A new aspergers dating site called Spectrum Singles

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This was founded by an aspie mother and her aspie daughter

http://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/dati ... .dn9nrMj04

yay a site made by aspies to screw over other aspies . >.>

$75ish a year really. don't they know that most aspies aren't rich. I'd sooner join eharmony atleast theres a lot more women there and more likely to actually meet someone.

I just signed up and it seems cool. I was surprised that the Spectrum Questionnaire was basically the questions from the AQ with some extra questions at the end.

I signed up too. I don't have any matches though...

There seem to be a lot of guys who accidentally listed themselves as female...

LMFAO

Cringe cringe cringe. They used the same questions but changed the scale! You can't ask how frequently you frequently do something, but well, that have! And there's nothing in between "frequently" and "rarely"...that's a huge gap there, and a lot of my answers would fall somewhere in that gap rather than at one of those options. The original AQ has the options "strongly agree" "agree" "disagree" and "strongly disagree" which is also not flawless but makes a lot more sense. Baron-Cohen must be rolling his eyes at this.

Things like this surprise me, how an aspie (the site creator), who would stereotypically be detail-orientated, could fail to see what they have done.

Sorry, had to vent.

I just registered and did their test. They use lots of stereotypes in the test (mostly borrowed from the AQ test and similar). They have a single question linked to asexuality, and then one question that presumes that hugging and kissing are similar (what an awful expectation that people that dislike kissing also dislike hugging). There is absolutely nothing about attachment-style, or any other neurodiverse relationship preference. Additionally, there are detailed LGBT-options, but none of those are linked to neurodiversity so that seems unnecessary. The test is also overloaded with sensory-related issues that are highly correlated.

So, no, this site will not improve matching of neurodiverse people.

Aka Sausage Fest.

The site automatically makes you register female, even if you're male. You can select more than one relationship status (I'm married, divorced and single all at once.) Everything loads painfully slow. The questionnaire asks the same question 2 or even 3 times. You can't view or search anything until you finish the broken questionnaire. Sometimes when you register, you can't upload a photo and the option to re-upload doesn't exist, so you have to start the whole process over.

Did I mention you can't message people unless you pay, and the site is expensive as hell?

^ in that case it should be called the Incompetent Pocket Digger site.

That sounds worse than the last Assassin Creed game.

It's so bad it makes aspieaffection look good

It's really too bad, it looks promising and plenty of pretty girls signed up

Pretty girls with dicks, you mean.

Even better!

I am now Face of Booette.