Set of scientific tests related to Autism Spectrum Disorders

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-Autistic/BAP
You scored 126 aloof, 117 rigid and 97 pragmatic

You scored above the cutoff on all three scales. Clearly, you are either autistic or on the broader autistic phenotype. You probably are not very social, and when you do interact with others, you come off as strange or rude without meaning to. You probably also like things to be familiar and predictable and don't like changes, especially unexpected ones.

-Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 67.
In other words, you got 93% correct.

-You have indicated that 24 of the items are true of you.

-Self-report Component
Subscale IQ score = 55
Subscale percentile = 0.13
(this took forever )

74% face recognition. I thought it would be worse. I can't recognise someone if I see them in a different location than the one I'm accustomed to or if they change shirts. This was very hard and I was stabbing in the dark. I kept wanting to pick the pink one.

but 17% eyes? Wow, dismal. I had no idea it was THAT bad. This score was that I left so many blank. I tried to use process of elimination of the given choices. That didn't work. All the female eyes were totally and completely unreadable to me.

I'm kinda disturbed about this, I never knew.....

Brand new here, but I've been on the wrong planet pretty much since day 1.

Results:

AQ = 39
EIQ = 82
EQ = 32 / SQ = 130 (...yikes...)
HSP = 21
Facial Expresssion = 25
Facial Recog = 89%

I didn't do the broad autism spectrum phenotype because I didn't want to sign up for okcupid. I think I probably already know what it's gonna tell me, though.

The big shock is that I've always considered myself to be a really empathetic person, but the scores don't reflect that.. I mean, I thought I was SUPER empathetic..

Maybe it's just that I try really hard to be, but I'm just sucky at it. I dunno. lol

Here are my scores

BAPQ: 123% aloof; 132% rigid; 117% pragmatic; 8% diagnosis

AQ: 46

EQSQ: EQ: 2; SQ: 122

EIQ: 55

HSP: 21

FR: 45

AQ Test: 36;
Autistic/BAP: 117 aloof, 116 rigid, 112 pragmatic, highly likely to be Autistic/BAP;
Eye Test: 24, which was just within the boundary, but still quite low - but I found that the words didn't describe exactly what I saw, and that the eye expressions were poor;
EIQ: Subscale IQ was 83, % was 13. Again, as with the eye test, I felt that the adjective-picture pairings were poor, and that they didn't describe exactly what I felt I saw. I think I'm a pretty good judge of emotion in other people, and can read facial expressions well. As for describing my own emotions, well, I must have a touch of alexithymia
HSP: 17
RDOS Quiz: 173/200 Aspie, 33/200 NT.

On a similar note, I recommend searching for the BAPQ, or whatever the alexithymia tests come under, it's quite an interesting topic.

These are interesting, but they focus so much on typical things - specifically, on the test about systematising, yes, I am interested in how things work, but I'm bored with politics and finance, which are too simple and dull, in my opinion. I tend to look for what I consider "complex" patterns or systems: for example, the parallels between our society and Rome's before the empire collapsed (more than you think, probably). Simple systems aren't interesting enough; I much prefer the chaotic, complex ones. And there was little or nothing to reflect that in the test. So I presumably scored a bit lower than I should, because of that preference.

I can understand how they are useful, as far as they go. But they seem to me to be designed for normal people and normal ranges of interest. And whether I have AS or not, I am not normal. Heck, if I have AS, I'm pretty atypical there - and on a writing site where people come in and say, "Thank God, I thought I was crazy until I came here!", I still stick out as a misfit. I mean, I do have and understand all the usual writerly quirks, but I drive people nuts because I like to gnaw at any question until I've worked out whatever is bugging me about it. And so on. But if I'm an Aspie (and I really suspect I am; this is the first time in my life a lot of things in my head have made any sense at all to me), I also have an active imagination. Like I said, I'm a writer. I suppose I'm weird enough I shouldn't expect any test to really be designed with me in mind.

