RAADS-R: Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adults

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I scored this and I was very surprised because I've never been diagnosed and no one thinks I can be an Asperger's.

RAADS-R: 225
Language: 17
Social R.: 106
Motor: 60
C. Interests: 42

Language: 18
Social relatedness: 100
Sensory/motor: 47
Circumscribed interests: 31

Total score: 196

ETA: I did find a couple of the questions confusing and/or contradictory. " I am very sensitive to the way clothes feel when I touch them. How they feel is more important than how they look." Yes, I am very sensitive to the way clothes feel, but whether that is more important than how they look is something else, and depends on what the circumstances are in which I would have to wear said clothes, so those two statements are two different things to me, and should be two separate questions. Same with: " I always notice how food feels in my mouth. This is more important than how it tastes." Yes, I always notice; no, sometimes it is not more important than taste.

And the clumsiness question -- " I have been told that I am clumsy or uncoordinated." Well, if I want to get technical here, technically I don't recall ever being told that I am clumsy or uncoordinated, but I know that I am! I don't need to be told this, when hardly a day goes by that I don't bump into a doorframe I can see coming, or drop something I'm holding!

Total score 153.0

Language 7.0

Social relatedness 84.0

Sensory/motor 33.0

Circumscribed interests 29.0

I scored on RAADS-R, 129
Social: 42
Language: 5
Circumscribed: 35
Sensory-Motor: 47

Is there a cut off for autism severity levels? I got 209 but I am officially diagnosed autism not AS (I live in the UK).

177 .

215.0

Though there are questions impossible to answer, like:
14) I would rather go out to eat in a restaurant by myself than with someone I know.
I don't like to go out to eat in a restaurant.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.100 ... 010-1133-5
http://link.springer.com/article/10.100 ... 011-1191-3
There is an interesting discrepancy between the two studies of the RAADS-R, despite the relatively large samples. In the first study out of the more than 500 controls none had a score above 65, which could appear to indicate that a score higher than 65 (and particularly scores as high as above 100) make ASD very likely. However in the Swedish study as many as 9% of the controls had scores above 65 and 3% above 100, which, with the prevalence of ASD being 1-2% or less, is a pretty low specificity.

Total score: 206.0
Language: 16.0
Social relatedness: 97.0
Sensory/motor: 54.0
Circumscribed interests: 39.0

Total score: 230.0
Language: 21.0
Social Relatedness: 110.0
Sensory/motor: 60.0
Circumscribed Intersets: 39.0

I'm pretty sure I have some type of developmental disorder, but I have not been officially diagnosed yet.

I don't understand some of the questions and I don't know the answer to others.

I scored 180

My Results-
Total score 177

Language 12.0

Social relatedness 78.0

Sensory/motor 49.0

Circumscribed interests 38.0

Test taken by you on 13 September 2014

I would prefer to take this test in a clinical setting since I had some issues with questions. I didn't understand two of them and more were fuzzy to me. I have a hard time with absolute questions.

137

But some of the questions are really stupid and inadequate.
Often I had to really think hard why they would ask that, to make any sense of them.
Maybe someone on the spectrum should design a test that other people on the spectrum
can actually relate to.
Anybody here up to the task?
(I might give it a try, will keep you posted...)

184 is my score.

Language: 14.3
Social: 80
Sensory/Motor: 50
Circumscribed Interests: 39.7