If you are diagnosed with ASD, what was your AQ50 score?

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Mine is between 26 and 29 (I've taken it a few times). I'm trying to work out the significance of that. The cut-off seems to be given as 26 in some places and 32 in others. Similarly I've seen the population average given as 16 in some places and 22 in others.

Not what you asked as I'm not diagnosed but waiting on ADOS assessment results. I usually score about 34 but it could be influenced by other conditions. I really don't know how likely I am to be diagnosed with autism.

Thanks. It seems most people who decide to have assessment get a score of 30+.

I'm not sure how much you can read into it. For example this study https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/predicting-the-diagnosis-of-autism-in-adults-using-the-autismspectrum-quotient-aq-questionnaire/CA0A8294A3494C7F60C166025914294C# seems to have found that the AQ50 wasn't that predictive of diagnosis.
I guess maybe more important is now much these traits are causing you challenges in your daily life.

Thanks, that's interesting.

I can be absolutely fine for ages and then there are days, like today apparently, I'm hopeless.

I juts did it and scored 43

Some of the questions are ridiculous though

I have learned to mask for over 40 years so no people don't think I am impolite because I juts don't say it. Also I don't want to go to a library or a party. Things like that. It's a bit rigid.

Hi I scored 37 I've not yet been assessed. As above though some of the questions are a bit shat 😆I was diagnosed with adhd last year x

I got 45. Diagnosed last year, although I've 'known' for years.

I am diagnosed and got 43, same as a PP.

I'm diagnosed and I scored a 40 doing it just now, though I think functionally I cope with some of those things better than my answers would suggest (e.g. I definitely prefer going to a library than a party, for sure, but if my friend is throwing a birthday party then no matter how much I'd rather not, I'll at least show up for a little bit)

I score 41, and my autistic children are very similar..... HOWEVER, it can be really bloody hard to work out what some of the questions even mean, and when I first took it (and didn't really understand some of the questions) my score was lower (I can't remember exactly what but more borderline). I was also answering it in something of a "masked state" initially, as if it was a job interview and you have to say that you work well in a team 😆 So make sure you are not doing that and that your answers genuinely reflect any difficulties you have (e.g. being able to socialise "well" but being really stressed beforehand, over-thinking conversations constantly and needing recovery time afterwards.....i.e. masking) Questions like those on the AQ50 can, ironically, be especially hard for autistic people I think, as we do tend to take them very literally rather than thinking about what is actually being asked!

I scored 46, however I think it's probably equally important to do the cat-q test online as well to see what your masking points are currently.

I'd wager that if your scores for the aq50 are low but the cat-q are high it's just that you're high masking.

Regardless, if you're thinking of seeking a diagnosis it's probably beneficial to look at the diagnostic criteria and write down all examples you feel you meet as well as getting a personal account from someone who has known you all your life and who may be present at your assessments.

When I went through my assessments though, my assessor said a lot of what I was explaining could be explained by cptsd, which could have been offered as a standalone diagnosis, however they also said that it's important to note that being autistic is inherently traumatic and as a late diagnosed adult there will have been many periods in my life where my needs were persistently not being met, and this is a recipe for complex trauma, but essentially what she was saying is that if I wasn't autistic, that doesn't mean I'm alright, it means it could well have been something else in it's own right.

I did get an autism diagnosis and not a combined autism and cptsd diagnosis, however I wish they'd made it more clear on my feedback report that they'd considered it and mentioned the reasons why so I can back up my requests for support.

I got 29 on the AQ-50 and 121 on Cat-Q