Set of scientific tests related to Autism Spectrum Disorders

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I thought about these things while I was trying to fall asleep and something dawned on me:

Had it been mentioned that, for example, her boyfriend of 10 years had unexpectedly broke it off with her, then it would have made more sense to me that she is upset. Even I would find that upsetting because there was a long-established trust relationship/attachment whose rug has been suddenly yanked out from under me for some unknown reason, and he probably ain't 'splainin'

However, we don't know how long these two people have been involved. To me, it sounded like your typical, shallow, one-dimensional Jennifer Aniston movie type of relationship where they just barely know each other and already she's getting clingy and demanding a committment and building castles in the sky in her mind with the guy. Men have driven me away with this type of behavior in the past. Not typical, but it does happen.

Anyhow, that's all for now. Didn't mean to get too weird with the icy comment...

~IslandAspie~

...mmm shouldn't that be sometime like "If you're unusually sensitive _or insensitve_, you may have in increased chance of having AS or HFA" ?? (not sure, please comment)

(I scored 6 on that test)

Your Aspie score: 150 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 45 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
O RLY?


Should I feel bad with this?

AQ: 44
Face recognizing: 55%
Eye recognizing: 16/35
Cambridge Mindreading: Video 33, Audio 27 --> 60/100

Not from this forum, but from real
Recently scored IQ: 163
EQ: 69
Average is quite normal

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Language Differences

You scored 65 aloof, 79 rigid and 86 pragmatic
You scored above the cutoff on the Pragmatic scale, regarding the social use of language. This suggests you likely have some trouble with communication, which is probably more evident in informal, social settings than in more formalized settings where the expectations are explicitly stated. On the other hand, since you scored below the cutoff for aloof and rigid personality, you are probably fairly sociable and flexible about change. You are probably on the broader autistic phenotype.
Your Analysis (Vertical line = Average)

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aloof Distribution

You scored 65% on aloof, higher than 6% of your peers.
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rigid Distribution

You scored 79% on rigid, higher than 25% of your peers.
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pragmatic Distribution

You scored 86% on pragmatic, higher than 41% of your peers.
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diagnosis Distribution

You scored 9% on diagnosis, higher than 85% of your peers.



Much more accurate than the other one, IMO.

Your result for The Broad Autism Phenotype Test ...
Autistic/BAP
You scored 129 aloof, 129 rigid and 95 pragmatic
You scored above the cutoff on all three scales. Clearly, you are either autistic or on the broader autistic phenotype. You probably are not very social, and when you do interact with others, you come off as strange or rude without meaning to. You probably also like things to be familiar and predictable and don't like changes, especially unexpected ones.

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Agree: 2,4,5,6,12,13,16,18,19,21,22,23,26,33,41,42,43,45,46: 1 point
Disagree: 1,3,8,10,11,14,15,17,24,25,27,28,29,32,34,37,38,44,47,48,50: 1 point
Score: 40

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404 Error

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Snapshot Report
Self-report Component
Subscale IQ score = 63
Subscale percentile = 1


According to your self-report answers, your emotional intelligence is very poor. People who score like you do feel that they have trouble dealing with their own emotions and those of others. They struggle to overcome difficulties in their lives and they are unable to control their moods. It's hard for them to understand how best to motivate themselves and reach their goals. In addition, they find social interactions quite difficult, for several reasons. They may have trouble allowing themselves to get close with others, finding it difficult to be vulnerable enough to establish intimacy. They also report having trouble offering support to others, likely due to the fact that they do not understand where others are coming from or they lack ideas about how best to help. Perhaps by working on your problem areas, you can become more confident in dealing with your own emotions and those of others.

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You have indicated that 20 of the items are true of you.

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Your score: 30
A typical score is in the range 22-30. If you scored over 30,
you are very accurate at decoding a person's facial expressions
around their eyes. A score under 22 indicates you find this quite difficult.

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Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 62.
In other words, you got 86% correct.

Your result for The Broad Autism Phenotype Test ...
Autistic/BAP

You scored 123 aloof, 123 rigid and 103 pragmatic
You scored above the cutoff on all three scales. Clearly, you are either autistic or on the broader autistic phenotype. You probably are not very social, and when you do interact with others, you come off as strange or rude without meaning to. You probably also like things to be familiar and predictable and don't like changes, especially unexpected ones.


Aspie-quiz
Your Aspie score: 160 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 44 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
Final


Your Autism Quotient (AQ) is 44 out of 50

Your Empathy Quotient (EQ) is 6 out of 80

Your Friendship and Relationship Quotient (FQ) is 35 out of 135

Your Systematizing Quotient (SQ) is 48 out of 80


But got 75% on the ace recognition test, though! )



.... not dx'd, going through hoops at the mo' (because my daughter is showing the same behaviours as I did, and I don't know how to make her childhood easier than mine was, but I don't want her labelled in the school system - both of us obnoxious academic over-achievers, figure authority figures will cut her some slack when they meet me, and just go with the 'like mother like daughter' approach to her socially-incompetent smart-arsedness ;-D).

