Depression and higher AQ scores

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The author of the RDOS autism test once said on the forums that depression significantly increases AQ scores. Does anyone have an idea what level of increase in the AQ scores is typical for "normal" and "clinical" depression?

I'm a bit curious because my AQ score was at the 5th percentile, and I seemed to have had a history of depression leading upto that point (Not "really bad" I THINK, but at least sort of), and if it turns out that my level of depression ended up increasing my AQ scores by at least 10 percentile points, then my "real AQ" score would only be the 15th percentile or higher which is decidedly not autistic. Of course, to complicate matters, aspies and auties would tend to have depression which might complicate being able to tell whether ones high AQ score would be due to autism, depression or both.

I always get an outragiously high AQ score (45 to 47) I am not depressed or even given to depresion nowadays, I was given an AS diagnossis in childhood but it is not a condition that has greatly affected my adult life.

I can only conclude that not a great deal can be concluded from such a test.

I know somebody with chronic depression, and she seems more Aspie than the other NTs, even though she hasn't actually got AS, if you know what I mean. Because of her depression, she finds it very hard to socialise or adapt to changes (she prefers her rut she is in).