The Asperger-Autism AQ Test

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Those EQ/SQ tests remind me of something.

Some 4 years ago, a friend of mine told me:

I thought (and I still think in fact) that she was wrong. I do feel things, and sometimes I even feel them too much!

Yet another case of mistaken asumption, and it saddens me that someone in the Autistic Society can be so ignorant.

It seems a part of human nature that so many, on perceiving a "difference" just have to twist the facts around to make it also seem a "deficiency" or "inferiority". That we may not appear to display creativity etc. by common measures, is essentialy meaningless; someone with a powerfull imagination doesn't need to draw their ideas on paper, as most normal people do, so the logic here is really perverted.

For the record, the classic definition of autism (which predates both Asperger and Kanner's use of the term) refers to an inalienable part of the human psyche, which everyone has in some measure, and which has sole responsibility for both creativity and imagination. Ergo, without autism; we'd have neither, nor would we have either art or science. Anyone who claims that autistics "lack imagination" is displaying ignorance and bias!

Reading the mind in the eyes : I got 26, too ! !
Quite interesting to do.

80 out of 135 on the Roger Meyers' test
25 out of 60 on the GAIA test
27 on the Mind in Eyes test (did pretty well, I think : ) )

I got 77 out of 135 on the Roger Meyer's test.
22 on the GAIA test.
Apparently I am a extreme type S according to the EQ/SQ (18/57)
I got 22 and 23 on the Eye test (I took it 2 times before (several months between the two tests. I don't think it's necessary to take it a third time)
AQ test: 31 and 36. (same)


Could one be half of an Asperger?

I got 72 on Roger Meyer's test and 28 on the GAIA test.

In case anyone wonder's what's going on, here are some links:

http://www.musicmademe.com/asp/viewtopic.php?t=297

http://www.musicmademe.com/asp/viewtopic.php?t=286

http://www.musicmademe.com/asp/viewtopic.php?t=285

and most importantly

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/ ... 37,00.html

which explains the relationship between EQ and SQ, which is particularly relevant for Aspies.

For the other links? They lead (eventually) to discussions, which will interest those who wish to learn (but perhaps not those who just wish to splurge).

Roger Meyers test = 91
GAIA test = 27

34

I got a 39.

Note that the test ranks Slightly Agree and Strongly Agree the same way, and I chose "slightly agree" a lot. We should try scoring it not as

1 1 -1 -1

but

1.5 .5 -.5 -1.5

and see what happens.

29

29

I took this same test about a year ago and got 35.
I took it again today and got 28.
Maybe it's subconsious wishful thinking on my part, I dunno.

Or just experience?

I get a consistent 24 nowadays, but some questions I'm sure I would have answered differently in my teens or earlier; the AQ test is quite good, but still experimental apparently, and it could surely do with some development (like taking out the NT assumptions, and replacing them with questions which have meaning for Aspies; e.g., I don't have "difficulty" wiht maintaining eye contact, as I simply have no wish to do something so pointless).

it's only pointless if you don't mind missing out on what eye-contact (or any other NT behaviour) brings, i.e. not being considered odd and therefore being avoided/mistreated/whatever; and fitting in a bit better. educated choice, i feel.

and the AQ test makes me laugh - the question about "do people often tell you you're boring?" now THAT'S an NT question - most NTs WOULDN'T say such a thing, as the rules of social intercourse mean that they would simply walk away or something, and not be so rude. (my ex bores people rigid all the time - i've seen it, bless him - and yet he answers that question "no". and i know i must do, and yet no-one has ever told me i do).

I got a 42 on the wired test.
Roger Meyers= 86.
EQ = 19 - didn't think it would be so low.
SQ = 57
GAIA = 28
Eye Test = 18