Do you ask people to rate things?

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I was always asking my husband to rate things from one to ten. I ask him to rate A League of Their Own and rate how annoying it is (Because I have it on everyday) and I ask him to rate our sex and rate my affection and rate my car, I am pretty much asking him to rate everything. Sometimes he refuses to rate things because he "doesn't want to hurt my feelings."

My mom said I used to do the same to her about food. I don't even remember. I guess I would have to ask her about it. My husband wonders how she got me to stop.


My husband blames it on my AS as always

But this was something new I have been doing to him lately. So hard to stop. It seemed to be one of my new stims. Now he won't rate things anymore. He is hoping this will get me to stop.

It's not a AS thing as far as I know, plenty of NTs do it, just not to such an extent I guess.

I don't do it myself, but when someone asks me to rate something I find it hard because I'm just not sure what my feelings on something are until I've had proper time (could be hours, weeks or months) to think about it.

I knew it wasn't. My husband sometimes blames things I do on it but he mostly sees me as me.

all the time!! !

Ha! My husband hates it when I do that to him, too. It's so funny to me when I read posts that I could have written myself.

Yes I do it because I like detail and certainty. Just saying 'really' or 'very' doesn't tell me a whole lot.

I have always loved to rate things, and I like to see how others rate things too. While this may not just be an autistic thing, I do believe many of us with autism could find rating things to be fun. It's a type of ordering. Mom says I liked to line things up in straight lines and stack things. So, rating things might be like this too.

I have loved roller coasters since I was a child. I can remember often asking my father to tell me what roller coasters he thought were best. I was often looking for roller coaster rankings and adding my own rankings. I loved as a child to do things like rank order things such as the tallest hotels in Myrtle Beach, SC, etc. I still love to do things like this. I love to take my house blueprints and rank them by things like largest living rooms, most rooms, most square footage, etc.

I do not see how rating things could be an AS trait. It annoys me as well when my husband will make a comment about this or that thing I do being an autistic thing. Most recently he has taken to joking with me calling me a person with mutant strength and blaming it on autism. Like the exercise I do has nothing to do with that... Besides freakishly strong women are common in my family, even with the ones who are clearly neuro typical... I am not all that strong anyhow. He is just weird. Heh.

Oh, and Spokane_Girl... I like your new picture.