Interesting points made ^^

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How many hobbies doyou have out of interest or do you delve to the centre of the planet on each subject that interests you until you run out of steam? Or, do you just keep on going and going?
I personally have zero interest in cars, fashion, etc etc, but if I see some technical details about cars or computers I'll be munching it up. However, who is to say that politics and finance and not actually more complicated than you think?

What I'm trying to explain is that perhaps people who fit the systemizing, human computer, knowledge bank, classic tech geek? profile are usually within the autistic spectrum <........................................> which is <<<<< that wide.

Therefore, your 163 aspie points is extremely indicative, although you are totally right what you say about interests. ie, I would say I don't fit into the business model of any business, quite simply because I have little interest in money, people, politics, history, etc etc, and would rather delve into science, physics, chemistry, anything that has detail in it, except I usually a reach a point and get bored and move on. The "fail" point is never at a skilled enough level to earn a decent amount of money, not that I really care so I go round and round.

Anyway, so I would say that the average boring business is not human compatible, let alone, impaired person compatible.

Time is money, so whilst the world is spinning around me, I'm just like "huh?"

I wonder if humans that can sustain their focus for hours on work are perhaps exceptional (in terms of focus, regardless of brain diversities). Mine is quite poor unless I'm looking at the screen and following what I write) but the population statistics are not generated to show the spread of concentration/intention spans.

I'm lost now lol.

I'm going to have to try and get that dopamine floating around.

Do you float around from topic to topic or are you capable of absorbing it and remembering it and understanding it as well communicating it?

There are too many to do in one go but I've done:

The Broad Autism Phenotype Test
You scored above the cutoff on all three scales. Clearly, you are either autistic or on the broader autistic phenotype. You probably are not very social, and when you do interact with others, you come off as strange or rude without meaning to. You probably also like things to be familiar and predictable and don't like changes, especially unexpected ones.

You scored 106% on aloof, higher than 50% of your peers.
You scored 113% on rigid, higher than 81% of your peers.
You scored 97% on pragmatic, higher than 63% of your peers.
You scored 8% on diagnosis, higher than 84% of your peers.

The AQ Test
Score:38

Your Systemizing (SQ) and Empathizing (EQ) Quotient Test
Respondent Average EQ Average SQ Brain Type
Your Score 2 87 Extreme Systemizing

The Aspie Quiz(previous result)
Your Aspie score: 149 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 53 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

I'll try to get the others done some time soon!

broad autism phenotype
Autistic/BAP
110 aloof, 115 rigid and 107 pragmatic
You scored above the cutoff on all three scales. Clearly, you are either autistic or on the broader autistic phenotype. You probably are not very social, and when you do interact with others, you come off as strange or rude without meaning to. You probably also like things to be familiar and predictable and don't like changes, especially unexpected ones.

AQ test
Score: 39

EQ-SQ test
EQ = 8, SQ = 73 Extreme Systemizing

EIQ test
Subscale IQ score = 70
Subscale percentile = 2

HSP test
22

reading the mind's eye test
score: 26

face memory test
79%

Aspie quiz
Your Aspie score: 164 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 42 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

My EQSQ score was really surprising to me, actually. I got way, way lower on empathizing than I thought. I guess I empathize in my own way, haha...

EQ: 21 SQ: 67, Extreme Systemizing

AQ test score is 40...

My emotional IQ percentile is 27%. This was a surprise, again. I guess I'm so bad at interpreting emotions that I don't even notice I'm bad at it! Talk about oblivious, lol.

For the HSP quiz, I checked off 26 of them. That one was easy, I practically zoomed through clicking almost every box.

I got 29 on the test for reading eyes. And I actually got 94% on the face recognition. To be fair, though, remembering a 3D model face or a face in a photograph is much easier than remembering the real faces of people in front of you or as they pass by, etc. I also have an advantage because I've been drawing/painting from live models in school for almost four years now, so the way I remember faces is actually more logical than anything. I just compare their features to the average measurements of a normal person's head and features.

For the AQ I got 149/200 and 41/200 NT
The only spike I have on the chart toward NT is social.
I love being around people in situations where I'm comfortable/know what's expected from me, and actually really enjoy social interaction as long as I can act like myself and have some self-control so that I don't monologue at anyone. I find other people really interesting even if I don't quite understand what it is they're about.

