Getting real, or dishonest? (AS questionnaires)

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The thing that puzzles me is the scoring. Via Aspie tests I score 148. My sister did it as she thought I am and scored me 163. I did the RDOS as part of my assessment and was scored 177. I was not aware of answering markedly differently between Aspie tests and the ASD assessment .

^^ @firemonkey, what a good idea! I asked my husband do the RDOS with me in mind. I gave him an example "Would Sharon prefer to go to the museum...".

Here were the results:
Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 64 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 168 of 200
You are most likely neurotypical.

I couldn't believe he saw me that way!! ! Wow!! ! I couldn't believe my camouflaging was that good.

Ends up he took it with himself in mind.

ASD-NT communication fail

Happy New Year!! !!

I have to be honest that when I have a full shutdown, regardless of how many people I have to assist me, I am lying down be it on the ground, across seats or on a bed. I am unable to do anything... I have two stages of this. The first is what I call almoat a full shutdown which I actually had today. I can hear and see and have a little movement but am on the floor unable to get up. As I don't suddenly fall on the floor. It is more of a semi controlled situation where I have just enough control to prevent myself from hurting myself... It looks to others like I am faking it.
Now if I fully shutdown my eyesight goes and it is hard to tell if I can hear or not,as I get a loud tinitus sound which drops in pitch as my eyesight dissapears, and I am in a panic as I hate this happening, so I don't know if I am hearing. I know when I start to pick up and recover I can hear, but I have to be careful, as when I recover from a full, or partial shutdown it is like I can hear but some words my brain can't make sense of? It is like I roughly know the patterns of the words as they sound familiar, but somehow at least some of them don't have any meaning somehow? My mind seems to catch some words as meaningful but not others? In the past I have really messed up when people speak to me as I keep asking for them to repeat what they have said and as I am concerned (As I am putting in a major mental effort to try to work out what they are saying) that I may slip into another shutdown, I will say anything to get the other person to give me a break, so if they say "Do you understand?" I will say "Yes" even though I have not. I am in such an internal stressed panic where I really need to be left alone for a bit... I have majorly messed up by doing this with people I know and lost a good friend when I was working on the railways. At the time I did not know what had happened. It was only a few years later (I have good long term memory which strangely does not seem to be effected while my short term memory is effected during a deeper shutdown) where I had been going over and over and over in my mind night after night after night from all different angles, that I worked out the happenings of that day... And it was only when someone said something about it on this site about their ability to understand words during a shutdown was effected, that it all suddenly slotted into place!
It is too late to rescue the friendship. I don't know what he looks like as faceblindness has melted my facial memory...

^ I am sorry for the loss of your friend due to that misunderstanding. Prior to my severe migraine last year, I could not understand what was being said to me. I could hear the words but could make no sense whatsoever. I told my co-workers to send me an email about it and left. Brain things.

The Autism Research Centre offers AS questionnaires. A long time ago, I had answered one of questionnaires after reading about Simon Baron Cohen. The Autism Research Centre appeared "ahead of the curve" on understanding the Autism Spectrum in adults.

https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/arc_tests

On the RDOS I got:
Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 155 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 41 of 200
You are very likely neurodiverse (Aspie)

Some of the questions seemed like the same kind of thing asked in different ways, so if one answers them literally (such as "no" to tapping ears), it might still be "yes" to similar questions, such as rocking, hand-wringing, or pacing, which would all show a tendency toward stimming. But to your point, it would be difficult to make a question for every possible habit someone might have, so phrasing it with "or similar" could be helpful.

I don't think any written questionnaire is going to be 100% perfect for everyone, people are just too diverse.

I can't work out that when I did the test before I scored the scores that I had.

My NT husband did the RDOS with me in mind, he completed 2/3s of it: He sees me as a mix of neurotypical and neurodiverse. What was interesting is that he scored me as predominantly neurotypical for Relationship. Ha! I wonder if many married ASD (expressive type) women would get that or not. Aside my Engineering degree, I studied advanced Psychology and Communications in college. I got high marks for applying communications theories to meeting his parents for the first time. Sarcasm: A completely neurotypical thing to do. I tease him that he expects the Autistic person in the relationship to provide emotional guidance for the family. And I do. (Although he's NT, he has his own issues.) My cognitive EQ is very high when considering others, I have difficulties to get my immediate behavior to match or consider myself. All so interesting. Thanks for playing the game of Life.