RAADS-R: Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adults

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I've taken this test four times and I've always scored at least 230. On one occasion I scored 230 and 233 on the same day (11/7/13) which subsequently makes my average score of 231.5

Total score: 231.5
Language: 20.0
Social Relatedness: 109.5
Sensory/Motor: 60.0
Circumscribed Interests: 42.0

I get it:

Total 141. (15 minutes ago it was 148, and a month ago it was 137)
Language 7.
Social relatedness 65.
Sensory/motor 41
Circumscribed interest 28.

Yes it is not quite realistic, - and the leaps in age as well. I believe, that I reacted 16-ish until my early 20es and have taken this in account.
What do these numbers stand for? Is it to what degree you are "autistic" and compared to what standard?

I got 152.

Total: 150
Language: 6
Social relatedness: 84
Sensory/Motor: 30
Circumscribed Interest: 30

I took it again and got 165.

Language 5
Social relatedness 73
Sensory/Motor 50
Circumscribed interests 37

I took it a few months ago and got 157. Took it again last week (on paper, self-scored) and got 178. The second time I took more time answering and assigned questions half-points when I felt that an absolute answer was too polarizing and therefore not completely accurate. Then I had my mom take it (about me) and she got 153. I figured my mom would have better insight about the differences in my behavior over time. We compared answers and discovered most of the point difference was from a few questions where we understood the wording differently (and there were a few mistakes my mom made while scoring).

I think assigning half points in places is a decent way to get around the questions with too strong of adjectives/adverbs.

I scored 79.0
It says I should get checked for an asd while the average score for neurotypicals is 82. How is that logical?

NT average 82 and Cutoff 67 (something)......strange.
Something is illogical or not quite right.

NT average is something like 21 (in the study about the test). The "NT" average reported by the site is of the people who even bothered to do the test, many of whom actually have ASD or at least similar symptoms.

236

Edit: Hmm, that's higher than the recorded score in the study. Guess it adds further proof to the diagnosis.
Edit2: I did take into account the scoring reversal for 16 asterisk-marked questions as well as triple check my answers. Wasn't expecting to score that high.

Last edited by Piers on 12 Aug 2014, 11:23 am, edited 1 time in total.

I took this test several months ago and scored 186. (I got an ASD Dx just under a month ago)

While I appreciate the unique feature of offering the 'true when I was younger' vs 'true now' options, there were a number of statements where I feel a "true sometimes" option would have been the most appropriate response for me. Overall the RAADS-R is another good self-report instrument, and its always interesting to see how my scores compare to the diagnostic cut-offs suggested by the researchers. A similarly long one (65 questions) that is pretty good is the SRS-2, but when it comes to brevity it is hard to compete with the AQ.

My score: 83

How do you feel about the Old Course?

I want to come to St Andrews some day.

I'm too old for your study, by the way.

I'm undiagnosed.

I scored 143

Social relatedness: 91
Sensory/Motor: 20
Circumscribed Interest: 27
Language: 5

Judging by the statistical analysis of the groups I'd say it matches well how I see myself compared to what other ASDs report. Language and sensory issues are above normal but not to the level of most. Interests is about the same level, while I have severe relating issues.

Is it just my computer or does this link not work?

I scored this and I was very surprised because I've never been diagnosed and no one thinks I can be an Asperger's.

RAADS-R: 225
Language: 17
Social R.: 106
Motor: 60
C. Interests: 42