Mind in the eyes test

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I got 28. I would look at the eyes, formulate an answer, find that my answer wasn't among the choices, read the choices again, then select one of the options from their list. So, I think I scored pretty good on this test

I got 21, which to me confirms what I've been telling therapist and others for quite awhile that I can't read people.

I followed the same technique.... scored 24

Just thought I'd share, my 21yr old scored 22 but was still diagnosed aspergers.

I asked my 12 year old to do the same online test this morning, I had to explain to him what some of the answers meant. He got very cross and frustrated because he couldn't see the mouths, but he scored 23!

I am NT and I did it twice first time I scored 26 the second 27.

i got 26 which is odd since i would look at the picture and try guess the emotion before reading the expression and most of my answers were i dont know or angry. those werent on the list. basically i guessed them all and still got'em right. yay? i've done this test before though. it was quite a while ago.

Me too. I actually get an exceptionally high score in this, only one wrong, and even that one was because I doubted myself and changed it from the right answer before submitting. It's probably been one of the reasons I've eventually learned to pass for nice-but-odd, because I can read more of the feedback I've been getting than the average ASDer.

Real life situations are very different though and I come across as far from exceptional in terms of social fluency and ease, and I've been told I don't seem to be aware of other people's reactions at times. While I can read far more body language than most ASDers report when interacting, and especially when observing as an outsider, I don't notice certain cues because there is so much broader context and data to take into account that doesn't automatically get processed and held in mind, and the result is confusion, and the facial expressions aren't static and very often people deliberately manipulate their facial expressions, for example to show irony or half-hide their boredom, and I can't naturally read manipulated facial expressions, only unconscious and uninhibited ones.

So I'm still often confused by what's happening and what's expected of me, even though I often know fairly accurately what people's feelings are when they're strong enough to show on the face. My general cognitive abilities are very uneven and it seems that extends to my social cognitive abilities too.

I got 24; most of the images didn't immediately suggest anything other than positive/negative/neutral emotional categories to me, so anything with multiple choices in the correct category was a bit of a crapshoot.

I did this test in February, I scored 27. As I recall, I gave time to it generously, and tried to select the right option by looking at the eyes, wandering through the options and trying to choose the one that fits the best. In some cases I turned to a dictionary. This is absolutely not comparable to real-life situations, where there is only a very limited time to evaluate a facial expression. I wonder if this slowness is different in nature from the usual sloppiness and slowness of my mind, if so, could it be attributed to the lack/slowness/imperfection of mirror neurons.

Somehow I'm reluctant to do the same test over and over again, I'm afraid it would bias the result by the learning effect.