I made it clear to the neuropsychologist who diagnosed me that my primary goal in seeking a diagnosis was to better understand myself. That’s when I do have to use phrases to get through it, but I can go home and pray to God for the right thing to happen, the truth to come to light, all that. . I got 163/200 neurodivergent. Triathlon training is chugging along nicely – 3 weeks to go and I feel great, if a bit worn out. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. . Inconclusive – both Aspie and NT traits. The goal of this test is to check for neurodiverse / neurotypical traits in adults. It’s putting people off. Anyhow, I am a 22 year old girl, studying to be a primary school teacher. I suspect it might be because I answered “I don’t know” on all the questions relating to romance/physical intimacy because I am asexual and questions like “Is it hard for you to approach somebody you are attracted to?” just don’t relate to me at all (I’m not attracted to anyone, so the ‘approaching’ bit doesn’t even happen). That will help a lot. Yes, plus I think Aspies don’t necessarily know how to offer emotional support or even spot if it is needed, or if they do offer, it it’s in a way that is peculiar to themselves, you know? The relationships section was so interesting?? The idea was for them to get the results first hand. I actually came across the quiz because I think my daughter has it, she is almost 11. I got a 170/200 neuro-diverse, 49/200 neuro-typical. There are good things to be said about that (we’re all very good at being independent and looking after ourselves) and bad (we probably don’t know how to be any other way). I’m so glad its here, thank you, it’s very comforting for me today in particular. I’m especially in love with this sentence from the abstract: “The idea that neurodiversity was at the extreme end of a normal distribution was not supported, rather it was found that neurodiversity had its own normal distribution overlapping typical traits.”. Well except for math being natural and easy. But I do sing at awkward moments, there is no denying that. userid or register a new userid to do this) or go directly to the simplified I have taken it 3 times and gotten 181, 175 and 167 on the aspie side respectively, and between 50-55 on the NT side. Il a crée l’Aspie Quiz lors d’une recherch… ^_^. Uh, sorry, probably more than you wanted to know. I made family members take the tests too, just to prove to myself that there wasn’t some problem with the test. Still new to blogosphere, beginners mistake. The conclusions are based on analysis of 550.000 datasets, including people, however, who took the test more than once. | Musings of an Aspie, I Think I Might Be Autistic (Part 2) « Musings of an Aspie, http://www.rdos.net/eng/poly12c.php?p1=83&p2=66&p3=65&p4=93&p5=72&p6=61&p7=70&p8=76&p9=64&p10=53&p11=75&p12=46, http://www.rdos.net/eng/poly12c.php?p1=97&p2=97&p3=97&p4=96&p5=85&p6=98&p7=90&p8=92&p9=51&p10=63&p11=80&p12=70, http://www.aspergerstestsite.com/75/autism-spectrum-quotient-aq-test/, http://ubuntuone.com/0EkMJzCQ0uXpVbz3ZjtaP0, Taking the Aspergers Quiz | Musings of an Aspie, http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0075236, This is kind of neat. Working night shifts sounds really rough – I would be completely useless, both on the job and afterwards. It’s difficult to test the reliability and validity of an online test because they are never a replacment for an official diagnosis by a psychologist but in my experience, the Asper Quiz is fairly accurate. However, the mean is an average, so it can be anything between 0 and 2. Only it was bank holiday, so collection is tomorrow. I have my results from a year before my dx floating around. Some of the questions are definitely tough to answer and I’ve found myself answering them differently at different times. I do not mind having no friends because I am heavily involved in my research projects, but I cannot coach myself as well as I did before to push myself to be like everyone else. Out-of-date translations (final version 2): She said the same thing as my sister. Um… Hi! I have been reading all your posts but not commenting beyond the once (or twice), though am very interested in all the issues you cover. My attention to details and figures were often disregarded by some of my coworkers as being rigid, that I don’t need to focus so much on every single thing while there are so many things needed to be done, thus it often ended up with me cleaning up after people’s bad job. You are very likely neurodiverse (Aspie) In addition reading the blogs of autistic adults (which reveal a lot of variation in what means to be autistic as an adult), you might also find it useful to google “active but odd” along with “autism”. It’s great to know that there is a peer-reviewed paper backing up the reliability of the Aspie Quiz. Several of these as well as earlier publications ascribed some value to the AQ although mostly raising points of criticism as well (surprise, surprise). I bumped into a person I worked with a while ago and he said he missed me cos I was friendly and talked to him and the new ones didn’t, so bow down to my high-functioning skills. It’s great that you’ve found your niche to excel in based on your strengths! 