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Aspie Quiz any Good?

Eos of the Eons

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Eos of the Eons
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http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

My score:

Your Aspie score: 130 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 58 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
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I probably do act like someone with Aspergers in a room full of strangers. I feel quite differently when I'm with folks I know and like and can be myself around.
....Vocabularies may be extraordinarily rich and some children sound like "little professors." However, persons with AS can be extremely literal and have difficulty using language in a social context.

...There is no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or in the development of age-appropriate self-help skills, adaptive behavior (other than social interaction), and curiosity about the environment in childhood
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http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html

While I'm not into self diagnosing, that sounds a lot like me, and one of my brothers is much more severely matching the description (with a lower IQ around 80, though). I wouldn't doubt if I am somewhat "aspie".

Just wondering if the quiz is any good, and if self awareness is helpful?
 
I don't know about that test in particular ( I scored as neurotypical), but here is a screening test devised by Simon Baron Cohen who is head of an autism research group in Cambridge. It's not suitable for diagnosing people, but indicates whether or not you might want to get it looked into.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html

In the initial trials of the test,[7] the average score in the control group was 16.4, with men scoring slightly higher than women (about 17 versus about 15). 80% of adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders scored 32 or more, compared with only 2% of the control group.
The authors cited a score of 32 or more as indicating "clinically significant levels of autistic traits". However, although the test is popularly used for self-diagnosis of Asperger syndrome, the authors caution that it is not intended to be diagnostic, and advise that anyone who obtains a high score and is suffering some distress should seek professional medical advice before jumping to any conclusions.
A further research paper[5] indicated that the questionnaire could be used for screening in clinical practice, with scores of 26 or lower indicating that a diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome can effectively be ruled out.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Spectrum_Quotient
 
I've taken several of those "are you an aspie" quizzes, and that one is certainly the most comprehensive. Unlike the other quizzes, it was long enough to actually list quite a number of my own characteristics.
Aspies helped to compile it, which is another plus.
 
Does anyone know much about the circular grid that's generated with your results?

ETA: I gots the 'neourotypical' result for the first one and scored 24/50 on Proffessor Yaffle's one. Middle of the road, nothing to see here!
 
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I'm thinking of creating an "Am I Normal?" questionaire, to see if there is anyone left who doesn't think they have a pathology.
 
Ivor the Engineer said:
I'm thinking of creating an "Am I Normal?" questionaire, to see if there is anyone left who doesn't think they have a pathology.
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The only pathology I have involves laziness. Would that be on your quiz?
 
Pages related to the Baron Cohen one suggest that there is no point getting a diagnosis unless you are suffering distress related to thes characteristics.
 
Thought I'd try since my dad has aspergers.

Your Aspie score: 84 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 126 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

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I keep scoring 32 or 33 on the kind Professor Yaffle posted. Yeah, it seems to interfere with jobs. I keep getting stuck at front desks at first, and then moved. I "look" like I'd be a good socializer-someone to shoot the small talk with visitors, then am found to NOT to be a good socializer (as I keep telling people when they first hire me-I interview well since I have some long answers memorized and a great handshake that I practised). I hate sales, and I hate talking to people I don't know. A front desk person needs to be more social and like strangers.

I prefer to be in a corner doing my own thing and not getting interrupted. I HATE interruptions. My boss gave me a job she hated - going over 5 pages of data (in 8 sized font) and making sure every document related to the data (hundreds) were in order. I did it in a couple of hours and she was totally surprised. I'm not a socializer, not a shmoozer, I don't like to talk. I just like to write. When I try to talk the words don't come out. It's like they stick in my brain or hit a road block when I try to open my mouth. I have to practise speaking anything that is more than a sentence long. I listen good. I get all the details. I don't look at people in the eye when I'm listening though, as that distracts me from what they are saying. I'd rather be taking notes.

I get told I make faces. I don't know that I'm doing that, and then I guess that distracts them when they are talking to me.

It's better when I know people and trust them, then I can relax more. I think my thing is more anxiety, but I don't know. I had to make myself learn social graces, since I got fired enough times for being "rude" when i was in my twenties. I try to look at people when they walk by me in the morning, and I make a great effort to say "good morning" even though I don't feel like it. People seem to think that is a big deal, but I don't get the big deal. To have to say good morning to everyone every morning? What if it ISN'T a "good" morning, what if it's a BAD morning? What is the big deal?

