How Autistic Are You?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (262 of them)

View Previous Page...

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

Skipping 162 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

-- 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

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.