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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 (twenty 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 (twenty years ago) link

www.autism-society.org

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

15.

Borderline???????

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

35 :/

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

dear GEIR HONGRO and DJ MARTIAN

PLEASE TAKE THIS TEST

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

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

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

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

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

13 = my score not the quesh # OBVS

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

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

28. Aspberger Light apparently.. :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 29 April 2006 00:03 (eighteen 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

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