Severity level test

Post Reply New Topic

142 - moderate PDD.
But still I find it hard to judge for myself and do not know, if it is accurate this way.

I had them in adjacent tabs, which is usually fairly easy for me. I've already taken this and got 127 - Moderate PDD - several months ago. I don't really need to take it again, I just wondered if I'd get a different score this time.

71 mild

that test is meant for children. but ok..... it says I got a 206

I got 201, just 5 points away from you - I took it based off of how I am now. I was also bothered at how it was made for children.

I was the same way as a kid. My mom even wrote in my baby book that I was "popular" as a little kid. I was hyperlexic, but other than that I just appeared gifted. You can almost tell when things started going down hill, with how accurately my mom kept records. In Kindergarten I had seven or eight "best friends," but then by the time I reach second grade I only have one. Middle school was where it really started showing socially for me. Before that, the only things that really suggest autism were the trouble we had when moving houses and how in day care I got "diagnosed" by a family doctor with a "nervous disorder with GI issues." But that seemed to be specific to one day care that I only went to for three months.

My siblings both have ADD/ADHD, and they had much more severe behavioral problems than I ever did. I was a golden child. I never threw tantrums. Both my siblings almost got kicked out of pre-k for behavioral issues.

I wonder if maybe this is just another case of "when the social expectations outstrip the social skills"? I mean, the lack of tantrums I can explain within the scope of the spectrum: I was more prone to shutdown than meltdowns. I got "headaches" (what I thought were headaches, even though my head didn't always hurt) frequently. People with headaches are allowed to rest in quiet places until they feel better. I was also very well dressed, very tiny and quiet, and very well coached on how to smile and mind my p's and q's. These can all go a long way to make a person better received.

Moderate PDD - 104 (from adult perspective)

It's hard to do this without a parent helping but I do have lots of early childhood memories so based on that I got 97.

Well, first, it's good to see you here again.

There's definitely a point in life when expectations outstrip social skills, and I think it is more the case with then HF autistics (regardless of the exact label). For me it was at age 7 or 8, when I had severe behavioral issues, disobeyed, showed no respect, got in fights many times, almost run before a car once. Before that, I only appeared a bit shy and clumsy, not fitting in perfectly with other kids.

Yeah, if I rate myself as a young child, it says Severe PDD. As an adult now, it says Moderate. But I really don't like it as a rating scale--it's just because I had so many traits that I get those high scores. All of those "mild" and "moderate"s add up... but they mean a whole different thing from somebody who just had a few "severe"s. In terms of how much help you need, how much trouble you have in daily life--it really makes a big difference whether you can manage something in your own eccentric, half-competent fashion, or whether you don't know that it needs to be managed in the first place, or can't do it at all. It's a totally different problem to solve when you're past that "can't do it at all" threshold. Not necessarily a harder one to solve, oddly enough; when you can do something but only at great energy cost, people are much more likely to call you lazy and tell you to try harder instead of offering help.

I got 101.

67

I got 90, "mild PDD." I had mostly "no" or "mild" responses for the first two sections, but I had mostly "moderate" or "severe" responses for the last section. As I've said all along, my social deficits are mild, but I have moderate to severe difficulties with sensory issues, interruption in routine, and obsessive fixations. I usually grade my AS as being a "moderate" severity, due to this factor. At the end of the "how to rate" scale, though, it said that a score over 60 with little problems in language points to AS. Works for my case.

I was actually prone to tantrums, which got worse as I got older. I had typical toddler tantrums as a toddler over normal things like not getting my own way, then I was quite nicely behaved when I was 3 (I never had tantrums out in public because I was taught not to and it seemed to have sunk in pretty well), then when I was 4 I went through a phase of crying intensely when there were other children at my house, eg my brother's friends, especially if he wouldn't let me play with them (which is quite normal). Then I had angry tantrums when I was 5 at school, I used to kick and scream at the top of my lungs when I was in a panic about something. Then after about 6 I grew out of tantrums at school, and I stopped having them at home for a while, but after I got past 8 I began having them at home again, when not getting my own way. I remember having a massive tantrum on a vacation when I was 11, just because my brother wouldn't sleep in the same room as me, so I kicked and screamed and used abusive language.

138 - Moderate PDD

Ouch. Especially considering I have yet to be diagnosed with a PDD and that this test was designed for children

Is it just me or does abnormal tastes or textures have nothing to do with abnormal symbolic play or imaginative play? Also, I think it is extremely idiotic that abnormal play is being assumed to be a lack of imagination, it proves who really has a lack of imagination.

I agree with that. I had very abnormal play as a child, yet from a young age I have been good with music, and have had great imagination with that.