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Sure, all music geeks are fucked in the head. But how fucked up are you?

Take the test.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Monday, 23 February 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago) link

Scored 10. Less 'aut' than the core group average. Wow, all hail me < / sarc>

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link

Score: 26

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago) link

I got a 21.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago) link

I also lied on most of the answers.

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago) link

21 here too.

I am glad this is some kind of proper scientific test and not a take-the-piss one. That said is Simon Baron-Cohen any relation to the guy who plays Ali G?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago) link

27.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago) link

Tico- he's his uncle.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link

Thanks Dom!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link

27 too, that's nice then isn't it

― Silly Sailor (Andrew Thames), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link

wahey i am king of the menkos so far (sarc)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago) link

― ferg (Ferg), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago) link

just yr 13 for me, you maladjusted freaks

― chris (chris), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link

10.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:14 (twenty years ago) link

35.. what does that mean?

― search and delete (searchanddelete), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:15 (twenty years ago) link

11.

― Michael B, Monday, 23 February 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

Phil, feel free to share yer own(z) score! ;)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

8, fa la la la la

― stephen morris, Monday, 23 February 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

Score: 24

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

17 - but what does it mean?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago) link

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

― pete b. (pete b.), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link

16 was the average, higher = more autistic/asbergers.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago) link

Hmm... 43. Maybe this means something. Damn you Wired.com!

― adam (adam), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

― Jole (Jole), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

(re-post:)
Hey Phil, feel free to share yer own(z) score! ;)

― t''t, Monday, 23 February 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago) link

29.
This is just like all those times I diagnosed myself as having Asperger's.

― cis (cis), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago) link

How many times did you diagnose yourself? Is that compulsive behaviour?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago) link

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

Is there a pathology associated with scoring too lowly on this test?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

29.

I am pretty convinced that I have Asperger's Syndrome but then I have wrongly convinced myself that i've had mental diseases before.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

ha ha ha x-post

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link

22.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

I'm not good at visualizing and I'm not good at remembering numbers (nor particularly excited by them). Maybe I am just autistic and stupid.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link

O no! - you a Rockist & Scientist'ic, shu'ley!
:)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link

― billislord, Monday, 23 February 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link

11..not so bad

― Mr Monket (apn99), Monday, 23 February 2004 15:57 (twenty years ago) link

i believe, being good at remembering numbers = more aut.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

54. Anyone else see the pattern here?

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link

Haha I was SURE this was a Barry Lasagne thread!!

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

O no! A girl on this thread o no!

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

― sunjammerr, Monday, 23 February 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

I scored 23.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago) link

20, but I was being nice to myself. Catch me on a bad day and it could've been mentalist city.

― udu wudu (udu wudu), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

8, and I'll second the question asked earlier whether scoring too low is bad as well.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link

37 big suprise (fuckup, married to a fuckup, our child actually is diagnosed as autistic, most of both our families are fuckups in some way)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:30 (twenty years ago) link

i do know people with Aspergers so i would be interested to see how their scores compare with mine and anyone else over 28 pts

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:31 (twenty years ago) link

NickB - did you really get 54?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago) link

15, after somebody upthread with a score which may or may not be 30 asked me to do it.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago) link

I'd assume if yr score is low you are something of an extravert, possibly ADHD if you want a disease too.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago) link

NickB - did you really get 54?

Nah, I got 34 actually - still on the high side though...

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago) link

If you forgot what your score was, you get to knock ten off...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link

13. no ADHD though - what I hate about these tests is there's no 'meh' category.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link

ADHD often comes along w/autistic spectrum disorder in the very young, as an aside. (x-post times several)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, about the meh category. That's the case in a lot of multi-choice things.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

I'd assume if yr score is low you are something of an extravert

yeah, i talk a lot and tend to be bad with numbers. i think this explains my lower score. otherwise i tend to rack up the points on "are you crazy?" tests, regardless of what disorder is under discussion.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link

I don't think of myself as particularly extroverted, yet I scored quite lowly. I think it's more being a bit flakey rather than precise, being comfortable - rather than a show-off - around people.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago) link

Fair enough.

I learned from ile recently that I might have aspergers because I said I get a weird sensation when I touch cotton balls (and do I! [yes, i do]) apparently having weird sense sensations is a symptom.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link

32. I kind of expected that.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago) link

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

36.
I'm fucked up!!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

9... and I'm bipolar.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

36, but I don't think I'm autistic in the least, merely unhappy with socializing. I do have a bad habit of wasting lots of time studying patterns in things though; it's one of my worst habits when I'm reading something, that I start focusing on the spaces between the letters instead, and start seeing images there. I often think I could make a horrible painter if I had any talent for it, because of this constant pattern-seeking.

