New Aspie-quiz version with SPQ-A subtest

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Your Aspie score: 173 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 25 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

bored of the other test for now, ill finish later.

I agree. There are a few novel questions in the SPQ-test that would probably qualify for Aspie-quiz, but many of the questions are not related to anything (AS or NT), and seems to be pure phantasies of the test creator. I already know (through use of less biased questions) that psychic abilities and alike are weakly correlated to AS (perception group). These are no mental disorders, but positive traits that the majority doesn't even believe exists.

Your Aspie score: 168 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 48 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

Main SPQ-score: 39 of 74

Sub-scores:
Ideas of reference 2 of 9
Excessive social anxiety 6 of 8
Odd beliefs or magical thinking 1 of 7
Unusual perceptual experiences 3 of 9
Odd or eccentric behavior 6 of 7
No close friends 7 of 9
Odd speech 6 of 9
Constricted affect 4 of 8
Suspiciousness 4 of 8

Your Aspie score: 145 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 71 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

Ideas of reference 3 of 9
Excessive social anxiety 8 of 8
Odd beliefs or magical thinking 0 of 7
Unusual perceptual experiences 2 of 9
Odd or eccentric behavior 6 of 7
No close friends 3 of 9
Odd speech 4 of 9
Constricted affect 4 of 8
Suspiciousness 0 of 8

The only thing I don't quite like about the SPQ test is the fact that I do tend to get people staring at me and it's not because I'm paranoid. I am transgendered and so in certain settings I may draw more looks, people wondering whether I'm male or female. Or who know I'm female and are just staring to be obnoxious (I usually get stares from kids, teenagers, or snooty middle-aged women). There are certain places I don't go anymore because I do get more people staring. Like some of the richie rich malls in the area where women and their lexuses hang out.

Your Aspie score: 158 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 43 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie



Main SPQ-score: 32 of 74

Sub-scores:
Ideas of reference 1 of 9
Excessive social anxiety 8 of 8
Odd beliefs or magical thinking 0 of 7
Unusual perceptual experiences 1 of 9
Odd or eccentric behavior 4 of 7
No close friends 6 of 9
Odd speech 5 of 9
Constricted affect 5 of 8
Suspiciousness 2 of 8

Last edited by likedcalico on 06 Sep 2007, 3:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Your Aspie score: 189 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 14 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

Main SPQ-score: 54 of 74

Sub-scores:
Ideas of reference 7 of 9
Excessive social anxiety 8 of 8
Odd beliefs or magical thinking 2 of 7
Unusual perceptual experiences 3 of 9
Odd or eccentric behavior 6 of 7
No close friends 8 of 9
Odd speech 8 of 9
Constricted affect 6 of 8
Suspiciousness 6 of 8

Your Aspie score: 136 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 70 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

Main SPQ-score: 56 of 74

Sub-scores:
Ideas of reference 8 of 9
Excessive social anxiety 8 of 8
Odd beliefs or magical thinking 5 of 7
Unusual perceptual experiences 3 of 9
Odd or eccentric behavior 6 of 7
No close friends 5 of 9
Odd speech 9 of 9
Constricted affect 5 of 8
Suspiciousness 7 of 8

In the second test, if you have higher numbers it means you're likely schizotypal? Or what?

Your Aspie score: 140 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 64 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

Detailed results suitable for printing (PDF)


Main SPQ-score: 36 of 74

Sub-scores:
Ideas of reference 3 of 9
Excessive social anxiety 8 of 8
Odd beliefs or magical thinking 0 of 7
Unusual perceptual experiences 0 of 9
Odd or eccentric behavior 4 of 7
No close friends 8 of 9
Odd speech 4 of 9
Constricted affect 6 of 8
Suspiciousness 3 of 8

Aspie score seems a bit high, I think I'm a borderline case.

I have the same question as Lady McBeth. Where can we find a good explanation for all those words and numbers in the Schizotypal test?

