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The AUTISM Spectrum TEST (How To Know If YOU Are Autistic) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey guys, in this video, I'm going to talk to you about the
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  autism spectrum test, and how you can find out and take this
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  test at home to see if your artistic Allah is coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the ask me world.
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  My name is Dan. I have autism ADHD OCD and
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  So you don't miss another video. Okay guys, so that are a bunch
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  of things that can help you under 2, Phi.
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  If you're in the office of inspection, we can read
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  literature. You can watch some of my videos
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  or you can just like listen. Friends, doctors whatever.
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  But is there a process? Can you take a test at home?
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  Why? Yes you can.
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  And I'm going to talk to you about after right now, before we
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  get into that guys, I'd like to know.
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  Are you a person looking for yourself or looking for somebody
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  else to take the Autism test? Please, put in a comment down
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  below and let's have the conversation with you every to
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  respond to every single comment. So yeah, please do that.
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  You're awesome. Okay.
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  I want if you'll follow me on Instagram and Twitter please do
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  so, I actually have extra content on there to soup it up,
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  right then. So this is how you check for an
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  Autism Spectrum test. So, Basically, there are
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  different quotients for different types of things that
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  happen in neurologically in your brain.
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  So, autism is a neurodevelopmental neurological
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  condition that impacts the, communicative part of the brain
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  called the Triad of impairment. And this comes down to things
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  like social interaction and knowing kind of complex written
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  and verbal instruction. And trying to follow instruction
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  and guided instruction, all those things are very confusing
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  because it's a communicative issue, is a communication
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  disorder and it hits people that it can also leave A lot of
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  people, if selective mutism and nonverbal as well.
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  Because a lot of autistic people are non-verbal, meaning they
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  cannot speak and they cannot have a vocabulary as Grand as
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  mine and I might, it's not very hard ground.
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  Actually, to be honest with you, I watch a lot of movies and
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  that's pretty much how I got my vocabulary.
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  Yeah, big thumbs up. If anybody else got their
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  vocabulary for the movie. Love you.
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  So knowing if you're on the awesome second it can be quite
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  difficult. If you haven't got access to a,
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  you know, you don't want to kind of, let me put this way.
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  You'd want to go out shell out for a private diagnosis or If
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  you're in America, you don't claim with your insurance and
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  get all this, you know, money paid out to test something and
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  then it come back - because you have no indication that you were
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  going to be on the autism spectrum.
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  We just did it. You don't have waste money is
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  what I'm trying to say or waste anybody's time, including your
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  own. So, there are ways you can do
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  this at home to make sure you can kind of have a good general
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  idea. If you're on the autism spectrum
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  and where to go from there. So, this is, my advice, there is
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  something called an e, q-- test, which I will leave a link for in
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  the description below where you can get the actual test.
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  So you can See for yourself and what happens is this, you
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  basically go online and the IQ test consists of a stands for
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  awesome. So it's an awesome quote to test
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  kind of like an IQ test for autism.
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  Only not intelligence. Just autism characteristics.
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  And there is about I'd say there's a fart between 30 and 50
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  questions and those questions stem from anything from.
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  I mean, like, do you like going out, or do you like going to
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  library, you know, do you do you enjoy hanging out with friends
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  or you prefer to watch like a documentary kind of questions
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  that really make you think about You and your personality and
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  your personal traits. Now, I did this test and I can't
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  remember the score I got on it, but it was the first step I use
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  to actually, actually go on and forward for an awesome selection
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  test. Now, I'm going to explain this
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  is the one I'm going to explain about the bottom test online.
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  Then explain how you take that test and then you apply that to
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  a real life situation, to go to the doctors and whatever and how
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  you get an official diagnosis, because I'm going to take you to
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  the whole process. So the online test consists of
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  all these questions and then you fill out this, a kind of like
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  this question. I think it's got like that radio
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  button thing like, you know, you Click whichever one applies to
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  you and I end of it, gives you a calculated score.
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  Now the calculated score is somewhere between a some like 29
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  and 49 is going to be like the range where you can see.
