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Is Autism Self Diagnosis Valid (Here Is EVERYTHING I Know On This) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Well, the reason some people think they're autistic and
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  they're not is because they're confusing other things.
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  And I'm going to go and break down all of those things now
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  because I see this quite a lot, happens quite often, especially
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  on my channel and people I meet in public.
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  So in this video I'm going to tell you the difference between
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  just having a self diagnosed autism diagnosis and an actual
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  diagnosis of autism and why that can be detrimental to you and
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  what you can do about it. All that is coming wired up
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  right now guys. So, OK, let's just break it down
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  a second, OK? OK, not like that, break it
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  down, but like, let's go backwards, OK?
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  So basically autism can overlap with other kind of things.
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  And what I mean by overlap is the appearance of it can overlap
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  with other things. So autistic individuals can be
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  anxious, they can be socially awkward, they can be depressed,
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  they can have personality differences, and they can also
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  have ADHD. Now, all of those things can
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  also exist in a person who's not autistic, right?
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  And so without professional assessments, without
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  professional help, without professional screenings, all
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  these signs can be easily misread.
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  Because sometimes it's kind of like, I call it the online
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  doctor syndrome where you could like Google something like, oh,
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  I've got a temperature and a rash and somebody's like, Oh my
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  God, I'm dying, right? But like, you're not dying.
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  It's just that those things can also happen.
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  It's kind of like if you go to any drug that you buy, like, you
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  know, painkillers or anything or ibuprofen and you check the, you
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  know, maybe symptoms of or, or reactions or possible kind of
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  like reactions to it and all of them.
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  It's literally everything. It's like nausea, feeling sick,
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  death, or I don't know, there's all these kind of things because
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  a lot of things can over overlap and also you can then miss read
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  the signs. So the goal basically isn't to
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  be a gatekeeper, right? It's to help people who are to
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  see what's really going on. Because think about it, if
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  you're getting treated for autism in a way of like therapy
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  or whatever, but actually there's something else going on
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  or it's not autism, then you're not going to be stimulated.
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  You know, brain's not going to be getting the right amount of
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  attention, right amount of things.
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  So let's go through it right now.
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  OK, so first thing we need to talk about is anxiety.
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  Anxiety is a really interesting 1 and I'm going to give you a
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  take away at the end of talking about this.
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  How you actually help with anxiety?
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  Look, I have anxiety, I have an anxiety diagnosis, but I don't
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  let it control my life. I have autism and ADHD and my
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  name is Dan, by the way. So if you knew around here and
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  make sure that you hit the subscribe button by clicking the
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  notification bell so you don't miss another video if you're
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  interested in this type of stuff because I talk about autism and
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  ADHD and all those kind of things.
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  Now anxiety comes because of something called fear.
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  Fear comes from worry and worry comes from the unknown and the
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  unknown comes from well, not solving a problem or the
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  perception of a problem, right or seeing a problem.
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  So people in life will all have problems and problems are good
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  things by the way, guys, because the more problems we have, the
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  more solutions we can create and the more solutions, the happier
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  we become. When we don't solve problems is
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  when the worry and the fear and the anxiety comes.
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  But if you just have extreme bad anxiety, is isn't an indicator
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  that you're autistic, just an indicator that you have anxiety,
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  right? Anxiety can exist on its own,
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  but with autism also, but it's not a sole indicator that you're
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  autistic, which is really interesting.
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  So I see a lot of people thinking this like I'm really
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  anxious. You know, I'm anxious around,
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  you know, kids or tractors or I don't know.
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  And then they'll say this like as if it's like a thing that
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  it's supposed to be autistic, but it's not.
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  It could be anxiety. And you can actually treat
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  anxiety with medication and therapy which is pretty amazing
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  because it can help you level you out and you feel so much
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  stronger and more positive. Now.
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  No diagnosis at all, not relating to autism traits
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  confidently without any history or testing can be quite
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  dangerous. So if you're self diagnosing
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  online, you could be using up resources for an autistic person
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  in a public setting where somebody who is autistic can't
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  get access. Now what I mean by this is there
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  are some flower lanyards that you can get right for showing
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  hidden disabilities and you don't need to qualify for this,
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  but you just pick one up and wear it.
