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It is exactly the same test.

I actually started forcing myself to become more social when I was fairly young. It was a semi-conscious or possibly evolving decision on my part... so for some of the questions I put down what I think my natural inclination would have been if it weren't for the fact that I've consciously forced myself to be another way for a couple of decades. The question of "would you prefer to to to the library or a party" is a really good example of this. Today I would probably rationalize "there are more opportunities to make friends at the party and the library will still be there afterward" (in spite of or maybe even because of the fact that making friends is difficult for me) and gone to the party because I realize in a very practical sense that my lack of friends has been very problematic for me over the years (especially in the past month). But my natural inclination is that I never really liked parties -- they're so often loud and obnoxious (difficult to tolerate) and the library generally seems so much more pleasant as an opportunity to either escape into sci-fi or learn something (which I love doing). So while I might rationalize going to the party and go to the party every time those options are given to me, on the test I put that I'd definitely go to the library.

Though I do actually enjoy being around people I know and trust who're not being loud and obnoxious, Tiff has always complained of not getting enough time with me (we've been together 7 years). I used to think it was just because I had become a workaholic in an effort to try and fix the problem I've had with child support (something that's been beyond my control and totally ruined my life), though in the past couple months as I've been researching autism, I'm beginning to think there's more to it than that. So likely my natural inclination is to not spend so much time around people in spite of my desire to have a larger, intentional family.

37-seems pretty accurate

My expectation would be that they gave this survey to a bunch of people who had official AS diagnosis and a bunch of people who were known to be NT (or believed to be) and averaged the results to figure out that AS people score an average of 35, so if we're apt to give non-committal answers then the average 35 score would reflect a certain amount of vaguery. Or maybe even more likely -- they had a bunch of diagnosed AS people take the test and used their average responses to determine the scoring system, so for example if the average AS person is 50% likely to answer "slightly agree" but only 20% likely to answer "definitely agree" then you only get the point if you answer "slightly agree". And then gave the test to a bunch of NTs to determine what their average scores would be.

42.

You want them to write the question "How often do you eat breakfast?"
a) Every day
b) Most days
c) Occasionally
d) Rarely
e) Never

possibly with optional answers

f) What's breakfast?
G) Die, breakfast food industry minion!

34!!

45

I've actually taken the test 3 times now...

The firs time I took it, half-way through I started thinking "maybe if I exaggerate my answers, I can deliberately get a higher score" and at the end I scored 34.

So I took it again today and tried exaggerating all the answers ans scored 32.

So I took it again and decided not to exaggerate any of my answers ans scored 36.

So apparently the less I try to be autistic, the more autistic I am.

Thought so, got 45

38....ho hum.
Seems like the questions were taken from another test.

I got a 36.

I sometimes wish there was a middle option for certain questions; for those ones where I neither agree nor disagree with.

me too

I got a 37 on the test. Anything over 35 indicates high functioning autism or Asperger's.