185 from 200 :/. But who’s to say. My husband calls me a human calculator. This is how I understood it, but like I said. It all makes so much sense but I keep thinking perhaps im wrong,I mean doesnt everybody do those things/think like that ect. Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 66 of 200 I study Japanese, but I love just learning about English too. Aspie obsession was merged wiith Aspie talent. But I did get in touch and spoke with a neuropsychologist, and will likely go to see him. And thank you for the kind words about the book! I particularly identified with what you said in your book about “learning to be autistic”. I think we all have a lot of conscious and unconscious coping mechanisms. If the aspie score is 1.82, then most aspies scored 2 and some scored 1 or 0 (bringing the mean or average down slightly below 2). I’m just different. i told him, actually, I wasn’t looking at anything. So I am like a person whos friend with everyone but not close to anyone. It is a spectrum after all. . But I am realizing that the pain and dizziness made the AS like symptoms come out in force, because I no longer had any energy to spare for self control. The research has led me to believe that I most likely am. I do think there was a bias in the questions, especially the ones related to relationships (assuming Aspies would somehow have what’s considered to be abnormal sexual or relationship behavior). The gifted label seems to mask a lot in the eyes of the professionals (if not necessarily in every day life). Good to know that it’s consistent over time. The bible is full of great rules for daily living with its demand for kindness … Although I forget that people easily assume you are unkind when you don’t enjoy that eye contact. In short, there are a lot of reasons why you could be scoring so evenly split on the two. but when I look away I feel like I should look int here eyes so I look back. Obviously there are questions on the Aspie Quiz that are aspie indicators but will be answered positively by NTs. I read other things in faces. There is an entire post on the various ways to try to get a diagnosis along with some advice on how to approach whoever you initially end up see (GP, psychologist, etc). The most important difference is that the new groups were created with factor analysis, and the new version will not be finally released until comfirmative factor analysis gives acceptable results (close but not yet achieved). | Any advice on seeking an adult dx in US? that was a curious little/long quiz. I think the fact that I’m being myself makes me more relaxed and enjoyable to be around. There is also a number of papers on peer-review related to Aspie Quiz, and a few more in the planning. And seeking diagnosis isn’t something I’m overly comfortable with anyway. It was published in August 2013 in ‘SAGE open’ (DOI 10.1177/2158244013497722). Kinda like being hit by a train of realisation for everything that’s been screwed or odd in my life all these years. . Who’d have thought?! It runs in my family, though it has only been diagnosed among younger members (under 10). That barely put a dent in my abilities. Unfortunatelt churches are often places where people pretend to be oh so kind when they are actually sharks. Scheduled to see a GP today for proper testing. Hmmmm lots to think about! I took the online tests many times before I started to accept that I might be on the spectrum. . My biggest challenge remains organisation and appointment keeping. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), "I Think I Might Be Autistic: A Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis and Self-Discovery for Adults" e-book is available for, http://www.autismresearchcentre.com/arc_tests, I Think I Might be Autistic. Fucking gaslighting. It came up when I google searched quizzes. Quizzes always tie me up in knots though. The neurotypical score tells you how high you scored on items that describe neurotypical traits. (Obviously I have some issues.) It’s true, people’s scores do change over time – some because like you they get better at certain skills and others because they realize that they have traits/do things that they didn’t previously realize. Thanks. As you said there is a lot of diversity on the spectrum and being a recluse or good at math are outdated stereotypes