What are your RAADS-R scores?

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Total score: 198.0
Language: 20.0
Social relatedness: 82.0
Sensory/motor: 54.0
Circumscribed interests: 42.0

I wasn't quite sure how to answer on some of the questions. I do better with a measure of frequency rather than presence or absence - I'm not sure how much is significant for some of these. Several of them would have been "sometimes," not really "yes/no," or part of the question applied to me but not all of it. I had to guess which way I should go on those.

Total score: 164.0
Language: 10.0
Social relatedness: 89.0
Sensory/motor: 30.0
Circumscribed interests: 35.0

My score varies somewhere between 160-170 each time because some of the questions are a little hard to answer. I agree that there should have been an option for "sometimes". As an example, I take things literally on occasion, but it happens much less frequently than when I was younger. I'm not very literal compared to a lot of other aspies, so I feel like it shouldn't be heavily weighted as, say, my social deficits.

My formal evaluation states a score of 195, but they did not provided a breakdown.

Probably because the evaluator said that I am bipolar and that the symptoms of my mood disorder display as symptoms of autism spectrum disorder and i was not diagnosed with ASD as a result but rather bipolar type I. the jury is still out on that as my psychotherapist does not seem to agree with the diagnosis

I think that I should request more information, so that I at least know for the future.

139.5 average 15.0 71.0 25.0 28.5

Highest 150.0 15.0 72.0 30.0 33.0
Lowest 126.0 15.0 66.0 21.0 24.0

On quite a few I'd like to answer 'sometimes'. Score varies depending on whether I put the ones I'd like to answer 'sometimes' to as true or not true.

Personally I prefer tests with a Likert (hope that's right word) scale.

Hm, I got an 82, mostly driven by the social relatedness. Not terribly surprising; when I was diagnosed at 13, I got a weird label of "mild atypical Asperger's with nonverbal learning disability traits" (aka your social skills and executive functioning skills are trash, but you don't fit into a label nicely and your parents are fighting with the school district on special ed services). I had obsessive interests and was weird about fabrics and foods until high school, but other than that, sensory issues have never been a big deal for me; it's always been about the social piece for me. I've gotten past the point of missing dripping sarcasm, although subtle nuances still escape me. Not in a disabling way--I'm "quirky" now--although for a long time it was very disabling.

Truly, looking back, the NLD was the more accurate diagnosis of the two, as it primarily impacts visuospatial skills, social skills, and nonverbal skills, none of which I exactly excel at (visuospatial is just flat-out lol). The disorder isn't as much about stereotyped interests or sensory integration, although many people with NLD do have that.