Can somebody please help me understand this?

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After reading "The Complete guide to Asperger's Syndrome" and doing *much* research on Autism and AS last year I took this test and the following were my results:
[img][800:799]http://i.imgur.com/VPEruVD.png[/img]
However I'm unsure exactly what the numbers translate to

For the record
I also got an official diagnoses late last year the person used ADOS-2 module 4 and SRS-2 test (one was completed by me and another from another family member)

And yes based on the results of the tests I met the criteria for an ASD diagnoses. Now, I know that thanks to the changes in the DSM Aspergers is now under the ASD umbrella so going on the scoring of the picture above would it be positive that if AS were it's own disorder that I would have been diagnosed as having AS vs Autism?

Thanks

I don't know if you can label someone just based off a silly test on the internet..

But if you already have an offical diagnosis that should serve as a lot better information about yourself.

I don't understand why it would matter? But I also think that a psychologist, or anyone, looking at a person in the present cannot definitively say whether the person has Aspergers or autism. The average may appear different. But they aren't necessarily distinguishable in the present as far as I know a I the current knowledge base.

Someone labeled as having Aspergers may have autism, someone labeled as having autism may have Aspergers though it's more common that people with autism develop to where they are relabeled having aspergers. I don't agree with this practice but it's what happens.

only real difference that I know of between Asperegrs and classic autism is delayed speech development and or intellectual disability. So if you learned to talk on time and you were responsive, then you'd always have been diagnosed with Aspergers. Like when I was 5 I was 99% nonverbal with "no" and "mine" being the limit of my vocabulary and if a family member said "Hi how are you?" I would've been totally non-responsive to that. These days since I'm moderate/hfa, there are plenty of aspies who are "just as autistic" as I am.

My recent Aspie Score result was:
Your Aspie score: 186 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 15 of 200

From my understanding is if one were non verbal or speech delayed as a child then Aspergers is ruled out (as you pointed out EzraS tho questions arise if there's other issues such as hearing difficulties. Much like you EzraS I was pretty much non verbal tho was that because I had hearing issues? (still do) I dunno

I wouldn't be all that surprised if I was re diagnosed today as Aspergers. But I still have pretty bad dysparaxia etc, so there's a lot of impairments going on. I will say with the school for mostly ASD kids I went to, I don't think it would have made any difference in how I was educated and handled if I had an Aspaerger's dx. I have no idea which kids were classic and which were aspies, except for maybe the very high functioning and the severely low functioning. I don't even remember hearing terms like that until last year. It's all just autism to me. I was just PMed by a diagnosed aspie on one my teen forums, because he saw Wrong Planet in my sig. He said he's never really talked to anyone in the forum about it before. The stuff he listed was the same as what I experience.

I see it as a fun thing to do but I wouldn't put too much stock in it's ability to determine if you're Aspie or not.