https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient for people too lazy to type.
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- When I was young, I used to enjoy playing games involving pretending with other children.
Well my favourite activity is D&D, so forget the "when I was young" part
I guess children's imaginations are autistic now? Lol.
The exact opposite. Autistic children have difficulty engaging in games with collaborative imagination.
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I was about to link it too if someone hadn't already.
40/50
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I see why psychology tests are considered quackery so much. Being anti-social, or just not interested in other people's life is not being autistic.
This test is repeatedly asking just two questions:
- Do you like numbers, the same way Hollywood likes to paint autistic people.
- Do you like talking to other people?
A test like that can only ever be a first indication. If you score high on this, it doesn't mean you're autistic. It just means you might want to talk to a mental health professional.
Sadly humans always want to boil things down to simple metrics (or maybe we just like numbers... wait a minute!) and people can't be bothered to do the hard part after getting the number. The classic example is IQ tests, which just measure how good you are at that particular quiz (despite certain people obsessing over them like the number is your IRL intelligence stat).
I didn’t take this test, but another similar 50 question autism test, but I felt the same way. It reminds me of alot of the personality quizzes they give for the different business personality trends out there. Questions where there can be some nuance involved and I can answer the question either way depending on how I frame it, but the answers only allow for one answer or the other. I could literally flip a coin to pick the answer and not be wrong, but somehow one answer will make me more autistic than the other?
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Numbers? Prefers a nice quiet night in? Certified autistic?! /s
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It asked far too little about trains, Rome, and the color blue. 3/50
"Do people joke about you being a walking Wikipedia?"
What about spaghetti hoops?
27/50
Though, I had to put in semi random answers several times because the statements were not applicable. Some examples:
- I find social situations easy.
I do find them easy. I just hate them most of the time and try to avoid them.
- I would rather go to a library than to a party.
Definitely the library over the party. Though, I'd rather cut myself between the fingers with paper than go to a library. What century is this test from? We have the internet!
- I find it hard to make new friends.
Making friends is super easy. Keeping them is what requires effort which I'm not willing to invest most of the time. And I stopped making new friends, not because I couldn't, but because I didn't see the point.
- I frequently find that I don’t know how to keep a conversation going.
I frequently find that I don’t want to keep a conversation going.
- I don’t usually notice small changes in a situation or a person’s appearance.
Those are two very different things. I notice the tiniest of changes in "social" situations but am ignorant to changes in outer appearance or decoration that many would consider major. It took me like half an hour, after being prompted about a change, to figure out that an entire wall in a room changed from white to red ...
- I find it easy to work out what someone is thinking or feeling just by looking at their face.
Reading emotions is easy. Telepathy/mind reading is proven to not exist.
- I am good at social chitchat.
I am. But I hate it and avoid it unless I see a clear benefit from enduring it.
- I find it difficult to imagine what it would be like to be someone else.
If anybody thinks they can really imagine what it would be like to be another (existing) person, they are delusional. Even getting a crude approximation right would be mere coincidence.
I can imagine a million fictions of what I could be.
- I find it very easy to play games with children that involve pretending.
I assume I'd have no trouble with it if I set my mind to it. But why would I want to?
Finally someone gets how I feel taking these types of tests.
It's always me going: "I guess it's X, but it depends on Y and Z"
Whatever score you got, it probably wasn't high enough.
There should be an option for: "I'm to autistic to take this test."
Fuck that, I'm not autistic! As long as I'm not tested positive, I'm not. I wasn't, and I'm not going to be. I can be an exceptional software engineer with a direct wire to God without being autistic or otherwise crazy. And I'll have no glow-in-the-dark shrink say otherwise!
For spending the time to write this entire spiel out, you should have 5 points added to your score.
Not to say I don't agree with every single point you made.
I got 21 but feel the same as the examples you gave. I’m very good at “putting on a show” when it comes to socialising - I can easily be the life and soul of the party but it is so fucking draining.
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I am fascinated by dates.
Dates are a very fascinating fruit indeed.
34/50 oh well, moving on
The phrasing of the questions is why I don't trust it to diagnose me. I wish I could ask a human being giving the test "what does that mean? Like, I think coincidences are neat, but I don't like have them marked on calendars and stuff."
But then, I do have a notation cheat sheet on my phone that lists the names of every order of magnitude between 10^2 (one hundred) to 10^102 (one trestrigintillion), just so I don't have to do any mental math to figure out what something like 10^12 is in word terms (it's one trillion). I realize that is far from a normal people thing to do, but is it autism, ADD, ADHD, Asperger's? I wish I could afford a real diagnosis so I could find a chemical that would make my brain act normal
A test like that can only be an indication, never a diagnosis.
10^11 is in word terms (it’s one trillion).
No it's not, it's 100 billion, one trillion is 10^12. These are simple, it's always a multiple of 3, or -3, makes me wonder why you don't care for small numbers.
Anyway I scored 36/50.
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20/50
Apparently other disorders (like depression, anxiety, ADHD) can show up on this test too though XD
I also got 20/50. I'm not depressed or anxious. Does that mean I have ADHD :x
32/50. I've undergone an official diagnosis test and it came back negative. Don't put too much stock in this online quiz - it's not a substitute for real doctors.
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26/50 but I think my social anxiety was triggering a lot of questions.
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Got a diagnosis when I was 17, and was part of an autism support program in college. Fun stuff; having to craft a boring, unoffensive mask for the public sucks.
- Hah, same as my age.
Sir, bad news. Your autism is progressing at a rate of 1 autism per year. I urge you to go out and enjoy some crowded areas while you still can.
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I scored 42/50 too. Not surprising when I was diagnosed with Asperger's as an infant.
41/50…. TIL I might be autistic
12/50 damn i thought i was more on the edge. I guess it's add only, reassuring.
32/50. But based on the questions, I'd score higher when I was younger, definitely.
What's up neurobuddies! I'm posting a daily question from the short version of this test on the lemmy.world autism community. Come and complain about ambiguously worded questions at Let's Play AQ-10.
That one got me a 24/50, so not really... but this one...
https://psychology-tools.com/test/raads-14
Your score was 20 out of a possible 42. Scores of 14 and above are considered indicative of an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
That one has "and when I was younger" which fits me better. I've adapted A LOT as I grew up.
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26/50
apparently, my introspection is quite on point
- Time for a beer to celebrate!
Man. I am weird af but not enough to have been diagnosed with adhd (score "great" on those tests though 🤡). However it seems i am not autistic at all (13/50). I apreciate you guys though, makes life more interesting.
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35/50
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