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Aspie quiz

Clever_girlClever_girl
edited March 2012
This aspie quiz was recently featured on This American Life. With the talk of Spectrum folks in the tre arrow thread, and the other thread about Meyers-Briggs, it made me want to do it.

http://rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

My results:
aspie
Your Aspie score: 92 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 107 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits

don't forget to look at the detailed PDF at the end!

Comments

  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    "Do you find it easier to understand and communicate with odd & unusual people than with ordinary people? "

    This test is making me nervous!
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
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    Your Aspie score: 132 of 200
    Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 88 of 200
    You are very likely an Aspie

    OH NOOOOOOO
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited March 2012
    Your Aspie score: 148 of 200
    Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 51 of 200
    You are very likely an Aspie

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    Not all the way fair because I am self-diagnosed but... when I read these things I'm like whoaaa how did you know
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    Your Aspie score: 24 of 200
    Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 186 of 200
    You are very likely neurotypical

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  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    "Do you often don't know what to do with your arms"
  • GordonGordon
    Your Aspie score: 43 of 200
    Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 161 of 200
    You are very likely neurotypical

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  • AndrewAndrew
    edited March 2012
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    Your Aspie score: 70 of 200
    Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 140 of 200
    You are very likely neurotypical
  • Log_GaryLog_Gary
    Your Aspie score: 156 of 200

    Back from France for This?!
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  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
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  • Log_GaryLog_Gary
    No 2 shapes are alike!

    It really says a lot about People.
  • MarcusMarcus
    "Have you been fascinated about making traps?" Really specific questions!

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    Your Aspie score: 82 of 200
    Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 144 of 200
    You are very likely neurotypical

    Feels a little insulting when you put it that way, man.
  • GordonGordon
    I've never thought about making traps. I sort of want to now. Also, when it asked if you pace, I thought about like running pace not pacing back and forth. Realized afterward.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    edited March 2012
    I can't talk on the phone without pacing. Ok, that isn't true, I can talk on the phone without pacing, but pacing makes it a lot easier.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    The person who made this test has a completely amazing conspiracy theory that autism correlates to Neanderthal genes.

    There are a lot of things wrong with this theory but it makes a fascinating story.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited March 2012
    For example... 

    The hypothesis that Neanderthals become extinct because of 
    free trade is compelling and seems to match the troublesome 
    situation of autistics in a more globalized world.

    Supplements of L-carnosine, carnitine and taurine, that is 
    naturally occurring in a high-meat diet, has positive effects on 
    autistic children.

    It is possible that the instinctive reaction of autistics when 
    they hear the sound of a motor-bike triggers an ancient fear 
    for cave-bears.

    Many people with AS are face blind. This is likely because the 
    specialized circuit for analyzing faces is adapted to recognizing 
    Neanderthal faces rather than modern human faces. Aspie-quiz 
    have found that autistics rate Neanderthal faces as more attractive 
    than neurotypicals.

    Neanderthals often had “rodeo-type” injuries. This probably was 
    caused by wrestling large (semi) domestic animals… Autistic 
    individuals frequently have unusual sensitivities for pain. 
    They are both more sensitive to touch, and less sensitive to 
    pain. This might have it’s origin in sexual selection, and in 
    Neanderthal habits of wrestling large mammals. Possibly this 
    formed a ritual where spanking were used to harden their 
    bodies. This is what is manifested in the pain differences in autism.

    Violence against females, rape and infanticide are fundamentally 
    incompatible with masochism.

    It’s probable that Neanderthals primary use of musical instruments 
    wasn’t for entertainment or music, rather as a way to herd animals.
  • freddyfreddy
    I don't get the traps thing, like, at all. Anybody got an idea, or more info?
  • NickNick
    edited March 2012
    I think you should get points (or not) for having the ability to finish the test.
    I just can't! Too many questions! No patience!
  • GordonGordon
    I came back to it twice. Very long. Agreed.
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    Oh my god, I thought I was the only person looking at Neanderthal porn :O

    j/k, even though I am *very likely an Aspie* I am generally able to remember faces.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    "It is possible that the instinctive reaction of autistics when
    they hear the sound of a motor-bike triggers an ancient fear
    for cave-bears."

    I am amazed that this theory posits that neanderthals didn't die out until there was FREE TRADE????????? Wasn't that, like, 500 years ago? Seems like there'd be more documentation of this other species of humanoid running around wrestling semi-domestic animals and not raping women.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    The traps thing is that the person who wrote the test is trying to correlate "hunting" characteristics to autism or Neanderthal genetics.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited March 2012
    One of the other hunting questions is "do you have a compulsion to jump over things"
  • Clever_girlClever_girl
    On the This American Life episode, this speech therapist suspects her husband of being autistic, but she doesn't take it very seriously because it's a common joke in the Autism community that if you describe typical aspie behaviors, a lot of women will say, "Oh, that sounds like my husband!"

    When she saw this test and the question about making traps, she thought it was a typo because the question was so weird, but then she showed it to her husband, who was like, "Oh my god, I think about making traps all the time!"

    http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/458/play-the-part?act=2
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Thank you King! fun times
  • swamp_knobbler_mahanswamp_knobbler_mahan
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    Your Aspie score: 33 of 200
    Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 159 of 200
    You are very likely neurotypical
  • the_owlsthe_owls
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    Your Aspie score: 93 of 200
    Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 114 of 200
    You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits

    Some of it is so YES, but mostly I'm just a sensitive, awkward old introvert. Who is very sensitive to sound & light, which apparently might be a whole different thing?

    http://www.hsperson.com/
  • kmikeymkmikeym
    I got bored and didn't finish the quiz.
  • Clever_girlClever_girl
    edited March 2012
    Oh, if you don't finish it's an indication you have ADD.
  • zinzin
    edited March 2012
    Hella neurotypical

    Your Aspie score: 20 of 200
    Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 188 of 200
    You are very likely neurotypical

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  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    edited March 2012
    I am having trouble making the image load...

    Your Aspie score: 53 of 200
    Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 154 of 200
    You are very likely neurotypical



  • kdawgkdawg
    edited March 2012
    No surprises, sorta down the middle. image
  • MirandaJulyMirandaJuly
    "Comorbid". I like that.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    edited March 2012












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