My scores>
Aspie score: 162 of 200
Your Neurotypical score: 51 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

Main SPQ-score: 48 of 74

Subscores:
Ideas of reference 1 of 9
Excessive Social Anxiety 8 of 8
Odd beliefs or magical thinking 5 of 7
Unusual perceptual experiences 4 of 9
Odd or eccentric behavior 5 of 7
No close friends 8 of 9
Odd speech 6 of 9
Constricted affect 7 of 8
Suspicious 4 of 8

TIA
Tygereyes

Your Aspie score: 181 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 24 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie


Main SPQ-score: 58 of 74

Sub-scores:
Ideas of reference 6 of 9
Excessive social anxiety 8 of 8
Odd beliefs or magical thinking 2 of 7
Unusual perceptual experiences 8 of 9
Odd or eccentric behavior 7 of 7
No close friends 6 of 9
Odd speech 9 of 9
Constricted affect 6 of 8
Suspiciousness 6 of 8

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i believe i'm scoring higher now than when i first took this test, been through a couple of harrowing experiences lately which might have coloured my test scores.

Your Aspie score: 147 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 58 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

Main SPQ-score: 45 of 74

Sub-scores:
Ideas of reference 4 of 9
Excessive social anxiety 7 of 8
Odd beliefs or magical thinking 2 of 7
Unusual perceptual experiences 2 of 9
Odd or eccentric behavior 6 of 7
No close friends 8 of 9
Odd speech 5 of 9
Constricted affect 3 of 8
Suspiciousness 8 of 8

I had no idea I was so paranoid!

Yes. I think they drew the line around 42 or something like that.

Maybe I should google up what schizotypal actually MEANS, so I can see what I supposedly have.

Diagnostic Features:

Schizotypal Personality Disorder is a condition characterized by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior. This disorder is only diagnosed when these behaviors become persistent and very disabling or distressing. This disorder should not be diagnosed if the distrust and suspiciousness occurs exclusively during the course of Schizophrenia, a Mood Disorder With Psychotic Features, or another Psychotic Disorder or if it is due to the direct physiological effects of a neurological (e.g., temporal lobe epilepsy) or other general medical condition.

Complications:

Individuals with this disorder often seek treatment for the associated symptoms of anxiety, depression, or other negative emotions rather than for the personality disorder features per se.

Comorbidity:

In response to stress, individuals with this disorder may experience very brief psychotic episodes (lasting minutes to hours). If the psychotic episode lasts longer, this disorder may actually develop into Brief Psychotic Disorder, Schizophreniform Disorder, Delusional Disorder or Schizophrenia. Individuals with this disorder are at increased risk for Major Depressive Disorder. Other Personality Disorders (especially Schizoid, Paranoid, Avoidant, and Borderline) often co-occur with this disorder.

Associated Laboratory Findings:

No laboratory test has been found to be diagnostic of this disorder.

Prevalence:

Schizoid Personality Disorder occurs in 3% of the general population. This disorder occurs slightly more commonly in males.

Course:

This disorder may first appear in childhood and adolescence with solitariness, poor peer relationships, social anxiety, underachievement in school, hypersensitivity, peculiar thoughts and language, and bizarre fantasies. These children may appear ?odd? or ?eccentric? and attract teasing. The course of this disorder is chronic. Only a small proportion of individuals with this disorder go on to develop Schizophrenia or another Psychotic Disorder.

Familial Pattern:

This disorder is more common among first-degree biological relatives of those with Schizophrenia. There is a modest increase in Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders in the relatives of individuals with Schizotypal Personality Disorder.

Just for reference, rdos, some of this might throw your scores off:

Normal belief in the majority of cultures.



Normal for an autistic person.



Normal for an introvert.



Normal for an autistic person or a person with a speech impediment.



Normal for an introvert, a shy person, or an autistic person.



Most people are talked about behind their backs, because most people talk about people they know. Any person receiving the kinds of services I receive is talked about in meetings and such that they are not present in. Any person who (as I have) has even a little media exposure is talked about by people who don't know them.