You might be an aspie if tests like these kind of remind you of taking those personality quizes like on facebook (or quizilla back in the day ). Oh wait wrong thread, my bad >_<

Actually as long as the test makes it very clear that this is not a diagnoses and that you still may have the condition or may not despite results I think it's a great thing for people questioning whether or not they should get formally diagnosed.

I actually took all of the tests before I signed up for the forum, so I dont have my exact scores. I did OK on face recognition and reading the expressions in the eyes. I felt that the eye quiz was fairly easy and yet my score was still not much better than average.

I scored as likely to have Aspergers on the Aspie Quiz (the last one posted). On the one with around 185 questions I scored 155/200 points, and all of the categories were a high percentage. I have taken the AQ exam a few times in the past and today, and I always score a 37. It has led me to honestly consider I might be an Aspie.

I think the standard criteria that I have read in the past led me to think I wouldn't be a candidate, but then I started reading how gender is a factor as well. Girls and women have a different set of signs than boys and men. The differences are quite remarkable. When I started reading about women who had Aspergers I realized that this could really be me as well.

EDIT:
I went ahead and retook most of the tests to record my scores:
BAP:
Your result for The Broad Autism Phenotype Test ...
Autistic/BAP

You scored 118 aloof, 121 rigid and 97 pragmatic
You scored above the cutoff on all three scales. Clearly, you are either autistic or on the broader autistic phenotype. You probably are not very social, and when you do interact with others, you come off as strange or rude without meaning to. You probably also like things to be familiar and predictable and don't like changes, especially unexpected ones.

AQ:
Agree: 2,4,5,6,7,12,13,16,18,19,22,23,26,33,39,41,42,45,46: 1 point
Disagree: 1,10,11,15,17,24,25,27,28,29,30,31,32,34,37,38,40,44,47,48,49,50: 1 point
Score: 41

EQ was not found-404 error

HSP:

You have indicated that 25 of the items are true of you.

Scoring:
If you answered more than fourteen of the questions as true of yourself, you are probably highly sensitive. But no psychological test is so accurate that an individual should base his or her life on it. We psychologists try to develop good questions, then decide on the cut off based on the average response.

Aspie Quiz:

Final version 2
Thank you for filling out this questionnaire.

Your Aspie score: 153 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 77 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
Your MBTI type: ISTJ

I am not sure what this last "MBTI type" is

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AQ-35
EQ-22
FQ-30
SQ-40
SQ-R-88

what a load of baloney! - how's it going to help anyone testing people for stuff when Autistics/ AS people have already had to endure years of hell at School etc and faced harsh trials in life, already - when will people be accepted as they are, left alone to get on with their lives in peace, listened to, trusted and believed in without a batch of unskilled no-hopers coming along and interfering in ordinary people's lives just because they "happen" to be int wrong place at the wrong time

As recently self-diagnosed, and prone to hypochondria, these scores could be higher than my "real" scores
I once took myself to hospital with imaginary chest pains (just anxiety or reflux) - so the hypochondria is real (or maybe a dash of OCD)

Test 1 - BAP

Aloof 105 Rigid 106 Pragmatic 87 - Autistic/BAP

Test 2 - AQ

Wired - AQ 40
Newsweek - AQ 38

Test 3 - EQ/SQ

EQ 11 SQ 107 "extreme systematizer"

Test 4 - Emotional IQ

Flunked this one: 69 (bottom 2%)

Test 5 - HSP

Got 17 (threshold 14) - so I am an HSP

Test 6 - Eyes

Got 28 right! Take that, emotional IQ!

Test 7 - Faces

Hmmm, forgot to write it down. Think I did OK, though.

Test 8

(cannot post image - haven't had 5 posts yet!)

Your Aspie score: 127 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 82 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
Your MBTI type: INTP (I always come out as strong INT and borderline J/P)

Other Tests

Alexithymia - 142/185 (threshold is 113)

To the OP:

Hi! I recently got diagnosed with Asperger's. And, I noticed that you put HSP test in there. I took that one over a year ago. And, after I found out about Asperger's and what it was, I recognized a lot of similarities right away. Do you have any information regarding Autism and a link with HSP? I would be greatly interested in that. I scored 21 in the book test and I'm definitely HSP. Especially, after reading the book. Only, it's hard to get a proper diagnosis of it since it isn't widely known.

Thanks,
Upo.

Hello Scientist. Kindly refer to my response below to one of our fellow subscribers who eloquently expresses her confusion and frustrations with the doctors and health professionals who are involved in the diagnosis and treatment of the autism spectrum.

I present this to you as an alternative perspective of how the test and their respective measures and scores may be interpreted-or misinterpreted- when the very idea and definition of reality is questioned.

Is everything one or is everything many!?