Here are some tests for the detection of alexithymia, a problem in describing, understanding, or feeling emotion, apparently a possible feature of ASD, as well as other psychiatric 'disorders.'

TAS-20 - Toronto Alexithymia Scale/OAS/BVAQ

i agree. now, if they had shown us those 3-D models with different expressions on their faces and asked us to be able remember the face while it had a new expression on it, that would make it far more difficult! i've also drawn live models in school... about the only place nobody thinks it's rude to stare at someone. i also remembered the same way.. like "that guy's eyes are really close together" or "that guy has really deep-set eyes and a pronounced brow ridge" or "that guy has a long chin and a wide nose" or whatever. i don't normally do that in real life, though... lol. i see so many faces every day, i can't remember them all from those things, because a lot of them share the same sort of features... so if i say "that girl has shoulder-length blond hair and a pretty face" i could be describing a lot of different people!! it usually takes seeing someone really often for a few weeks before i remember their face when i see them again in a new setting. of course if they change their hair or something, i have to start all over

OMfreakinGawd! 159 on a alexithymia......
I always KNEW I shoulda been a cereal killer.
Take THAT you cocoa puffs!

Broad Autism Phenotype Questionnaire
Autistic/BAP
You scored 126 aloof, 132 rigid and 132 pragmatic


Respondent Average EQ Average SQ Brain Type
Males 39.0 61.2 Systemizing
Females 48.0 51.7 Empathizing
Your Score 8 128 Extreme Systemizing

Your Aspie score: 200 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 0 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

AQ test Score: 49


Snapshot Report
Self-report Component
Subscale IQ score = 55
Subscale percentile = 0.13


HSP test You have indicated that 23 of the items are true of you.

Reading the mind in the eyes' test
Your score: 4
A typical score is in the range 22-30. If you scored over 30,
you are very accurate at decoding a person's facial expressions
around their eyes. A score under 22 indicates you find this quite difficult

Cambridge Face Memory test Out of 72 faces, you correctly identified 17.

Autistic/BAP
You scored 124 aloof, 117 rigid and 121 pragmatic

Your Systemizing (SQ) and Empathizing (EQ) Quotient Test Results
17 EQ 123 SQ Extreme Systemizing

AQ Test
Score: 42

What is your emotional IQ?
Subscale IQ score = 57
Subscale percentile = 0.26

Highly Sensitive Person
12

Mind in Eyes

27

Facial Recognition

89%

Interesting points for my tests:

I have a strong ability to empathize with people, but it is very theoretical and deep inside I find 99% of people very insecure, trivial and pointless.

I am very systematic by nature but supress these notions and often engage in unstructured behavior, like not doing laundry but once a month (I have retained a lot of worn out clothes to facilitate this), hardly ever cleaning my room (I know where everything is, its just not "organized"), and I have a hard time paying my bills, despite having the money to do so (I get a lot of late fees).

I am more or less binary, in that I am either very yes or very no. I am able to modify my behavior, although it is very hard.

The EIQ test was taken with the pretext of not what people's actions are, but rather what their intent is. I have a sixth sense about people's intentions despite their behavior, it scares some people. My score doesn't seem to support this, but neither does Neurotypical logic (the vast majority of Neurotypical behavior is irrational and illogical). If I took the test based on what I know to be expected to be correct, rather than what I know the actual answers are, I am sure I would score at the top percentile. In the end, I guess I just don't "get" the point of the test one way or the other. (As an example, when someone says "Oh, that is very interesting" usually they mean "I can't stand you and I wish you would shut the f**k up". Or, "I hope she doesn't take it too personally" means "I hope I triggered a nerve and caused her great suffering, so I can feel better about myself")

On the eyes test, I impulsed an emotion and chose the closest match to my impulse. Some of the words were odd choices I think to describe the portrayed emotions.

The faces, I take much less than 1 second to answer each question. I have strong rote memory skills.

Scored 128 on the alexithymia scale. Meaning that I should have been strangled at birth, I suppose.