I'm not a friendly person, and I don't "get" how people just are. I kind of study friendly people, to learn how they do it. I've discovered that if I just ask other people questions about themselves, that they'll do most of the talking, then I just have to concentrate on trying to look at their eyes. :p I've gotten good at offering a sentence here and there, and then turning the subject back to about them somehow if they ask about me. So, people seem to find me less weird, and appreciate my attention to detail, and I don't just get fired for seemingly no reason as much anymore. If I feel strongly enough about something, then I can talk about it (my I talk to much with my hands and I guess I make faces). But who cares how the weather is this morning? If you're going to interrupt me, then at least let it be about something important. And if you're a stranger that smiles at me, then you're just WEIRD, as strangers aren't supposed to smile at other strangers, weirdo. And no, I'll never remember your name if I've only seen you once before. Anomia... look it up. I'll only remember your name if I get to know you, and if I figure I have to work with you and find you if I have a question about something.

yeah, I care about people. I just don't want to bother with people when I need to get something done. Talk to me at coffee time, then I'll actually remember your dog's name, Oh, you're cat's name then. But right now I have to figure out why this invoice isn't adding up... so go away. And yeah, I giggle nervously when you talk, but that's better than me trying to interrupt you mid-sentence. At least I've stopped trying to input data into the computer while you're talking to me. Now go away, I'm busy.
 
Your Aspie score: 145 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 64 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

On the other one I get 42
 
99/200
104/200

NOT what my Aspergers diagnosis would suggest(that would be more like 150 and 60). Either the test is flawed or i got my answers wrong.
 
Interesting test.

I guess a more honest way to ask questions on all of these psyche tests would be "Do you perceive yourself to..."

Anyhow, I'm Aspie 101, typical 90. Good thing Schizophrenic isn't on that test. ;)
 
Why take such a test? Is it just idle curiosity, like the various "personality tests" that are out there? Are people hoping to get "treatment" for Asperger's, if that's even possible? Will it make you happier or more at peace with yourself to learn that certain behavior is "caused" by your previously undiagnosed Aspergers?

It's not really this thread that's provoking my questions; for some time now, I've had the impression that Asperger's is the hip, trendy condition to diagnose in oneself or in others.
 
Although I am very atypical in some ways socially, and have some aspie traits I certainly would not consider myself as having aspergers. The results of the test would seem to agree:
Your Aspie score: 57 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 148 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical



There's a PDF that can be downloaded, breaking down the questions into various groupings and assigning scores to them, but I simply cannot make head nor tail of how the scoring is done. Here is an example of the scoring in one section (cropped and altered to be small enough to upload):



I can understand the numbers assigned to my choices but what do the other columns mean? They seem to be related to the section scores, but exactly how I can't make out.
 
Your Aspie score: 177 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 44 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie


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Yeah, well, who knows what it means. Besides, even if it's so, it doesn't do me any good to know.

I did notice many of the questions asked the same thing, in slightly different ways.
 
Dunstan said:
Why take such a test? Is it just idle curiosity, like the various "personality tests" that are out there? Are people hoping to get "treatment" for Asperger's, if that's even possible? Will it make you happier or more at peace with yourself to learn that certain behavior is "caused" by your previously undiagnosed Aspergers?

It's not really this thread that's provoking my questions; for some time now, I've had the impression that Asperger's is the hip, trendy condition to diagnose in oneself or in others.
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Yeah, I feel the same way. I know I have a hard time with many aspects of life (whatever that means!), but I'm aware it's all an indecipherable mish-mash of genetics, defects, differences, learned behaviors, trauma, experience....

I know I've seen many professionals about it. They all have different ideas, different labels, different diagnoses. Sometimes they overlap, sometimes I'm given one label only, or sometimes multiple labels that differ from doctor to doctor. No one ever seems to know what's wrong, or knows just what to call it.

Curiosity is part of why I take little meaningless tests. But the larger part is because I have reasoned I can't be helped, or help myself, or "get better," until I know what's wrong. I mean, in the little house that is me, is the problem in my wiring, my plumbing, my foundation, my roof? Each takes a different solution, doesn't it? You don't use a pipe wrench to fix a short or mend a hole in the roof...

Then again, I'm growing more and more convinced that once the human mind "breaks," there is no fixing it. So, what does it really matter, anyway?
 
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Gee, until CrikeyBobs posted his chart, I didn't know that 'zero' was a choice. I figured that the question mark in that box was just to keep track of which ones you have answered.
 
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