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  What this means is that you get access to certain things in
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  certain areas where autistic individuals may feel better and
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  calmer in there. Or say you go to a grocery
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  store. I know here we have Morrisons
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  grocery store in the UK and they have a sentry box.
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  And the sentry box is basically if you go there and your kids on
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  the spectrum or you're on the spectrum, you can get a sensory
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  fidget toy and you can walk around and do your grocery
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  shopping whilst focusing on the fidget toy.
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  And it really helps calm you down or get you normalized in
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  that situation. But if you're not autistic and
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  you go there and you pick up the last fidget item within the
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  share box and a kid comes in who's a Level 3, you know, non
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  verbal, really, really needs a fidget toy and the mom's
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  struggling, you know, I couldn't live myself if I'd have taken
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  that. And it was the wrong diagnosis,
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  you know. So having the wrong diagnosis
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  could also negatively impact the lives of other people who
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  actually are diagnosed who need those support things.
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  I'm not saying that if you self diagnose, you're not autistic.
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  I'm just saying that if you self diagnose and you're not
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  autistic, then it's harder to justify the use of things.
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  Now, ADHD is a big one, right? ADC has struggles with focus and
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  concentration and organization and remembering things.
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  These are all very similar to that of people on the autism
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  spectrum. However, the difference is ADHD
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  people can socialize. They want to socialize, they
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  want to make friends, they want to go out, they want to do
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  things, they want to be seen, heard and and enjoy life.
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  Where autistic individuals sometimes are so focused on
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  something that is introverted, they don't want to do those
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  things. They're not really bothered
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  about socializing because they feel like there's no actual
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  benefit to it. Because maybe when we were
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  hunter gatherers there was a benefit, but now we're not.
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  And for the information guys, something really interesting is
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  people diagnosed with Asperger syndrome actually have just
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  share more DNA with Neanderthal, which is a, an ancient type of
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  human hominid on this planet, basically like an animal looks
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  like us than neurotypical people who are not autistic.
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  So which is really interesting. In fact, I isolated my genes,
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  my, you know, my genetic code and looked at what kind of
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  things I would be allergic to and blah, blah, blah.
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  And I actually said I have two genes related to people on the
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  autism spectrum, which are really interesting.
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  And they call the autism genes. I don't know if it's an official
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  term, but it's something that they look at on a on a genome
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  basis, which is really interesting.
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  But anyway, we're getting sidetracked here.
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  ADHD does not automatically mean that you're autistic and it
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  could just be ADHD or not even ADHD.
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  You could just have some of the symptomatic traits of ADHD and
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  not be either. Self diagnosis can raise some
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  awareness, but what I would say about a self diagnosis is if
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  you're self diagnosed and you don't, you're not on a waiting
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  list or you've got no professional kind of like
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  backing and monitoring, like your professionals haven't put
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  you forward for a referral. And it's kind of like, I don't
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  think you would really qualify for it.
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  And I actually know people who've done this and then go for
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  like 4 or five autism assessments and they've failed
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  every time. And they said, no, you're not
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  autistic. You're you're just anxious or
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  you just have this or whatever. So it's really interesting.
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  Now, the last one I'll talk about is socially awkwardness.
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  Like if you're socially awkward, that also doesn't mean you're
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  autistic, right? If you're socially awkward, it
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  might mean that you can just, you know, oh, I, I don't really
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  like being around a lot of people, you know, because people
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  suck or I'm a maybe, I don't know, they're not on your level
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  of intellect or maybe they're not interested in the same
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  things you are, but that doesn't mean you're autistic.
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  Autistic individuals can't be social or around people in
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  social situations due to many things.
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  Not knowing the social rules, the conventions of socializing,
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  how to deal with friends, when to talk, when it's their tend to
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  talk when it's appropriate to say certain things, filters of
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  language and other kind of personal details.
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  Sensory improved from around the pub, noise, clicking their
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  glasses, people talking, smoke, drinks, all this kind of stuff.
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  It's not going to happen. It's too overloading.
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  We avoid those things like the plague and so that would create
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  a difficulty in trying to figure out what is going on.
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  And guys, that being said, I'll see you in the next one piece.