Another test for Asperger's Syndrome

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I scored a 42 and found my IQ at .99999 and pored over the numbers for a good two hours.
Fascinating. The test itself had me at #3 and by #5 I was hooked. It is quite good and insightful.

Merle

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe it's the stereotype that all kids with autism smack animals or hurt them at one point. I was gentle with pets.

How bizarre. They wanted me to say whether I was "clumsy". I may not be the most spacially adept person out there, but clumsy is not always a feature, so I can't say I'm clumsy, just because the question is worded that way. Also, they wanted to know if I have sleep "problems". I can sleep 3 hours a night quite happily and never see that as a "problem". However the test did spark anger and angst within me, and I guess that can be a better measure than the test itself

Yep, a test that definitely makes it clear that aspergers IS a disability,(which causes serious difficulties in life ) which is why is now officially classed as one, and not just a club for gifted eccentrics!!

Or something!!

I scored 18 when I ticked for NOW, and 29 when ticked for 15 years ago, before I began excluding gluten from my diet!

Cutting out gluten obviously worked!! ! ( but then I already knew that!)

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33 for me

I totally agree about the "disability". No wonder so many aspies have low self-esteem. I mean, gosh, being told you have a "disorder" since you're a kid - which can be "treated"!

Lack of social skills keeps coming up. But for two years I sat there with an NLP book, practicing physical movements over and over and over again. I love doing the same repetitive tasks, of course I would! And now I can communicate with the outside world. And when I can't, I delegate the task to someone who can, which means that I still communicate. When I can't delegate, I say that I'm not good at communication and ask the person to bear with me and we go through it step by step. And of course I'd be honest about the communication thing, I am naturally honest - how else can I be? So I still communicate. It's fun communicating, it's a game. For instance, when someone is moving their hands, I need to mirror their action by moving my feet, and when I do, I make a sale. Making sales is a fun game. It's a routine, it's stability. I love routine!

So on the outside, I have NT social skills. To those who really know me, I certainly don't, and they like me for being me.

If I answer honestly for my life now, I would be NT. I have the physical tendencies, and get special exercises every day, which I like, it's part of what I do for a living. However, it is a tragedy for humankind that psych disciplines are involved in diagnosing or "treating" AS, as they have virtually no basis in science. A test should be more physical, less about children, and far less to do with symptoms.


Oooh - I don't know if this is appropriate, but here goes: No disrespect for any of the lovely people who found the test good. Phew!

Yeah, that seems likely. I was gentle with my pets, too.

The last IQ test I took said I was mentally ret*d, so I won't take it.

(I took this AS test before when I didn't bother to read the preface, fifty-something.)

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But I'm not attached to things/animals RATHER than humans, I just fail to discriminate between them.

I did get bitten once, but I still think that this test is rubbish.

Me too.

I've got 24.
Altough if i had taken it a few years back when i wasn't as wel adapted i'd have well over 30.

Yes, but, according to the guy who put together the test, your score would be average among the diagnosed aspies he studied, not the general population.

It measured mine as 32, though I think that lacks meaning either way. The test is very ambiguous. It doesn't even explain fully the purpose of clicking each item on the list. Nor are those individual items of equal value. It reminds me of another very poor AS test I took once. I hope no one puts much faith in this one!

Speaking as a sociologist, the vast majority of Internet self-tests have never been tested for validity or reliability. From a social scientific perspective, their value is dubious. Any benefit gained by taking them is more subjective.

In fact, despite all the discussion of AS tests in this forum, most psychiatrists and clinical psychologists do not diagnose AS through testing. Rather, they rely upon taking a verbal history and on direct observation.

33 here. -Point taken Nominalist.