Are aspies more likely to be conservative?

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Sorry What!

It's true, that test is not very useful.

In the poll with a choice only between liberal and conservative, I voted liberal. But outside those two categories I am green/socialist/left libertarian.

I'm more of a moderate because I accepted different views of both liberals and conservatives.

We aspies might tend to be conservative, because we just want to be left alone to do our own thing. But then again we can also become total control freaks, because we want a well ordered life. I myself am libertarian, which some people consider to be a type of conservative.

I disagree with the pollmaker, I'm neither Conservative nor Liberal. I'm a Socialist.

As far as my political beliefs, I am ambivalent on many issues and don't fit very neatly into most of the predefined categories. Libertarian possibly. But I tend to distrust rapid change, and would rather preserve the status quo and make any changes at a slower pace to avoid destabilizing tendencies.

I was raised a Ralph Reed type conservative but now am more of a Nader style liberal as an adult.

In my experience people with AS tendancies lean liberal politically and conservative socially (dress, hobbies and such) so I think the OP is off a bit in linking political conservatism with social and personal tendancies.

most of the people posting here are under 30. last time i took that i was a little into the lower left quadrant. i guess thats a centrist dem or a little to the left dem. bear in mind left here is I think right in the UK .

I just retook the political compass test again. Coordinates -9.00 left/right and -5.79 social/authoritarian blargidy blar. So, really communist, and halfway anarchist. Go me.

I see my aspie tendencies just making me very stubborn in my beliefs, not necessarily against change. I think change should happen NOW, because I'm very dedicated to what I believe is a just cause. Not that I'm not open to change my ideas. I will if given a good argument. But I am very stubborn.

I find that political compass quite interestings.

We did it a couple of weeks back on a forum I've been using for several years. We have a model House of Commons on there(UK Parliamnet) and people represent a political party (some real, some made up) and the compass showed some very interesting results where members from each party congregated in set areas of the chart. I guess it might be what you'd expect, but before hand we had no idea whether the different political parties would congregate or be distributed all over the place.


Incidentally, my socres were about -6 of the left right scale and -2 on the authoritarian/liberatiran scale. So about as left wing/socalist as I'd exepct and a little more libertarian than I thought - I'd have guess I might have got a score a little on the authoritarian side

In a vote between 'liberal' and 'conservative' I'd have to go for liberal.

There are liberal Conservatives. Which is what David Cameron, the leader of the British Conservative party, calls himself.

well, i say conservative because well, is gordon brown the leader of this party? well, if he is i think he should die because he's ruiend our country