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  If you're in that range of tells you if it's moderate to severe
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  autism spectrum, potentially, it doesn't say like for, you know,
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  it can't tell you if it's direct because they're not, it's not on
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  a crane, the claim. Doctor, there's not accredited
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  by by any medical association. It's just an online kind of form
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  that you use, but it's a good indication to give you Some kind
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  of pointer if you are on the Spectrum and we're about, you
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  actually fit on that Spectrum. So I highly recommend checking
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  out that one first and then seeing if you're on the
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  Spectrum, now, what do you do once you get this, see, it says
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  that you are moderately on the Spectrum and you want to, you
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  know, investigate further. Well, I'm glad you asked, so you
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  take the a cuter score and then what you do is you find your
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  family friends or your old girlfriend, or boyfriend, or
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  whatever. And you have them write down a
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  list of all your quirks and characteristics and different
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  things that they might find a slightly different to the
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  average neurotypical person. Even now you take that test and
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  your trait and you phone your doctor, or you go to see your
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  doctor say, hey, can I have a referral to an Autism Specialist
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  or an Autism assessment now? Your doctor should have it UK.
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  They may interview you and ask you little questions on why you
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  think, so. And you can also present those
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  findings and those papers to them, they made this qualifying
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  the online tests because it's just an online test is not
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  credited by any medical association.
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  Yada yada what I was telling you earlier, but still it's a good
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  indicator and it's a good way for them to, you know, you've
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  still done Still told you something now, they should, they
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  will arrange for you to see somebody of, to get an Autism
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  Spectrum, kind of testing or a, an assessment.
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  And the assessment usually is in three parts.
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  I may be too passive. Think mine was two or three
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  parts and typically what people go for now, when you are
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  presenting yourself to the people, it's kind of like a
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  formal interview. They're going to ask you in a
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  few questions and ask you to fill out other forms.
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  One of those forms. On one's question is, isn't it?
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  Cute s. Now, there's is accredited by an
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  Vishal body and and it will be officially accredited by medical
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  associations. But in terms of the one you
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  have, it's worth hanging them that as an evidential document
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  before going there, because it just helps speed up the process
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  because it could take a while for the process, all that data.
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  And then have some kind of some kind of diagnostic criteria for
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  you to then have going forward. You know it's nicer to have It
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  sped up a little bit because you don't have anything like days
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  and days and then on this so doing that doing that test and
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  then they will compile all the What they do is they usually
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  compiling evidence and write up a report and in that report is
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  your Diagnostic and report that you can keep and hold and hang
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  onto for well, you know, the rest of your life or whatever it
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  is you're doing and that is how you get your diagnostic, you
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  know, papers and stuff like that.
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  And it may take a year waiting list to get onto a home to an
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  assessment, but it's well worth the wait.
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  Now, a lot of people will ask a question.
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  Okay, so I did the IQ test that says, I'm on the Spectrum, but
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  do I really need an official diagnosis?
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  And the simple answer to me to you is Yes, from me to you is.
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  Yes, and it's simply this an Autism diagnosis will help you
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  access support and help if you need it.
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  Because without it, you won't be able to access those support.
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  So say you need, you know, counseling therapy,
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  Psychotherapy, you might need emotional therapy, might need
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  like counseling every week, but you can't access those because
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  they're only for people on the autism spectrum and how do you
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  prove you have it? Well, you have a diagnosis.
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  So in those respect, I would say, yeah.
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  You definitely need a diagnosis to access support, but also on
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  the flip side, a lot of people Don't like to be defined by
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  labels and don't really feel like they need any extra support
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  in their life, which is absolutely fine.
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  And if you want to just know that you're on the Spectrum
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  without actually an official diagnosis, that's also awesome
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  too. Because we're on the video we
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  all need to do what's best for us.
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  And we need to do is best for our livelihood in our life.
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  So you do what is best for you. And this is just my advice for
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  me, you know, like this is just how I did it and this is just my
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  advice on it to make sure that I'm helping you the best.
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  I can. Guys, if you think this video
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  can help somebody else, please share it on Facebook and Sure,
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  that be super, super awsome. Also guys, I'll see you in the
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  next video. Peace.
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