CrikeyBobs
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I answered nearly all the questions. There were only a couple I didn't answer and they didn't have a score allocated. 0,1,2 seem to correspond to 'no', 'little', 'yes'.
Aspie Quiz any Good?
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I answered nearly all the questions. There were only a couple I didn't answer and they didn't have a score allocated. 0,1,2 seem to correspond to 'no', 'little', 'yes'.
Eos of the Eons
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Okay, some background, considering the last few more snarky posts *sticks out tongue*
My brother is an aspie, but has a lower IQ. So, I incorrectly ASSUMED that ALL aspies had lower IQs. I just found out a few weeks ago that I was wrong about that.
Then consider that my son has Tourette Syndrome, and other things that run in my family. I got to wondering. I also have had a ton of therapy for depression because of other things related to this kind of thing (group therapy is where I got the most feedback on how "rude" I was in that I never greeted anyone and had a total lack of "normal" social skills that I've now worked on getting).
So considering all THAT, it's not a hip or trendy thing in my family, it just is. Then I took that darn quiz and kind of thought "huh". I'm just like my dad, so maybe it runs on his side more. My brother got it from somewhere, right?
So, in the OP I asked what others think of the quiz. That is because it is just an online thing, and probably not very accurate. I can see in this thread that I'm thinking my thinking was right. However, in case I land in therapy again, I might just bring it up anyways.
My brother is an aspie, but has a lower IQ. So, I incorrectly ASSUMED that ALL aspies had lower IQs. I just found out a few weeks ago that I was wrong about that.
Then consider that my son has Tourette Syndrome, and other things that run in my family. I got to wondering. I also have had a ton of therapy for depression because of other things related to this kind of thing (group therapy is where I got the most feedback on how "rude" I was in that I never greeted anyone and had a total lack of "normal" social skills that I've now worked on getting).
So considering all THAT, it's not a hip or trendy thing in my family, it just is. Then I took that darn quiz and kind of thought "huh". I'm just like my dad, so maybe it runs on his side more. My brother got it from somewhere, right?
So, in the OP I asked what others think of the quiz. That is because it is just an online thing, and probably not very accurate. I can see in this thread that I'm thinking my thinking was right. However, in case I land in therapy again, I might just bring it up anyways.
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Professor Yaffle
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I'll see if I can find another source.
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I found the same questions as in Yaffle's link, here:
http://www.glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/AutismSpectrumQuotient/AutismSpectrumQuotient.aspx
I took the "quiz."
Your score: 34
0 - 10 = low
11 - 22 = average (most women score about 15 and most men score about 17)
23 - 31 = above average
32 - 50 is very high (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 35) 50 is maximum
so....now what? Can I use this info in a way that will benefit me? In what way would that be? Or do I just ignore it and accept I'm broken, and try to get on with life, if possible?
Perhaps I should add that, since earliest childhood, I have never felt as if I fit in with others, that I don't really think I'm "people," like others think they are "people." I don't know what I am, but I am definitely not "one of you."
It's always made me very sad.
http://www.glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/AutismSpectrumQuotient/AutismSpectrumQuotient.aspx
I took the "quiz."
Your score: 34
0 - 10 = low
11 - 22 = average (most women score about 15 and most men score about 17)
23 - 31 = above average
32 - 50 is very high (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 35) 50 is maximum
so....now what? Can I use this info in a way that will benefit me? In what way would that be? Or do I just ignore it and accept I'm broken, and try to get on with life, if possible?
Perhaps I should add that, since earliest childhood, I have never felt as if I fit in with others, that I don't really think I'm "people," like others think they are "people." I don't know what I am, but I am definitely not "one of you."
It's always made me very sad.
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Ivor the Engineer
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Damn! I always thought I was normal until I took this test.
Is there any doctors or pharmaceutical companies that can provide me with therapy?
Is there any doctors or pharmaceutical companies that can provide me with therapy?