I would be happy and excited to receive any of your thoughts and criticisms in this regard:

Hello RainBowButterfly. May I say first of all that the prose of your handle should be your name as it also reflects the beauty of your character represented by your words below:

"Though, what's interesting is that my last psychologist eventually diagnosed me with asperger's, even though I didn't explain many of these developmental delays with the last one. This psychologist says that I have PDD-NOS with a few asperger's characteristics in the past, and am not autistic, but the last one said that I was on the spectrum. I've also noticed that there appears to be many mixed opinions about whether PDD-NOS or asperger's are forms of autism, but it doesn't really matter to me, as long as there is some explanation of why I've felt so different.

It simply just seems as if my brain is wired like a turtle's. Everything's in slow motion with me. I used to even talk at a slower speed than everyone else by dragging out each syllable before I attended speech therapy. Though, some people have told me that my voice is still slow and slightly monotonous. I've never had problems with overstimulation, and I've outgrown many of my challenges with social understanding, but I still do have some awkward moments, occasionally, from time to time, and I'm really terrible with verbal and nonverbal communication.
It's sometimes hard for me to express how I feel, and when I was in college, it would take me 3-6 hours to write a 12 point font, 1 page single spaced, or 2 spaced double spaced essay. Also, when it comes to reading facial expressions, it's hard for me to understand any complex language other than a smile means someone's happy, and a frown means they are upset. "

RainBowButterfly I understand your frustrations with the professionals so much so that I wrote a short treatise in my unpublished manuscript Entitled THE EINSTEIN METAPHYSICS: A UNIFIED FIELD THEORY & THE SECRET OF LIFE that I believe may evidence, describe and define the cause and effects of autism/Asperger syndrome. Kindly let me know if any of my ideas resonate with you.

Here it is:

The physiology of autism may be an affliction of the doctors and health professionals, not the observed autistic!

The professionals and the observed autistic may perceive reality in diametric contradistinction.

To the professionals, "everything is many". To the autistic:

Everything is One…You
You create two, three…Me.
Reality defined as thought, energy, experience, matter and objects are willfully created by Your sentient consciousness.
Time, distance, motion, change, and choice are created illusion.
Light and the universe originate from You.
You are much greater than the outline of Your body.

The beauty and placid serenity of this perception is as resilient and resistant to the observed autistic as is the perception of the confusing and chaotic “everything is many” to the health professionals.

The autistic intentionally and willfully does not create “Self”, “I am”, or “me” out of consciousness before, during or after the perceived expulsion from the womb, and is physically one with the universe/environment while the perception of the professionals is that the autistic is a dividing organism (birth) in the professional's own likeness with sentient temporal distance & differences of their own creation!

As the health professionals perceive or witnesses a birth as a dividing event, separate and outside of “self”, they also witness or perceive the autistic as a defective being, separate, and outside of their “self” not realizing and resisting/denying the fact that the autistic creates, and senses no differences, and is physically – and literally - one with every thing.

The specific therapy by the professionals to require the observed autistic to adopt the perception of “everything is many”, is to convince and persuade the autistic by working one-on-one and eliminating, and/or diminishing, all intrusive stimuli, light, sound, odors, etc. (consider a hyperbaric sensory deprivation chamber), as they become glaring, hurtful, and disruptive respectively, so that the autistic eventually perceives that creation of “self”, “I am”, “me”, is a viable option, subsequent to becoming one of the many, and finally adapting to the perception that "everything is many."

Otherwise and most profoundly, the doctors and health professionals have the option, and opportunity to acknowledge and adopt the perceived reality of “Everything is One…You”, following the lead of the autistic to develop and maintain the science, art, metaphors, tools and technologies of eliminating “self”, “I am”, “me” in order to create an alternative reality, universe, dimension, illusion and experience one organism…You!


The autistic perception is the unrecognized evolution of mankind being One organism…You!

Peace be unto You RainBowButterfly.
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Everything is One...You.
You create two, three...me.
You are much greater than the outline of your body

Thanks for posting these!

Came out lower on the RDOS test than I did 3 years ago (and no, I *still* haven't been able to figure out how to get help).

My results:
1) Broad Autism Phenotype Test: 118 aloof, 112 rigid and 85 pragmatic
2) AQ: 35
3) EQSQ: Not available
4) EIQ: 80 (somewhat poor)
5) Highly sensitive person test 14 (says more than 14 means you're highly sensitive, whatever that means)
6) Baron Cohen eyes test: 23 (normal is 22-30)
7) Face Blindness test 40 of 72 (56%)
8 ) RDOS: Aspie 118/200
NT 89/200 (three years ago it was like 150ish and 50ish)

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BAP:
114 aloof
114 rigid
111 pragmatic
8% diagnosis (whatever that means....not sure)

AQ: 44

EQ: 12

SQ 94
(Extreme systemizer)

EIQ: 61

HSP: 21 true, highly sensitive

"mind in eyes": 18 correct