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I can't answer this question, because I don't know whether to take this literally or not:

2. - I'm unsure of which words to use when describing my feelings.
- Issues with language taken into account or not?

Without #2:

Score is 38.

I scored a 128, but I don't think I fit most of the criteria mentioned on Wikipedia. My imagination is vivid and I daydream frequently. My cognitive style is definitely not externally-oriented. But on the other hand, I have lot of trouble guessing what someone is upset about (some of the questions on the quiz related to this), and I am often mystified when someone is upset with me. Also, I am the queen of somatization- I often have physical symptoms that I recognize are related to anxiety or something similar, except that I'm not consciously feeling anxious. So I can only identify my anxiety through physical symptoms. It's very annoying. Or I might just feel a kind of vague, generalized, "not-happy" feeling, but I can't figure out exactly what I *am* feeling.

The button didn't work for me either. Did it work for anyone?

I scored myself with the criteria listed below the questions and got 80. I found the test confusing though because once I scrolled down, I became confused as to which end was agree and which was disagree, and had to keep scrolling back up again.

And I agree that this isn't an ASD-friendly questionnaire (among other things). I don't like talking about feelings because I have a hard time following conversations. I get called cold because I won't hop into bed with anyone who asks (nothing to do with ASDs ). And I get confused when people talk about "sexual" relationships - I assume they are talking about intimate relationships that include sex, rather than relationships that are only about sex?

I think the questionnaire gives room for some of this, but people who have social and language problems probably need more of a buffer than what they give.

I scored a 73. So I guess I'm pretty good on this front.

Took this quiz when link was posted at Gestalt. Will vote in poll once I post this comment.

I took this test a while ago so don't remember my exact result, but it was clearly alexithymia (113+). I wasn't the least bit surprised to find out that I was alexithymic - I'd known that for many years. Now I have a word to refer to it rather than have to explain it at length.

Psychological tests are constructed to deliberately mislead anyone trying to work out a system behind the test, in order to prevent cheating. So it is pointless to try and make sense of the test. The fact that it doesn't 'make sense' is not a flaw.

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I scored 154.

My score was 110, but I think the test is not well designed for Aspies. A whole category of the test--detecting and understanding feelings in others--is impaired in many aspies not because we don't care or don't understand feelings, but because the signals get crossed coming from one person to another.

I also think there is a big difference between internal and external understanding of feelings. It is the difference between interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, and it's a big one--understanding your own feelings is a far cry from detecting someone else's; one is a matter of a cognitive state, and the other is a matter of interpreting sensory information. You might as well say a deaf person does not have true empathy because he cannot hear someone crying.

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