I went to take this test and quickly noticed a whole lot of gaping issues in the way it functions as a diagnostic test. Before I had answered a dozen questions, I had already determined the mechanics of the test and all of its faults and biases.
Of primarily significance, is that this is not a test to determine if a person actually has Asperger's or high-functioning Autism. Instead, this is a test to determine how well integrated a person is with with neurotypical societal viewpoints.
Aspies tend to learn how to integrate themselves with neurotypicals via hiding their Aspie traits over time in their life. Therefore if you take this quiz and focus the answers on how you were as a child, you will often get very different results as compared to answering from a current standpoint.
In my case, I am consciously aware of every decision I make to modify my behaviour, in order to fit in with whatever social situation I am in -- but this in no way suggests that this is my *desired* way to live, or that I would not behave differently if there were no punishments for "being myself". I would much prefer being allowed to be myself without punishment and prejudice, but that isn't a variety of society currently available.
Clearly if the goal of the quiz is to be used as a diagnostic tool, then the questions *must* be ones which will be just as true even after the person has learned to hide their differences, and in this regard, this quiz is a dismal failure.
A person is no less Aspergian simply because they have learned a skill of hiding their Aspergian traits. This is equivalent to saying that a homosexual person is not homosexual, if they have merely learned to hide being a homosexual -- this is ridiculous.
I have therefore decided to take the quiz twice, the first being answered from the perspective of when I was in Elementary School around age 9 years old, and the second being answered as a 30-something adult with all of my life experiences and gathered knowledge.
Myself As A Child:
Your Aspie score: 180 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 20 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
Myself As An Adult:
Your Aspie score: 96 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 134 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical
I am anything but neurotypical, what a useless quiz...
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