of Aspergers. I won’t bore you with my whole history, it’s enough to say that today is a crappy day, reflecting on a lifetime of lost friendships due to what is lately dawning on me, is probably Aspergers. My score was 158/200 for neurodiverse (aspie) score and 68/200 NT. At first I thought “I’ll fix it” and set about trying to learn all of the rules. Haha I am also a passionate collector of information on ANYTHING. Small town church = not easy for peope who are different. I’m glad you feel like you’ve found a community with others on the spectrum. I have thought for a long time that maybe I had OCD or social anxiety disorder, or something of the like. It… Isn’t going very well, to say the least. Your instincts are right on. I have found that my scores (170 or higher AS, 30 or lower NT) have remained reasonably stable through revisions of the test. I train myself to remember people like others memorize Pi. When I was a little kid, I couldn’t understand why children of the same gender didn’t want to play with me. Ah well that’s the interesting thing, it was learning that NVLD wasn’t going to be in the DSM-5 as everyone had speculated 5 years ago, but was in fact had more recently been declared to be Asperger’s but as it manifests for three quarters of us, that got me finally working out what was really going on with me. I have read your book (very helpful and concise!) I dont think there would be any point trying for a diognosis as it was hard enough getting one for my son who is more ‘classic’ autism let alone a 35 year old woman whos got on with it all this time. I did find a list of NVLD traits that was nearly identical to AS traits so your background on the relationship between the two answer my question about that. The societal stereotype of Asperger’s is just one of more obvious coping strategies. So it’s quite possible that you’re on the spectrum and haven’t run across a therapist who recognized it. The only question that really bothered me was one that had to do with “unusual things you find attractive in the opposite sex” (I’m paraphrasing) because it makes an assumption that (unless you’re asexual) you’re heterosexual. What I love about this quiz is the cool spiderweb graph that it gives you at the end. Looking at other people’s spider webs, it seems common for there to be a “bulge” on each side, with some subscales more obviously aspie and some more obviously NT. I can’t see why I should blog about my boring picture, but I can still share that way! She then changed her opinion, and said I should be assessed for Aspergers, and told me how to go about it. you are very likely an aspie. And I can see that being the case in some families. Thank you for posting this. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Although some of the tests you’ll find on the internet are used as part of a diagnostic battery, it’s important to remember than an official diagnosis includes additional elements such as neuropsychological testing, observation by a psychiatrist, an assessment of childhood development and interviews with family members. You scored really high on the aspie perception and talent scales but low in many of the other areas, so that might be something to consider in interpreting your scores. Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 109 of 200 I have a fear of floods. I fell down a similar hole researching autism and still haven’t climbed out. To take the test, begin here. I’d like to be able to do option three, because as you say I can’t see the first two working out well. The test has changed since your posting–or at least the verbiage used to display results. It’s definitely possible and lots of middle aged people do get diagnosed, but there’s a certain amount of self-advocating that might have to happen in the process, so it’s helpful to first do some reading and research and kind of “make a case” to yourself so you have the confidence to see the process through if you decide to do it. Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 28 of 200 Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 56 of 200 They were done a couple of weeks apart about two years ago. Sounds like everyone is outgoing compared to your dad! Also, instead of Aspie and Physical, it’s now Neurodiverse and Relationship. Now I’ve come around to “this is me, deal with it” and surprisingly that’s working out really well. If you haven’t already, you might find it helpful to take a look at the “adult diagnosis” page linked from the top of the blog. More than once I’ve wondered if we aspies are more qualified to diagnosis ourselves than the experts are to render an opinion on us. Weird thing is that I cannot stand clutter but my need to keep files of everything and it all piling up keeps creating more clutter and then I go and need