I dislike the term introverted, because for me it paints me the image of a smug gothy teenager, but I have always had a hard time with people, and it's only gotten worse over the years (to the extent that I'd break off the few friendships I had, because I didn't want to be in more social situations than I had to), so I guess that definition fits me much better than autist. Perhaps anti-social fits even better. Some day I will read more up on this sort of thing, to really groom my ego by trying to figure out "what sort of person" I am.

― Achstein H-O (Øystein H-O), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link

Read up about Asperger's Syndrome, which is basically a mild form of autism.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:30 (twenty years ago) link

I had a link upthread. Wikipedia, good site.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

29... definetly 29...

― ModJ (ModJ), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:46 (twenty years ago) link

13, but i'm not an extrovert.

― badgerminor (badgerminor), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link

― scott m (mcd), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link

11+11+11

haha, not really, actually 11+11

― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link

30 I M FUCKED

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:31 (twenty years ago) link

21, I expected higher.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:40 (twenty years ago) link

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:56 (twenty years ago) link

I got too distracted to finish taking the quiz, what does that make me?

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

Girlscout cookies

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Monday, 23 February 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 23 February 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago) link

20. I was surprised it was that low -- I had been apprehensive about taking the test because I thought I'd get a high score.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 23 February 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago) link

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 23 February 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

14.

v. disappointed as i have convinced myself for years that i have had full blown asperger's syndrome. i should be so lucky!

― stirmonster, Monday, 23 February 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link

16, apparently. Interesting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 February 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago) link

21.

I get the people that many "average" people who get around 16.4 either lie or are not able to realistically assess their feelings and abilities.

― Dan i., Monday, 23 February 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago) link

Why?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 23 February 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago) link

24, thought it would be higher...

― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Monday, 23 February 2004 21:12 (twenty years ago) link

I got 20. That's not a very interesting result, I'm disappointed. I like to stand out from the crowd - which is why I score high on narcissism tests.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 23 February 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

http://beliefnet.com/section/quiz/index.asp?sectionID=&surveyID=74

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 23 February 2004 21:21 (twenty years ago) link

16.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 23 February 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link

I guess unsurprisingly, almost all of the people on this thread I actually know in real life have had low scores.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 22:53 (twenty years ago) link

"unsurprisingly"

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:00 (twenty years ago) link

"real life"

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago) link

i got 37 by answering all the questions honestly. however, i doubt i am autistic or have aspergers or anything. i'm just not very good at conversation, hate socialising with people i'm not close to, and i'm good at remembering peoples phone numbers and license plates is all.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

13, though i'm pretty good at numbers and in fact can remember almost any telephone number i've used more than once, it is my weird superpower.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

I can't understand why people seem to want higher scores than they got, or think that a high score would be a "better" thing to have.

I wasn't surprised by my score as I have displayed autistic tendencies since early childhood. I'd rather have had a lower score, but then that wouldn't be me. However, I might not have been the exception to the low-scoring people N. knows in real life.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:09 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, you were :)

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

― TOMBOT, Monday, 23 February 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago) link

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link

What kind of correlation, Tom? I was thinking of doing an average, but maybe I am not autistic enough to be bothered.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago) link

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link

19 - i'm great with dates, numbers, etc., but although i'm very introverted, i do enjoy people and know how to deal with social situations.

― Kareem Estefan (Kareem Estefan), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago) link

I got a 30, but there were several that I couldn't decide on "agree" or "disagree" so I thought "ah fuck it," *random click*. So I don't think it's accurate at all.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 23 February 2004 23:41 (twenty years ago) link

All tests are like that. You have to get used to swallowing your pride and just selecting one of the ones that's the least bad option. I sometimes bear in mind where I've maybe overdone it on one question and make amends on a similar one later on.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago) link

can't understand why people seem to want higher scores than they got, or think that a high score would be a "better" thing to have.

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""better""

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:45 (twenty years ago) link

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:56 (twenty years ago) link

24.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:01 (twenty years ago) link

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:08 (twenty years ago) link

If everyone who submitted a ballot to Pazz & Jop would take this test. . .

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

23.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago) link

" can't understand why people seem to want higher scores than they got"

because having a higher score would make you more geeky and obsessive about music which is why we are all here.

Right?

