Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) test

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If 80% of Aspies score over 32, then 20% will score under 32... Maybe you are not aspie, or maybe you are in that 20%...

hmmm.....confusing...

anyway you have written some scores in your profile
where did you get those scores from??
were you diagnosed by doctor?? or are they results of online results??

Took this before...42

I took this test multiple times about a year or two ago when I was a senior in college. My AQ scores, at that time, ranged from 19 to 29.

I took it another time seconds ago and I scored 22 on it.

This is coming from someone who was originally diagnosed on the autism spectrum at the age of two years and diagnosed with PDD-NOS at the age of 5 years.

Judging by the posted scores coming from people who were officially diagnosed on the autism spectrum, I guess my scores make me stand out in a way.

I think of the AQ as a BAP test. If you score above 32, then you are likely to be BAP, but ASD is another matter that requires moar moar moar evaluation.

Score:
27 only!

I've taken this test four times now over the course of two years - in various different moods - and I score 41 pretty consistently.

39 and un-DXd, but I feel it takes a lot more than a test like this one to actually diagnose ASD. I think this test can be a jumping-off point to further investigating the possibility of ASD.

I scored 43 twice several months apart. I also think this indicates why some people misunderstand what i do and say. All i can control is my own output. Hopefully this will allow better refective accuracy. I often think about what defines good communication and now it is more apparent that every detail isn't needed, just an overview is most clear.

I got a 28 when gearing my answers towards social interactions with people I know very well (parents, close friends, family, etc.)

I got a 25 when gearing my answers towards social interactions with people I don't know well (a clerk at the bank, the post master, a cashier at Target, a server at a restaurant, etc.)

I know where my issues are and am working on them. I have no doubt I was easily 2-3x this when I was younger...but I've worked really hard on things since then.

That said, I've never had anyone guess that I'm on the spectrum (except my doctor). It's probably because of how hard I worked, from a very young age, on learning body language, intention, ulterior motives, social expectations, etc. At this point, I can appropriately emote, show interest, appropriate eye contact, and have conversations the way an NT would expect any other NT to behave. I find NTs to be more comfortable with me like that. I don't pretend to be anything I'm not or show emotion I don't have, I just look at what I'm feeling and thinking and portray it the way it's considered appropriate to. Though I have no trouble talking to people or getting people to like me (under most circumstances), I find it tiresome and unnatural. Undoubtedly, it's a good skill to have to be able to function like that, but at the end of the day, it isn't me. I'm truly grateful my family is accepting so I can just be who I am without someone obnoxiously snapping their fingers in front of my face to force me to make eye contact.

I was diagnosed as being on the spectrum and I got 28 and 25. I geared one test towards my social interactions with family and close friends [28] while the other I geared towards social interactions with strangers [25].

edit: I went back to the test's page and noticed that it had said on it: "...the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher." I guess we'd both fall in that sort of buffer zone between NT and "autism or a related disorder" as defined by this test. Personally, I felt like my score was pretty accurate. I've always felt like I didn't fit on either side of things. I guess I really am in that strange gray area in between? (at least according to this test)...

I scored 39.

I scored 44.

I scored 40.

Got a 40

I scored 35, this time.