What are your scores on the "Short Autism Screening Test?"

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I scored 26 and am an undiagnosed aspie. I really do not feel like this is a useful indicator for autism. A lot of the questions could be skewed because of one's opinion on how well they (for instance) read someones body language, when infact they are actually much worse at it then they believe.

8 yet I have a diagnosis of hfa.

Personally I think this test goes on your perception. Do you think you had trouble socially rather than if you for real did.
I never thought I was wrong lol. I thought others were strange but not me for ages

According to a few tests I made:

Age is ignored. So is gender

The questions are equally weighted.

You get 3 points for a trait that has always been true, 2 for a trait that is true only now, and 1 for a trait that was only true when you were young (and you need at least 14 points for autism to be deemed possible).

The maximum possible score is 42.

I got 30, and am a diagnosed aspie.

The options aren't good enough IMO: I miss "sometimes" and "it depends on the situation/people". Black and white answers aren't sufficient.

I am an officially-diagnosed Aspie.

29. Self-diagnosed.

This "screening tool" is probably designed to determine whether or not further testing may be warranted...however, I agree that the questions aren't great, and the scale is too rigid. About half of the questions should have been a "sometimes true", whether now/when I was a kid/both.

Also, memory is sometimes unreliable...I may have been wrong on a few because of that.

37 but I'm not sure that test is reliable at all.

I scored 34, but I'm wondering. If you had sensory issues as a child, why wouldn't you have the same sensory issues as an adult? Unless you never really had sensory issues as a child, but thought you did and now you realise you don't and never did. Some of the other questions are in the same vein.

My score was 33.

My diagnostic situation is complicated, as I switched psychologists and diagnoses, but I'm an aspie.

40. Waiting on diagnostic report but assessor thinks it is likely I will be diagnosed.

I think one of the main problems I had with this, aside from having to judge things myself (it turned out at my assessment that my eye contact was worse than I thought it was...), is that it doesn't allow you to indicate the degree to which the symptom is problematic.

For example, I have problems with literal interpretation but these are less severe than when I was a child.

That said, I can imagine a screening this short could be useful in an academic setting if you were screening potential people for a study - a short and snappy questionnaire which is less likely to turn people away before they've committed to the study (reducing drop outs) while still vetting the participant pool to a smaller number for when you have actual interviews or a longer questionnaire.

I got a 22.

I think this is because of all of the social situation questions. I have never really shied away from social situations. It's more my thing to walk right into the middle of them and say something that embarrasses everyone in the room (extrovert here). It's really debatable where/if I fall on the spectrum because of these kinds of things for me, and because I had normal speech development.

40, not surprised to be honest.

36