Shocking results - now in!

[andrewducker]

Your Aspie score: 110 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 107 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits


Take it yourself here.

Comments

[petre.livejournal.com]

random lj user reply:

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

I got like 165 of 200, but found myself frustrated with the same thing that always comes up on these tests: they weight traits of sensory integration dysfunction and nonverbal learning disability equivalently with the inability-to-read-social-signals thing as diagnostics for Asperger's, when in reality there's a Venn diagram issue there - all Aspies will have traits of SID and NLD, but not all people with SID and NLD are Aspies. The social signals thing is the really crucial marker, which that test doesn't get. I just find myself annoyed because for years and years I thought I had Asperger's, and assumed myself to have the mannerisms and specific difficulties of Aspies I knew, when I don't really have it at all. I guess the gradations in the spectrum of autism to neurotypicality (word?) are being better recognized as time goes by, but we're not really there yet.

[andrewducker]

Oh, agreed. I have the geekish problem with social signals, and find it much easier to learn by doing, but I can learn from books and only have very mild problems with sensory integration. My flatmate Ed has much worse problems with sensory integration but isn't Asperger's at all.

[wordofblake.livejournal.com]

I got 104 for both, which I guess has a pleasing symmetry.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Unsurprisingly, I am, yet again, the anti-aspie.

[andrewducker]

Which is interesting, considering you should have been clicking boxes for clumsiness, being terribly focussed on things you like, incapacity to learn things you aren't interested in, and being easily distracted.

[daisyflip.livejournal.com]

I was this:

[img]http://www.rdos.net/eng/quizpoly.php?p1=54&p2=63&p3=58&p4=53&p5=55&p6=66&p7=44&p8=73&p9=52[/img]


I dunno what that makes me.

[andrewducker]

Weird :-P

[darkoshi]

lol @ question 34 "Do you rock back-&-forth or side-to-side (e.g. for comfort, to calm yourself, when excited or overstimulated)?", since it made me notice that I was rocking back & forth while doing the test... although I didn't notice that I was doing that right away, even while considering the question.

This is my result, but is there a page that explains the graph, as it is not intuitive to me what it means?

[andrewducker]

There should have been a link to a PDF on the final page which would explain the graph...

[darkoshi]

Oh, I saved that thinking it just contained another picture of the graph. I see now that it has more in it. I am curious about why they call the one set of questions "Hunting".

[darkoshi]

I've been looking at the pdf, and it just raises more questions for me, as to what all the numbers listed mean. Does it make sense to you? What do the numbers in the "Aspie" and "NT" columns mean? I was thinking at first it was the average answer for Aspies and NTs, but some of the numbers are > 2, while the choices were only 0, 1, 2. Plus, if that were what it was, my score would be much higher on the Aspie scale, which it isn't. And when it says my Aspie or NT score in a section is X of Y, where does the number Y come from? X is apparently the sum of the numbers in the Aspie/NT column.
I'd like the graph much more, if I understood where the numbers came from.