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Autism Diagnosis_ Truth About Why Autism Is increasing (NEED To See) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the Aspy world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  In this video, I'm talking about autism diagnosis and the truth
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  behind why there's a sudden increase in the number of people
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  being diagnosed with autism. All that plus more right at the
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  end of the video. It's coming right up.
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  Hey guys, welcome back to the Aspy world.
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  My name is Dan. I have autism, ADHDOCD and
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  dyslexia. And then we quickly videos on
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  about this stuff. So if you're new around here and
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  to hit the subscribe button by clicking that over vacation bell
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  down below. Guys, what's going on?
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  Welcome back to a video. Now there was an article I read
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  recently that was saying that autism diagnosis or the the rate
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  of autism diagnosis has been increasing, which is gone from
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  seeing one in 60 people in the United States diagnosed with
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  autism to one in 33, which is a bit crazy.
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  And that's only in the space of about three years.
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  But why is it now there is a profound reason for this and
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  it's it's not what people think. Now, before we get into the
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  juicy part of this video, I just want to say that I've been using
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  play with it and you pop it and just have it in your hand and
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  nobody really know what you're doing.
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  things. But it's really, really cool.
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  one. But I actually highly recommend
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  this and it's probably my most favorite fidget toy.
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  It always has been. It's awesome.
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  OK, let's come with the video. OK, So there's all kinds of
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  reasons why people think that the rates of autism have
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  increased. A lot of people think of things
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  like the crazy stuff like there's more vaccine damage or
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  something like that, or there's more toxins and poison in the
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  world, or bleach or some kind of government conspiracy cover up
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  all kinds of crazy nonsense. None of that is the reason why
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  and it's very, very simple. If we look at the reasoning for
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  autism diagnosis or how autism was diagnosed back in the day,
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  you're looking at people like Hans Asperger, Leo Kenner, and
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  these people were writing research papers in 1942.
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  They weren't the most genned up on like, you know, the the
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  insurance and outs of neurobiology and neurology and
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  that one of the stuff has missed out.
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  I mean, for instance, I used to say only boys had autism, which
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  was a lot of cosbolop. And then they'd say, oh, only
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  children have autism, right? It's only present in children.
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  And So what you had for for many, many, many years is, is
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  this notion that, you know, if somebody passes into adulthood,
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  then they no longer are deserving of an autism
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  diagnosis. And then I mean, just getting
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  rid of the the majority of the population females, right?
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  OK, well, females don't have autism, they can't have autism,
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  blah, blah, blah. And so that kind of gets chucked
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  off. And then you think like, wow,
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  OK, well, this doesn't make much sense.
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  But when you Fast forward to the future now, since about 2000 and
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  I don't know, thirteen, 2014, we've had an increase in people
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  advocating for autism online and the advent of kind of social
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  media, you know, here on YouTube and Facebook and Instagram and
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  tick tock like you're watching right now.
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  I'm able to video it out explaining things about autism,
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  showing you how, you know, my traits and characteristics, you
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  know, I, I struggle with or, or maybe this is how it was
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  characterised or this is how it presents itself in males versus
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  females and all this kind of stuff.
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  You know, we're covering autism burnout, autism diagnosis
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  process, which I'll get into in a minute.
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  You know, how, how people actually go through diagnosis
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  process now. And because of that, you have
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  more people more than ever going, Oh, I understand.
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  And so maybe there are adults on the autism spectrum.
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  So boom, instantly you have an increase in the amount of people
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  in a population which have a potential to be diagnosed
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  autistic. And then you come around and
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  say, well, it's not just males, right?
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  It's females, too. That's like not be about the
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  Bush here. That's the most wrong data that
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  has ever been published or produced.
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  And then they say, OK, yeah, of course.
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  And you got Laura Wing and Professor Byron Cohen and people
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  like, you know, Steve Silverman and they they're all coming up
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  with this. There are new updated data which
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  shows how autism is presented in females, how autism is presented
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  in males. But it's like young children
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  versus adults and all this kind of stuff.
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  And then people say, OK, yeah. And then you get the majority of
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  population who now can potentially be diagnosed
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  autistic, which is the female population, right?
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  And so we where you've gone from having a very low minority of
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  people who are diagnosed autistic, the understanding of
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  autism becomes a lot more larger and then you have more
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  diagnosis. Now there's another component to
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  this. When you're thinking about
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  autism and you're thinking about people diagnosed on it, you have
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  to also consider the lifespa of a person.
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  So whereas you know, people on the autism spectrum, typically
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  if you have high support needs, your average age of you know,
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  death would be around 30 to 40 years old.
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  Now the average age of death for a person with low support needs.