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago) link

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:53 (twenty years ago) link

uh 33

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:01 (twenty years ago) link

hahaha

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:01 (twenty years ago) link

I didn't want a high score, I was just expecting one because I tend to obsess over things like music.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago) link

17 - exactly one third the number on my next birthday. I'm in sync, I guess.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:29 (twenty years ago) link

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:32 (twenty years ago) link

I scored a 37. Guess I fit the profile of functional Asperger's, huh? Fuck it -- means I can enjoy prog-rock a lot more than the average schlub with a pen. :-)

― Chris O., Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:50 (twenty years ago) link

I got 3...I'm the most well-adjusted ILM'er EVAH! Or I'm a sociopath.

― Jaromil (Jaromil), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:51 (twenty years ago) link

27 seems to be a very common score. I noticed because numerical patterns seem to just jump out at me. (It's what I scored, too.) But 32 is the cut-off point for autism/Aspergers, so... I have no idea what this means.

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago) link

14.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:15 (twenty years ago) link

A really geeky autistic thing to do now would be for one of us to make up a distribution curve for these scores then compare them to the normal population.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:19 (twenty years ago) link

― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:28 (twenty years ago) link

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago) link

30. which isn't a big surprise - i always score v highly for all the stupid pattern things in such tests ("is that phone number divisible by 9?" etc etc).

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 07:02 (twenty years ago) link

19.

I really, really want to know what Martian would score on this test...

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 07:54 (twenty years ago) link

I bet autism is like other mental illnesses though (depression, schizophrenia, anxiety) - when you are around a bunch of people severely afflicted with a particular disorder in a mental hospital, you realise they have NO PERSONALITY TRAITS in common except those specific to the illness.

― a (maryann), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 07:56 (twenty years ago) link

Like there are probably plenty of '12 CD' autistic people

― a (maryann), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 07:58 (twenty years ago) link

Probably, but part of the aspergers thing seems to be an obsession w/something. I am still convinced I have it and hope to blame my eventually dropping out of college on it.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 08:06 (twenty years ago) link

On a sample of N=85, the mean Autism score for ILM is 21.85, with a standard deviation of 8.29. This indicates that the population of ILM is significantly more autistic than the general population in statistical terms, however an accurate answer is impossible without the raw scores that the population average was derived from.

Nerr.

― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 08:07 (twenty years ago) link

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 08:12 (twenty years ago) link

17
wrt the question about what it means if you score low, the questionnaire won't tell you because it was designed simply to indicate whether or not you might be on the spectrum (and possibly to indicate whereabouts on the spectrum you might be if you are). It wasn't designed to tell you what you are if you're not on it.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:01 (twenty years ago) link

29. I thought I would score higher.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:13 (twenty years ago) link

24 - i think the only thing that saved me from serious pathology is tha fact that i hate numbers to the point that i honestly think i have a kind of numeric dyslexia

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 11:08 (twenty years ago) link

i also think i may be going senile

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago) link

27 for the second time. i did this test already in 2001. i am consistent at least.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link

I'd assume if yr score is low you are something of an extravert, possibly ADHD if you want a disease too

6 - I shouldn't be here really. I think it was my number phobia and over-active imagination.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link

seven!?!!!?!

― $$, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:33 (twenty years ago) link

25. Does this make me the most autistic person Nicky D knows?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago) link

No, ailsa got 32 and cozen 33.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:04 (twenty years ago) link

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:13 (twenty years ago) link

35, yeah I knew I was fucked up.

― Cacaman Flores, Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:21 (twenty years ago) link

I scored 18 second time round and answered as honest as I could. some of the questions are unanswerable under their choices.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 26 February 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

OK, one of the cozens got 33.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:46 (twenty years ago) link

I reckon I am probably closer to 33 than 18 tho. : /

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 26 February 2004 02:48 (twenty years ago) link

Were you dishonest first time round?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 26 February 2004 09:59 (twenty years ago) link

pre-reincarnation?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 26 February 2004 12:23 (twenty years ago) link

I got 21 on my first time round, but then I had another look at the questions and realised I was being far too generous (I may feel a bit nervous when confronted by a new situation, but proper anxiety, no, for example). So I did it again and got 10. If the questions were more accurate I'd probably be around 14 I suspect.

(also, what's all the stuff about pretending as children? I wasn't *really* a cowboy or an indian, wtf?)

