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Taking the test . . .

3. Have you had experiences with the supernatural?

Yes. Would you like to take into account the other witnesses before you decide that's a symptom of psychosis?

5. Other people see me as slightly eccentric (odd).

Hello, Aspie.

6. I have little interest in getting to know other people.

Ditto.

8. People sometimes find me aloof and distant.

Ditto again.

11. I get very nervous when I have to make polite conversation.

I really wonder if the test maker realizes how many of these questions apply directly to ASD and other non-psychotic disorders.

12. Do you believe in telepathy (mind-reading) ?

Lots of non-psychotic people believe in ESP and other para-normal phenomena. If I believed that the government was reading my mind then we'd have to worry.

14. People sometimes comment on my unusual mannerisms and habits.

I'm starting to think this test would read ANY Aspie as a scizotypal personality.

16,15,17 . . . more Aspie traits.

20. Do you ever get nervous when someone is walking behind you?

In the neighborhood I live in that's called not wanting to be mugged.

23,24, and to some extent 26 are also common with ASD.

29 as well.

30 is again not a symptom of psychosis. It wasn't that long ago the government was experimenting with paranormal abilities.

32-35 more ASD symptoms. I'm going to come off nuttier than a squirrels winter stash.

38 I think I need to stop commenting about all the ASD symptoms they bring up, I've already pointed out that there's a lot of them.

I don't know what 39 means.

47 another question about beliefs commonly held by many normal people. Also, protip, UFO means unidentified flying object. If you see something in the sky and you don't know what it is it remains a UFO until it's identified (I guess that would be an IFO). UFO does not mean "ship full of aliens that cut up cows and abduct farmer Bob".

49 Well, yeah, I have a phone and a computer. Local calls are free and e-mail doesn't need a stamp and gets to them a lot faster than a letter.

51 I said I wasn't going to bring these up again, but damn, can you get more stereotypically ASD?

54 That's not even ASD! That's just normal!

Ideas of reference: 0 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Excessive social anxiety: 8 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Odd beliefs or magical thinking: 4 out of 7 (unsure: 0)
Unusual perceptual experiences: 2 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Odd or eccentric behavior: 6 out of 7 (unsure: 0)
No close friends: 8 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Odd speech : 4.5 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Constricted affect: 8 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Suspiciousness: 0 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Total SPQ-A: 40.5 out of 74

Due to traits that are consistent with ASD and beliefs that are nearly mainstream I wound up testing well outside of normal. Bad test is bad.

Ideas of reference: 1.5 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Excessive social anxiety: 2.5 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Odd beliefs or magical thinking: 0.5 out of 7 (unsure: 0)
Unusual perceptual experiences: 1 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Odd or eccentric behavior: 5.5 out of 7 (unsure: 0)
No close friends: 4 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Odd speech : 4.5 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Constricted affect: 4 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Suspiciousness: 2 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Total SPQ-A: 25.5 out of 74

My problem with the test is that it is likely to give lots of false positives, as one poster pointed out if you live in a high crime area then a person behind you might been you are about to be mugged.

The Excessive social anxiety, odd or eccentric behavior, no close friends and odd speech are par for the course with AS. Also past mistreatment makes a person much less trusting of their fellow man and their environment. When I was young a nasty bunch of NTs made my life a living hell, for years afterwards I was always on a very high state of alert. The technical term is hypervigilance. I would say that hypervigilance is a rational and reasonable reaction to an environment packed with threats, the problem is when a person can not adjust again when they are placed in a safer low risk environment.

As years have passed I am much less hypervigilant than I used to be, I have started to relax a bit.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

Only as a child I experienced thought broadcast/irrational fears but I don't think they were really psychotic but more of an expression of social ignorance and anxiety.

Ideas of reference: 2.5 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Excessive social anxiety: 8 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Odd beliefs or magical thinking: 0 out of 7 (unsure: 0)
Unusual perceptual experiences: 3 out of 9 (unsure: 2)
Odd or eccentric behavior: 6.5 out of 7 (unsure: 0)
No close friends: 6 out of 9 (unsure: 1)
Odd speech : 4.5 out of 9 (unsure: 4)
Constricted affect: 5.5 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Suspiciousness: 1.5 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Total SPQ-A: 37.5 out of 74

Ideas of reference: 1 out of 9 (unsure: 2)
Excessive social anxiety: 6 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Odd beliefs or magical thinking: 2 out of 7 (unsure: 1)
Unusual perceptual experiences: 5 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Odd or eccentric behavior: 4 out of 7 (unsure: 1)
No close friends: 1.5 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Odd speech : 6.5 out of 9 (unsure: 2)
Constricted affect: 4.5 out of 8 (unsure: 1)
Suspiciousness: 0 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Total SPQ-A: 30.5 out of 74


this test is kinda biased i can see a religious or spiritual aspie getting a high score

My Total SPQ-A: 73 out of 74
(First I got the result 74 out of 74, but I realised that I do find close friends important.)

My psychologist has diagnosed me as psychotic.
It makes me frustrated. I don't want to have a psychosis!

I scored 28.5 on this test.

Ideas of reference: 3 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Excessive social anxiety: 0 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Odd beliefs or magical thinking: 7 out of 7 (unsure: 0)
Unusual perceptual experiences: 7 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Odd or eccentric behavior: 6 out of 7 (unsure: 0)
No close friends: 4 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Odd speech : 9 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Constricted affect: 7 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Suspiciousness: 0 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Total SPQ-A: 43 out of 74

Ive been dx'ed schizotypal several times as well as schizoaffective and disorganized schizophrenia on various eval's.
I think the combination of aspergers and schizo helps with creativity but not so much with cognition.

Ideas of reference: 8 out of 9 (unsure: 1)
Excessive social anxiety: 8 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Odd beliefs or magical thinking: 4 out of 7 (unsure: 0)
Unusual perceptual experiences: 5 out of 9 (unsure: 1)
Odd or eccentric behavior: 7 out of 7 (unsure: 0)
No close friends: 6 out of 9 (unsure: 1)
Odd speech : 7.5 out of 9 (unsure: 0)
Constricted affect: 5 out of 8 (unsure: 0)
Suspiciousness: 7 out of 8 (unsure: 1)
Total SPQ-A: 57.5 out of 74

If I'm schizophrenic, I'm only the highly suspicious, pattern-noticing type, and I fare pretty well without medication. My sister, on the other hand, has actually had hallucinations. Maybe soft-core schizophrenia just runs in my family and my sister got the worst of it. I was also raised with a lot of religion, which may have permanently damaged my emotional reactions to things. My parents, neighbors, and religious leaders taught me to see patterns in everything, believe that I was sharing space with angels and demons, and that God was reading all of my thoughts. I really wish I had been raised secularly.

i got a 68 out of 74...i do have DID though that was dxed as ptsd

Total SPQ-A: 18.5 out of 74

Quite a bit of overlap with AS related questions as previously commented.

Hmm, 58.5

...but as the saying goes, just 'cause you're paranoid it doesn't mean they're not out to get you

Some of that score comes from self-protection, which i've had to do from an early age, so if i'd have had more support I may have needed to be less wary. It's a scary world out there.