As far as I know, most people notice other people when they are out, that is how they do not walk into them. Further, any person who is unusual-looking or uses unusual equipment (both of which apply to me) is going to get noticed even more.



Applies to shy people and some autistic people.



Another one that's highly culture-dependent.



This can be culture-dependent, also a result of seizures.



Common in autistic people.



Normal for introverts.



Normal for manic or hyperactive people, people with certain communication difficulties, or even people who are really excited about something sometimes.



Normal for autistic people.



Not at random, but when (a) prominent and saying things that are unpopular with some people, and (b) being thus on the receiving end of smear campaigns and death threats, it seems likely that some people have got it in for me, and it seems the police agree with me on that.



NTs say things with double meanings all the time, in general, not specifically to me.



Common for all sorts of people...

...and I could do this for the whole test. Simply being in two or three particular categories (such as, autistic, certain cultural background, epileptic, introverted, etc) at once could get you a high score on this thing. Other things, such as being nervous about making speeches, hardly qualify as excessive anxiety, speechmaking is one of the things most consistently feared across the entire population. Lots of people have experience with astrology without necessarily believing in astrology. Etc.

Thanks for inspiring me to look it up, lol. Here's what i found. I really didnt understand constricted affect, so it's first. I've included the original

link and what is there, as best i could.

http://psychology.jrank.org/pages/16/Affect.html

Constricted Affect:

A person's affect is the expression of emotion or feelings displayed to others through facial expressions, hand gestures, voice tone, and other emotional signs such as laughter or tears. Individual affect fluctuates according to emotional state. What is considered a normal range of affect, called the broad

effect, varies from culture to culture, and even within a culture. Certain individuals may gesture prolifically while talking, and display dramatic facial expressions in reaction to social situations or other stimuli. Others may show little outward response to social environments, expressing a narrow range of emotions to the outside world.

Persons with psychological disorders may display variations in their affect. A restricted or constricted affect describes a mild restriction in the range or intensity of display of feelings. As the reduction in display of emotion becomes more severe, the term blunted affect may be applied. The absence of any exhibition of emotions is described as flat affect where the voice is monotone, the face expressionless, and the body immobile. Labile affect describes emotional instability or dramatic mood swings. When the outward display of emotion is out of context for the situation, such as laughter while describing pain or sadness, the affect is termed inappropriate.

The following includes four of the terms used in the scoring:

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/jeffreys/bec ... sorder.htm


Schizotypal Personality Disorder:

four distinguishing characteristics>

Paranoia-people are perceived as deceitful and hostileand much of their social anxiety emerges in the form of paranoia.

Ideas of Reference-the belief that random events or circumstances are related to the individual.

Odd Beliefs-magical thinking-may believe others know what they are thinking.

Illusions-may see patterns of people in wallpaper.


People with Schizotypal Personality Disorder tend to be socially isolated, have a restricted range of emotions, and are uncomfortable in interpersonal interactions.

As children, people who develop schizotypal personality disorder are passive and socially unengaged, and hypersensitive to criticism.

In addition to having these oddities of thought, people with Scizotypal Personality Disorder tend to have speech that is tangential, circumstantial, vague or over elaborate.

In interactions with others, they may have inappropriate emotional responses or no emotional responses to what other people say or do.

Their behaviors are also odd, sometimes recollecting their odd thoughts. The may be easily distracted or fixate on an object for long periods of time, lost in thought or fantasy. Although the quality of these oddities of thought speech and behavior is similar to that in Schizoprenia, it is not as severe as in
Schizophrenia and people with Scizotypal Personality Disorder maintain basic contact with reality.



I found this disturbing, because an inexperienced clinician could easily mistake someone on the spectrum according to the way the test was worded. During this search, one of the terms coming up was "sensory-perceptual disorder". It was always listed with the spectrum, but, thinking about the wording, one could assume, that problems with perceptual thinking, could always come from sensory input, and the way it is processed, again, dangering those on the spectrum being dx with something that is classified as delusional.

