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Aspergers Test Online - How to Know If You're Autistic · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Have you ever wondered if you're autistic?
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  In this video, I'm going to breakdown ways in which you can
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  kind of identify that and see if you can move forward in a
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  diagnosis. All that's coming up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the ASP world.
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  My name is Dan. I have autism, ADHDOCD and
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  dyslexia, and I make weekly videos all about this stuff.
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  So if you're new around here and you want to learn more, you want
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  OK, so I would advise this. I had a diagnosis of autism when
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  I was 26 years old. So I went 20-6 years without an
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  autism diagnosis, but I had prominent traits of autism the
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  whole way through. Wasn't like I just randomly came
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  across a diagnosis and was like, Oh yeah, well you know, this is
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  what I'm going to do now. No, no, no, no.
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  It was kind of like the behaviors that I had were very
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  prominent. I had like a lot of traits.
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  So the first thing I would say to do is to ask your friends and
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  family members if there are traits of autism that they can
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  identify within you. So autistic traits could be like
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  lack of eye contact, sensory processing disorder, deviating
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  from a routine, wanting very strict and rigid rules and
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  routines in your life, all that kind of stuff.
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  Because autistic individuals will highlight specific traits
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  within themselves when they are autistic, right?
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  And this is kind of something that is going to be apparent.
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  This is what sets you apart from the other people because you
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  will act in a way which is different to a typical person,
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  right? And this is notable.
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  And a lot of people will notice this and be like, ha, this is
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  very interesting. It's odd or different, right?
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  And these are traits of autism. What I would say to do was
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  collect these and write them all down and see if there are many
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  or just a couple, because it was a couple.
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  And it could just be like, OK, well, maybe it's not autism,
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  right? But if there's many, then it's
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  kind of like, OK, well, there's something going on here.
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  What could it be? But the second thing I would do
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  is do the same thing. I would ask people if I have
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  autistic behaviours, not just the traits, but behaviours
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  because the the traits, the systematic traits of autism will
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  will urge you to do behaviours. You could have OCD, you could
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  have a version to certain things.
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  You could have a very secluded, very conservative outlook on
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  life. Maybe you want to stay indoors.
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  Maybe we'll come reclusive. Maybe you don't want to go
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  outside. Maybe you'll only play video
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  games. Maybe you don't want to hang out
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  with friends. These types of behaviours could
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  be linked to autism, but you want to see if people are
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  identifying unusual behaviours within you as a person.
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  Do you? Are you currently experiencing
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  different behaviours? Do you display different
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  behaviours to other people online, offline, in society?
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  And those things will show like a torch if you're an ultimate
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  spectrum. But you should try and list them
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  all out to see if there's something that you are
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  susceptible to or something that you are kind of like accustomed
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  to that if these behaviours are a byproduct of the trait of
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  autism that you are experiencing.
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  description down below and looking for Coping Secrets
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  right now and get access to that course.
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  OK, the next thing I would tell you to do, and this is a must, a
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  must, must must, you must do an autism online kosher test, which
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  is an AQ test, autism kosher, kind of like an IQ test but for
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  autism. It was AQ test.
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  Now you can go to my website www.theaspworld.com/autism test
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  and if you go to that website link you will be able to take a
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  test that will ask you a series of 50 questions and it will
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  score you. Now it will give you a
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  percentage saying like if you score this many questions this
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  way, that is more likely to hit you on the old inspection.
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  But if you score this many below, then it's probably
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  unlikely that you're in the oldest inspection.
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  But what it does do is it gives you a really good honest
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  clinical based framework for you could print out those results
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  and take them to your doctor. Which brings me on to the last
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  point where I would print those out together with the evidence
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  of the behaviours and the autism traits that you've collected
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  from your family members and friends.
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  And I would take all of those and I would book an autism
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  assessment through a clinic or a referral from your doctor.
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  Now, when doing this, take all the evidence with you and
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  present them more evidence than they possibly would kind of
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  think about because they're going to assess you there and
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  they're going to give you an interview and all the assessment
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  process pieces that go through with the DSM, the IDC and the
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  ADA and the Disco and all those other, you know, diagnostic
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  criteria things. However, if you also present
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  present to them some kind of like friends and family data,
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  which we've already kind of spoke about.
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  And the online test that you did is going to help them with the
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  formation of a clearer picture of the whole board, the bigger
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  viewpoint of everything that makes you you and everything
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  that makes you potentially autistic.
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  If there's something that you are looking for, I'm going to
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  leave a link down below to all of the things that I mentioned
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  here today, specifically the test for the test on my website.
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  All right guys, I'll see you in the next one.
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  Peace.