my stimming to not explode. You are very likely an Aspie. I think I’m reading this too literally and neurodiverse/aspie is the same thing haha. You are very likely neurodiverse (Aspie) used as research-data or checked in order to calibrate the test. And the thing about that list is that a lot of these behaviours and feelings seem completely unrelated to each other. Yikes!! Thoughts? Absolutely! I am the champion of self-censorship. I would much prefer to be in one camp or another rather than in limbo land! And if you do not want to register just choose accept, and you do not have to put valid information into the questions they ask. I just don’t know if I should follow up on it or see about a professional diagnosis or anything like that. I suspect if there had been more diagnosis, or at least awareness of Asperger’s, that things perhaps might have been different though? I scored in the 11th percentile for working memory (and single digits for something else) but upper 90s for a lot of the other scales. If you let me know when the revision is fully released, I’ll take it again as part of Take a Test Tuesday and do a post on the changes. This would have explained a lot of things growing up! Here they are: Finally, our adult daughter volunteered to share her results as well: As you can see, I scored much higher on the aspie items and much lower on the NT items, while The Scientist and our daugther scored quite high on the neurotypical items and lower on the aspie items. In my country (the Netherlands) it’s one of the things they ask about first, and you can’t get diagnosed without it. That makes me a great teacher, my powerpoint illustration on the new nature of Christ are epic hahaha! In short: if people score aspie-like in this quiz we are usually successful when using methods intended for aspies. I’m sorry you’re having such a bad day. BTW, “Quarries and Corridors” mentioned way up there that he was having difficulty finding a video. I then talked about the traits I felt I had and he seemed receptive – he certainly didn’t “pronounce definitively that I was wrong”, as he had done the last time I had raised the subject. Well, for one I went back over some to make sure I answered them “correctly”…lol. After living for more than thirty years in this world and always wondering why almost everyone I knew outside a few of my immediate family members not comfortable having me around them, I seemed to find my answer. I took the quiz and then “Over” reserched it. I found your page after googling “adult aspergers tests”. My only qualm is that it assumes everyone is only attracted to the opposite gender. Because if I don’t know what is going on with the others, how can I protect myself? It feels like, to me at least, this test is a bit more flexible than the other ones I have seen, across different types of presentation. I can’t play barbies, I don’t know how. I thought I might be slightly dyslexic, although this didn’t seem to fit. The thing I love most about the Aspie Quiz is that so many people post their scores and spiderwebs online. Obviously this is something that should be looked at further, but at least it has helped me feel better about pursuing an evaluation by his therapist next week. I dislike touch and am constantly pushing my husband away. I thought I might have answered with “a little” slightly more often than is totally honest, so took it again and got AS: 139/200, NT: 83/200. I’m glad you’re finding the blog helpful and comforting. I took all the tests I could find, and always got the same kinds of results. Relationships exist for me some how, on some level, but do not ask me why they work. While you can take these quizzes and get a result that says you’re “most likely an aspie,” they aren’t diagnostic instruments. Doesn’t tell me much, though. Participate in our long-time evaluation and help us improve the test (Note that Like I know I get obsessed with things so I make myself do things I should be doing first (if rather sloppily!) Even if ASMR seems to be purely sensory, it doesn’t relate that much to the basic perception traits (like hypersensitivities). ;_; If you can’t or haven’t an answer i understand. I’ve actively worked to move away from a monotone and I pick up inflections very easily from others. [img]http://www.rdos.net/eng/poly12d.php?p1=81&p2=75&p3=79&p4=57&p5=68&p6=79&p7=77&p8=67&p9=75&p10=80&p11=49&p12=51[/img] Oh my, how true. Aspie traits are mainly in the talent, perception and communication sections, although I didn’t score very highly on neurotypical traits for anything. Sounds like your wife is very wise. Also,music has been a safety valve for me a lot of my life, perhaps taking the place of more unusual behaviour. The host, Rob Haupt, asked some great questions and was easy to talk to. It was suggested