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  So personal myself in the autism spectrum is between 40 and 55
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  years old, which is really sad. And there's a number of reasons
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  for that. But if you think about it in, in
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  the, in the longer term, you know, as people live longer,
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  autistic people will also live longer because it's just
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  typically the capacity of, you know, better nutrition, better
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  healthcare, better mental healthcare, better neurology
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  understanding. And so the age of an autistic
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  person will increase as in like the, you know, the lifespan,
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  which means also there's a potential that there's a bunch
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  of people who are growing older. For instance, I interviewed
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  somebody on my podcast whose mother was 70 years old being
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  diagnosed autistic, right? So there's an ageing population
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  that are still relevant to being diagnosed, which would have been
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  left off before because of two reasons.
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  One they're dying into they would have been on there because
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  they thought oh they're too old to be diagnosed autistic now.
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  Are you autistic watching this video or are you a carer of
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  someone autistic watching this? I'd love to know pop it in a
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  comment down below and just tell me which one because I love
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  responding to every single comment I get and reading all of
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  your awesome comments. Now, if you think about this in
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  the UK, we've gone from one in 100 people to one in 98 people,
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  right? Diagnosed autistic round about
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  that scale. But there used to be a ratio of
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  these three boys told one girl be diagnosed autistic, right?
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  And so if you have one female, you have 3 males diagnosed
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  autistic. But that's all changed.
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  There was recently an article published and I did a video
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  specifically on this as well, which I'll try and leave at the
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  end of this video where they were saying that there's
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  actually probably potentially more females who are autistic
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  than there are males, but quite a number.
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  So and, and that makes more sense because, you know,
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  technically and geographically and biologically there are more
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  females in the world than there are males in the world.
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  I don't know why, but it's always been that way.
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  And so that just begs the the answer the question, why on
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  earth did we not think that females were autistic in the 1st
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  place when they're probably the majority of the autistic
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  community? Now all of this, it comes down
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  to the fact that, you know, where are we in the process of
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  actually getting an autism diagnosis for people?
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  Well, at the moment, because of this massive surge of increase,
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  there's no global conspiracy of why autism is, you know, rapidly
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  increasing in diagnostic. But there is an issue with the
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  amount of people who are able to access those diagnosis process.
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  So over here in the UK, you'd actually spend two years on a
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  waiting list to be assessed by our National Health Service to
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  be diagnosed autistic, right? Which is crazy.
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  But then you could go privately to try and get in on some
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  diagnosis private. But the problem with that is if
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  you get prescribed any medication or any kind of check
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  UPS, that would all have to be privately paid for as well,
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  where your National Insurance wouldn't really cover it, which
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  is a bit of a pain in the bum. And when you think about the
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  USA, you, you've got, you've got a battle with insurance
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  companies that, you know, do they take on people who run a
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  diagnosis of autism or do you have to pay privately for it?
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  And then the same thing applies. Will your health insurance cover
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  your medication? You know, it's a, there's a
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  whole thing. So what we're going to see once
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  the backlog of this kind of like diagnosis process actually
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  happens is you're going to see a radical increase again.
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  So that number of one in, you know, 33, that's going to come
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  down to like one in 20 probably once you get around to it.
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  Now there is a book called Neurotripes by Steve Silverman,
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  which discusses the ideas of neurotypes and neurophenol types
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  of the brain and how that kind of works.
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  And what we have to be very careful here.
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  And, and, and this goes for, for any kind of condition is where,
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  where we draw the line between saying it's just a cultural
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  difference or a, a personality difference versus a neurological
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  disorder that needs, you know, medical attention.
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  And autism is, you know, a spectrum and it has profound
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  difficulties in many people where, you know, you may not be
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  able to actually verbally communicate, you may not be able
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  to use the bathroom on your own. You may need 24/7 support, But
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  then you have other people like myself who will have social
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  communication and emotional deregulation issues and we'll be
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  on medication, but we can typically kind of, you know, sit
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  by a computer and use the bathroom and things like that.
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  And so you then start opening up this whole kind of idea of like,
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  well, what if this other person just has a social anxiety
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  disorder? It's categorized under the
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  Austin inspection disorder, but they have no specific needs at
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  all other than just kind of chill out and, you know, deal
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  with the anxiety. You know, it, it kind of you're
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  walking the fine line between declassifying it as a disability
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  or, or a, or a potential performance disability.
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  That versus just something that is common occurrence in in
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  people, which is kind of a scary thought because there's so many
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  people on the autism spectrum will need help.
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  This is kind of the reason why they changed the terminology
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  from Asperger's syndrome and autism to just autism spectrum
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  disorder so that people who were diagnosed Aspergers who then had
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  the diagnosis as the autism spectrum disorder could actually
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  access the help and support for level 1-2 and three autistic
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  individuals. So if you start delegitimizing
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  the the disability or the level of disability, you may actually
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  tamper with the amount of support, help and aid that the
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  person needs. And to get, you know, because
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  they're this big umbrella now it's a big topic of discussion.
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  I'd love to know your thoughts. Please give this video a like
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  factual information, really interesting.
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  Share this video if you think it's going to help somebody
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  understand autism and check out the video next to me here.
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  I think you're really going to enjoy it and I'll see you in the
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  next 12 guys. Peace.
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