A low-cost tool accurately distinguishes neurotypical children from children with autism just by watching them copy the dance moves of an on-screen avatar for a minute. It can even tell autism from ADHD, conditions that commonly overlap.

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https://newatlas.com/adhd-autism/autism-motion-detection-diagnosis/

[u/derpmuffin]

Interesting. So it's better at detecting AuDHD?

I was diagnosed with pdd-nos as a kid when that was a thing and in college got diagnosed with ADHD.

Kinda makes me wonder if pdd-nos was actually a category for us AuDtist by accident. In my case, it was like "hnmmm he's definitely not not autistic, but he's not like autistic autistic. Put him in the ain't normal category.

I would love to dance in front of a robot and have it tell me I'm a sauced up white boy. But if it tells me I dance like a NT I will no longer have an excuse for my horrific just dance performance. And I'm not sure I'll recover from that.

[u/legomolin → u/derpmuffin]

Don't get stuck on different specific diagnoses, the spectrum can be understood as going all the way from fully NT to severe autistic, and evaluations have a big margin of error since it's all quite rough estimations (no matter of its tests or interviews) on where you fall on different scales.

[u/glasshouse5128 → u/legomolin]

Doesn't include fully NT. Edited to add https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/ It really helps to explain what the spectrum means.

[u/i_post_gibberish → u/glasshouse5128]

Great article, thanks.