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:38 (twenty years ago) link

does anyone else have a bit of trouble taking the concept of Aspergers seriously? i know it's a problem but i dread what may become a sucky trend of using it as an 'excuse' for some people, hmmm

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago) link

....errrrrrrrrrrrrrr, yes. I mean, is it just me or if a kid is noisy and rowdy these days they are automatically assumed to have Attention Deficiency Disorder and if they're quiet and introspective they have Aspergers?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago) link

i agree, stevem.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago) link

i mean sometimes i am tactless, oblivious, very forgetful, uncaring, uncommunicative, afraid, confused, slow, careless etc. - more than a lot of people around me i notice, but i wouldn't call it a disorder as such (they are all flaws but who doesn't have those?). but i do know people who fit this 'condition' more than me and while i can see how it can be useful to categorise it with a view to attending to the problem (have to identify problem before you can identify solution) it seems clear that there are some people 'worse' than others and by some distance, but it's a very grey area.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago) link

Asperger's syndrome is a serious condition which fundamentally affects the way a person who has it interacts with both the world around them, and more specifically with the people around them. It isn't just a matter of someone being inattentive, or self-obsessed or whatever, it's more that a person thus afflicted's brain works on a completely different paradigm to a "normal" person. There is plenty of good information about it online, if you care to look.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

i guess my point is that the term is at risk of being abused if it hasn't been already. i mean just the idea that i am four points away from having AS seems a bit daft - i don't always feel 'normal' and in the past have often felt out of step with people around me (but i didn't use it to justify my 'oddness' which is what some cynical types out there may do). but then i met other people who were like that but ten(or more)fold and there seems to be a sliding scale of sorts here, only what you describe pashmina sounds more and more like actual autism (but as you say there is info online and i'm no expert here)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link

The test is not a means for making a diagnosis, however, and many who score above 32 and even meet the diagnostic criteria for mild autism or Asperger's report no difficulty functioning in their everyday lives.

so it's full of shit basically ;)

but yeah i'm only just starting to get my head around this idea of 'mild' autism, and does it mean 'mild' Aspergers as well or is Aspergers more defined (as i thought autism was)?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago) link

I got 25. I sort of agree with those who're against making everything into a 'syndrome'. Then they usually warm to their theme and turn into classic 'buck up, you' middle-class puritans. Personally I think Asperger's is a by-product of an intensely ruled and stratified society derived from anxiety about status -- this certainly helps explain the behaviour of one of my friends who suffers from it. I don'd need to give it a name for it to exist.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

Aspergers isn't 'mild autism' -- it just has kind of similar symptoms.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link

Neither condition is fully understood (like our little boy is four, and they won't know for a few years if he is a/around the middle of the autistic spectrum, but very intelligent, b/at the upper end of the spectrum, or c/has asperger's syndrome, the latter seems unlikely, but it's still possible) From what I have read, and what I have been told by the specialist who diagnosed our child, the conditions are related in some way that is not fully understood. Both conditions are "spectrum" conditions, IE pick and mix from a list of symptoms, to put it crudely. Basically, mild autism and asperger's aren't quite the same thing.

I suspect "haha person 'x', your dialogue is awfully repetitive, are you autistic?" is probably an example of the term being abused. OTOH, if a person states they have asperger's syndrome, I would assume they have an actual medical diagnosis of aspergers syndrome.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

I got 32, meaningless of course 'cos you can work out teh direction the questions are headed. Simon Baron-Cohen is Ali G's uncle and I've hear he really does not appreciate being reminded of the fact.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link

10. I am perfect.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:11 (twenty years ago) link

Does that make Ned Dudley Moore?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:12 (twenty years ago) link

I hope so!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:15 (twenty years ago) link

37, which is quite high, I guess. I've often suspected that I was slightly on the autistic side. It was suggested once when I was a child. Though it didn't start until I went to the States, so it might just be social maladjustment. Like Lady Di said above, I answered quite honestly about social difficulties, which I have taught myself to overcome.

― The River Kate (kate), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:35 (twenty years ago) link

18!
That's AMAZINGLY low for me.

― mei (mei), Friday, 27 February 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago) link

On a sample of N=85, the mean Autism score for ILM is 21.85

I got 21. But aged 21 I'd have got much higher. I have halved my introversion since then. By fucking around, mostly.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link

First sentence of The Geek Syndrome:

'Nick is building a universe on his computer.'

Sudden wave of nostalgia. Damn, it's time I made another album!

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 27 February 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago) link

Does that make Ned Dudley Moore?

Such cruelty. Can't I be Peter Cook?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

K-Mart sucks.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 February 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago) link

Such cruelty. Can't I be Peter Cook?

