My self-diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome

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AQ: 41
EQ: 19
FQ: 37
SQ: 32

My AQ has gone up since last I did that test - it is usually around 37. I think this may be because I have been feelig more down lately, and I understood a couple of the questions better. (<i>As a child did I enjoy playing games that involved pretending with other children </i> being one of them. I did enjoy imagination games, but mostly alone!)

I also feel I have become more comfortable admitting that I am not actually that interested in the minutiae of other people's lives - I am much more interested in discussing their interests than who they first kissed!

Robin

I think my AQ score was about the same as last time I took this test.
The EQ was low... Which I find interesting as I can easily empathize with things on TV but with friends etc it is quite difficult.

Here's my scores:

46/50 AQ
12/80 EQ
32/135 FQ
51/80 SQ

The friends quotient is proably based on how I like to interact with friends, more on doing things than for the relationship, however, some have seen me as a good friend (probably because I am not backstabbing or underhanded.) Oh and I listen well and offer good ideas on helping situations (not emotionally)

TY these were interesting...although the third one really took some thought.

AQ: 42/50
EQ: 10/80
FQ: 29/135
SQ: 51/80

I suppose that if it's OK for Wired and the Guardian, then it's OK for me also.

From that Guardian article; in ()'s are my figures:

EQ:
Asperger: 20 (9 - 33)
Normal male: 42 (26 - 51)
Normal female: 47 (37 - 59)

0-32: Below average
33-52: Average
53-63: Above average
64-80: Very high

SQ:
Asperger: 40-50 (20 - 52)
Normal male: 30 (19 - 42)
Normal female: 24 (15 - 34)

0-19: Below average
20-30: Average
40-50: Above average
51-80: Very high

Notice that the two sexes overlap significantly; one must be careful to to avoid making "men are from Mars, women are from Venus" inferences of strict difference.

As to how I did it, I extracted the text and the scoring from the original PDF's, and then ran some programs that wrapped them in the appropriate HTML and JavaScript. The ranges I optained from the statistics in the text, where available (mean +/- stdev), and by eyeballing the graphs, if necessary.

Good job, Archimedes. And welcome to WP btw.

PS- I hope you put in an avatar of the owl from Disney's Sword in the Stone.

Thanks for doing this, it was very useful.

I didn't write down my scores, but I'm well into the aspie range on all of these.

Some of the questions confused me, I couldn't parse what the question was trying to ask, or the question was imprecise and the answer depended on how I interpreted the question.

I suspect that my confusion here is also a product of being aspie. I can see an NT answering these without thinking about them so hard.

Grey

I appreciate of all the appreciation I've gotten for my efforts.

I've discovered that the Wired AQ-test page still exists, but also that Wired's server no longer calculates one's score. But at least my pages will not suffer from that problem. And my pages seem to work properly in all your browsers.

AQ: 39

May do the other tests later

Thank you for putting them all online together.

I scored:
AQ: 48
EQ: 15
FQ: 16
SQ: 45

I found the FQ one really hard, since some questions asked about situations I've never been in. Like, would I make more effort to maintain old friendships, or to make new ones? The answer is that I don't have any friendships to maintain, nor do I make new ones. So I'm not sure how reliable that result can be, since I had to guess a lot.

Bland-My scores were as follows:

AQ=28/50

EQ=16/80

FQ=62/135

SQ=41/80

I find the test interesting but confusing. I know that my scores would be different if I would have been tested as a child. I have trained myself to do the "right thing" so that its almost like second nature. So I always wonder should I respond with my first instinct or what I know to be most approriate? Also, I agree with Grayson. Iwould not keep in touch with old friends nor pursue new ones. I usually make friends because they pursue me. Sometimes, Ill forget to call them for days and days and theyll think something is wrong. I just get involved in my life and forget to keep in touch. I dont even keep in touch with my own parents and siblings. I do feel that I have learned to be much more empathetic than my score shows but thats the difference between my initial reaction, and how I know I should be.

AQ = 38

EQ = 16

SQ = 40

FQ = 52