I'm not sure if I did it right since it asked if numbers have colors which they do for me but that's only because of a card game I played all the time as a kid. There wasn't an 'unsure' box so I went with 'yes' because I do think of them with those colors often but they don't have to have those colors. (The game was skip-bo and in it 1-4 were green, 5-8 were orange-red and 9-12 were purple. The wild cards with the logo on them were blue.) I played that game from such an early age that I don't know if I'd think of numbers having colors if I hadn't.
There is no such things as Nurture vs Nature as both effect a person, even in a (this is only an example) but even in a empty windowless white room a kid would have both (or in the woods - even more likely).
Nature = genetics
Nurture = enviroment
So the test is flawed in my opinion but it wasn't very long and I alway second guess myself on this kinds of test. There's never quite the right choice listed to pick.
And my results:
The AS Test - Results (May 18 2011, 2:17 am)
AS Test Score: 72 / 72
This score means that it is quite likely that you are on the autistic spectrum. To discuss your results, or for more information, head to the Spectrumites forum (http://www.spectrumites.com - A forum for autistic community discussion, activism and support. The link will take you to the Facebook AS Test discussion).
Below is a list of the criteria used to create this test. Entries in green are criteria that are likely to apply to you, entries in yellow are criteria that may or may not apply to you, and entries in red are criteria that are unlikely to apply to you.
A: Possesses a decreased tendency to socially osmose behaviors and beliefs, as manifested by 5 of the following:
i) Difficulties with non-autistic social interaction (such as missing social cues, difficulties with small talk, difficulties learning what constitutes culturally acceptable behavior, etc).
ii) Marked differences in the use of non-verbal behaviors (such as using more or less eye contact that the norm, significant amount of blinking during eye contact, unusual facial expressions, decreased or increased use of hand gestures, unusual body posture, etc).
iii) Difficulties in recognition of non-verbal communication (such as difficulties in recognising subtleties of facial expressions, difficulties picking up emotional cues that are recognisable to others, etc).
iv) A tendency to develop interests independent of social influences, or a tendency to not adopt interests that are shared by an immediate social group.
v) A tendency to develop a significant number of ethical rules, belief systems, or rules of etiquette that can not be traced back to cultural or social influence.
vi) A tendency toward literal interpretation of verbal communication and of the behavior of others.
vii) A need for explicit instruction in matters (such as social interaction) that others typically learn implicitly (by using an instinctual knowledge base to watch and figure out what should be done).
B: Is affected by "Autistic Inertia", as manifested by 3 of the following:
i) Persistent difficulty in commencing new projects or tasks, changing activities or activity levels, or moving to the next step of an existing project or task.
ii) A tendency to focus on a particular task to the exclusion of all else.
iii) A tendency to develop "special interests" - interests that involve a larger amount of time or a greater intensity of focus than the norm.
iv) A tendency to adopt repetitive motor movements (such as hand flapping, leg bouncing, or complex body motions).
v) A tendency to develop specific non-cultural rituals, habits, or routines, and to adhere to these rituals, habits, or routines with a greater intensity than the norm.
C: Has sensory processing differences, as manifested by 2 of the following:
i) Difficulties functioning within or coping with high sensory environments (such as around fluorescent or flashing lights, around certain types of background noise, or around other types of sensory stimuli that would not bother most people significantly).
ii) Hypersensitivity or hyposensitivity to particular sensory stimuli (such as acute hearing, a particularly high or low tolerance for pain, an abnormal ability to notice small visual details, difficulties in noticing sensory stimuli that are immediately apparent to others, etc).
iii) Has an unusual degree of interest in, or obtains an unusual amount of pleasure from particular sounds, colours, patterns, or textures (where the interest or pleasure is derived purely from sensory stimuli, rather than from association to something else).
iv) Has a tendency to focus on particular parts of objects, rather than the object as a whole.
v) Possesses some form of synesthesia - the tendency to experience one form of sensory or conceptual experience as an entirely separate form of sensory or conceptual experience (such as experiencing visual or scent stimuli when particular sounds occur; strongly associating specific colours, sounds, or personalities to numbers or words; etc).
vi) Difficulties identifying people by their facial features.
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I am female and was diagnosed on 12/30/11 with PDD-NOS, which overturned my previous not-quite-a-diagnosis of Asperger's Disorder from 2010
17 May 2011, 5:13 am
