Am I autisti?
Do you want to know if you're autistic?
We're going to talk about if you're artistic in this video right now.
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Okay guys.
Welcome back to another video.
This is awesome.
I want us to do a video because I'm sure people are wondering, Hey, am I autistic?
Like not me, Dan.
I mean like themselves, like Joe blogs is an internet he's taken in all my
autistic and I want to do a video.
It's just kind of like, say, Hey, there are ways you can kind of think about this.
you can take it forward.
If you think that I'll believe that you you're on the autism spectrum.
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If you're a person on the autism spectrum, and you're watching this video just to get
more information, or are you a person who thinks that they may be on spectrum and
you're on the fence about going through a diagnosis, please leave me a comment.
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That'd be super awesome.
Okay.
So how do you find out if you're artistic or not?
Well, let's wind it back a little bit.
So the statistics are very simple.
There's one in 60 people in the United States who have
an autism spectrum condition.
Now that's a lot of them people.
Now, if we bring that over to the United Kingdom, you know, there's one
in 100 people in the UK who have an autism spectrum condition, and that are
currently the people who are diagnosed, let alone the people who are undiagnosed
or not yet diagnosed right now.
It's very common for people to feel differently than neurotypical people,
but autism being a spectrum, it kind of has like, A few different ends.
You have like savant syndrome on one end, like rain man and people like that.
And Kim peak.
I think his name was, uh, the human Google, but then you have the other, it's
just like ADHD and ADD which is very, very, kind of like a mild kind of a, you
know, you don't have a lot of issues.
You have like very low support needs.
Now, autism being a spectrum.
It's super interesting because a lot of people may think like, You know, they may
come across something that people say, Hey, that's a very unusual thing to do.
That's very common in autistic people.
And then you Google autism and you think, well, no, I can speak.
And I have a job and I have a wife and all this stuff, but it's
interesting to say that autism being a spectrum is something that we need
to keep in the forefront of our mind.
Not everybody in the autism spectrum is going to display the exact same
condition, but people will have a kind of hallmark of typical traits, but
they will all be the same everybody's individual, just like anybody else.
We're all individuals.
And that is super awesome.
So I want us to kind of go through a little bit.
About like how, if you're feeling your artistic, how would you know
really typically, and then also how you would then move forward into
kind of going to understand that a little bit more about autism.
So I am going to break that down right now.
Okay.
So people with autism generally, don't like, uh, like making eye contact.
They may have really big issues, making friends, maintaining friends, knowing
what to say in social situations.
It may even become selective mute in some situations.
Um, Among that you may have, you know, picky eaters, people who don't like food
textures, separate the food on that plate.
You may find it hard to find a job and settle down with people.
You may find it hard to relate to other people.
It's difficult to put yourself in other people's shoes and see
stuff from their points of view.
Um, there are times when you'll have excessive, uh, sensory input overload,
and then you'll end up melting down and having really bad issues with that.
You could also be dyslexic, have issues with verbal communication
issues, understanding what people are saying to you.
Taking instruction could be really difficult for you.
All of those things, right.
Come under the fact that they are very common with people on the autism
spectrum, but like, how would you know, like how would, you know, if
you really fit into that category before even finding a doctor surgery
and saying, can I have an appointment?
Cause I think, Hey look, I'm gonna be on the spectrum.
And I want to see if there's any help available.
Now, this is what I would do.
You can go to the website, which I will, um, Put in a link in description
below where you can actually go to our website and take an autism
test, which is an AQ test, which stands for like autism quotient.
And then you can take that test.
And basically it gives you a little bit of a, um, like a rundown between, like, it
gives you a caption between something like 30 and like 50, somewhere between there
you'd be classified as being on the autism spectrum, but it's a good indicator.
I mean, it's not an official diagnosis cause it's just an online quiz, but it's
a good indicator to show you if you fit in a bracket of an autism spectrum condition.
Or if you don't now, if you do fit in that bracket, the next thing
I would tell you to do is this.
I will write down a list and how have your friends and family, whatever,
whoever is close to you, write down a list of all the things that they find
kind of different about you in a good way.
He may wear the same clothes every single day, or eat the same foods
every single day or whatever, whatever it is, write that list down and
prepare yourself with this list.
Then.
Phone your doctor make an appointment to go and see your doctor and
ask for a referral for an autism diagnosis and present this list of
all these characteristics to them, but also keep a copy of this list.
Then once you go for your assessment, you can then provide the people with
the list of things that you've made.
And the test score you got from the AQ test online because the AQ test
that they do online, which I will give you the link for, for my website
actually is the same IQ test that they use within the diagnostic criteria.
But no, it's not the only test that they've run for the diagnostic material.
It's just a test that they run.
They do an AQ test.
It may not be the exact same test, but it is an AQ test is what I'm trying to say.
Now you may have three or four sessions with a professional.
But at the end of it, you will come out with an answer.
Now, having the answer, a lot of people say like, do I need a diagnosis?
Do I not need a diagnosis?
And I would say, say that you it's okay.
Anything like medical, like taking medication, having a diagnosis, you
know, doing anything medical is, can it be your choice in the end of the day?
Cause it's your body, it's your life.
And you know, you, you want to do what you want to do and you want to speak to.
People, if you want to speak to now, the benefits of actually having an autism
spectrum diagnosis is if you are on the spectrum on you're undiagnosed, then
you're missing out on support and help that could be helping you right now
that you may really need that, you know.
Okay.
And access to now, autism diagnosis gives you access to that support and the support
mechanisms, but also it's almost like a.
Uh, self-fulfilling kind of like knowing.
So like, if you, if you have, um, if you go and have an assessment
and you get a diagnosis is kind of like your self exploration, you're,
you're looking into yourself, you're learning more about yourself and you
become more self aware and that stuff awareness will actually help you
cope with it in the future longterm.
Going forward and do all those things, because I feel like one of the biggest
things you get from a diagnosis apart from the support mechanisms that are put
in place with social services is that you have a peace of mind that you're not this
like odd, like weirdo, you know, you, you, you have a condition and that condition
makes you unique and awesome, but also.
You start thinking about yourself in a way where you can then
now say, why do I do this?
And you can watch videos like mine, or go on the internet and look at loads
of blogs and read books and stuff.
And you start to see those things and they may have help available for you.
So like the self understanding, the self knowing is super awesome.
So that's how I would say how no, if you're artistic and why you
feel the way you do, you know, Autistic people feel like they add
different to the rest of the world.
They feel very detached.
They feel like, you know, everybody is speaking a different language
and it's because they are everyone else is neuro-typical and you,
you are neurodivergent and there's nothing wrong with that.
It's actually empowering.
And I say that in the best way possible, I feel like the differences, what makes
us different actually empowers us.
And that empowerment is something that we can really use to propel
ourselves forward, uh, especially in our careers and stuff, because
people with autism have specific interests and those specific interests.
Uh, give people the ability to read really hone down on a
specific subject and that's okay.
Could then become your career, which would be super amazing.
I actually did an online course all about how to turn your
obsessive interest into a career.
Now, if you're struggling in area of work and want to turn your
interest into a career, I will leave a link in the description
below in the counter above here.
So you can check out that course it's currently on sale right now on my website.
There's a sale on, so there's many off on, I highly recommend checking it out
because it was just really fun to make.
And it was just.
It was really powerful.
It's changed a lot of people's lives.
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