Survey Results: Charts

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A few months ago, I started a project with two intentions: to learn more about Asperger's and how those with it differ from others, and to spend my free time making oodles of charts. I have succeeded in both goals.

Approximately 65 people over various demographics answered my survey. Some of them were from this forum. I now return the favor by sharing some of the resulting charts.

In reading the charts:
-If a bar is more vivid than its default color, it shows statistical significance. (So you can usually ignore the bars that aren't recolored, except for comparison.)
-A black line between two bars shows statistically significant correlation between those two.
-Unless there is the word "only," "self-diagnosed aspie" also includes the professionally-diagnosed who agree with the diagnosis. Likewise, "appears aspie" includes those diagnosed.
-If a title mentions "Correlation" or has only one color of bar, that means it's showing whether there's a positive or negative correlation within that subject, and is not showing how strongly people answered in comparison to other bars on the same chart. (An easy way to tell whether it's a chart showing correlation and not comparison is whether any bars go below the base line.)












I found no correlation between sex and awareness, between ADHD and ticks/stimming, or between clumsiness and asexuality, among other things.

Let me know if you'd like to participate in my next survey. I don't know what it would be about, but I promise it will be significantly shorter than the last one. You can also make suggestions for questions for my next survey. It might have nothing to do with autism, but I'd like to include the data of autistic people anyway. Because we aren't outliers; we are humans

The charts aren't showing up for me, and I don't know why.
I hope other people are seeing them.
I could remove the "img" brackets and make them all links, but that would be very un-fun.

No, we can't see them unfortunately. I have trouble linking images as well.

I hope that gets fixed...
Here are the links. I promise it's nothing freakier than colored shapes and words.

https://imgur.com/ReU7Asy
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I'll type out a summary of what I saw from these charts too, in case someone wants to just read that.

Self-diagnosing as aspie but lacking an official diagnosis correlates strongly with having ADHD. This makes me wonder whether Asperger's is being misdiagnosed as ADHD (or vice versa, except that I've seen a couple of people who have been diagnosed with ADHD and don't seem to have it, but seem to be on the spectrum).

Europeans are more likely to have aspie characteristics and Americans are less likely to.

Atheists with Asperger's are significantly more likely to have ADHD or OCD than anyone else.

Chrisians are significantly less likely to be depressed than others, especially non-Christians with Asperger's.
Non-Christians with Asperger's are also more likely to have ADHD, OCD, and asexuality.
Christians without Asperger's are substantially better at eye contact than anyone else (possibly related to Euroopean culture being less into eye-contact and Christians being less common in Europe), more likely to be good at tone, and talk to themselves the most. Non-Christians without Asperger's are least likely to talk to themselves.

Robots who aren't autistic are more likely to have gender dysphoria.

Aspies are more likely to make typos when writing by hand, but other signs of clumsiness had no significant correlation.

Depressed people aren't likely to notice maintenance issues, nor whether someone is taking special interest in them.

People with Asperger's are most likely (compared to other people) to be bothered by loud music they don't like, saliva, continuity errors in a plot, and a person reading over their shoulder.

OCD is strongly correlated to being upset about a food being made differently than usual.

In males, asexuality significantly correlates to gender dysphoria, as well as to not being American.
In females, asexuality significantly correlates to poor eye contact and being bothered by "How are you?" used as a greeting.
Asexuality also correlates to not thinking about theological matters.

Females with Asperger's are more likely to have OCD, depression, gender dysphoria, and be easily distraced, asexual, and attached to objects than others.
From the data, it looks like males fit into autism more easily than females. Which is weird considering females come across to others as being less affected by it. But I did read an article someone linked that Asperger's makes female brains more masculine, so no wonder they wouldn't relate to their sex and have other non-conformity issues.

Females who are not on the spectrum are significantly less likely to pace than others.
Females on the spectrum are significantly more likely to bite their arm than others.
Females who are on the spectrum are also more likely to such on things than females who are not.
No significant correlations for males.

Males with gender dysphoria are more likely to be asexual and not smart.
Females with gender dysphoria are more likely to have Asperger's.

ADHD and being American correlate with talking to yourself.
Being European correlates negatively with talking to yourself and with pacing.

OCD correlates to habitual counting, and Asperger's does not.
Intelligence correlates significantly with spinning, and with nothing else, and that confuses me.
Depression correlates with toe-twitching, and nothing else does, and that confuses me too.

People with gender dysphoria are significantly less likely to trust their parents.

These results are interesting. I would be greatly interested in participating in future surveys .