If an aspie gets interrogated using a polygraph...

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Would every word that comes out of him/her be detected as a lie, even if he/she tells the truth 100%?

A lie detector is not 100% accurate.

I wonder if a polygraph would work on an aspie. I suspect we would send the readings all over the place. I know that with my anxiety I would look like I'm lying about my own name.

The person who uses the polygraph will adapt the output with control questions.

They don't work terribly well on NTs either.

courts of law generally don't consider the results of them reliable enough to be admissible as evidence.

Back when I was in school in my science class. We had a guest visited are class with his polygraph machine. As part of the science in our class. I was amongst one the students who volunteered to take the test and they could never get the machine to work on me. It keep giving inaccurate reading. The readings I gave off where so bad that he though that the machine has lost all of it's calibration and was about to take it out of service. He told me that I had very little or no emotional response to the questions ask or they where out of sync.

The polygraph measures physiological reactions. The operator interprets the results. They compare how you react to real questions against how you react to control questions. The more the variance, the more inclined they are to believe you are lying.

Polygraphs are more harmful to people who are truthful than to liars. The variance is so narrow that most anything could be an indicator of deception. Liars, on the other hand, have wider variance so the minor ones aren't considered to be "lies."

All bunk science in large part.

Of course we all know that they have virtually no effect on a psychopath, even if one had just committed a serious crime.

For an Aspie, we're really getting into the realm of the hypothetical, but if one of them had committed a heinous crime and was subject to a polygraph, I imagine that he would break down from the anxiety and stress and his readings would spell confession.

It isn't called a "Ouija-Graph" for nothing, it seems.

The results are all up to the operator, whose job is not so much to interpret the subject's responses to his questions, but to intimidate the subject into confessing to criminal or immoral acts. The operator will never say that the subject is innocent, but that the results indicate stress to certain leading questions, or that the results are "inconclusive".

We were researching some biometric devices to diagnose Cystic Fibrosis, and one of them measured the level of perspiration. Out of about two-dozen employees, only myself and the boss's daughter had no reaction (no change in skin profusion) when we lied about which number we had written down, which card we were holding, and what color of shirt the examiner was wearing. Later polygraph tests were "inconclusive" for me, as well. Also, I can not be hypnotized.

I would never, ever take a polygraph test under any circumstances, because they are complete BS. It just measures your physiological state, and then leaves you completely at the mercy of the interpreter. Knowing me, just the thought of the polygraph falsely detecting a lie during an important question would be enough to cause a heightened physiological state.

I read that psychopathic types generally "pass" lie detector tests. people who have no compunctions against harming other people [no sense of guilt over such] would seem to do well on them.

Only thing that makes me nervous about them is my anxiety and I fear it might be mistaken me as lying. There are websites online that tell you how to pass a polygraph test.