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Do you think being Asperger's is being "broken"?
No. Unlikely in Britishland if you're an adult with Asperger's. Bad luck!
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slingblade
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Do you think being Asperger's is being "broken"?
I think I'm broken. I think I'll stay that way, too. Doesn't really matter what it's called, does it?
CrikeyBobs
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That's interesting. I (like to) think that bits of my brain are broken. Or maybe it's just an excuse to avoid doing the things that scare me.
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An excuse.
Yes, of course. I'm just seeking excuses. Because it isn't at all hard to function when pretty much everything scares you, and your brain screams at you, non-stop, to protect yourself, get away, do something to be safe. Except, everywhere you go, there's no safety, just more things that scare you.
Yes, that's a viable and healthy way to live. Everything else is just excuses.
Yes, of course. I'm just seeking excuses. Because it isn't at all hard to function when pretty much everything scares you, and your brain screams at you, non-stop, to protect yourself, get away, do something to be safe. Except, everywhere you go, there's no safety, just more things that scare you.
Yes, that's a viable and healthy way to live. Everything else is just excuses.
CrikeyBobs
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slingblade, I'm sorry. The excuse comment was about me, not at all about you. I was examining my own motives and behaviours. I wouldn't presume to know how you feel. I'm sorry my post wasn't more clear.
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These are my results:
Your Aspie score: 63 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 138 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical
What I don't like about these quizzes is that I could take the same quiz tomorrow and depending on my mood or what is going on in my life, may answer the same questions differently and get a very different score. Some of the questions were bizarre:
Your Aspie score: 63 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 138 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical
What I don't like about these quizzes is that I could take the same quiz tomorrow and depending on my mood or what is going on in my life, may answer the same questions differently and get a very different score. Some of the questions were bizarre:
I don't get it. And another:
Um...no. Here's another great question:
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Professor Yaffle
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Nothing remotely like those three questions is in the other screening questionnaire (Baron Cohen) which I am sure has a lot more work done on the validity. Unfortunately it doesn't give you a pretty coloured chart....
Eos of the Eons
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You thought you were normal? Ohhhh boy....
Oh, and you're beyond help. For sure. Better to just accept that and just go on as you were. Ignorance is bliss, and ignorant bliss is as good as it can get for ya buddy.
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My question was about Asperger's Syndrome rather than your whole experience of yourself. There's nothing wrong with you thinking you're broken, or thinking that your mind is broken.
I'd call AS a difference rather than a defect. With informed understanding and support, life could be made a lot easier for people with Asperger's - it probably will be for children being diagnosed with it now, hopefully!
Perhaps that's because people with Aspergers really do see things differently.
Some severely autistic children always walk on their toes because that's how they like it!
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Well, that was interesting.
Your Aspie score: 113 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 93 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits
The circular chart resembled one of those spider-on-LSD experiments, forming a narrow loop between Talent/Compulsion and Physical.
Feh. I've always thought differently than most people. I get along better with the people on this forum than IRL. I have the perfect job: I fix broken things of great intrinsic value upon which not a few lives depend on them functioning correctly. Nobody bothers me. Of course, I work with similar "oddballs" such as myself. In a way it's amusing to watch the interactions between us. It's like watching a group of interacting cogs and gears.
Beanbag
Your Aspie score: 113 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 93 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits
The circular chart resembled one of those spider-on-LSD experiments, forming a narrow loop between Talent/Compulsion and Physical.
Feh. I've always thought differently than most people. I get along better with the people on this forum than IRL. I have the perfect job: I fix broken things of great intrinsic value upon which not a few lives depend on them functioning correctly. Nobody bothers me. Of course, I work with similar "oddballs" such as myself. In a way it's amusing to watch the interactions between us. It's like watching a group of interacting cogs and gears.
