How autistic are you...

Cleat Eastwood

Where do you fit on the spectrum. Simon Baron-Cohen, yes the relative of you know who is world renowned for his research into this particular disorder. You may be surprised at the results. I scored 5

Coincindentally a friend of mine has just been diagnosed with aspergers and he scored 37, hence the link

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html

finchy

I think that's a test which allows the user to choose the answer knowing what the outcome will be.

A bit like an open-mindedness test, with questions like "Do people from other cultures disgust you?"

thel33ter

I got 14, so I'm slightly less autistic than the average. Which is about right.

_Brun_

What does it mean if I lose interest halfway through long surveys?

TLDNMCL

18

I'll take that as 'sensitive' then :?

_Brun_

I ground my way through it and scored 15. Did I win?

rick_chasey

10?

getonyourbike

I'm distinctly average, 16

craker

24. I win :roll:

It is a bit easy to guess which answers might score you higher. However some of them seem quite age related (ie I'd have answered differently 20 years ago). Party or library huh? Chepstow library can be a pretty sordid place...

rc856

13 for me but as already said, it was hard to do it knowing what the outcome would be.
Think I managed to answer pretty correctly though.

desweller

35.

AndyF16

23 but I agree it clouds the test knowing in advance what it's meant to determine

Stewie Griffin

getonyourbike wrote:

I'm distinctly average, 16

Me too, which is a surprise as I thought I might be a bit higher.

thel33ter

I had another go and tried to get as high as possible, I got 41 out of 50, not bad

Then I noticed the answers bit at the bottom.

fleshtuxedo

Another 18 here, we're the modal group 8)

Sorry, does that make me a 19?

invincible

woohoo 35 8)

Stuy-b

15

Karl2010

19

Karl2010

19

Karl2010

19

Karl2010

19

finchy

I don't know why, but I find an online site where you can check your autism level a bit worrying. Isn't that what mental health or special needs experts should be diagnosing?

The whole thing feels a bit cheap to me, as if they can turn what can be a serious problem. Or am I missing the point (maybe it's to raise awareness and understanding)?

bompington

Not naming any names, but having worked with quite a few kids "on the spectrum" over the years, it has frequently occurred to me that there are a few regular posters who would score highly. Think single minded obsessiveness and lack of insight into how others see things for a start.

pneumatic

18

Baron Cohen is also heavily into synaesthesia, where a weakness in the brain's internal membranes causes people to mix the evidence of their senses (some smell colours, others taste sounds, etc..) For me all ordinal items have colours (numbers, days of the week, months of the year especially, but also many letters in words give them a colour, too). Mrs P is always trying to catch me out on this one, but my answers are completely consistent. Problem is, synaesthetes don't all see the same colours with the same numbers so it can be intensely frustrating. Friday is orange and that's an end to it!! :evil:

finchy

bompington wrote:

Think single minded obsessiveness and lack of insight into how others see things for a start.

Er, that's how the Internet works. I imagine that people would act completely differently if you met them in real life.

bompington

johnfinch wrote:

bompington wrote:

Think single minded obsessiveness and lack of insight into how others see things for a start.

Er, that's how the Internet works. I imagine that people would act completely differently if you met them in real life.

The point is that the majority of people on this forum, if not everywhere on the net, are not like that.

RichN95.

pneumatic wrote:

Friday is orange and that's an end to it!! :evil:

I'm sure it's orange Wednesdays. I've seen the adverts at the cinema

pneumatic

RichN95 wrote:

pneumatic wrote:

Friday is orange and that's an end to it!! :evil:

I'm sure it's orange Wednesdays. I've seen the adverts at the cinema

Ah, that's why the advert never persuaded me! Wednesday is brown, obviously. (but actually not that brown, it is a much darker shade. 8)

finchy

bompington wrote:

johnfinch wrote:

bompington wrote:

Think single minded obsessiveness and lack of insight into how others see things for a start.

Er, that's how the Internet works. I imagine that people would act completely differently if you met them in real life.

The point is that the majority of people on this forum, if not everywhere on the net, are not like that.

Yeah, it was a joke about how the Internet works. I think that missing the visual communication aspect doesn't really help though. Emoticons aren't really a substitute. I've upset people before just because what I wrote on the forum doesn't come across as I intended it.

Tom Butcher

14 To be honest I thought I might score a bit higher than average as I enjoy my own company (that sounds like a euphemism) and going through the questions got the impression that might bump the score up.

rake

me too tom. i scored 17 and was surprised. i dont think its that straight forward to guess the answers, for instance enjoying your own company which i do seems quite obviously autistic at first glance to me say being shut in your own little world, yet if its because other peoples opinions or thoughts can get on your nerves now and again then it shows that you can take others views onboard, which i wouldnt have thought was much of trait.