New Aspie-quiz version with SPQ-A subtest

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You might want to include schizoid, too, which is possibly even more correlated.

I was said to have schizoid traits twice before being diagnosed with autism. Outwardly, that appeared true -- I had flat affect and was not very social. The only problem was them taking things from that and guessing at my motivations. I think when schizoid is diagnosed in a child the child is almost always autistic. (Adults may be a different matter.)

Your Aspie score: 166 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 27 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

I'm between classical autism and AS.


If the following helps any.

Main SPQ-score: 42 of 74

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

Your Aspie score: 171 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 69 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
Stable

Your Aspie score: 139 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 52 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

Main SPQ-score: 41 of 74

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

Your Aspie score: 157 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 40 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

Detailed results suitable for printing (PDF)


Main SPQ-score: 37 of 74

Sub-scores:
Ideas of reference 2 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 5 of 7
No close friends 6 of 9
Odd speech 4 of 9
Constricted affect 2 of 8
Suspiciousness 2 of 8

here it is, not really sure how I feel about it 8 out of 8 for excessive social anxiety is nothing I'm proud of. But I accepted who I was a long time ago and feel no desire to be someone I'm not. I'll "play the game" at work but only because I have to support us.

rdos quote:
No need. I don't believe in Schizotypal Personality Disorder. I think it is no more than a couple of (misunderstood) personality traits + ASD symptoms. Mostly it seems like misdiagnosed ASDs. That's also the intention about having it in Aspie-quiz. I will show that it is correlated with ASDs.

Thank you for the info about having it in the Aspie quiz to show that it is correlated with ASD
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That idea makes sense to me, because i see the correlations. Then I get afraid that ASD's will be misconstrued, as I see they always have. I do hope the people designing the quiz's come up with the very best answers in diagnosing ASD's in children and adults.

tygereyes

Schizotypal personality disorder is just a fancy way of saying "mild schizophrenia", kind of how Asperger's Syndrome is a fancy way of saying "mild autism." It just isn't a personality disorder.

If you look up schizophrenia, you will also see how it's close to autism in many ways. Since so many things are shared in common, it's no surprise that people who have AS/HFA would score high on the test, and even vice versa. There may be some here who think they have AS who realize the StPD label fits them better.

Me, on the latest test, my schizotypal score out of 72 was higher than my aspie score out of 200. It's easy to say that because you have Asperger's and score high on schizotypal that StPD doesn't exist, but you are wrong. It's just that most of the people who HAVE StPD and not AS/HFA don't come here. Simple as that.

I'm trying to figure out myself whether I have social anxiety disorder (guess what, it's also got it's own personality disorder called Avoidant) or schizotypal PD. People like me exist and I don't have sensory problems, motor problems, obsessive interests, or social understanding problems among other things, so don't go claiming that a label used by respected mental professionals refers to a group of people that is simply misdiagnosed.

What I object most to in the SPQ-A test is probably the pathologization of psychic / paranormal beliefs. This forms an entire group in the test. Several other groups in the test are typical ASD-traits (which people without the social issues of ASD simply shouldn't have). These forms at least half of the scoring. The other half of the questions just seems pretty weird, and most have 0 in Aspie / NT score correlation.

So, what is actually StPD diagnosed based on? ASD traits relating to communication / social differences? Psychic / paranormal beliefs or somerthing else?

Looking up studies on SPD.

My score was pretty much the same as before on the first test:

Thank you for filling out this questionnaire.

Your Aspie score: 164 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 40 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

For the second test:

Main SPQ-score: 41 of 74

Sub-scores:
Ideas of reference 7 of 9
Excessive social anxiety 7 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 5 of 9
Odd speech 6 of 9
Constricted affect 4 of 8
Suspiciousness 1 of 8

I found some of the questions a little odd. For example, I have had experiences with astrology in that I was very interested in it for a while, took a course and learned to read natal charts. But I don't believe in astrology. For the question about having experiences with the supernatural I put yes but that would be based on another person's assessment, not my own. I don't believe in the supernatural.