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You're not broken. What is normal for you is fine. After I stopped putting pressure on myself to be more "outgoing" and "normal", I focussed on my strengths instead. Just doing that helped me to stop being so anxious and worried too, but it took a long time to stop being so hard on myself. I'm social enough now, I do things right enough now, and if someone can't accept that I'm not a chatty cathy and miss popularity, then frac them. I need down time, I need quiet time, and I can't stand busy noisy places comfortably for more than an hour. So what? I have to take deep belly breaths to relax in public when I start feeling that anxiety creeping up, and I have learned to do some funny things to calm myself down that people don't notice. Until people live with anxiety or Asperger's or whatever, they can' know what it is like. Frac em if they can't accept differences. Not everyone is average or "normal", I think more people are different than we realize. I just wish I'd realized that earlier in my life, but ah well.
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Hi, folks.
Especially to Eon and Slingblade, thanks for being open with your world, with where your heads are at.
I know folks with Asperger's--actual, tested by neurologist -type Asperger's, and diagnosed before it became trendy. And it sounds like Eon would definitely benefit from working some with a specialist, though she has also done some wonderful work herself.
Asperger's is primarily a failure of the integrative and distraction-suppressing functions of the central nervous system. (That is, some of it happens long before voluntary thought enters the picture.) One of the distinguishing characteristics of Asperger's people is that they "don't get" body language and facial expressions. The learning function that most of us use in early childhood to pick up the 'rules of the road' for interpersonal non-verbal communication doesn't work. So they are always on the outside, looking in; the running analysis of other people that our behavior processing does for us, doesn't happen for them. In the movie of life, they don't get the soundtrack, only subtitles.
It makes their life harder, for sure. It makes them unknowingly break the unwritten rules of interaction, and then they don't see the warning signals that they've erred, and things get worse. I really felt for Eons talking about 'getting fired for no reason' until she learned to fake small-talk. At the risk of sounding trite, You're not broken, you're just different. You can resist high-pressure sales tactics and remember what a politician or a lawyer actually SAID much better than the rest of us. You have (in all likelihood) a much better ability to deal with detailed tasks, and will get more satisfaction out of it, then most people. Asperger's is usually (not always, but usually) linked to higher than average intelligence.
One training tool my friend uses is to watch a scene from a movie with the sound turned off, and try to guess what the people are feeling. She then watches again with the sound on, and works on deciphering that non-verbal language. She has learned a lot in the 3 years since her diagnosis.
Another common Asperger's trait is described as, "Can't see the forest for the trees." Ask my friend about a book she has read, and she will give you lots of interesting data; she can quote sentences and sometimes even give you page numbers. But ask her, "What was the author's main point?" and she flounders. Synthesizing the discrete facts into a thesis is just not easy for her. It's not what she reads for; it's not how she organizes her own thoughts.
The Internet has been a huge boon for Asperger's folks, because they are often more at home with written than spoken communication, and much more at home with not having to decipher or send out non-verbal signals. Unsurprisingly, they often excel at communicating in these conditions.
If you feel at a loss to deal with people, seeing a therapist may help you learn some techniques to make that necessary part of life easier. It will probably never be comfortable except with a very few people that you have gotten to know so well--and who have learned to format their conversations in a way that is clear to you--that you are able to really have open exchanges.
I believe that "Aspie's" is over-diagnosed today for the same reason that Adult Attention-Deficit Disorder used to be: It's where the interest and the funding is. For some people, it is an excuse to behave poorly, to be selfish or rude, to put themselves in center focus and expect the world to adapt to them. However, those folks don't generally work with a neurologist, they take some magazine or self-help book test and self-diagnose. (I'd like to see the statistical spread on whether looking at hands versus legs on a potential partner is an Asperger's trait, oy!) And there are some doctors out there, especially in med-happy America, who will be happy to write you some drugs for it. But that's not a medically valid or useful assessment.
If you genuinely believe you have Asperger's and it is impacting your life negatively, I recommend seeing a neurologist for a diagnosis and a psychologist who has been working with this condition for more than 5 years for some assistance developing.
