https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient for people too lazy to type.
44/50
this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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- When I was young, I used to enjoy playing games involving pretending with other children.
Well my favourite activity is D&D, so forget the "when I was young" part
I guess children's imaginations are autistic now? Lol.
The exact opposite. Autistic children have difficulty engaging in games with collaborative imagination.
I assumed the opposite. D&D is cooperative imagination, something I would think would be difficult for an autistic individual. If you strongly agreed with that, your score would be lower. The 40 is not the person's score but the number of the question.
That's fair, I don't know why I assumed the opposite, but youre probably correct.
I see why psychology tests are considered quackery so much. Being anti-social, or just not interested in other people's life is not being autistic.
This test is repeatedly asking just two questions:
- Do you like numbers, the same way Hollywood likes to paint autistic people.
- Do you like talking to other people?
A test like that can only ever be a first indication. If you score high on this, it doesn't mean you're autistic. It just means you might want to talk to a mental health professional.
32/50. I've undergone an official diagnosis test and it came back negative. Don't put too much stock in this online quiz - it's not a substitute for real doctors.
32 does not fall into the range of significant autistic traits.
33 to 50 is the autistic traits range.
So this test came out accurately for you. Same as your official diagnosis test.
Couldn't this just fail for people with other mental health issues? I scored 35 but was only diagnosed with ADHD as a child (and again in my twenties).
I got 35 of 50 from this test and I am very sure that I don't have autism. Does anyone score lower than 30 on this test?!
Man. I am weird af but not enough to have been diagnosed with adhd (score "great" on those tests though 🤡). However it seems i am not autistic at all (13/50). I apreciate you guys though, makes life more interesting.
I am fascinated by dates.
Dates are a very fascinating fruit indeed.
34/50 oh well, moving on
The phrasing of the questions is why I don't trust it to diagnose me. I wish I could ask a human being giving the test "what does that mean? Like, I think coincidences are neat, but I don't like have them marked on calendars and stuff."
But then, I do have a notation cheat sheet on my phone that lists the names of every order of magnitude between 10^2 (one hundred) to 10^102 (one trestrigintillion), just so I don't have to do any mental math to figure out what something like 10^12 is in word terms (it's one trillion). I realize that is far from a normal people thing to do, but is it autism, ADD, ADHD, Asperger's? I wish I could afford a real diagnosis so I could find a chemical that would make my brain act normal
10^11 is in word terms (it’s one trillion).
No it's not, it's 100 billion, one trillion is 10^12. These are simple, it's always a multiple of 3, or -3, makes me wonder why you don't care for small numbers.
Anyway I scored 36/50.
A test like that can only be an indication, never a diagnosis.