Undiagnosed aspies- how did you come to the conclusion?

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Hello, I ve taken these tests too.


Here are the results:

Systemizing : 57
Empathy: 18

(I didn't expect to get such results, see my commentary below.)

Autism Spectrum Quotient: 36.
Reading the mind in the eyes: 23.
(Well, I almost expected these, because I had already taken these tests a few months ago and scored 31 and 22 )


As I've said before, I once believed that I had AS. (that was about 3 years ago) But then (last year) I came to the conclusion that I wasn't aspie, because I had less problems with meeting people and making friends.
Now I think that maybe it's not AS that I have, but something else that has the same characteristics. What do you think?

I took the 4 tests and here are my results:

Autism Spectrum Quotient: 43 out of 50.
According to the test, most people with AS score around 35. Average people score 11-22.

Empathy Quotient Test: 17 out of 80.
According to this test, most people with AS or HFA score about 20. Average people score 33-52.

Systemizing Quotient: 48 out of 80.
Most people with AS score in the 40-50 range and average people score 20-39.

Reading the Mind in the Eyes: 17 out of 36.
Typical score is 22-30 and a score under 22 indicates it's quite difficult for the examinee.

In addition, I do exhibit alot of the symptoms of it although I've never been diagnosed. Even though I have no diagnosis, stuff like this is enough to make one wonder.

It's okay hey don't worry about it I know a program I can use to add them, or I'll just draw them in by hand!

Thanx.

Systemizing : 67 (it is mainly because I like to know things but it is in the high range)
Empathy : 21 (AS range)
Autism Spectrum Quotient : 37 (AS range)
Reading the Eye : 23 (ten more than last time I took it, but in the meantine, I took it three times with friends so I remembered some answers)

Loy

Thanks, Scott!

These tests are for children, so I looked back into the past and tried to recall what I was like when I was 10 years old. My results:

PDD test: 100-107 (range reflects the fact that I was not sure about some answers, so I tried all relevant possibilities)

Tony Attwood's test:
I think that the scale is not defined well enough to make average meaningful. So here's another approach:
Sections A-E, answers graded 2-6: 19/24
Section F, answers 'yes': 7/10

Dear Civet,

My husband just figured out at age 55 that he has Asperger's. He was misdiagnosed years ago with OCD, after he was sent home from an engineering project for being too controling and disruptive. I'll spare you the details on how we've failed marriage counseling five times, and I always knew we were dealing with something much deeper than those types of issues.

In the spring of this year, picked up a Time Magazine artile at the car wash. It was about autism. When it got to the part about high functioning, and engineers, and high tech folks, etc., the description of the problems and triumphs jumped off the pages as if it was my husband's autobiography. I flew home and got on the computer. I read a good bit about it, and if you go to google and enter, Roger Meyer/asperger's, you will get of a long list of traits. Roger Meyer has asperger's. He lives in OR and was not doing well in his job due to his asperger's. Now, he has redirected his career and is a speicalist on Asperger's. I have found his list of traits to be the most helpful of anything we have read.

I was not sure how to approach my husband on this. So, I also had seen a list of famous people that have had it that have made quite a positive name for themselves. I explained to him about the Time article, told him about the famous people, and ask him to put his initial by every characteristic that he believes fits a description of him. He initialed about 90% of a long list. I found some like, "verbose" that he failed to check. He did not know what verbose meant. I explained that's why I have seen people literally raise their hand to get a word in edgewise. Then, I ordered some books on it. (Go to Amazon.com and enter asperger's under the search field). The more books we read, the more we know he has it. Problem is, we can't find any meaningful help here in SC for it. We don't know what to expect for progress and improvement if he had the right social help.

We saw a neuropsycholgist that specializes in testing children. She spent almost 3 hours interviewing my husband and agrees that he does in fact have many strong characteristics. Testing will only give him a label. He does not want his peers at work to discover he has this. He thinks they could find out if the HR people saw the insurance code for Asperger's come through the normal channels. He is considering entering a study at the UNIV of Pittsburg, because as we understand it, they will test for free as part of the study.

I should think that a benefit of testing would be that you could better tell which aspects of the condition are most effected. If they get a handle on that, they may be able to know what traits to use that are good ones, to help over-ride the less positive ones.

The O.A.S.I.S site has a link where you can locate an expert in Asperger's. The nearest to us, in terms of a psychiatrist, is 6 hrs. up the road. The neuropsychologist was listed there and she was local. It was DEVINE to have a conversation with a professional that was not CLUELESS, and could put everything we were saying in the correct context of this diagnosis..as she understood it well. Try to find out what potential professionals know before you waste your time and money.

Best of luck. PM me and let me know if this helps, after you read the Roger Meyer list.

systemising - 38 (but they didn't ask me any questions about the things I really systemise! Like drawing, painting, creating with hidden order in the disorder)
empathy - 16
Autism - 35 (I've done this a few times and this is the lowest I've had - highest was 40)
Eyes – 14 (ooh - this one hurt - I work with photos of peoples faces all the time, and make guesses as to what they'd be like to know... I think I might give up on that bit!

I've read a heap of stuff, puzzled over things I did in my childhood, puzzled over other's frustration with me, found similarities and differences between me and friends with various mental illnesses. I wrote up a big list and showed it to my psychiatrist, who ummed and aahed, and said I might have a point. It's a kind of accumulation of knowledge about myself and watching my son (who's pdd-nos). I've trained myself to control certain parts of me when in public, but I still drive the people that know me well quite mad!

I took the other three tests on the same page with the AQ test

systemizing - 41
empathy - 9!
mind in the eyes - 24