How Autistic Are You?

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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

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