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Poll: What's your autism quotient?

Kevin_Lowe

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You can take a test at:

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

16.4 is apparently "normal". 80% of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder (Aspergers etc) scored 32+.

I scored a 25, but I would have scored much higher if you'd tested me when I was, say, 16. I've gotten much more sociable in my old age.

I tried to take the test as I would have when I was a teen, and scored 35.

My sweetie scored a thumping 35 fairly.

It's probably a good thing we aren't planning to breed.

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

It seems we'd have a higher than usual likelihood of having a seriously autistic kid.
 
42. Did the same test about a year ago - I forget what my score was that time.
 
30, but what exactly is the point of things like this? Do you really need a web quiz to tell you whether you're anti-social or not?
 
Gregory said:
30, but what exactly is the point of things like this? Do you really need a web quiz to tell you whether you're anti-social or not?
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I wouldn't expect a borderline autistic like yourself to pick up on the subtext. :p

Seriously though, I'm interested in how "antisocial" (not quite the word I'd pick myself) the JREF crowd is compared to the general population.
 
14

I'm a social chameleon and can be thrown into virtually any social situation. I'm as comfortable at a black tie dinner as I am playing with little kids. (I really prefer the little kids but not in a Michael Jackson sort of way.)
 
18. Ever so slightly not quite normal. :)

So is this so we can pick the "top ten JREFers to spend an evening in the pub with"?
 
Agree: 21,22,46: 1 point
Disagree: 10,15,29,30,38,49: 1 point
Score: 9
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Is that abnormally low?

Edited to add: Is it because I chose definitely agree on:

When I was young, I used to enjoy playing games involving pretending with other children.
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and things like

It does not upset me if my daily routine is disturbed.
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Autistic kids hate routine changes, and they "don't get" things like fiction and pretend.

Anyways, autism is more being unable to relate and look outside oneself. It's not that they are 'unsocial', they just lack the awareness and ability to relate to others due to whatever brain damage.

However, you can be a person that is just more introverted, and that's a good thing. Thinkers add huge value to society.

An introvert can be very social if they have confidence. Thus labelling people shy instead of wise is not the best thing. We can start looking at "shy" as a good thing, and not a reason to push a kid to be more introverted.

Yeah, I read the "highly sensitive person" by Elaine N. Aron, and it's all in the book.


Some more here

-Insistence on sameness; resistance to change
-Difficulty in expressing needs; uses gestures or pointing instead of words
-Repeating words or phrases in place of normal, responsive language
-Laughing, crying, showing distress for reasons not apparent to others
-Prefers to be alone; aloof manner
-Tantrums
-Difficulty in mixing with others
-May not want to cuddle or be cuddled
-Little or no eye contact
-Unresponsive to normal teaching methods
-Sustained odd play
-Spins objects
-Inappropriate attachments to objects
-Apparent over-sensitivity or under-sensitivity to pain
-No real fears of danger
-Noticeable physical over-activity or extreme under-activity
-Uneven gross/fine motor skills
-Not responsive to verbal cues; acts as if deaf although hearing ---tests in normal range.
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http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer?pagename=autismcharacteristics
 
I scored 14, and I also think I would have scored much higher some ten years ago.

I work with people, and this helped me very much in relating to them. I think I am somewhere on the mid point of the introversion/extroversion scale. However, I used to notice that I am not so good in "reading" people's nonverbal behaviour, and even understanding jokes, especially irony. Many of my friens tease me about always taking things literally, not being able to detect that they are joking. I can be described as naive I supposed.

(and being married to a Brit helps me understand irony a bit better these days...)

I made a conscious effort to try to relate to people better and I succeeded - but maybe it is just being grown up.
 
I scored 16 while answering sincerely all questions, which shows why such tests often fail to extract the essence of a personality.

The truth is that whenever I want to, I have excellent social skills. Only that I don't want to demonstrate such skills very often :D
 
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