AQ-10, a quick test to check if you should get checked out

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Usually I don't stop to think about it. But often I do, partly because of genre savviness, and partly because they'll tell you things indirectly that I'd never have noticed in real life. For example, if a character pays a bit too much attention to a female character's body, he's almost guaranteed to end up in a relationship with her at some point or at least want one. (If it cuts to her perspective and she's attracted to him too, it's a romance novel and they're definitely going to end up together.) In real life, I find it hard to see where people are looking, so I don't notice if someone is noticing someone else's body.

I find it easy to follow the dramaturgy, if its a book, or a movie doesn't matter. More often than not, I have seen the twist before. But I do not work it out based on emotions of characters, or their body language, it's just little patterns the director/writer seem to repeat very often. Like introducing a character early in the movie/book that just doesn't deserve as much screentime as he gets, unless he will return at a later point, which they 99 out of a 100 times do.

This might have something to do with tv series being a special interest of mine. The typical hollywood dramaturgy is easy to follow.

could the test be slightly biased against high functioning aspergers' who've tried to be neurotypical?

ie.
i'd feel much more comfortable in the library, but my social conditioning as well as a constant desire to pick up more info might make me reconsider choosing to go to a party.
if i didn't want to think i had aspergers (as some don't, though beats me why), i would probably choose "party". i would probably also choose all the answers i thought were socially correct - nevermind how i feel. or, depending on how i'm feeling, might even be what i think i feel.

same thing here. i spot a twist if i've seen it but usually not if its unusual and i've never seen it. i hate movies like the notebook and the time traveller's wife.

did you take literature? I failed unseen components initially because i couldn't write ANYTHING (i submitted a blank paper) until i learned to associate and guess which words/ descriptions were associated with what emotion.

extended, truthfully taken, 42/50

1 I often notice small sounds when others do
not.
yes. sometimes it makes me hypersensitive.

2 I usually concentrate more on the whole
picture, rather than the small details.
depends. my instinct is to scrutinize the details but i've learnt to zoom out when it gets too overwhelming. on the other hand, i can get frustrated with too little details.
my parents noted that i used to be pennywise and pound foolish.

3 I find it easy to do more than one thing at once.
really don't know. again it depends

4 If there is an interruption, I can switch back to what I was doing very quickly
depends. it takes alot to interrupt me if i'm really doing something and not trying to look like i'm doing it

5 I find it easy to ‘read between the lines’ when someone is talking to me
it depends. i look constantly for clues and refer back to past experiences.

6 I know how to tell if someone listening to me is getting bored
yes and no. by rights, no, so i check every 5 seconds and very often, so eventually... yes. it's more like i've matched "this face" or "this expression" to "bored". i'm still not entirely sure all the time.

7 When I’m reading a story I find it difficult to work out the characters’ intentions.
i look for patterns. no patterns = no clue. i like to know the ending so i can try to work out their intentions.

8 I like to collect information about categories of things (e.g. types of car, types of bird, types
of train, types of plant etc)
yes. gems, jewels, fabric, medieval royalty, indig, food science, sea shells

9 I find it easy to work out what someone is thinking or feeling just by looking at their face
depends

10 I find it difficult to work out people’s intentions
again, depends. i tend to be cautious and sometimes analyze out of context. so yes, i guess

If there is an interruption, I can switch back to what I was doing very quickly

I found that question tricky. If I were doing something I really enjoyed, or had to concentrate deeply on, then you'd have quite a hard job to distract me and I would find it very easy to slip back into it after being interrupted.

But if it were something I were not-that-into in the first place, or other things in the room were distracting me, and I weren't focussing on it that well in the first place, it'd be easy to interrupt me and I'd find it hard to get back onto the task. I am an all-or-nothing kind of person.

Of course this depends on the interruption being standard-issue stuff and not someone telling me something that shocks, upsets or annoys me where I'd need to get my thoughts back into order!

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Same here.

I scored 8/10.

7/10 -- I'm still in!

Test says if you score more than 6/10, not 6/10 and above. Just wanted to clear that up.
I got 6/10. Happy test taking!

10/10 - What do I win?

An aspie response if ever I heard one

i got 3/10 assuming i scored it right...a lo tof error here since it requires self scoring. 3/10 is an aq of 30 which is similar to my 25 from the real test.

9/10.. but I'm never sure about the unconscious bias - I know what the 'right' answer is in a lot of cases. Also got caught out by the positive/negative switching in the questions ('I find it easy to...', 'I find it difficult to..')

OTOH maybe the way that when I'm interested in something I obsessively find out everything I can about it (hence knowing what the answers they're looking for are) is a symptom itself

Positive side.. It's an NHS form - Me or SWMBO could hand that to the doctor and go 'See? I'm not making this s**t up!'.