ASD can confound signs of dementia

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I was looking at this test here:



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... imers.html

My answers were as follows:

1. 3.05 euros. Pretty simple.
2. dice, pretzel
3. Initially I answered "they're both made of wood," but then I thought, "Wait, doesn't that indicate a disturbance in thinking?" I then tried to think how the 2 were similar, but then on further thought I realized I had initially thought of a cork, not a corkscrew. Usually corkscrews are made of metal (with maybe some plastic thrown on), so I thought of the correct answer: They are both tools for manipulating other tools. Nevertheless, I do realize that answering first with what they were made of, rather than their function, indicates possible disturbance in thinking.
4. This was easy.
5. It took me a second to think of them; I would have periods of time where I kept thinking about other stuff and kept trying to get my mind back on track. I think I may have this sort of thing a lot.

So 3 and 5 indicate possible disturbance, but I think that such disturbances are not exactly unheard of in ASD.

In question 1, isn't that a £ rather than a €?

Question 2 looks more like dominoes than dice to me.

Question 4 does not explicitly say that it is a 12 hour clock. It could be a 24 hour clock.

Autism includes many symptoms of dementia (as does Schizophrenia), not in the least executive dysfunction and social withdrawal.

It'd be hard to tell if someone with an ASD developed such.

Why is Asperger's always compared with Alzheimer's? No wonder I'm so depressed having Asperger's.

Last edited by Joe90 on 14 Jan 2014, 11:01 am, edited 1 time in total.

They both start with "A"? They have about the same number of coincidental similarities than any two totally unrelated things are expected to have.

What... what's so difficult about these?
I have absolutely no problem in any of these.

On number 5 I started answering fruits, and then even though I knew it said fruits or vegetables, even when I delayed to think of more, I couldn't swap to thinking of vegetables, needed more fruits...

yay task switching problems?

That's an interesting observation. Perhaps the question is looking to see whether or not you can switch gears from fruits to vegetables or if after naming a few fruits you forget all about the vegetables.

I wonder how many people interpret the question as either twelve fruits or twelve vegetables but not a combination of the two.

I think number 5 measures verbal fluency, which is affected in both ASD and dementia.