Good afternoon, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara again. Our next episode of psychology. I'm plugged. As always, a heartfelt thank you to all of our followers here in the United States and abroad. I try to get back to as many people as I can through email or conversations, and that's something I thoroughly enjoy. I know that Julie really enjoys it.

And please continue to send topic suggestions. And I appreciate all of the feedback. And if I haven't

gone back to you, I will make sure I'll give you the contact information because this is

something that I have dedicated my life to in terms of working in the mental health

field and it's something that I get a lot of pleasure from and doing the podcast. Our main

objective is always to legitimize mental health, destigmatize it, and most importantly give a sense

of true hope.

But one topic I wanted to talk about, and I see this a lot as a neuropsychologist and doing

diagnostics, and it's something that is frustrating is the dangers of doing self diagnosing and google and the internet

are are great tools and you know we need to get something from amazon sometimes it comes

the same day and being able to pull up something that, you know, look

up maybe, you know, there's different programs like Hippocrates and Medscape, you could look up

like Julie's like drug interactions. So this is not a topic about the dangers of, you know, the Internet in and of itself, but one in particular that I, one trend that I've seen is the number of individuals at various ages across the lifespan wondering if they have autism. And I'm not a big social media person,

but talking with individuals who definitely are involved in social media, adolescents, young adults.

Apparently, TikTok is the new,

the new gateway for autism.

And in no way am I not saying

that people don't have it,

but I'm getting 40, 50, 60-year-olds

and thinking that they have autism,

when this is a neurodevelopmental disorder

that's generally diagnosed

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