Many spiritual people have magical experiences, therefore they could not mark no to the questions, believing they experienced something magical. They were not mentally ill to think that, nor delutional.

I've seen patterns in things all my life....i'm not delusional, i just notice patterns...and yes, sometimes they are faces....it is not deslusion, though. Usually, boredom, lol. The questions were a bit broad to keep the normal function of magical thinking,
seeing things in other things, etc. safe in the equation.

http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guid ... y-disorder


Mental Health: Social Anxiety Disorder
Social anxiety disorder, also called social phobia, is an anxiety disorder in which a person has an excessive and unreasonable fear of social situations. Anxiety (intense nervousness) and self-consciousness arise from a fear of being closely watched, judged and criticized by others.

A person with social anxiety disorder is afraid that he or she will make mistakes and be embarrassed or humiliated in front of others. The fear may be made worse by a lack of social skills or experience in social situations. The anxiety can build into a panic attack. As a result of the fear, the person endures certain social situations in extreme distress or may avoid them altogether. In addition, people with social anxiety disorder often suffer "anticipatory" anxiety -- the fear of a situation before it even happens -- for days or weeks before the event. In many cases, the person is aware that the fear is unreasonable, yet is unable to overcome it.

People with social anxiety disorder suffer from distorted thinking, including false beliefs about social situations and the negative opinions of others. Without treatment, social anxiety disorder can negatively interfere with the person's normal daily routine, including school, work, social activities and relationships.

People with social anxiety disorder may be afraid of a specific situation, such as speaking in public. However, most people with social anxiety disorder fear more than one social situation. Other situations that commonly provoke anxiety include:

Eating or drinking in front of others.
Writing or working in front of others.
Being the center of attention.
Interacting with people, including dating or going to parties.
Asking questions or giving reports in groups.
Using public toilets.
Talking on the telephone.
Social anxiety disorder may be linked to other mental illnesses, such as panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression. In fact, many people with social anxiety disorder initially see the doctor with complaints related to these disorders, not because of social anxiety symptoms.

What Are the Symptoms of Social Anxiety Disorder?
Many people with social anxiety disorder feel that there is "something wrong," but don't recognize their feeling as a sign of illness. Symptoms include:

Intense anxiety in social situations.
Avoidance of social situations.
Physical symptoms of anxiety, including confusion, pounding heart, sweating, shaking, blushing, muscle tension, upset stomach and diarrhea.
Children with this disorder may express their anxiety by crying, clinging to a parent or throwing a tantrum.

How Common Is Social Anxiety Disorder?
Social anxiety disorder is the most common anxiety disorder and the third most common mental disorder in the U.S., after depression and alcohol dependence. An estimated 19.2 million Americans have social anxiety disorder. The disorder most often surfaces in adolescence or early adulthood, but can occur at any time, including early childhood. It is more common in women than in men.

What Causes Social Anxiety Disorder?
There is no single known cause of social anxiety disorder, but research suggests that biological, psychological and environmental factors may play a role in its development.

Biological: Social anxiety disorder may be related to an imbalance of the neurotransmitter serotonin. Neurotransmitters are special chemical messengers that help move information from nerve cell to nerve cell in the brain. If the neurotransmitters are out of balance, messages cannot get through the brain properly. This can alter the way the brain reacts to stressful situations, leading to anxiety. In addition, social anxiety disorder appears to run in families. This means that the disorder may be passed on in families through genes, the material that contains instructions for the function of each cell in the body.
Psychological: The development of social anxiety disorder may stem from an embarrassing or humiliating experience at a social event in the past.
Environmental: People with social anxiety disorder may develop their fear from observing the behavior of others or seeing what happened to someone else as the result of their behavior (such as being laughed at or made fun of). Further, children who are sheltered or overprotected by their parents may not learn good social skills as part of their normal development.


There is a page two with more information, just a seperate article at the link.


I dont think any person on the spectrum easily does any of this. People learn coping skills and adapt easier into the world, but could it ever be easy?



I cant look up any more right now, but these were the areas that i found helpful.


tygereyes