Take the Alexithymia test

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http://oaq.blogspot.com/

(Seems to be a blogger account set up especially for the questionnaire lol)

The button doesn't seem to work for me. If it doesn't, just score it using the system at the bottom.

I got 117.

EDIT: Don't forget to put your result in the poll too!

Last edited by Greyhound on 30 Sep 2008, 6:39 am, edited 1 time in total.

I had 145, looks like I might have it. there's nothing wrong with my imaginative process though (quite the contrary actually- daydreaming is my main activity ;p) so I'm quite confused about it...

Last edited by anna-banana on 30 Sep 2008, 6:39 am, edited 1 time in total.

173.

It's a part of ASDs for the most part.

From its Wikipedia Page (it's cited):

Last edited by Danielismyname on 30 Sep 2008, 6:38 am, edited 1 time in total.

124, if I did the scoring right (button didn't work for me either).

156.

Angry or elated mostly, serious difficulty verbalising feelings, end up riddling. Once told (by someone I actually cared for) he would like to "Get inside my head and fix it." *Insert profanity.

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Wow! what's that? A new disorder? Let me guess....are they already selling non-curing many drugs for it?

Last edited by LePetitPrince on 30 Sep 2008, 7:53 am, edited 2 times in total.

Nah, it's a personality trait (normal variant), rather than a disorder.

Hans Asperger thought his disorder was of this type of normal variant (even with the cases he lists, where many are "severe").

Btw...that test won't work for most males because most males are raised to hide their feeling ,to avoid talking about it ....and even sometimes to lie about it. Even most NT men would answer as 'I agree" in the first question.

The first 5 questions are useless for men and so the whole result would be biased...

you live in a macho'ed culture though, most western (if you might call them that...) men I know don't have a problem with this.

172 however I don't feel I have any imagination problems. I don't think anyway..

There's a difference between being taught to hide feelings from others and not being able to feel or describe your feelings.

Yep. I can recognize happiness and love, but that's it. So, I don't know how I'm feeling most times.

i got 116 ...so what?

I don't really think that test measures alexithymia exclusively, there are too many other things that can muddle up the test results.

This could be because of difficulty understanding what you're feeling, or because of general language difficulties that are not restricted to feelings.



This can apply to people with any of a number of physical conditions that produce sensations outside the norm. For instance, the kind of pain disorder I have, which produces nerve pain, often produces a sensation that is icy cold while feeling like it burns. Very few people understand that sensation or other sensations involved.

And people with that condition, me included, often have an overlay of burning or burning-ice sensations over where we would otherwise feel localized pain or discomfort. So for instance for a long time I felt like there was a huge flat spot on my back that felt that way. It turned out to be a combination of heartburn and gallbladder problems, interacting with the nerve pain condition in a way that produced more spread-out sensations. (The spread-out sensations resolved with treatment so that now I can feel more local pain, although I still have trouble locating pain when I feel it.)

I am certain that this is not the only physical condition that produces strange sensations most people wouldn't understand, either.



Sometimes it is not feelings that cause being upset, but actual events that make a person upset.



See what I wrote above about physical conditions.



Again, see above.



So do a lot of people without alexithymia, there are physical responses the body has to stress, after all.



This can be a general language problem rather than a feeling-specific problem, or even a specific problem that is far wider than just emotions.



See above.



See above, can be a language problem.



Again... can be a general language problem.



All of these things can apply to people who just don't have feeling-oriented personalities or grow up in feeling-oriented cultures. Lots of places, these things are just not encouraged, especially for men.



This can just be social skills trouble.



So can that.



Lots of people aren't.



Lots of people don't remember their dreams (which is more the case than "don't dream").



Lots of people aren't into using their imaginations for non-practical things, entire cultures often have this belief.



Again... not all people, not even all cultures, value that kind of imagination.



...and lots of people don't "talk about feelings" all the time, without being alexithymic.



This can be a social thing.



Again... can be social stuff.



A very common thing indeed.



Lots of people have that kind of personality, and/or social skills trouble.



I've heard this from a lot of completely non-disabled people, particularly men.



Asexual people often think that way.



Can be a social skills thing, or just not liking sex.



Feeling incompetent or awkward is an incredibly common experience.



Again... the person could be asexual, or good grief a ton of cultures promote that as the view to have on sex.

Basically... this thing can measure so many things other than alexithymia that it's kind of useless. (The thing won't score my answers so I don't know what I got.)

Was anyone here asked for an email address and password when submitting the test results?

Does anyone know what's wrong?

It didn't work for me, I am thinking its a phishing site.