RAADS-R online test

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Your total score is: 163. This is above the threshold score of 65. You may have an autistic spectrum disorder and it may be worth consulting a qualified clinician.

Here is a detailed breakdown of your results:

Social relatedness : 84 (threshold 31)
Language : 7 (threshold 4)
Sensory/motor : 39 (threshold 16)
Circumscribed Interests : 33 (threshold 15)

This test was black and white. A wish they had sometimes. Like I can tell when someone says one thing and means something else. I had to answer True for me now than saying sometimes.



Your total score is: 149. This is above the threshold score of 65. You may have an autistic spectrum disorder and it may be worth consulting a qualified clinician.

Here is a detailed breakdown of your results:

Social relatedness : 79 (threshold 31)
Language : 10 (threshold 4)
Sensory/motor : 40 (threshold 16)
Circumscribed Interests : 21 (threshold 15)


I was expecting to score lower.

To a certain extent you are right. This is designed as a screening tool and as such is only really meant to screen out the obviously NT people while catching even mildly AS ones. It would be interesting to see the results from a few NTs. I suspect the results would be very different.



We are seeing some very high scores here and it is possible some of us are unconsciously exaggerating some of our answers, almost wanting to get the highest score. We have to keep in mind the test is designed to pick up undiagnosed adults with AS, most of whom are relatively mildly affected. Most people with more severe problems get picked up much earlier in life (even if the initial diagnosis points to some other issue). By definition WP has a very high concentration of people on the spectrum, most more strongly affected than this test is designed for.

Pretty much. Your average NT would score significantly below the threshold.

To a certain extent, yes. However you can't rely on it's accuracy because the questionnaire relies on your self knowledge. Your answers can be distorted in either direction by your perceptions of yourself.
Tests like this are trying to find out how you think, not how you act. You may well appear to most to have NT speech patterns but your thought processes may well be very different. How can you tell if you think differently? Unless it is very obvious you can't. I am colour blind in some shades of green. Leaves on trees look green to me but others who are not colour blind probably see those leaves in a very different way to me. We would both describe the colour as green so how can you tell the difference? However if I take a colour blindness test I will fail in green because the test is specifically designed to pick it up. It rarely causes any problems for me in practice though occasionally I do get surprised when someone describes something as green and it looks a different colour to me.

I don't know about the former, but I agree to that the test is designed for people who had a fair amount of functional communication as a child and the opportunity to utilise it. If someone didn't talk yet or talked very little, some of the questions are difficult to answer. Asking about how one reacts (and reacted in childhood) to some things that require a certain amount of speech or other means of communication and attentiveness are hard to answer if you hardly talked and were aloof to a lot of social interaction.

I am definitely not mildly affected. The funny thing was that I was trying to interpret the questions as strictly as I could, and I thought I was going to score much lower than my first time, but my second score was close to the first.

Anyway, I think that people can slip through the cracks without a diagnosis with more severe problems for a variety of reasons (in my case, my IQ score kept convincing people I couldn't really have any cognitive deficits, even though I had been identified by family friends, teachers, and put into special ed for one year and nearly for all of high school).

Now that I put it that way, I don't think I slipped through the cracks. I think it was spotted several times, but my parents refused to look into anything.

That is interesting. It hints that the test is doing a good job.
That unfortunately is a very common problem. Tests like this and the AQ test are designed to be very specific and as such are probably pretty good at their job. The problem is that a lot of people who should really know better still associate autism with 'rain man' and/or low intelligence. The situation is improving as more people are becoming aware of AS and HFA.

Blocking it out - 'My child can't be defective!' is a very natural reaction. My young nephew was fairly recently diagnosed with AS. Deep down his parents knew from quite an early age but it took some pretty serious issues at school to bring it to a head and make them truly acknowledge the problem. Now it is in the open and they can get help, life has become easier for everyone involved.

Education is probably the best way to combat this. If parents truly understand what is going on they are more likely to accept it. Again the situation is improving.

Your total score is: 204. This is above the threshold score of 65. You may have an autistic spectrum disorder and it may be worth consulting a qualified clinician.

Here is a detailed breakdown of your results:

Social relatedness : 96 (threshold 31)
Language : 21 (threshold 4)
Sensory/motor : 47 (threshold 16)
Circumscribed Interests : 40 (threshold 15)

That was my point, I definitely am not autistic but I scored above cutoff.

And even then, I was only noticably above cutoff in one area: motor and mannerisms I think, and that was considered as equal to the final score as getting a similar mark on social interaction - an area far more important than motor.

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I do my best to answer accurately as possible but it's very hard when the answer are in black and white. So I have to answer how I feel or give the closest answer so I don't think my score is accurate.

If I understand correctly, you have already been diagnosed with AS though you don't believe the dx to be correct. Presumably you must display at least some characteristics that are very similar to autism, even if they are not actually due to autism. As a screening tool this test would correctly flag you as needing more detailed assessment.



There are a lot fewer motor questions than social questions so they obviously attach more importance to the social side. Your total score is the only important number. The breakdown is simply there for your reference.

Presumably that is why they recommend having a trained specialist to help you answer the questions. In my personal opinion being helped by a specialist may affect the result by a few points but that would only have any real effect close to the threshold. If you score well over or well under I doubt that having help would significantly affect the results.

I also answered as accurately as possible but found myself wishing there were a "sometimes" for some of the ones I answered "true" for, because it wasn't necessarily a frequent thing.

~Kate

Your total score is: 222. This is above the threshold score of 65. You may have an autistic spectrum disorder and it may be worth consulting a qualified clinician.

Here is a detailed breakdown of your results:

Social relatedness : 107 (threshold 31)
Language : 21 (threshold 4)
Sensory/motor : 54 (threshold 16)
Circumscribed Interests : 40 (threshold 15)

Me liking the 222 because it is all 2s! I always score highly on these things though but I do have a diagnosis.

Your total score is: 190. This is above the threshold score of 65. You may have an autistic spectrum disorder and it may be worth consulting a qualified clinician.

Here is a detailed breakdown of your results:

Social relatedness : 94 (threshold 31)
Language : 15 (threshold 4)
Sensory/motor : 42 (threshold 16)
Circumscribed Interests : 39 (threshold 15)


Thanks for the link RazorEddie.

Thank you for the effort that you exerted to computerize this test.

I still don't have any kind of official diagnosis for Asperger's or ASD

However I doubt this score is reflective of my normality.

Your total score is: 187. This is above the threshold score of 65. You may have an autistic spectrum disorder and it may be worth consulting a qualified clinician.

Here is a detailed breakdown of your results:

Social relatedness : 90 (threshold 31)
Language : 12 (threshold 4)
Sensory/motor : 55 (threshold 16)
Circumscribed Interests : 30 (threshold 15)