therapists and occupational therapists and psychotherapists to understand those meltdowns and those tributes, and again, what can lead to that eruption and how to mitigate that as well. There's various different strategies that we use, but yeah, we do know what to say with him.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

So if he's not getting away with a particular thing, he will begin to repeat himself, he'll be defeated a lot more, he'll become more aggressive, he'll raise his voids. He even recognizes himself, I'm going to have a meltdown. And he often says, I need to do something. He can't quantify what it is that he needs to do. So at that point, we need to put our mitigation in place.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

So if he's not getting away with a particular thing, he will begin to repeat himself, he'll be defeated a lot more, he'll become more aggressive, he'll raise his voids. He even recognizes himself, I'm going to have a meltdown. And he often says, I need to do something. He can't quantify what it is that he needs to do. So at that point, we need to put our mitigation in place.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

So if he's not getting away with a particular thing, he will begin to repeat himself, he'll be defeated a lot more, he'll become more aggressive, he'll raise his voids. He even recognizes himself, I'm going to have a meltdown. And he often says, I need to do something. He can't quantify what it is that he needs to do. So at that point, we need to put our mitigation in place.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

So we have a weighted life beat, for example. We sit him down, we give him that focus. And as you're probably aware from your previous projects as well, once they're in a meltdown, that's it. You can't do anything. You have to ride that wave and support them through that and give them the five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and it'll settle.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

So we have a weighted life beat, for example. We sit him down, we give him that focus. And as you're probably aware from your previous projects as well, once they're in a meltdown, that's it. You can't do anything. You have to ride that wave and support them through that and give them the five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and it'll settle.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

So we have a weighted life beat, for example. We sit him down, we give him that focus. And as you're probably aware from your previous projects as well, once they're in a meltdown, that's it. You can't do anything. You have to ride that wave and support them through that and give them the five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and it'll settle.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

As he's getting older, not intentionally, but as he's getting older, the marriage becomes slightly more difficult to manage, especially for the mother. Because of him becoming physically stronger, he's able to push stronger, punch, and so on. So it can hurt unwittingly, it hurts a bit more. So they can be difficult to manage, but they last about 20 to 30 minutes at times.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Junaid Hussain's Advocacy for Autism Awareness and Acceptance

As he's getting older, not intentionally, but as he's getting older, the marriage becomes slightly more difficult to manage, especially for the mother. Because of him becoming physically stronger, he's able to push stronger, punch, and so on. So it can hurt unwittingly, it hurts a bit more. So they can be difficult to manage, but they last about 20 to 30 minutes at times.