It's not a life-limiting condition, but it does need to be worked with -- much like being colorblind or having to wear glasses.
Best wishes, MK
I have not tried either of the tests linked above, because my distrust for Things on the Internet is fairly high. Also, I question whether privacy issues are properly dealt with unless liability is involved--that's what keeps medical records mostly secure.
Hi, folks.
Especially to Eon and Slingblade, thanks for being open with your world, with where your heads are at.
I know folks with Asperger's--actual, tested by neurologist -type Asperger's, and diagnosed before it became trendy. And it sounds like Eon would definitely benefit from working some with a specialist, though she has also done some wonderful work herself.
Asperger's is primarily a failure of the integrative and distraction-suppressing functions of the central nervous system. (That is, some of it happens long before voluntary thought enters the picture.) One of the distinguishing characteristics of Asperger's people is that they "don't get" body language and facial expressions. The learning function that most of us use in early childhood to pick up the 'rules of the road' for interpersonal non-verbal communication doesn't work. So they are always on the outside, looking in; the running analysis of other people that our behavior processing does for us, doesn't happen for them. In the movie of life, they don't get the soundtrack, only subtitles.
It makes their life harder, for sure. It makes them unknowingly break the unwritten rules of interaction, and then they don't see the warning signals that they've erred, and things get worse. I really felt for Eons talking about 'getting fired for no reason' until she learned to fake small-talk. At the risk of sounding trite, You're not broken, you're just different. You can resist high-pressure sales tactics and remember what a politician or a lawyer actually SAID much better than the rest of us. You have (in all likelihood) a much better ability to deal with detailed tasks, and will get more satisfaction out of it, then most people. Asperger's is usually (not always, but usually) linked to higher than average intelligence.
One training tool my friend uses is to watch a scene from a movie with the sound turned off, and try to guess what the people are feeling. She then watches again with the sound on, and works on deciphering that non-verbal language. She has learned a lot in the 3 years since her diagnosis.
Another common Asperger's trait is described as, "Can't see the forest for the trees." Ask my friend about a book she has read, and she will give you lots of interesting data; she can quote sentences and sometimes even give you page numbers. But ask her, "What was the author's main point?" and she flounders. Synthesizing the discrete facts into a thesis is just not easy for her. It's not what she reads for; it's not how she organizes her own thoughts.
The Internet has been a huge boon for Asperger's folks, because they are often more at home with written than spoken communication, and much more at home with not having to decipher or send out non-verbal signals. Unsurprisingly, they often excel at communicating in these conditions.
If you feel at a loss to deal with people, seeing a therapist may help you learn some techniques to make that necessary part of life easier. It will probably never be comfortable except with a very few people that you have gotten to know so well--and who have learned to format their conversations in a way that is clear to you--that you are able to really have open exchanges.
I believe that "Aspie's" is over-diagnosed today for the same reason that Adult Attention-Deficit Disorder used to be: It's where the interest and the funding is. For some people, it is an excuse to behave poorly, to be selfish or rude, to put themselves in center focus and expect the world to adapt to them. However, those folks don't generally work with a neurologist, they take some magazine or self-help book test and self-diagnose. (I'd like to see the statistical spread on whether looking at hands versus legs on a potential partner is an Asperger's trait, oy!) And there are some doctors out there, especially in med-happy America, who will be happy to write you some drugs for it. But that's not a medically valid or useful assessment.
If you genuinely believe you have Asperger's and it is impacting your life negatively, I recommend seeing a neurologist for a diagnosis and a psychologist who has been working with this condition for more than 5 years for some assistance developing.
It's not a life-limiting condition, but it does need to be worked with -- much like being colorblind or having to wear glasses.
Best wishes, MK
I have not tried either of the tests linked above, because my distrust for Things on the Internet is fairly high. Also, I question whether privacy issues are properly dealt with unless liability is involved--that's what keeps medical records mostly secure.