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All right, welcome back to the podcast.

I am joined today with Dr. Michael Cummings, and today we will be talking about autism

spectrum disorder, and we will be talking about some overlap with different diagnostic

categories when I posted on this on my Instagram, I got a ton of interest in this topic.

I think there have been a couple sensations in TikTok that I've been following for a while.

One is on tick disorders, another autism, and a third on multiple personality disorder,

and from what I can tell, it's influencing people to contemplate, do they have this

diagnosis?

Do they have any one of these diagnosis, you know, like, diagnosis?

So for example, with tick disorder, there are people who are gaining large amounts of

popularity on tick talk, talking about this, and there's been articles talking about how

there's people showing up to clinic with potential tick disorder, but it's not presenting

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