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Autism Test at Home 3 Things You MUST DO Before · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So the autism home test or the AQ test you can do right now,
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  but these are three things that I would suggest doing before
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  even attempting to take one of these indicator tests, which
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  don't worry, I can also link you to that all that's coming up.
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  Don't go anywhere. 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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  these videos that I put up constantly.
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  OK, so there is an Autism online AAQ test that you can take right
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  now and you can get it. It's available for my website
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  and I'll jump onto our website and I'll show you what it looks
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  like. It is very simple to use and
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  it's a good indicator. Now don't get me wrong, I'm just
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  moving my camera over here. It's an indicator, not a
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  promise. And it's definitely not an
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  official diagnosis. It's not licensed by any medical
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  board, but it is from all the research from Simon Baron Cohen,
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  not Sasha. Sorry.
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  They get those two missed up, mixed up all the time. 1 is a
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  actor and the other is a autism doctor and professor and all of
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  the answers and the questions are curated in a way that was
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  then used in something called the acute test was an autism
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  quotient test, which is used in official diagnostic processes.
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  So it's a good indicator. And this test will give you a
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  number or of a percentage where it says maybe or maybe not.
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  And then it'll tell you what to do.
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  All is well and good. But before doing that, there are
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  certain things that I think that you should do and what I did
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  before taking this type of test to see how it would be because
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  the test is a really good indicator if you do it properly.
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  So further ado, let's get into it.
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  Oh, also, if you do believe you're artistic and you are
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  lacking in confidence, you're swimming in anxiety and you want
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  to lower all those pressures of life and build more energy, all
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  you have to do is download my free training program on this.
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  It's called the Bulletproof Brain and you can get it right
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  now completely free from www.bulletproofbrain.org.
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  I'll leave a link in the description down below.
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  You can also go to the link in my bio or just go to
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  bulletproofbrain.org and download it yourself.
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  Doing the test is all well and good, but but for doing it, you
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  really need to know what you're going to be answering and why.
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  And so the first thing I'd say to do is to write down a list of
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  all of your quirks and differences.
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  Maybe it's things that you notice within yourself, like a
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  self reflection list. Hey, I do this and I do notice
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  that a lot of people don't do this.
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  And maybe you feel like it's something that's a bit odd or
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  different or something unique to you, which is really interesting
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  because when you have that kind of insight, you have more of a
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  self-awareness and you know that you're answering questions
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  correctly rather than just proactively actually answering
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  the question deeply and through an actual answer that is from
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  you as a person who has this condition.
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  Now, I would write down a list. And this list could be a list of
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  four quirks. It could be a list of 24 quirks
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  or differences or oddnesses or things that you might just find,
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  hey, I notice I do this and it does set me apart from other
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  people. There's nothing wrong with this.
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  I'm just saying that it's good to have these listed down
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  because it's a good help for the indicator to help you understand
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  where you are with everything. Guys, I wasn't always this
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  confident and I definitely wasn't always this able.
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  I'm able to hold down having a full time self-employed job.
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  I have children and a relationship across the
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  Atlantic. How did I do this?
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  I teach you all of this in Coping Secrets, which is my
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  entry level program that everyone can get.
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  You can get it right now for $27.00.
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  The link is in the description or you can just go to
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  learnautism.net/coping Secrets. I'll make sure that it's linked
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  everywhere in this video and the link in my bio so you can get
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  your hands on it. But honestly, the feedback I
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  got, people love it. The second thing I would
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  suggest, I'll also speak to family and friends and see what
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  they see differently in you. Now, this is actually a good
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  exercise because it not only highlights stuff that maybe you
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  didn't see in yourself that they have brought to your attention
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  when you go, wow, I didn't know that.
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  That's super interesting. But also it gives you a closer
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  connection with those people. You know, if somebody's seen you
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  struggling or feeling like you have a condition that is certain
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  area of your life and then you can actually relate to that and
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  they tell you it, then you guys have more of an understanding
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  with each other. It opens and broadens that
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  communication line. And I think that's super
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  important because what it does is it reinforces that
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  relationship you have with those people.
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  Now you have two lists, then you have the list that you've made
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  and then the list that you've collected from friends and
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  family. And then you amalgamate all
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  together into one big list. And you have one big list of
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  everything that needs to be thought about before answering
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  these questions because the AQ test is going to ask questions
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  that are based upon things like is this odd behaviour?
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  Do you do this? Do you do this, yes or no?
