How Autistic Are you test.

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I think someone should create a test of what type of autism you most likely have. I can't find any like that online. If you can get hold of one, let me know. I tried creating one, but that website is no longer working properly unfortunately.

I found this test hilarious. The person who wrote it seems to think that classic autism is the only form of autism out there, and is relying a lot on stereotypes. They probably have no clue how AS presents in people and just assumes that all autistics have an intellectual disability. While the self-care/employment stuff can be issues, I'd hardly say they are the hallmarks of ASD.

I was thinking it might be satire too.

Okay, this is why I think it's not very helpful:

It's not whether autism makes it harder to do some of these things. It's that autistic people have a lot of skill scatter. You can be amazing at math and computers (for example) but then be really really bad at being able to manage your own finances, keep your living area clean, and do things in a timely fashion.

And the questions don't seem to account for other subtleties - like asking "Can you do laundry?" I can answer "yes," and yes I do my own laundry, but it is fairly difficult without having a strict routine in place for me to do my laundry as often as I should. Because I live with people who have no laundry routine and use them machines at all hours for any length of time, I have no guaranteed time I can get my stuff into the machines, so things are much complicated by that lack. But the test doesn't measure that kind of thing. And because of the score I get on that test, it tells me I can do all kinds of things I actually have never been able to do (such as getting a degree, driving a car, sustaining a relationship).

Yet I can take a computer apart and put it back together, I can do arithmetic in my head (but only to a point, and I can't do complex math at all). If it's related to my interests, I know a lot of information about it. I can talk at length about my favorite things but when I am trying to hold a conversation with someone over just about anything else, I have trouble stringing two sentences together - unless I have scripts, in which case I can hold out until the scripts are gone, which is often fairly quickly.

But the answers give no leeway for this uneven profile, or even how parts of the profile change depending upon context.

Does that make more sense?

I could be wrong but this test seemed to be more satire than anything, that site the quiz is on is just for fun quizzes not nessisarly accurate or serious quizzes.

It also has this a 'what mental disorder do you have?' quiz:
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_mental_dis ... o_you_have

I got ADD. Funny enough, that was my diagnoses before my AS.

I got 16% but also think this test is stupid. It does not ask any questions that get to the actual problems I have in being social, fitting in, the way I think and process information, sensory issues except sensitivity to sound. Who wrote this thing?