aspergers. left or right brian

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Oh, wow.

The marjority of those types of quizzes tell me I'm fairly right brained, makes sense to me, I see in clear pictures and I draw a lot. I'm not very good with math, I remember my father trying to help me with math homework when I was a child, it always led to meltdowns.

Well there you go then. Definitely left brained if this test is to be believed.
I'm female so clearly break the theory that females are more right brained than men.

It's not a rule, but a generality.

Also, having asperger's would (given the commonly held belief) tend to skew females toward being more 'left brained' than is perhaps usual.

This is probably one of the causes for the arising of the 'extreme male brain' theory about autism.

That's true, it's not criteria.

If going by stereotypes only (not necessarily neurology), I'm pretty "right brained".

Those questions are pretty awful. I don't wear a watch. Why? Sensory issues. Habit. I carry a cell phone that keeps track of time.

I haven't considered being a poet because my poetry is pretty sucky and I prefer to write prose even though I like poetry. Plus I didn't know you could make any money at that. I haven't considered becoming a politician because I lack the people skills and greed and have a conscience. I didn't consider becoming an architect because even though I love drawing out maps and used to use a computer program designed to help architects design houses just for the fun of it, it simply never occurred to me to make the ideas actually real in the real world. I'm not coordinated enough to be a dancer. So except for politics (POLITICS, not governing political entities) I actually like the fields. I simply never considered being in one of them.

I have briefly thought that being a doctor would be cool, so I have considered that, but I don't think it would be such a great idea, actually.

I do sometimes keep a to-do list. Why? Certainly not because I'm organized! Quite the opposite! It's because I forget what I have to do, or even that I have to do anything. So when I actually remember to (which is rarely) I use a to-do list if I have a lot to do or need to be at all efficient in my use of time. (Like, spend more time doing stuff than not. Which doesn't require all that much efficiency. That's, like, what most people do.)

The question about a certain expression says it "makes no sense to me" but I almost read that as "makes sense to me." I did read it that way. It was in looking it over that I noticed that it didn't say that.

Sticking to a schedule isn't boring. But a schedule could be something like "ten o'clock, I'll go skydiving, noon I'll check out a new restaurant, three o'clock I'll go snorkeling..." and I think plenty of people probably don't realize you can schedule those kinds of things.

I started off very "left brained," but then 'stuff happened' and I think I've ended up more right-ish then left-ish brained, now.

The test at the link Moog gave seems to agree (http://www.web-us.com/brain/braindominance.htm):

I think that happened to me too... I don't believe I was always so right brained.

I got several questions that I could have answered either way.

I tested as left brained but I seem to be strong (empirically, not in a quiz sense) in a lot of right brained things, so I'll just shrug and move on.

That test is giving me the same results no matter which answers I check.

The first test is faulty.

This one works. http://www.web-us.com/brain/braindominance.htm

Good luck!

I came out with 14 left brain answers and 4 right brain answers.


According to this test though, I'm right brained.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/the-right-brain-vs-left-brain/story-e6frev20-1111114577583

Then again according to the list I'm good at both right and left brain function. Why de we always have to oppose them?

A friend once told me that I was one of the most left-brained people he'd ever met. (Using the popular meaning of 'left-brained', not a technical definition.)

I don't have a good description for how I think, but it's not in pictures; my mind works well with schematic visual representations like charts and graphs and diagrams, but not nearly so well with images of actual things. Words are important in my thought, though I hesitate to say that I think in words; while it's hard to catch hold of and pin down, there is a layer before words. I think of words as more accompanying and clarifying my thoughts than as being the medium of my thoughts.

I scored 0 for the right, and 18 on the left.

So, I guess that probably means I'm left brained. not that it really surprises me.

What value is there in boxing people in?

Left brained or right brained is a ridiculous dichitomy. What brain side does what is irrelevant to everyone but brain surgeons - do you use your liver or your kidneys? And when you look at the list of traits supposed to be related or exclusive... yeah. It's impossible to be logical and fantasy-based? You can't be detail oriented and reigious? You have to be verbal to be reality-based? (Even if you insist on a more lax interpretation, it doesn't make sense). It's the same flaw as with any attempt to divide people; people are more complicated than that.