How Autistic Are you test.

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I got a 33%, but I think this test is bogus...

I do not think I got a good result I got:
You are 23% Autistic
Looks like you are high-functioning. You are able to drive a car. You've graduated high school. You may go to college to pursue a two or four year degree. You are able to work at a job. You may get married and have kids. For the most part, you are able to live on your own but may need help from time to time. Good Job! Never lose sight of your big plans to better yourself and your future!


I certainly cannot trust myself to drive a car especially in traffic....I might space out, or have a panic attack if I get startled ect. Yes I did graduate and am in college and could probably pursue a degree....I hope there is at least one job I can work at but I cannot say with any confidence that I can work at most jobs. So I kind of disagree...but it seemed like kind of a silly quiz nothing to take totally serious I also thought it was rather funny how it was worded.

A sponge??


Guess I am still trapped in the 80s!

I got the power tools question.....lol yes I can use them if I have to but I usually find them confusing and the more dangerous ones I usually want nothing to do with. So I can see why someone would not be able to use them.

though the quiz was not very accurate it does seem to have some truth to it presented in a manner I found rather amusing.

Apparently I'm 30% Autistic, but I know I am less than that!

The questions were a bit tricky because there was actually 2 answers that indicated ''yes'', if you know what I mean. For example, it said ''do you bath?'' and 2 of the answers were ''yes'' and ''I can take care of myself''.

Hm that was hilarious.

25% Yey I might some day get married and get a job.

The problem is that this "test" invokes every stereo type that exists for autism. For example the "Can you talk?" question implies that the more you talk the less autistic you are. This is patently false. Some people on the spectrum never shut up.

Or "Can you read?" Look up Hyperlexia.

"Can you ride a bike?" Some autistics have VERY good motor skills.

Autism is not defined by any of these things 100% of the time and even things like speaking or reading are differentiated into different forms that drill down into how reading and speaking is actually used and how it is linked to understanding.

This "test" is total crap. not because there are autistics that have the behaviors in the test, but because there are many many autistics that DO NOT have these behaviors.

I could be wrong but this test seemed to be more satire than anything, that site the quiz is on is just for fun quizzes not nessisarly accurate or serious quizzes.

It also has this a 'what mental disorder do you have?' quiz:
http://www.gotoquiz.com/what_mental_dis ... o_you_have

15% but it's a worthless test.

~Kate

I think someone should create a test of what type of autism you most likely have. I can't find any like that online. If you can get hold of one, let me know. I tried creating one, but that website is no longer working properly unfortunately.

I don't think it's to be taken seriously. There are a lot of NT people who aren't great at those things either. In fact, some people with ASDs can be very good (to an extreme rarely seen amongst NTs) at some of the things, e.g. reading, and that doesn't make their ASD any less real. I've shortleeted application forms prior to interviewing prospective staff and the best were from people who ticked the disability box and we discovered later that it was due to having an ASD. Those people would have got an interview anyway, without ticking the box. I don't think the test can predict ASD at all, although it might help with detecting learning disability (whether it be associated with an ASD or not).

I found this test hilarious. The person who wrote it seems to think that classic autism is the only form of autism out there, and is relying a lot on stereotypes. They probably have no clue how AS presents in people and just assumes that all autistics have an intellectual disability. While the self-care/employment stuff can be issues, I'd hardly say they are the hallmarks of ASD.

I was thinking it might be satire too.

"Can you use a computer?"

... asked the stupid online autism quiz ...

Okay, this is why I think it's not very helpful:

It's not whether autism makes it harder to do some of these things. It's that autistic people have a lot of skill scatter. You can be amazing at math and computers (for example) but then be really really bad at being able to manage your own finances, keep your living area clean, and do things in a timely fashion.

And the questions don't seem to account for other subtleties - like asking "Can you do laundry?" I can answer "yes," and yes I do my own laundry, but it is fairly difficult without having a strict routine in place for me to do my laundry as often as I should. Because I live with people who have no laundry routine and use them machines at all hours for any length of time, I have no guaranteed time I can get my stuff into the machines, so things are much complicated by that lack. But the test doesn't measure that kind of thing. And because of the score I get on that test, it tells me I can do all kinds of things I actually have never been able to do (such as getting a degree, driving a car, sustaining a relationship).

Yet I can take a computer apart and put it back together, I can do arithmetic in my head (but only to a point, and I can't do complex math at all). If it's related to my interests, I know a lot of information about it. I can talk at length about my favorite things but when I am trying to hold a conversation with someone over just about anything else, I have trouble stringing two sentences together - unless I have scripts, in which case I can hold out until the scripts are gone, which is often fairly quickly.

But the answers give no leeway for this uneven profile, or even how parts of the profile change depending upon context.

Does that make more sense?

I also agree with this.

I meant to say in my previous post that autistic people can be extremely good at some things as well as bad at others, and sometimes be good at one thing and bad at the same thing in different contexts.