Another proof that I've outgrown my diagnosis.

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Due to my hyperactive nature, I've ADHD, and intelligence I used to, and still, make witty comments about people without knowing their, what I call, local meaning(see my signature) and social implications(I will post my ToM rules this year) which would be very insulting. Then people(NTs) will reply in a similar manner and this would get me more trouble. After few years of hard retrospection I first realized what I call local language rules, at the age of 26 and half, and Theory of Mind rules, at the age of 27.
This is my score on face reading:
Your score 28
Total possible score 36
An average score for this test is 26.2, or 21.9 for an adult with asperger's syndrome. Of course I did undergo this test, that may have had a positive effect but still the score is above average.
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I don't put a lot of faith in the eyes test. It is far too easy to deduce the answers through process of elimination.

I got 18 for this test.

28 is pretty close to the average score for someone with AS.

18 is still close to it too.

16.

I scored 23. It felt good to have so many good answers.

I do a lot worse in reading correctly in real life.

I scored a 20. I must say that test really frustrated me. More than half the time what I saw wasn't even an option.

As an artist, I study facial expressions so I score very high on such tests. But it does not translate well to real life. Not even a little.

I got a 28. You know, I thought about whether one could ever fully outgrow Asperger's, and I decided that I don't think someone can. The only thing the eye test proves is that you can read facial expressions. It doesn't measure whether you can interpret expressions instinctively or had to learn them another way. There's a bit more to Asperger's than that.

wavefreak: People in real life only have the more subtle expressions from the test anyways. People don't turn their head 45 degrees away from you when they look at you suspiciously.

I scored 25, although the first time I took this test I scored 19, and this is my fourth try since December.

I got 30. I'm suprised I did so well.

I think it's impossible to "outgrow" an ASD, but there are many things one can do to minimise it.

The problem I have with this test is that it tells me nothing really. Here is why:

1 If I look at the picture without looking at the list of options below, most of the time I have no idea what the expression is. I then look at the list of choices and pick the 'most likely one' based on what is there (ie if a person is frowning and the other options are happy, excited and joyful, contemplative...I can logically conclude that it is not likely to be one of the first 3 lol).

2 When I do think I know what the expression is, I look at the list of options and the expression is not listed, so I have to go through the process above.

3 They are still pictures and I have time to fully consider and analyse them. In live social situations you don't have this luxury.

4 You cannot ask a person to freeze and hold their expression whilst you pull out a list of multiple choice options so you can figure out what they are thinking/feeling in real life.

Therefore these tests are not a reliable indicator of being able to read facial expressions unless you can look at the picture and know instantaneously what the expression is without a multiple choice guide and freeze frame to help you. If you have to stop and work it out based on the available options because you misread the expression just by looking at it...you probably still have problems lol.