to me by a CSW at the local hospice after the death of my mother that I was very likely Aspie. I made the test three times, and always scored with 150 aspie. Yet, I absolutely know that it is only in recent years that I have truly begun to meltdown and feel exhausted at times; I have “managed” and “adapted” for so long in such busy environments; I teach High School Modern Languages!! I have felt different and alone all my life, especially when I was younger. Ultimately, I think it takes a trained professional to sort out the details. And not knowing what to do on the telephone. At least I now know why I can’t concentrate on anything, or obsess over it. I think I just want somebody to say… yep… this is what it’s been all along… you’re not a bad person, you’re just wired a bit different, that’s all. It takes a lot of energy to be that person for long periods of time though. Basically everyday is driving me beyond Saturn and back. It kind of makes me feel like: Besides the cool spiderweb graph which makes it really easy to see where I score… . But language fascinates me. Continue reading →. . The distribution of scores between aspie and NT becomes most obvious when you look at the spiderwebs. ://. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Results were as expected for me with the exception of “Communication” – classified as NT there. Things I have always done, I now realize might be stimming. Instead, it groups with stims and contact behaviors. Thanks for helping me through this journey. I took the test out of interest and apparently I’m “very likely” to have Aspergers! Your interpretation is correct. It’s like finding out the meaning of life, but it’s a pretty unsatisfying “42”! BTW, mine was 174 AS and 32 NT…. I find the only way to get through my days is to obsess over a particular subject. I don’t have any direct experience with medication so I can’t speak to this but hopefully someone else who does will be able to answer. So my guess is that with new and stricter criteria, I would never get a formal diagnosis, but honestly, these blogs by female aspies make sense to me in a way that nothing’s ever done. Now, about a decade later, the congregation I attend at the moment has hired a new pastor and I really, really enjoy discussing with him, for finally after all these years there is someone who straddles all the aspects from historical viewpoint to pentecoastal phenomena in a way I can relate to. ASD seems to be the overactivity of these traits. And honestly, my scores do not surprise me, not even one bit. It also assumes that a person has not learnt to adapt to life with ASD. Unfortunately I married a pastor!!!! I have Klinefelter’s syndrome, though. You’re right in thinking that a significant impairment is a condition of getting a diagnosis and probably also in assuming that you meet the threshold a clinician would use in determining that (based on what you’ve described here). I’m guessing I could easily qualify for the significant impairment required to get a diagnosis, although I’m not sure how it’s done here in the USA. Rdos has some info about that in his evaluation stats (linked in my post) if you’re curious. She said I can’t have it, I’ve been too successful. I cried non stop as a baby and nothing would stop me. I’m very lucky to have a loving, wonderful husband, but thing are getting worse as I get old and I can feel myself withdrawing, scared of what the heck I’m going to say or do wrong next, professionally or personally. (Seconding, also, the comment above that the test assumes heterosexuality, which is quite uncomfortable to read.) Still working on the staring thing, though …. I have one friend but I prefer to e-mail with her. I wear myself out. I pick at my nails, pick the skin off my lips until they bleed, scratch at my face, bounce my legs, etc. I am sure they get people all the time who read something online and have diagnosed themselves with something or other. PsyArXiv, doi: 10.31234/osf.io/q7mn8, PsyArXiv preprint Leif Ekblad (2018). over time and help us to calibrate the test (you need to login with a valid Good luck to you! C’est un test dont la fiabilité est en débat. I’m not even sure why I’m commenting really. But a lot of people are content with simply having a general idea that they’re likely on the spectrum and using that to make whatever changes they feel are needed or simply to learn more about how their brain works. . I didn’t hear anything and I assumed he would probably be a bit angry since he had complained about a book on compulsive hoarding I had sent him previously (my brother has this problem to a moderate degree and my dad too, though he doesn’t really recognise it as such). I think that’s ultimately the most important outcome of the process. Wow. Anecdotally I’ve always thought it