RAADS-R: Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Adults

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I'm not even going to bother taking that. I read the first 5 questions and to be honest I'm really not even sure what to put for them. Not to mention I don't want to have to count all that up. The test definitely needs some major improvements.

I'm sure I'd get at least a 150. I've always scored high on AS tests.

Actually, they say that there should be someone there administering the test who will clarify any questions that confuse the test-taker.

Thank you so much for that.
I had the notion, but not the technical prowess to do that myself.
Awesome

I too had trouble with answering some of the questions. Many seemed to have more than one plausible answer, or no entirely correct answer. The language was confusing on several of them. Sympathy to those who had trouble with this test.
Funny enough, an NT person I know who took the test (score 41) said they had no problems understanding the questions. and wondered why on earth I did....

As some have said, this test is not exactly meant to be an online self-assessment. It is apparently the final draft of one of the next generation diagnostic tools for clinicians to use in their work with patients on the Autism Spectrum. Ideally, you would take this test in the presence of a doctor who would be available to clarify and help answer questions.

All the same, these results are really interesting... keep it going

Interesting, and always useful to have some other 'calibration' thing going on with these tests.
Somewhat astonishing they had no problems with the questions though. From a different planet, evidently.

I pondered over it for minutes... Ended up with "never", though I'm certain there is a handful of people who regard me a sympathetic person, aside from my immediate family.

Wow! - yeah, I just assumed anyone / everyone would have problems with at least several of the questions - like that was a given and even understood to be the case by the designers of it - for me it's kind of creepy to hear that someone had no problem like that!

Very clear and simple questions and beside my English is not good, i understand them very well. But lot of tests online and no where help.

161.

I don't like the fact I cannot "graduate", e.g. if I've always had a trait I cannot say whether it is severe or mild, which I could do in the Aspie quiz, for instance.

I also don't think that the "Only now" vs "When I was younger" is correctly scored.
If I don't know how to act in social situations, how can it be it is more relevant if I have this issue JUST NOW, that if I had it only as a child? In the latter case, it might have learnt coping skills; if I have the issue just now but not when younger, it is not AS.

While I agree that many of the questions are subject to interpretation and the choices may not always fit, the purpose of this test is to partition a population, not characterize an individual's particular experiences and traits. Basically, it only has to reliably determine that I am or am not autistic. If 95% of the time it correctly does this then it is a very good test. The degree of autism, the levels of impairment, and all the other issues surrounding autism are not relevant to this test.

So I am compelled to wonder if changing the column choices would in anyway effect the accuracy of the test. The same for rewording the questions.

I had a feeling I was over analysising the questions that stumped me - and I wondered if an NT would have that same problem. Apparently not!

My guess is: People are more likely to accurately self-report what is true in the present than in the past - so it is more likely that, even if you say "only now" it may have been true as a child as well, whereas if it was only true as a child, you may have outgrown it (although most of my "only as a child" answers were due to conscious adaptation, so whatever).

Another possibility is that some of these were not problems as a child because you didn't have enough demands on you to make them apparent. They only became apparent later in life as you were under more and more pressure to perform as expected according to your age.

161

I caught myself almost filling out my name on my own sheet of paper as that was the first thing asked for ... doh, that's taking literal compliance a little too far ! No wonder about the score huh?

I nearly did the same thing, in fact, I was going to print it out so that I could fill in the form, then I realized I was being silly.

I did actually fill out all the personal information. I realized that it was probably unncessary, but filled it out just in case.

I scored 213.

208, but I wasn't entirely sure about a couple of questions, so I might have scored higher or lower.