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  Do you agree if you do this or do you disagree that you do
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  this? And so having this beforehand is
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  really good because I would review both those lists, The one
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  big list that you've amalgamated, I'd review all of
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  that and really get to terms with that and say, OK, these
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  are, this is more of a bigger picture of who I am from my
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  viewpoint and other people's viewpoints of me.
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  Now, the third thing I would do is I would be prepared to answer
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  honestly and think deeply about the answers.
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  No, we answer things sometimes on a surface level where people
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  will be like, oh, well, yeah, actually there's I don't mind
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  going out. So, yeah, I mean, I don't want
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  to go out to clubs, but that's not the answer.
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  That it's one thing it wants to know what are you deeply
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  impacted by? What is the thing that is most
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  if I was to say what's the most intense way you can answer a
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  question? So somebody said, one of the
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  questions on here is do you prefer to go out to parties or
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  do you prefer to stay in and research about a library,
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  somebody who actually enjoys going out to clubs because
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  you're a music enthusiast or you like supplementing different
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  types of drinks. And those things are OK, but you
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  have to answer honestly. You can't answer just thinking
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  of the fact that, oh, what should I be answering?
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  OK. And it should be an honest
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  answer because you'd be surprised.
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  Like one of the ones I experienced when I was doing
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  this was I said about number plates.
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  Do you often remember and memorize can number plates?
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  And I was like, not really. I don't, you know, And but then
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  I thought to myself, Oh, it's going to going to be detrimental
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  to the outcome because there's probably something that says to
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  people would do, I guess, but I didn't know all the time
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  answered honestly anyway. And it was good because that
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  made no difference to the outcome.
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  I still have an extremely high likelihood of being on the
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  autism spectrum, which I did because I also have an official
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  diagnosis. I have two diagnosis of autism
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  from different clinics. But in terms of that, it was
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  interesting to see how if you just apply how you actually feel
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  deeply about something, it'll give you the correct answer.
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  Because this is interesting. Could maybe you know, y'all want
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  to see an online autism test because you think he might be on
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  the autism spectrum, but actually maybe there's something
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  else going on. But if you answer completely
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  honestly and legitimately, then you will find out that hey, if
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  it's not indicative of autism, then maybe it's something else.
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  And then go speak to my physician or whatever and then
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  they can help me with the right treatment and therapies or
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  whatever. OK, OK, so here we are on my
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  computer. Hi everybody, I'm going to go to
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  the the the tab here and we're going to go to the
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  askmeworld.com/autism test and click go.
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  It loads the websites test, which is basically this page you
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  just put your name in and then put your e-mail address in.
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  And once you well, that's not a lot symbol.
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  OK, so you put your e-mail address in, click go, click take
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  test and then it's going to load this page, which is basically
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  the test page. It tells you how this, you know,
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  test was created. It was created using a bunch of
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  different bits and pieces from such as Simon Baron Cohen's
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  Keybridge Research Center and all the piece people who
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  basically put together that be the criteria for an AQ test or
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  an Autobahn kosher test. So you're here and you literally
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  simply click start on. Then you get to do the questions
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  or as you please really, but there's no time level on it.
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  But what it is is 50 or so questions.
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  I think it's 50. Let's have a look.
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  Yeah, 50 questions and you answer these honestly and
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  basically it tells you a gauge. It gives you a number between
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  like 30 and 50 is typically someone with the oxystructrum
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  and you're logging that would typically be somebody outside of
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  the realms of being in the triad of impairment, which is
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  basically the diagnostic kind of main bulk criteria for Oz and
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  destruction diagnosis. Now at the very bottom of the
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  screen, as you can see, there's also some information that I put
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  out. They can dial up my some free
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  PDFs and some bits and pieces here and also the the references
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  to the, the research papers that they use to create these actual
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  test questions. And there's a video there or
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  from me. So what would I suggest to do
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  before actually having this done online or this test done online?
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  With that, I would definitely go and take the test.
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  Now the test once you've got all these figured out is on my
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  website, which is the aspyworld.com/autism test.
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  Now you can go to the link in the description of this video
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  and find the link to the autism test or I will leave it in my
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  bio. But like I said, you can
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  literally just go to theaspyworld.com/autism test and
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  take it right now. And there's a little bit of a
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  sneak peek here for you. So guys, if you found this video
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  very helpful, please share it. Comment anything you find that
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  you want to share with me because I read every single
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  comment. So do that right now and I'll
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  see you in the next one piece.