No.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 February 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

39, took it three times, feedback would be appreciated. thats pretty high from what i read, hope to hear from you

― steve kotlarz, Monday, 15 March 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago) link

I got 42/50. I really don't know how someone can get over 50 concidering it is out of 50! lol :)It was a fun test, it really described me. :) But I already know I have Autistic Tendencies. Don't need a test to tell me, lol. :)

Got to get back to my homework, got side tracked, but it was fun. :)

Sincerly; Mozart

― Mozart, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 03:34 (twenty years ago) link

i only got an 8 wow what does that say about me...

― Chunky Monkey, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 03:42 (twenty years ago) link

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago) link

(on the first test)

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

scored 39 ok?

― brudvik geir, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know about this test, but I've solved completed a unified theory of the universe, but I still shit my pants.

Okay that's not true.

Except for the pant-shitting.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link

www.autism-society.org

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 21 April 2004 01:12 (nineteen years ago) link

two years pass...

I scored a 27..I guess thats means??? anyway I loveeeeee numbers!!! what does that mean?? somebody was saying something about numbers...

― donna1979, Thursday, 27 April 2006 05:44 (seventeen years ago) link

hi dere

1. The child spends more time involved with objects and physical systems than with people (Swettenham et al., 1998);

2. The child communicates less than other children do;

3. The child tends to follow their own desires and beliefs rather than paying attention to, or being easily influenced by, othersâ€™ desires and beliefs (Baron- Cohen, Leslie & Frith, 1985);

4. The child shows relatively little interest in what the social group is doing, or being a part of it (Bowler, 1992; Lord, 1984);

5. The child has strong, persistent[2] interests;

6. The child is very accurate at perceiving the details of information (Plaisted, O'Riordan & Baron-Cohen, 1998a; Plaisted, O'Riordan & Baron-Cohen, 1998b)

7. The child notices and recalls things other people may not (Frith, 1989);

8. The childâ€™s view of what is relevant and important in a situation may not coincide with others (Frith, 1989);

9. The child may be fascinated by patterned material, be it visual (shapes), numeric timetables), alphanumeric (number plates), or lists (of cars, songs, etc.);

10. The child may be fascinated by systems, be they simple (light switches, water taps), a little more complex (weather fronts), or abstract (mathematics);

11. The child may have a strong drive to collect categories of objects (e.g., bottletops, train maps), or categories of information (types of lizard, types of rock, types of fabric, etc.); and

12. The child has a strong preference for experiences that are controllable rather than unpredictable.

― flea market economy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 27 April 2006 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link

15.

Borderline???????

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

What does it mean? i am 1 point closer to Oprah Winfrey than Tantrum the Cat.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

35 :/

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

dear GEIR HONGRO and DJ MARTIAN

PLEASE TAKE THIS TEST

― LOLOCAUST, Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

22, it's the numbers that get me. and the details. but i'm too social to be autistic i guess.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

37, but I do actually have Asperger's, so no surprise.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

22. I'm an enigma wrapped in a riddle.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 28 April 2006 01:27 (seventeen years ago) link

How autistic are you? How autistic are you? How autistic are you? How autistic are you? How autistic are you? How autistic are you? How autistic are you?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 28 April 2006 01:29 (seventeen years ago) link

13 - "liking to collect information about categories of things" applies to record collecting, keeping track of music styles etc. but if music pays your rent directly or indirectly ? although you still "like" to do it you might have moved on otherwise and quit keeping track without transferring this "obsession" to other things. I assumed it doesn't apply.

― blunt (blunt), Friday, 28 April 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

13 = my score not the quesh # OBVS

― blunt (blunt), Friday, 28 April 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 28 April 2006 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link

28. Aspberger Light apparently.. :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 29 April 2006 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link

16. I was diagnosed with chronic autism at birth. Social conditioning perhaps?

― Max D, Saturday, 6 May 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

38!

― xhuxk, Saturday, 6 May 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

8. What am I doing in this place?!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 6 May 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

xp-holy shit! i want score. its just all colors shapes and vibrations isn't it?

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 6 May 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, second time i took the test, my score plummeted to, uh, 37. (but does the fact that i went back and took the test a second time make me more or less austistic? hmmm...)

― xhuxk, Saturday, 6 May 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

33, oh noes!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 6 May 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

ilm pls start a fund for chuck's custom built adult-sized sit'n'spin. j/k

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 6 May 2006 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

― noizem duke (noize duke), Saturday, 6 May 2006 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

seven months pass...

