Dissociative Experiences Scale

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I am in the process to get assessed for Dissociative Identity Disorder next to being autistic, because I have no sense of self.
I wonder how autistic people score on the Dissociative Experiences Scale.
I think some issues relate to autism as not recognizing faces of friends (I don't know less about not recognizing family, but for me it is hard), but things as not recognizing your own face in the mirror should not be typical for autism I guess (but I do have difficulties with it).
This is the test Dissociative Experiences Scale:
http://counsellingresource.com/lib/quizzes/misc-tests/des/
My score is:

Total score of: 68
(30 or Above, Higher Association With DID)

I know that this test is not indicative for a real disorder, but I am in the process of assessment.
What is your score?

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Total score of: 16
(Below 30, Lower Association With DID)

A lot higher than I was expecting. Interesting...

I scored a 24, below the cutoff of 30. I do have some dissociative symptoms, mostly associated with PTSD. I learned how to separate myself from my surroundings when I went through some difficult situations, and still have the tendency to be able to do this.

However, two questions may be contributing to a false-positive: I do not always recognize friends, and my own face in a mirror sometimes seems unfamiliar, not because of dissociation but because I am face-blind and have a great deal of difficulty memorizing faces. Losing track of what people are saying mid-conversation may also be an ADHD trait.

But there's only one of me in my head. I know this because I have access to all my memories in a quite unbroken narrative, with no lost time and no places where my experiences are detached from my identity.

I think maybe autistics might have higher scores on this than the typical person because it may be more necessary for us to learn how to "zone out" to avoid intensely unpleasant sensory experiences. Have you ever found yourself just completely overloaded, staring at nothing, not really connected to your body, and it feels like you could sit there forever and it wouldn't matter because you've forgotten what "forever" means? That's dissociation right there, if anything is, and it is so easily brought on by sensory overload, because your brain just goes, "Uh-uh. Capacity reached. No more. Gonna shut down now."

57

I scored 19 mostly because of the questions related to absorption, daydreaming, and road trip hypnosis. I had a lot of nevers and quite a few near-always in my answers.

49 for me and I have been diagnosed as such.

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I scored 47.
I mostly have the derealization symptoms though which are probably due to my schizoaffective dx.
I've never had a blackout except twice while intoxicated.
I space out a lot and do feel that nothing's real but I remember everything that happens.

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I scored a 57, but I think I'm going to have to retake it because I was confused by the phrasing. It says "Some people (blah blah blah)" and I was like 'Yes, I'm sure that's true - it happens to some people.' So I thought it was asking what my perception on general human behavior was. Then I got a better look at the instructions.

EDIT: Still scored a 52. Granted, I'm wondering about this between things like differences in scaling between 1 and 10 (what I consider 'often' vs. what they consider 'often'), and how unreliable memory tends to be in general. Plus: Autism. (Not recognizing people that seem to know me? Duh, I have trouble with names, faces, and recognizing people out of familiar context.)

OMG. I am in shock. I just scored 42 and I was convinced my score would be really low. That's 2 shocks for me in one week as I tested positive for alexithymia too.

I don't know how to feel now.

58 lol no however, only 17% of those scoring above 30 on the DES actually had DID.

i will take the quiz another time

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