'Tassit' test: any good?

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I've had lots of tests done and one of them was called the Tassit (not sure about spelling) test. I had to watch a bunch of Australian people and decide their feelings by looking at them. I'm confused. Apparently, despite the fact that I could only Identify happy sad and angry, my results do not indicate AS. I thought people only with more severe autism couldn't recognise even the most extreme emotions (corect me if I am wrong) but now they saying that I don't have AS after all even though I HAD it a year ago... I was diagnosed two years ago becausse I fit the criteria but now I don't... I can't have got better so what's going on?

I am distressed right now...

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

I can see more obvious emotions from facial expressions (I may even be able to see more subtle ones... I don't know!) and I was diagnosed despite this. I wouldn't accept the idea that it means you don't have Asperger's Syndrome.

I have too many years in academia not to know - three experts and a peer-reviewed publication does not make it so.

With all due respect to a profession many of whose practitioners are fine, dedicated, experienced people, dealing with the brain is trying to find your contact lense in a dark and crowded stadium.

What is, is, a yea or nay diagnosis can only draw a stick-figure caricature of reality.

I don't know anything about the TASIT test. I was trying to find info on just assessments of adults with autism, but I've yet to find it. But I've not been looking for very long. I did find some general info on the TASIT if you'd like to read it. It was in the form of a power point but I just chose HTML, that's why it looks so weird.

But with that being said, I would have to agree with the others, just because you performed well on a standardized test, doesn't mean that you don't have AS. There is a difference between observing behavior and being an active participant...IMO. It's much easier to only observe.

TASIT

Here's some highlights:

PART 1: Emotion Evaluation Test
* 28 videos, 7 emotions
*"The TBI (Traumatic brain injury) group were significantly worse than controls, especially on fear and neutral items."
PART 2: Test of Social Inference - Minimal
*"examines understanding of conversational meanings that are determined facial expression, tone of voice, gesture"
* 15 videos
* 4 questions each video
* "TBI group performed normally on sincere exchanges but were poor on sarcastic exchanges"
PART 3: Test of Social Inference - Enriched
* "assesses the ability to use contextual knowledge, i.e. visual and verbal information to derive meaning"
* 16 videos
* contains and untrue comment
* "The TBI speakers were poorer than normal speakers on sarcasm but not lies"

I'd look funny at people who base a diagnosis on a single test that's measuring a single symptom out of hundreds.

I'm good with your basic emotions, and sometimes more, it's just that I can't do it "in person" because it's too hard to look at people; if people were pictures, I'd have no problems for the most part.

I was diagnosed with AS at Attwood's, and they seem to know what they're doing in that regard.

Thanks everyone. I am really struggling at the moment because they think I am mentally ill and I am quite scared to be honest. I can't help but think that maybe this place (a specialist care home for people with autism) is too used to seeing the more 'extreme' cases of AS/autism and when someone like me with average intelligence and quite good communication skills comes in it just confuses them... Heck that's ASD for you it is different in EVERYONE!! ! I wish these people would stop trying to tell me I don't have it though it is really freaking me out.

Any more comments are most welcome

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )