The Aspie Quiz (yes again!)

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19 Jan 2010, 12:43 am

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19 Jan 2010, 4:30 am

I got 181 out of 200 for the aspie portion and 15 out of 200 for the NT portion.

I love doing tests on stuff that I already have the diagnosis for

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19 Jan 2010, 4:34 am

Padium wrote:

Let me point out that there isn't a social side on the aspie end. Because we are all antisocial freaks who would rather sit at home playing psychoticly with a toy and then rip it to pieces. If thats the case..... WHAT THE HELL IS THIS FORUM???

And for those of you that have trouble with sarcasm..... this is reallly bad sarcasm to the third degree, and I findit funny that they seem to think we aren't "social".

"Antisocial" does not mean what you think it means. I think the word you are looking for is "asocial".

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19 Jan 2010, 6:17 am

Your Aspie score: 145 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 51 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

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19 Jan 2010, 6:55 am

MindBlind wrote:

Padium wrote:

"Antisocial" does not mean what you think it means. I think the word you are looking for is "asocial".

There is a social side now. :twisted:

So, the myth that Aspies are antisocial or asocial has been busted. :wink:

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19 Jan 2010, 3:26 pm

There are a few things that I try to keep in mind when looking at resources like this:

1) This quiz measures presentation of traits, but not their underlying cause. For example, you might not like people walking behind you because of a social anxiety disorder, rather than because of an autism spectrum disorder.

2) The quiz does not account for learned skills and coping mechanisms. For example, if you have learned bookmarking skills to allow you to return to a task after an interruption, you might have less problem with this issue than you did when you were younger. You aren't any less an Aspie just because you have learned behaviours to compensate for your deficits.

At the end of the day, this is a valuable tool--I use it to show people how my thinking might differ from theirs in a demonstrable fashion. But I also caution people who score high on the Aspie side that it does not automatically follow that they are Aspies--merely that they present traits that might have any number of explanations.

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19 Jan 2010, 4:29 pm

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I always thought that if you had a reasonably high level of all the Aspie traits then you likely had it. But while that works for most, especially those like myself, who haven't really have enough time to learn too many coping skills it may not work so well for someone who has spent much of their life trying to hide the traits.

Still, overall it's quite a good indicator.

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20 Jan 2010, 12:49 am

visagrunt wrote:

1) This quiz measures presentation of traits, but not their underlying cause. For example, you might not like people walking behind you because of a social anxiety disorder, rather than because of an autism spectrum disorder.

Umm, I do not agree with this thinking. Lots of other "disorders" are comorbid with ASCs, like social anxiety. It is not the case that these traits have different causes. I know it isn't because regular tests for the conditions show high correlation with Aspie scores. This is also the very reason why traits from OCD, ADD/ADHD, Social Phobia, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Dyspraxia is part of Aspie-quiz. Traits from these "disorders" cluster on the primary factor that Aspie-quiz uses to calculate the Aspie score.

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20 Jan 2010, 1:20 am

Hmm.. I just took the newest version of it and got 167 Aspie / 33 NT. That's higher than i got when i took it a few months ago

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20 Jan 2010, 1:40 am

My score was 124 out of 200 aspie
I don't really understand the diagram but the numerical score turned out much lower than I expected because Ive always felt like my Aspergers was very prominent in my personality but then again i have never met another aspie with whom i could compare myself too.

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20 Jan 2010, 1:46 am

Whoa i just noticed something. cold blooded your the only person on here I've seen that's from the Carolinas like me. except im from the mountains.

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20 Jan 2010, 1:55 am

I know there are at least two other people i've seen on here from NC.

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20 Jan 2010, 3:05 am

rdos wrote:

But comorbidity alone is not sufficient to demonstrate causation. I don't doubt for a moment the higher probability of a person presenting many traits being an Aspie, but a person may present many traits without the essential characteristics that underlie a diagnosis of AS. As such, the quiz is a valuable tool, but it is not a diagnostic tool.

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20 Jan 2010, 7:54 am

Your Aspie score: 164 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 54 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

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20 Jan 2010, 12:13 pm

visagrunt wrote:

But comorbidity alone is not sufficient to demonstrate causation.

Depends on what causation you are after. The causes for ASCs are complex and both environmental and genetic. The causes for ASD diagnoses are not the same as for the personality type, because of the way ASDs are defined based on secondary problems.

visagrunt wrote:

I don't doubt for a moment the higher probability of a person presenting many traits being an Aspie, but a person may present many traits without the essential characteristics that underlie a diagnosis of AS. As such, the quiz is a valuable tool, but it is not a diagnostic tool.

Yes. Aspie-quiz was not even designed as a diagnostic tool. It was designed for the personality-type alone.

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20 Jan 2010, 3:02 pm

Your Aspie score: 167 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 40 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

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