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38, undiagnosed. hooray.

I scored 39. I usually score 36 or 38 when I take it online. I haven't been diagnosed, however.

I got a 42... but a few of the questions were rather... well, maybe I'm just analyzing it too much.

"If I try to imagine something, I find it very easy to create a picture in my mind. " Something I know what it looks like details and all? Yes. Something I've never seen before that someone is describing? No.

"When I'm reading a story, I can easily imagine what the characters might look like. " It depends on how much detail they have given me as to whether or not I can imagine the person... and even then it's "iffy" because they can't be describing every single little detail every time a new character crops up.

"I would rather go to the theatre than a museum." Honestly, I'd rather do neither as both are full of people, lol.

This one particularly got me boggled though...

"I don't usually notice small changes in a situation, or a person's appearance. " Now, I don't know about you guys, but I notice lots of changes in situations in general, but I'm lucky if I can remember what the person I'm talking to looks like normally anyway! I'm not so sure really why that question bothered me... maybe it was a comprehension thing, but a lot of people with AS have trouble with facial recognition... so I guess maybe it was just an "I don't usually notice changes" type of question in general? It was the throwing in the person's appearance vs. situational differences, which are 2 very different things to me and should have been two different questions. Maybe I'm just tired, maybe I'm just ranting, but I wonder if I'm the only one who stopped and looked at that question a few times trying to figure it out.

The other problem I have with this test, is they ask several questions that are basically the same exact things, just worded slightly differently, and it calculates into the score in the end... almost like it is just very weighted by how you answer those questions. How many different ways can you say you don't like dealing with people without that effecting one's score in a way that really doesn't seem to make it a fair test to begin with.

Granted, it's deemed more of a social problem than anything else, so of course social aspect questions are going to be asked... but where are the "do you tend to do things that others find odd?" "Do you tend to have more sensory issues than others around you?" "Do you tend to feel overwhelmed when something new happens?" "Do you frequently have to take breaks from socializing or from visiting new environments due to exhaustion?"

i'm not sure if this is the exaxt same test or not, but i got a 37 on one that was posted on wired.com and a 38 on another similar site.

also got this chart result from the test on http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php :



Undiagnosed, but highly likely to be an aspie. I'm 34yo, but definitely going on 13. Non verbal communication is pretty tough for me, but through reading some books I'm somewhat better than I used to be. Mind blanks out a lot when in social situations, and I get exhausted from being in big group situations. It takes a LOT out of me to try to act somewhat normal, not to blurt out inappropriate things, etc., so I generally prefer to be isolated so that's not an issue.

Definitely diagnosed ADD a while back, definitely have big organization problems. I think it's made school more difficult than it needed to be. I just wish I had found out before I had graduated.

I scored 36, not diagnosed (but working on it)

I got 17. It called me an "Average Female Scientist." I guess that qualifies me for NT.

I got a 34

I'm not diagnosed, but my mom with a Master's in Counseling and the Psychologist who diagnosed my daughter are pretty certain I can safely call myself Aspie.

Some of the questions on this test were a little off to a respect. The lack of imagination and empathy I think get often misunderstood. Like the lack of imagination is more like we have our own imagination, but we don't jump into other people's imagination well. We can see possible outcomes, but we get stuck on our idea of the best outcome or the only outcome. It's more like it's our way or the highway with a lot of us, and I don't know why they call that "lack of imagination." I can only assume that they figured severly autistic to lack it because they just didn't know better...back in the day. Now they are starting to know better, so they are changing what it means. Empathy is going through that as well. They are starting to figure that many autistic people are capable of putting themselves in someone's shoes, but they choose when they do that and to what degree more so than most people (sometimes they choose not to more often than most people), and they don't always communicate it to other people, especially if it causes sensory overload. It also seems to assume that most aspies and autistic people prefer to be alone when that's no always the case. There are many extroverted aspies out there. I personally think I was meant to be an extrovert, and my introversion was a learned behavior.

I'm sure I've commented on this before, as well as that rdos aspie quiz, but I can never seem to find my posts. Maybe I'm commenting and then not actually posting it. I do that sometimes.

Anyway, I got 38 on this. Like a lot of other people who have posted, I believe the questions are too vague. For instance, "I would rather go to a library than a party." Well, what do they mean by party? And what do they mean by library? If "party" means my dad and his wife come to visit, and we get to eat chocolate cake and someone gets a new Lego set for a birthday present, then I'd rather do that then go to a library. I enjoy that kind of party. If "party" means being in a crowded room of 20 or 30 people I've never met and will never see again, and people are asking me probing, personal questions while annoying music thumps away, too loudly, then I don't like that, and would much rather go to a library. But only a good library. The library near my house is tiny, and hardly has anything worth looking at at all, and, on the rare occasions when it's actually open, the employees are usually standing around gossiping. So, in order to answer the question, I have to make some assumptions about what they mean by "party" and "library".

"I don't particularly enjoy reading fiction." Well it depends on how well-written it is, and whether it captures my interest. This one annoys me because it seems to be based on that stereotype that aspies can't handle fiction. Like you can't be an aspie and still enjoy something imaginative and made-up. All of my AS son's special interests center around a work of fiction, and he makes up his own stories and scenarios for the characters. My favorite works of fiction usually have very good character development. I'm not much of a "people-person", but I do like fiction with well-developed characters who I can care about and have an interest in. Is that necessarily a non-aspie trait? I don't think so.

"I know how to tell when someone listening to me is bored." Well, if they make it obvious, then I guess so. But what if they are trying to be polite and pretend not to be bored? Then can I tell? I don't know. Sometimes I think they are getting bored, so I'll say, "I'm sorry, I keep talking about this. I don't mean to bore you." And they say, "Oh, no, I'm not bored. I'm just a feeling a little lethargic; I skipped breakfast." Well, maybe they are lying, and maybe they aren't. I don't know. Sometimes a person seems bored, but really they are distracted, because they are watching their two-year old climbing something, or something like that.

"I like to collect information about categories of things". Does that mean a physical collection, like written lists or charts, or actual objects? Or can it mean information in my head? I haven't made a chart depicting the various actors that Alan Rickman has worked with over his career, but it's something that I think about, and it gives me great pleasure when I realize, "Hey, they also worked together back in 1982! And again on stage in 1990!" Is that collecting information about a category of things? Or does it only count if you get real anal about it and print out flow charts or keep objects in a special box?

Hmmm. Whatever. Who knows? It baffles me how people can get numbers like 10 and 11, though. What kind of a weirdo would score so low? Ha ha! Just kidding.

You scored 48.
I have been diagnosed.

I got a 39 today. I'll have to come back later to elaborate. I am undiagnosed.

Wow I got 45. I wasn't sure I'd get quite that high.

33 on the test at http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/asperger-test-aq-test

You scored 41.

My score was a 36. I was diagnosed with "Severe" AS.

I got a 39, I already been diagnosed with AS. I never understood why I was so different from the other kids when I was in school. Now that I know more about aspergers it is now easier to cope with life.

I received a 34. Un diagnosed. Wake up call, big time.