What is your score on this test, and are you diagnosed?

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It sounds like you're an NT. Your score is neither good nor bad, all it says is that you're probably not an aspie. There's nothing wrong with being an aspie, and there's nothing wrong with not being one either.

@Rocket123, my own reaction to the test was very similar. I personally found myself growing increasingly irritated and annoyed over 1) the absolute black and white possibilities and 2) lack of certain answers.

The 'apple of my eye' question was one that particularly bothered me as did the restaurant question.

I more or less have a matrices of sorts to help me figure out communication issues like the one above, but the fact is, I have learned over time and I am one of those people who tends to be overly thorough when it comes time to learn things. Therefore, yes, I USED to have problems, but now I don't have it as much, BUT it's not because I simply don't have the problem - it's because I finally learned!

ARGH!

Regarding restaurants: Because I love and am partially obsessed with foods and flavors, as long as I am not having a 'bad day' and the opportunity arises, I will very happily march myself to a restaurant to order myself something to eat... even if it's the same exact dish every single time. This does NOT mean, however, that the bright lights (if there are any), fussy children and overly loud conversations and the clatter-clang of the kitchen don't bother me... because they do.

And on occasion I DO like company... but mostly I don't.

So... yeah. How in the world is one supposed to answer these sorts of questions 'honestly'?

I 'solved' my dilemma by 'compromising' on different questions.

Whatever the case is, this is my result:

186.0
15.0
89.0
52.0
30.0

I got assessed half a year ago and my therapist who was also my assessor dXed me with SCD as opposed to the spectrum saying that he felt like I had managed to effectively cope with the other characteristics to the point it wasn't as much a factor anymore.

Well it did say that the average score for NT females is 80.8, so my score is about 12 points higher. But that's because I do have some problems with pragmatic language (realizing when something is a joke/sarcasm and knowing whether or not something is appropriate to say/do in a given situation or even at all which is one of the reasons, besides being very shy, why I feel I would be horrible at small talk if I had to do it)

Score: 204
Language: 17
Social Relatedness: 89
Sensory/Motor: 56
Circumscribed Interests: 42

Diagnosed

Yes. Should be noted that it is a professional diagnostic tool, thus it's not like the AQ test. There is a disclamer on the page before the registration link posted by the OP (http://aspietests.org/raads/index.php) that says:



I've only taken it during my diagnostic assessment. I know I got somewhere in the 160s, but don't recall the exact number.

I got 183 as my total. I'm currently waiting for my assessment, so i've had a referral. Frustratingly i've been waiting for over 3 years now :/ and pretty much on the bottom of the waiting list

It's frustrating because i am pretty isolated and my sensory impairments are pretty bad, in that i can't cook for myself and am very reliant on my mum to cook for me. I live by myself as i struggled living with them.

Language was 13
social relatedness was 87
sensory/motor was 45
circumscribed interests was 38

It has been picked up by a couple of medical people who have reported that they suspect i have 'mild autism', i consider myself to have high functioning autism. Big part of this is that i was slow to talk as a kid and would just point at things instead. There was a question mark when i was really young if i was hard of hearing as i wouldn't respond to things, or wouldn't respond as quickly as i should. That's still the case now, but its not that i'm hard of hearing because i can hear fine. I find that i have global aphasia which makes things more difficult, because i can hear noises, but find it difficult to process and express verbal thoughts of myself and others. So i am reliant on subtitles on tv screens and lip reading. Even then i can be a bit delayed in processing something that has been said to me.

Total score: 103

Undiagnosed

All were above the threshold.

Total score: 217

I'm diagnosed.

Total score: 189
Language: 12
Social relatedness: 94
Sensory/motor: 41
Circumscribed interests: 42

I am undiagnosed.

I find it interesting that I took this test two years ago to the day (purely coincidental) and my score was the same, 129, albeit with slight differences in the subscores.

Total score 148.0

Language 10.0
Social relatedness 74.0
Sensory/motor 43.0
Circumscribed interests 21.0

Previously I scored 135 and 151, yesterday 148.

I consider myself being at the mild end of the spectrum, though some of my milder traits may be a result of decades of trying to fit in.

(diagnosed)

I do the same every time I take such tests. Otherwise the results would be skewed from the start.


I don't think it is fair to dx a person with SCD when they also have sensory issues and circumscribed interests to such a high degree. Do you think that you'll get the support you need with this dx?

Total score 88. Not diagnosed and probably don't meet the criteria.

According to the only study about the test 100% of neurotypicals (a few hundred) scored below 65. But "100% specificity" always means "sample not big enough".

"I cannot tell if someone is interested or bored with what I am saying." <- If I cannot tell, how am I supposed to know that? It's not like they are going to tell me "you are boring".

((Oh look, another guy from Budapest. ))

When I start talking people's eyes roll back in their head. Or they put their head down on the table. Those were some good clues...

I have found that if someone is bored with what I am saying, they will either yawn incessantly or find an excuse to exit the conversation and move on to someone else.

Other than my immediate family, I assume that most people are not that interested with what I am saying. Unless they are getting paid to listen (e.g. a clerk in a store, a therapist, etc.). Or they need information that I exclusively have (e.g. in the work environment).

So, I answered this "True only when Younger" (or whatever the answer was). As when I was younger, I did not pay attention.