Do you perceive yourself as more autistic than other WP-Mem.

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That is the question.

Only approximate to one answer.

All 'the other WP-Members' is meant in context of averages, not absolutes.

Autistic means your individual subjective all-inclusive comprehension of the state of mind of being autistic.

Judge by any form of information available, even if it is just loose impressions or emotions.

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The reason I think this poll is important is to see, if you perceive yourself as more autistic only because you cannot overcome your subjective experience/viewpoint/difficulties or if it actually is because there is equally as much diversity on the spectrum as you might perceive. If there is a general gap between reality/perception, votes should go in one direction only.

I would pick the option "Neither more, nor less". Is this what you mean by "Never"? If so I would vote that (I want to be sure before I do so though).

Yes, that's what I mean. In other words, that you don't have that perception in the first place.

I perceive myself as more autistic than some WP members and less autistic than other WP members. I only think this is relevant when someone starts saying "This is what it is like for me. Therefore, it must be like that for everyone." I admit I am guilty of such statements myself, but I try to modify my views when I realize it.

I see myself being on the more autistic side, but certainly not on the very autistic side. If 100% = Most NT members. And 1% = the most autistic members, I'd see myself as a 40-30%.

I have no point of refference to base an opinion.

I'd say I'm about average here.

I'm more XFilesGeek than other WP members.

In fact, I'm the most XFilesGeek-ish person on this site!!

As for "autistic," I dunno.

I would say less autistic than a lot on here, or maybe more able to cope.

I was diagnosed as Moderate Autism,
so I would say somewhere in the middle,
not more or less.

I feel I am more autistic than some and less autistic than others.

I voted based off of numbers of people and where I fit into that - i.e. "average" would be "approximately 50% percentile". That's how my intuition works when it comes to this question. I can't actually get an intuition of what "average" would be, and where I'd compare to that.

I don't really pay attention to that kind of thing. The other WP members are hear for the same reason I am. (Well, most of them, anyway.)

I guess it's possible to judge "how autistic" you are, if you consider the intensity of your autistic traits, but only if you filter out the benefits or drawbacks of your environment and the compensatory strategies you have learned. If you used simply the strength of autistic traits, I believe I am probably more autistic than the average WP member, since I have more traits and still struggle with some things that seem to be easier for most other autistics. But I also seem to experience less distress due to autism than many WP members do, and I have many advantages in my environment and my skill set which lets me compensate to the point that I may one day become independent (hopefully before I am old enough to retire!)

In the end I can't really say one way or the other. Depending on the criteria I used, I could say I was either more autistic, less, or just somewhat qualitatively different (i.e., having more uncommon traits and fewer common ones).

I don't think it matters all that much, though. I've learned a good deal from other autistics. Whether they have stronger traits, milder traits, more difficulty, or less, doesn't seem to matter when it comes to having things in common and being able to teach each other. Even people who aren't quite autistic--subclinical or having some related disorder--have a lot in common with autistic people. You can broaden it even further, and learn even more, by connecting with people who have disabilities, people who have unusual cognitive traits, and minorities in general.

Comparing ourselves to others tends to get pretty complicated, because there just isn't any sort of single axis along which everybody can be arranged. With that in mind, it seems like we're better off just creating a sort of database of all the different experiences we have--collect them, and not worry about putting them in any particular order.