Hurray! I'm cured!

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I was bored so I did this test:

http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

This was my result:

Am I cured?!

Yippee!!

But seriously, wat is this... I can't even win on the aspie test, and I was diagnosed 20 YEARS ago!!

The main recreational online test that many folks take on WP (don't remember if its this same one or not) definitely are at odds with the doctor who tested me.

When I take that test I sometimes imagine myself taking at as myself as a ten year old kid since I was more autistic in my thinking and acting back then. And when I take it that way the result is ambiguous. I get like 80 for both NT and autistic, and they say "you have traits of both".

When I take the same test without the mental gymnastics of pretending I am the ten year old version of myself I get an overwhelmingly high NT score, and the blurb says "you are most likely NT".

Yet only I couple years ago I took the exhaustive test conducted by a real qualified shrink, and was officially diagnosed as being aspie.

The result you got was not a diagnosis but "you took the test wrong". Apparently you were inconsistent. Like if they asked you "do you like the beach" and if you said "yes", then later they asked "do you hate going to the beach" and if you again said "yes" that would "inconsistent". So they think that you are either screwing around, or are just not paying attention.

A serious (not online fun test like this)pencil and paper diagnostic personality test I took in college once had the question "I am occasionally inhabited by evil spirits. Agree? Disagree?".

Years later I still laugh about it. And I told a lady shrink about the question. She told me that tests have questions like that as a built in to "make sure that you're paying attention. And that's a secret I probably shouldn't let out like I just now did."

Even the makers of these tests explicitly state that they are only "screening tools," and not even close to offering a definitive diagnosis.

Quiet.

Wow, I didn't know that was possible on that online test.

I just took the test and came up with this.

I suppose I do lack a lot of the common AS symptoms. But I have enough AS symptoms to be socially awkward and struggle in life.

That's the kinda scores I get when I take it. But I was still officially dxd as aspie when I took the several day thorough battery of real tests. So go figure.

Have you taken other tests like the AQ test? The first time I took the AQ test I got 37 (likely on the spectrum), but the first time I took the Aspie test I scored very nearly Neurotypical and Neurodiverse scores (I think 110 Aspie, 100 NT) and it told me I had traits of both Aspies and Neurotypicals.

I think the reason I got such a balanced score on the Aspie test is because didn't want to answer in extremes, and answered "Sometimes" on a great many questions, where I would think that to answer "Sometimes" for that particular question gives you nearly as many NT points as Aspie points even though the question feels like an Aspie question. When I take the test in a more decisive way, only answering "Sometimes" when I really can't decide, I end up with a score that is much more firmly Aspie.

My scores seem to fluctuate very wily each time I take the Aspie test.

When I took the final version 4 ADOS test, I scored nearly evenly. I got 119 aspie and 102 NT so it put me in between so I guess I am semi cured. I never retook the test answering questions from my childhood because it would be impossible because lot of the questions were about relationships and romance and I guess me being married to my husband put me in between. But I have always felt in between, too normal to be different and too different to be normal.

Well I don't know if I've got better or worse.

It reckons that I'm 169/200 neurodiverse.

I must hide it pretty flipping well in real life because even I never would have thought I was autistic if I had only just met myself.

Well, if you read my signature you'll know my scores. They haven't changed since six months ago.