Rorschach & ASD

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What can the Rorschach tell us about ASD? The only thing I can think of is that it might be an indication of how much of an imagination someone has. But plenty of people with ASD have active imaginations, so...I don't know. Maybe it's only useful for differential diagnosis.

Ugh. I had to take that. The conclusion they seemed to jump to was that I was a Mormon.

During my diagnosis, I was given the Rorschach Test. According to my diagnostic report, this test yields information on coping skills, emotional experience, emotional control, self-image and interpersonal relations. I was also told that this can be used to measure for the presence of a Personality Disorder (which I had asked to be assessed for).

Whether it’s useful or not, I have no idea.

As noted above, I think it's useful for detecting and ruling out other conditions, but, as a standalone test for ASD...? Not so much.

I don't think it's useful for assessing anything -- I think it's pseudo-scientific junk.

I agree with animal crackers. I don't see how seeing or not seeing things in ink blots can be useful for anything.

I just looked at some and for the most part I saw different things than what I was supposed to or nothing. And what's that supposed to prove?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test#Inkblots

I remember doing these tests around the same time they started training me to make eye contact.

It seemed to me these tests were a complete waste of time.

They made a good concept for the Gnarls Barkley "Crazy" video though. I thought that was brilliant.

Edited to add:

I find this really, really hard to believe. How could those blotches diagnose any such thing? People say they look like a butterfly, moth or animal skin --it's basically just saying "displays bilateral symmetry" how does that have to do with coping skills??? The idea is mind boggling.

They were part of my original testing when I was younger - and for reasons that I don't understand even to this day they scared the crap out of me to the point where I became almost completely no-verbal during that portion of my testing.

Atypical cognition?

I wish I had recorded my ~ 45 minute session, discussing those "blotches". The psychologist kept on asking me questions, and I kept on finding new/interesting things within each inkblot.

So, maybe you didn't see the two wizards -- one good and another evil -- fighting at the top of the world. Or the two pieces of friend shrimp. It's amazing what you can see, if you look. It’s the same thing when looking at clouds. It’s sort of fun.

Interestingly, my current therapist indicated that you can also use this test to detect, "persistent preoccupation with parts of objects", which is listed in DSM-IV under "Restricted repetitive & stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests and activities".

I must say, I find this stuff quite fascinating.