was the most reliable of the online tests, much more so than the AQ, for example. It’s interesting, you know, because quite a few of the Aspie books out there suggest that it can help Aspies if they have an Aspie parent or close relative, on the grounds that there will probably be greater mutual understanding, but my own experience suggests that’s not necessarily the case – in my family all those with Aspie qualities have very doggedly ploughed their own furrow in life and share very little in terms of interests or opinions, thus have also offered very little by way of emotional support to the others. The scoring algorithm is the same though, so it is only a semantic issue. Interesting. More like desperate and tired of the other two options. Many of us learn by rules what other people seem to know instinctively. I’ve tried taking the Version 4 test about five times now and always got “You have answered inconsistently on too many control-questions”. would be cool to have a supplement test by the same test creater to take by the spouse or a close friend of the test-taker! . I don’t know what to do or how to proceed… I know that this post was ages ago.. So it’s entirely up to you and it’s not something you have to rush into or decide on right away. It definitely seems that certain people comment on certain types of topics and that’s most welcome. I was also thinking that perhaps a question on annoyances with people ending sentences with prepositions should be added to the set of questions. You’re on my RSS feed now so I’ll be commenting whenever I have anything to add . Yes, it does seem like the Aspie quiz is a good indicator of a strong set of aspie traits in those who score high. Your graph is interesting the way it’s straddling both sides of the Aspie/NT graph. Hunting: 6 & 6.5. If you’re interested in statistics or how tests like this are developed, you’ll love the Aspie Quiz Evaluation page. test. You are very likely neurodiverse (Aspie). I thought it was split personality, and now I do feel like I can be aspie. Probably not, huh. I could get a false positive for the latter, if the question was answered badly since I talk alound, and I here ‘my own’ voice giving a running cometry of what I am doing. I may have taken this before, although I don’t recall the strange “hunting” category and don’t really understand what it’s about. Rdos has also written about how the Aspie Quiz compares to the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) test, which has high validity as a diagnostic instrument. I should take the test again and see how I do. You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits, This does validate the feeling that I have that I am like a bridge between the two worlds and not really fitting in with either. Then I confided a few of my reasons for wondering about Aspergers, things I’ve never told anyone. But it seems possible, now I’ve read all this, to show Aspergers-like characteristics without being a mathematic whiz, and while still maintaining close relationships with select family and friends, don’t you think? And the thing about feeling romantic attraction when someone has expressed their attraction to you first, that’s basically my life lol. I also got right in the middle even though I have an Asperger’s diagnosis. I was able to cut and paste the link. So in that sense, usual sex became boring and repetative, so I answered yes I like unusual sex…. I wish I was one of those people who say they’re asexual and don’t want any friends. I’m neurodivergent – a group of people who are autistic, bipolar, OCD, have Tourette’s, ADHD, etc. Also, As soon as I realized that the word “abandoned” was misspelled in question 155, it didn’t really seem a mystery as to what my results would be. I’m a speech pattern sponge. While the Aspie Quiz isn’t an officially recognized test, it does seem to be an accurate reflection of neurotype and you get a pretty picture when you’re done. Your Aspie score: 155 of 200 And let me tell you, in the Christian community it is so much better never to even mention your Aspergers lest you might get demons driven out of you. The Aspie score tells you how high you scored on items indicative of Asperger’s traits. So yes, overactivity is a good way of putting it and there are constellations of traits that could (and sometimes are) alternatively be diagnosed as dyspraxia or ADHD or SPD, etc.. And the other way around. ^_^. , In this case I’d say yes — it’s not a competition. However, learning more about how to cope with some of the difficulties we experience can still be valuable, even in the absence of a diagnosis. (Eh, holy crud, I have an account here?? For those who do not wish to look for it in his post, here it is: Aspie and proud!
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