in this video I'm gonna be talking about the Autism Test that you can take online
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okay guys in this video I'm gonna be discussing a test that you can do online
an Autism Test that will show you and highlight to you how far on the spectrum
it presumes you are going forward to get an official diagnosis I found this one
to be one of the most interesting ones it's the fastest one that gives you
quite detailed feedback and I love that so to me it's one of the fastest ones
that helps you get real answers and an overview very quickly but it's very
accurate to what I can understand from it ok guys so before I get into the
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do you take anything for anxiety I do have anxiety medication that when I'm
like traveling and I'm on in social situations I could take it if things
start getting a bit kind of crazy but usually I use breathing techniques I
take headphones with me so I can block out some sound and I also take
sunglasses wherever I go so I'm always wearing a pair of sunglasses one of the
interesting things is that I take myself out of a situation which could go a bit
upside down right the last question here is from Mei hua and they said do you
think it's important to get dye absolutely I think having a diagnosis of
an autism spectrum disorder like an official diagnosis is very important
because it gives you access to help and support that maybe you wouldn't even
have access to because of the fact that you weren't officially diagnosed and if
you're not officially diagnosed then you may be left out of the legal
requirements to access support or help where you may actually definitely need
it so yeah I think it's important okay guys so autism tests like this is an
interesting one to do so let's put this out there this is an official statement
this test is not an official diagnosis so taking this test doesn't mean that
you're 100% on the spectrum or that you have been officially diagnosed what this
test does is it gives you an overview and an indicator to say that you may be
on a spectrum almost like a highlighting certain characteristics and traits of
somebody on the spectrum so that then you can go forward and decide if you
want to pursue an official diagnosis or speak to a doctor or whatever the steps
that you want to take are I did an entire playlist with downloads is kind
of like a step by step guide of how to get an autism diagnosis and I will leave
that link in a card above here and also in the description below underneath the
description of this video go down and you'll see how to get an awesome
diagnosis three-part series there's three videos on it comes with three PDF
downloads as well like check sheets and stuff highly useful for anybody who
wants to go forward and do an official diagnosis guys if you have anything to
add about an autism test if you found any of the websites that give kind of
overviews and other things about autism tests make sure to leave me a comment in
the comment section below cuz I'm sure that other people watching these videos
would really enjoy that so how they test for autism there's a few different ways
like you do have your typical warming is stacking blocks like you've seen in the
thumbnail here you know you you stack block so you do like puzzles or you you
work stuff out you figure stuff out they want to know how your brain works then
they do another one where they give you like a personal interview and then they
do one called the IQ test which is an autism coaching
test kind of like an IQ test but it's an IQ
test but specifically for alters are not just intellect so this is kind of like
the main principle of how they deep dive diagnosed so when I went through my
diagnosis process I did two of these tests I did one with one
doctor or nurse or psychic psychologist psychiatrist and then I did another set
with the not ISM specialist it's quite interesting actually that in terms of
Altan diagnosis you have to maybe have two or three different interviews or
actual kind of like appointments with the the people who will be diagnosing
you because it's a fascinating process now this test that I'm gonna show you
guys I'm gonna show you a little clip of it right now so that you can see what I
mean by the fact that like you know it's basically like an IQ test you'd have
basically you'd have a list of things to go through like you can see here now is
question 1 question 2 and it has like a thing here it says you know often true
sometimes true rarely true never and they ask you specific questions so you
get to answer so you know loud noises and smells and stuff do they make you
feel pain and then you can answer it honestly you know often sometimes true
rarely - blah blah blah so I took this specific test to see how well it
actually works I'm just gonna pull up what they said about me and my
percentage and how this actually ranks basically so they told me from my on
that so if your percentage is like 52 percent or higher after answering more
than 12 questions you should show that you maybe possibly experiencing autism
spectrum disorder you know you may actually be on the on the spectrum it
says please also consider seeing a healthcare professional and some of the
answers are kind of you know could be ambiguous and stuff like that so my
sickle heart on this one specifically was 87% which is super high and it was
similar to the one that I initially did and somewhat someone I did in my
diagnosis process so basically what you're doing is you're you're going
through you fill out this like 12 question form or whatever how many
questions is then you press like submit it calculates where you would be like a
neurotypical brain versus in neurodiverse brain like an autism
spectrum condition and then it kind of puts you somewhere along and gives you a
percentage this is why I got like an 87% somebody else could be at like ninety to
a hundred percent and it's very interesting because it gives you that
kind of somewhere in that marker where you fall now what I find fascinating
about this is you could probably take these results
as a kind of introduction to go see a doctor and say hey I did this online
because I was feeling a bit like you know I feel like this
etc etc and you want to go for an official formal diagnosis can they offer
you a referral this is what I would do I didn't know about this test before I was
officially diagnosed with Asperger syndrome but this is something that I
would have done you know retrospectively using this test now before going to make
an official diagnosis obviously there are a bunch of different things again I
detail everything from like the before the diagnosis process during the
diagnostic process and after in that playlist down below so please make sure
you check that out because vitally important now the waters and test isn't
designed to to counter every single person's specific individual needs this
is just kind of like a crude overview it works for most people who are on the
spectrum and it will highlight that you are in the spectrum like for me you know
you saw it was like an 87% so it did highlight for me where I was on the
spectrum and that I am on the spectrum but I would say that we have to bear in
mind that not every single person who is on the spectrum or an autistic person
will fit into these specific questions on this specific website so I won't be
alarmed if you are on the spectrum and you're watching this video because
you're a fan of mine or you come to these videos regularly and you go and
take this test and the test produces results that say that you are not on the
spectrum it's not a huge issue it's nothing to take personally it's only
because again like I said we are on dividuals individual personalities right
I mean we all do our own stuff and so I think maybe sometimes those can get kind
of like bogged down you know people get bogged down with like oh this
stereotypical box down the test says that this is this and it's not that so
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wanna support this channel do that so that being said this is why testing for
autism can't just be done with an IQ test like this one online it has to be
done as part of a process where you do different things you have interviews you
do these tests then you do kind of like an intelligence quota they also tested
me for ADHD and OCD when I was doing my formal diagnosis which was amazing and
I'm so proud and God that they did that because I was able to kind of figure out
what other specific needs I had and things like that and so those things are
very very important so better in mind when you're wanting to do those things
and personally for me when I was going through the diagnosis process it was
actually quite interesting my score from the aq test I did at home much the one
that I did with the psychologist a psychiatrist but the interesting thing
is I guess what they're gonna do is they're gonna take the aq test score for
the autism test they're also gonna take your like individual kind of interview
test into account and they're also gonna take the other quotients of the tests
that they do when they are diagnosing you officially so this still is a bear
in mind again this is just a crude test I think it's a very a fast and effective
way that you can kind of highlight to yourself so this is where I would use
this test if you ask somebody who has a child who you potentially could be on
the spectrum or partner or a loved one or a friend or family member or a work
colleague and you think hey maybe they're on the spectrum
why don't you get them to try out this test and then it would give you some
kind of indication to if you're not thinking if you're on the fence thinking
oh shit - should I take him to see a specialist so I ask for a referral am I
gonna do this maybe that why don't you get in to do this test see if they
respond to it in a way where you know it gives you a high score and then maybe
take them to see a specialist that's why I would feel like that's how it could be
used but also bear in mind that if they're displaying traits and
characteristics of people on the spectrum but they don't score high on
this specific quotient I wouldn't read too much into it I would just say that
like maybe they are you know some of the more individual people who need specific
help from specialists and that would be where you go and just make that
appointment and you go to him anyway so this video is designed to help people if
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