How Autistic Are You?

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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

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