aspergers test

[cheeryface]

ds2 is awaiting camhs . aspergers has been suggested by someone at school but not someone who i think is very knowledgable. but anyway i came across this test online and had ds2 do it.
he quite obviously could do it.
could a child with aspergers easily do this ?

its the reading faces one

www.youramazingbrain.org/testyourself/default.htm

cheeryface, my ds1 can read faces perfectly well - no difficulties there at all, unless you count having to ask him to do it for it to cross his mind that this is a superior way of assessing social information. He doesn't seem to have twigged that you can't take in and make sense of all the visual information available to you at any one time (at the same time as taking in all the auditory and other sensory information), so have to prioritise what you pay attention to, and he can therefore, socially, still often be way off the mark. His ability to read faces when he attends to them bodes well for the future, though. We just have to direct him to what he should take into account and what information he can safely ignore as extraneous to the matter in hand. Most children work their way through this minefield instinctively as they develop, whereas others need a bit of a helping hand. On the plus side, his inability to work out what is relevant and what isn't has probably helped pump up his memory skills - he has the most phenomenal memory (quite useful when you aren't quite sure what is and isn't worth remembering!!!).

Hi my dd is 7 and they think she may have AS. She could probably do that test but she struggles with other things like she will stand way too close to people in a queue or will queue jump altogether. Will hug and kiss random people, talk to strangers say inappropriate things etc etc. It's not based just upon one thing. Good luck

thankyou. obviously im not all that knowledgable as i didnt know what aspergers was until 6 months ago. I was thinking that recognizing emotions was one of the main things and that when camhs see him they may have ruled it out because of that and looked at other things.
i know it sounds crazy but i am actually hoping it is aspergers . If they say he just has low self esteem and is badly behaved (my parenting) i think that will be far worse.

I just got my DS to do the test. He is 5yo and is diagnosed with Aspergers.
He got 4 out 8 correct easily and the rest slightly wrong.

Wow, justabout... Thats a heck of a list, I wish I had seen that 2 years ago.

Cheeryfce, I just got my Dd3[8] to do that face thing and she only got 2 wrong, however a year ago when she did something similar with the SALT she got them nearly all wrong.

Dd3 is bright and is able to learn things like that but she doesn't have the natural social skills which girls her age have.

Oh and she ticks loads of justabouts boxes.

wow thanks for that! ds2 got them all right.

I'm faceblind as well as on the autism spectrum and those "guess the emotion" face tests are a complete mystery to me.

I think identifying an emotion and working out what to do or say in response to that emotion are two very different things. I might be able to sit down and work out that a face is sad, but then I have to think "OK, what do we do about this - what's the right or wrong thing to say or do now. How do I make my own body language and face expression and eye contact and tone of voice sound and look right, so that people know I care?". Those are links that are done automatically by most people's brains, but we have to do them all manually instead. It's very very hard work indeed.

So, being able to do stuff, yes - we can learn it. But it doesn't mean we're not on the autism spectrum, if that makes sense?