Poll: What's your autism quotient?

[QuarkChild]

oops i must have upset the apple cart again

No, I haven't gotten any paternal emails on this. I just didn't reply to your post because I didn't know what to say.

(I hope I'm interpreting your metaphor correctly. Otherwise the above will make no sense.)

 

[QuarkDad]

No, I haven't gotten any paternal emails on this. I just didn't reply to your post because I didn't know what to say.

I didn't get it either... probably was just some trinket in his imagination. Or a loose sprocket.

 

[exarch]

Originally posted by QuarkDad
It tooks me months to comprehend the 9/11 tragedy. A close friend at work described how he couldn't sleep immediately afterwards because it was so upsetting to him. I could not understand how someone could be affected so quickly. I have no problem saying something comforting to others under those circumstances even though I haven't developed my own emotional responses yet. Does the elapsed time it takes between stimuli and response matter in terms of human emotion? There are a lot of variables here. If something happened to QuarkChild (like graduating!) I sure I would be able to have immediate feelings of joy. My point here is how close the situation is to me is a factor.

Being European, I can relate to the feeling of not understanding the severity and emotional impact of the 9/11 event right away. I can also relate slightly to QuarkChild's inability to feel sad when leaving school. People I've known have died, and somehow, I was one of the few not crying. I'm not sure if this was because I just didn't know them as well as everyone else, even feeling left out somehow, or perhaps because I'm just less sensitive to these things. I will feel sad when thinking about it in retrospect, and realising this person would never come back, but at the moment it didn't do anything to me. I just didn't feel it ...

I wonder if it's some kind of misguided optimism that makes me feel sad less often than most people. I'm not one of those eternally cheerful people either, and I can feel sad, but I just don't have what it takes to be dark and gloomy.

 

[BillyJoe]

QuarkChild,

(I hope I'm interpreting your metaphor [oops i must have upset the apple cart again] correctly. Otherwise the above [see below] will make no sense.)

You did.

No, I haven't gotten any paternal emails on this. I just didn't reply to your post because I didn't know what to say.

Meaning that you didn't understand my previous post?
Like your dad (see next post)?

BillyJoe

 

[BillyJoe]

QuarkDad,

I didn't get it either... probably was just some trinket in his imagination. Or a loose sprocket.

No smilies?

Well, you warned her off replying to my posts last time (which must mean that you must have misinterpreted my intent ) and she complied but now she is (?was) responding so I was wondering what you thought of her now.

BillyJoe

PS
I really hope the two of you are not taking me too seriously or that I have upset you.

 

[BillyJoe]

QuarkDad,

I just read back through the posts (I was looking for exarch's score on the test) and found this one which somehow I must have missed the first time through....

BillyJoe - A dad is a dad is dad - even tho the activity described is 'normal' it came across as a crass attempt to start a dialog that could only result in giving you some kind of twisted pleasure. QC doesn't deserve that. That being said I hold no grudge or judgment.

Okay, I understand, sorry.

But just to be clear, it was an off-hand comment which I thought would produce an off-hand comment in return. I do remember momentarily wondering at the time why it was ignored and whether I had upset her. I was going to respond further but thought it would be better to let things slide for fear of potentially making things worse it she had taken offense.

regards,
BillyJoe

 

[QuarkChild]

But just to be clear, it was an off-hand comment which I thought would produce an off-hand comment in return.

I was suffering from a shortage of off-hand comments at the time of that post, that's all. Maybe I should have tried harder to think of one.

I'm really bad at this social thing. Sorry.

Anyway, it didn't upset me. I'm pretty sure nothing anyone has every said to me on this forum has upset me. I'm not that easily ruffled.

 

[BillyJoe]

I am really glad to hear that QC.
I once unintentionally upset Gentlehorse, and that upset me more than gentlehorse, but by the end of the thread we were riding off into the sunset together.

BillyJoe

 

[neutrino_cannon]

The forum is obviously a sentient and humorous entity. Call the vbulletin support folks before they "fix" it without tis consent!

You see, I was sent to this thread because it polljacked the "who is your favorite adversary" poll.

It was more that a little amusing to see the names of forum trolls of note as gradations of autism.

The server was down when I tried the test, BTW.

 

[Kopji]

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

I'm sorry I brokeded it.

 

[Pastor Bentonit]

Mine is 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359 (approximately).

 

[Badly Shaved Monkey]

I'm sorry I brokeded it.

I got that too. I think it's a bad sign.

One point about the test though, if you have even the faintest insight into what autism means it's very easy to tune your answers. Now, you could argue that recognising 'bad' answers is itself a sign that you are not autistic, but surely it is a sign that it's not a very good test.

 

[Badly Shaved Monkey]

Marked it manually.


15

Now what am I going to do with all these labelled and dated bottles of urine?

 

[Mojo]

Now what am I going to do with all these labelled and dated bottles of urine?

Perhaps you need one of these.

 

[Jorghnassen]

I got 500: "Internal Server Error"

Am I autistic or just socially awkward?

 

[Dorfl]

Whew! For a moment I was afraid I was normal.

I got 29. I dunno wh... Oh look! Mojo's post score is divisible by 2 and 37 and 37 again, wow!

 

[luchog]

I scored a 35. I've never been formally diagnosed with an autistic-spectrum disorder; but I know quite a number of people who are Asperger's and autistic, and I can definitely see similarities.

I don't do well in social situations, and have an extremely hard time with "small talk". Actually, I hate small talk and always have. My sense of humour has been described as "weird", "inappropriate", and other more negative adjectives.

I have been told by other people that I do fine in social situations and they can't see anything wrong; but most of them are just as weird as I am, and I've worked very hard my whole life (a stint in the Army helped a lot) to become more socially capable. I'm still very uncomfortable in many social situations, especially large groups; and can easily become overstimulated and "collapse" mentally (at which point i need to get away from the group or I can react badly).

 

[Soapy Sam]

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Danger. Non human organism. Do not approach.

 

[kalen]

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

I got the same when I hit the "Calcluate Score" button. No problem:

[FONT=verdana, helvetica, arial, sans-serif]How to score: "Definitely agree" or "Slightly agree" responses to questions 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 33, 35, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46 score 1 point. "Definitely disagree" or "Slightly disagree" responses to questions 1, 3, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 40, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50 score 1 point.[/FONT]

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I got 24 + whatever bonus I got for calculating my score by hand.


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