I got a big 10

― Dante Hicks (Dante), Thursday, 4 January 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

15, AND I thought I had mild Asperger's (not that this test PROVES anything...)

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

34. I've got better! Hurrah!

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

19. Some of my answers would have been different - in both directions - 10, 20, or 30 years ago. In my teens, I would definitely have scored higher.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link

― space2k (space2k), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

― 69 (plsmith), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

me too!

― hank (hank s), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Which is weird, 'cuz I was "diagnosed" with autism by my 2nd grade teacher. Was a total basket case back then. Wouldn't talk to other kids, just sat in my chair rocking back 'n' forth, enjoyed only plastic car model kits.

Guess I got over it, eventually, with the aid of drugs and alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol. If only we'd had Jim Beam in the 2nd grade...

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

almost three years later, same 23

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

16. Interesting!

― Douglas (Douglas), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I got 40 and I have Aspergers. \m/

― GLC (ZakAce), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Seems like the illicit lure of "partying" defeats introvert aversion to "parties."

― Dr. Alicia D. Titsovich (sexyDancer), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I scored 36, which is what I got the last time I took this test.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Really, what this test measures is introversion, methinks.

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Score: 12

― a (rslvd), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

― ersatz (ersatz), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Three years later, 25, down two. I'm learning!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm getting better - I got 30 this time round. Some of the questions are a bit suspect or open to interpretation (do you like being in social situations? - well that depends, I hate making social chitchat with people I don't know or don't like, I like spending time with a few close friends and talking rubbish over a beer. Is that a yes or a no?)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

25"

― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

30 and not suprised at all

― Thomas Mehlt (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:29 (seventeen years ago) link

― stet (stet), Friday, 5 January 2007 05:39 (seventeen years ago) link

29.

pretty good, right!?

and, i am convinced that, at least when it comes to art/music, i have asperger's syndrome.

― aftercare (blood bitch), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:26 (seventeen years ago) link

29 here too.

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

serious question: how do you get a person with aspberger's to stop talking?

― bell_labs (bell_labs), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

he is now talking about memories of eating "dromedary gingerbread"

― bell_labs (bell_labs), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

12. i seem to be getting slightly less aspergeric (?) as the years pass.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

22.
I live in the East Village and now HATE BARS and PEOPLE (mostly). Besides all of you lovely pixellated ones (and the dudes in the record and guitar shops).

"serious question: how do you get a person with aspberger's to stop talking?
-- bell_labs (lindsay...), January 5th, 2007."

Tell them you have to go take a leak? No clue.

― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Saturday, 6 January 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

9.
i'm pathologically social, sounds like.

― Emily Bjurnhjam (Emily Bjurnhjam), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Simon Baron-Cohen is Ali G's uncle and I've hear he really does not appreciate being reminded of the fact.

I think it's second-cousin actually.
31.
I am so autisumnal.

― jimn (jimnaseum), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link

25. "new situations make me anxious" is the subtitle to my autobiography.

― marc h. (marc h.), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

18. I would have put money on me having it to some degree. Shite, that means there is something else wrong in my tiny mind.

― Griff Sheridan (Griff Sheridan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Sunday, 7 January 2007 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link

― zeus (zeus), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 8 January 2007 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link

23. Hmmm.

― jodi, samurai photographer (burun), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link

15. Unremarkable again!

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 8 January 2007 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link

― maura (maura), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:24 (seventeen years ago) link

14, but I agree with Ailsa. Do I enjoy social occasions? Define social occasions. Parties, weddings, etc., I hate. Bit of a night out in the pub with my mates? Great.

Also, who remembers phone numbers anymore?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man, 34 again.

― NickB (NickB), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/08/obit.nikkibacharach.ap/index.html

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Bit of a Toki fan, eh Mr. Swinburn?

― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 01:51 (seventeen years ago) link

-- Onimo

Still 30

― onimo (onimo), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Mostly a fan of that line in particular.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha, I'm still a 10.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 10 February 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link

fuck Simon Baron-Cohen.. just saying. And even my partner who used to read his books and quote from them knows he's a crank and a waste of space know.

That AQ test is some bad old clickbait imo, what like anyone who is slightly obsessive or socially awkward or introverted, routine driven - which is a lot of neurotypical ppl - oh I always knew there was something different about me!

― calzino, Monday, 10 February 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link

insufficiently autistic to take online test past question two, _definitely_ insufficiently autistic to score online autism test manually

― you know my name, look up the number of the beast (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 00:33 (four years ago) link

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