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Do This If You Think You’re Autistic · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So you think you may be autistic and you think that maybe you're
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  only up on the spectrum. If that's you do this, I'll
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  explain more right now. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  Aspy world. My name is Dan.
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  I have autism, ADHDOCD and dyslexia, and I make weekly
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  videos all about this stuff. So if you're new around here and
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  you want to learn more about those things, make sure to hit
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  Facebook, just follow this page for daily videos.
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  All right, guys, so you want to know if you're autistic or not,
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  right? And you're thinking how maybe
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  I'm autistic. Maybe something in your life has
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  said to you, hey, maybe you display traits of autism.
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  Maybe you're struggling in a certain area of your life and
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  you feel like maybe, maybe I'm autistic.
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  Well, thankfully, yours truly done.
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  What up, guys? And what's going on in my hair
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  anyway? I have made an autism test that
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  you can take online, which was based off an autism test or an
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  autism kosher test, which they call AAQ test set out by doctor
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  Simon Baron Cohen and the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge.
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  And these questions were taken directly from their website,
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  from their diagnostic criteria. And I put it onto an online form
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  where you can go and check it out.
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  Now you can go to the link, it's down below.
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  It's the Ask weworld.com/autism test and you take the test.
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  Now bear this in mind. We're going to jump over to my
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  computer in a second. We're going to go through the
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  test. But what I would like you to
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  remember to think about is that you have to be open and honest.
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  And when you're taking this test, it's only an indication,
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  OK? This is not credited by any, you
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  know, medical health board. It's just an indication.
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  I could advise you that this indication will give you
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  somewhat of an idea that you may be on the spectrum versus maybe
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  not been on the spectrum, which is only a good thing If you're
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  looking towards getting more information.
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  And you know, you want to really up that kind of diagnostic idea
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  before you go to the doctor and say, hey, look, I want you to
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  put me forward for referral, blah, blah, blah.
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  Look, this is a good starting point and I highly recommend
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  doing it. Let's jump over to my computer
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  right now and check it out. OK guys, so as you can see here
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  now on my computer screen to my website, theaspyworld.com, if
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  you go here and then look, there is a website link called Autism
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  test. If you click on Autism test,
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  it'll take you through to you just put your name and your
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  e-mail address in and click take test.
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  And then when the page loads, basically loads this test.
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  Now this is basically telling you about the autism quotient
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  test or the AQ test as they call it within the industry.
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  AQ it's a bit of a weird it's like Albuquerque test and AQ,
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  but it's a diagnostic questionnaire basically designed
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  to measure the expression of autism traits in an individual
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  by his or her own subject of self-assessment.
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  So this is not a an official diagnostic assessment.
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  It's just an indicator, like I said, and I'll reiterate that
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  basically the IT was published by Simon Baron Cohen and his
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  colleagues at the Cambridge Johnson Research Center because
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  they wanted to have some type of test that would give you an AQ
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  test. So this is actually very
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  similar, if not identical to the one that they will actually run
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  within an assessment. But an assessment is actually a
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  controlled condition on a controlled condition environment
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  and their assessment protocol, whereas this test is just me and
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  my website with you going on. So we're going to have some fun.
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  Let's go for it and I'll show you how it works.
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  So I'll probably start guys also down the bottom here, excuse me.
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  I'm talking about if you want to like, you know, be more
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  confident. So it's a personal lower
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  anxiety. You can actually download my
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  free program, the Bulletproof Brain for free here.
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  Or you can just go to bulletproofbrain.org right now.
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  You can download for free. OK, so you click on start and it
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  will start the test. So ask these questions, right?
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  So I will go through a few questions in a second, but I
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  want to show you what it looks like.
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  So there's 50 questions all down here and it's agree or disagree,
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  agree or disagree. And what these questions are
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  going to do is kind of really get an idea for how your brain
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  is, is, is responding or how your mind or how neurological
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  kind of difference responds to this type of question or, or
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  kind of reality. Now, right on the bottom, you'll
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  see that there's when you see clip results, there's only 50
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  questions. So it's going to give you a math
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  like between 30, I think, or 35 and 55 is like autism, you know,
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  speculated autism. And then any lower than that,
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  it's kind of like maybe not. And then lower again, it'll be
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  like, no, definitely not. So basically this is what we do.
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  And remember when you're answering these questions, it
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  has to be honest and kind of like number, you have to be
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  really honest with yourself. So like #1 I prefer to do things
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  with others rather than on my own.
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  So would you like to do things with other people other than on
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  your own? This is interesting.
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  And so basically what it's asking there is, do you enjoy
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  your own company more than company with friends?
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  And only you can answer that question, right?
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  So I actually do love to do things on my own rather than
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  with others because I, I feel like being part of a group,
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  there's too many opinions. So doing something as a group,
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  unless I'm the leader of the group, it's I, I, I always feel
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  like they're going to make the wrong decision.
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  So I prefer to do things with others rather than my own.
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  I disagree. As you can see, once you've
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  clicked it, it's highlighted. You can change that answer
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  before you click submit, but you have to click the gig.
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  So, you know, I prefer to do things the same way over and
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  over again. I agree.
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  And so you basically just go through all these questions and
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  then when you hit submit right down here at the bottom, it's
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  going to cope with a result. So it'll just load, take a few
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  minutes to to load. And so my score is only two out
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  of 50 because I only answered 2 questions, right?
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  But this is how it works. So it gives you like a, a score
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  that says, well, you know, out of 50, this is what it's likely
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  going to be, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  So if we did the full test, what it would show you is that at the
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  bottom here would say, you know, 30 to 50 is this or 3050 is
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  that. And so it's really interesting
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  how like this test actually works to kind of give you an
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  indication. Now what is it useful for?
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  Well, the really interesting thing about this test is that
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  you can take the information of the data to your doctor or
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  healthcare provider and say, hey, look, this test indicates
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  that maybe I don't know, I'm, you know, potentially on the
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  autism spectrum. What do I do with that?
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  So that being said, look, if, if this is you, if you, if you've
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  scored like between 30 and 50, which is kind of indicative that
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  you maybe only got to the spectrum.
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  What it would do is take this print out of the syndication and
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  then books to go and see a medical professional.
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  Because these are going to be the the people who are going to
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  be the ones who would be able to either diagnose the issue or
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  maybe it's something that you don't necessarily have an office
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  infection condition, but you have another condition.
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  This is highlighted. So either way, you're going to
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  get the right treatment, right support, right help, right
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  therapy, maybe medication that is right for you.
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  And that's super, super important because self
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  diagnosing is OK, but it only gives you certain like leverage
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  only gives you certain. You know you can only do so
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  much. And so if you want to learn more
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  about that, then you should definitely go and seek a formal
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  diagnosis for your doctor and they will be able to actually
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  prepare and recommend you to the best ones.
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  Now, if you guys are liking this type of content and you enjoying
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  this video, please give it a thumbs up comment because let me
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  know what you think about do you do the test?
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  What number did you get? I want to know where you are.
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  If you're OK sharing that, let me know.
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  I want to have a discussion read it because I read every single
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  comment every single one. All right, guys, Peace.