ASPERGERS QUIZ

[MUM23ASD]

This is an online quiz, just click the 'Go straight to quiz' button, which has over 100 questions...but i think worth doing!
(especially for those of us who following diagnosis of AS realise that other family members seem AS too!!!!)

www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

...and to think this is going through our minds...all the time.!!!

thanks to a few of you who have noted that this quiz highlights how it is for AS people etc...to me it is normal to have all these dilemas...and i honestly assume everyone does them too...then i ask my neighbour to do the quiz and she gets bored after 20 questionsa ...whereas i find it theraputic to read on the screen that how i feel is real and valid...yet to her she gets to q.20 and feels no need to read further!!!!

I have problems with eye-contact. If I start trying to give eye-contact, I start feeling anxious, my heart starts to race, and I find I can't talk at all, or hear what others are saying. I can look at the person talking to me, as long as they are not looking at me, which is bizarre. I feel extremely embarrased if others notice.
I used to know someone who started to notice that I never looked at her, when talking to her, and would bring it up whenever I saw her, so after a while I found it too stressful to have any contact with her.
I used to wonder how my sister had so many lasting friendships, and how she managed to keep those friends, I was always in awe of her. I thought it was some special trick she had. I also thought that people in school didn't like me, or were jealous of my superior (HA! ) intellect.
I never realised there was anything wrong with this until I started reading up on ASD.
I have problems with handshaking because anything other than a very firm handshake, makes my hands feel itchy and irritable. This has an affect on my whole body, and sends me into a downward spiral of tension, and then it only takes one tiny thing and I go into a quiet shutdown.
I do however have a photographic memory, can remember pages(literally pages of written text), so find exams a doddle. I have always struggled with assignments. One particularly difficult time was when I didn't get permission to work on my thesis, I had already started, and had planned it all out both mentally and on paper. I couldn't start on a new one and almost lost my place.
I always plan out shat I am going to do, and if I can't stick to my plan, this throws me into turmoil.
I find it therapeutic to read about how I feel on screen too .

Obviously I don't plan out shat, I plan out what I am going to do.......

my ds2 has ggod eyecontact when he is talking- and keeps restarting what he says if you dare to look away! he seems unable to accept that if i am in the kitchen cooking and he is talking to me that i won't look at him constantly...however he does not look at me if i am talking to him about something i want to !

he's 11 now, and up to when he was 7 , if you were sat down - or a child of his height or shorter- and he came to talk to you- he would stand literally 6" away from your face to talk- staring intensively into your eyes...very uncomfortable! he'd kid of waver/wobble/rock slightly backwards and forwards as he talked

i prefer "shat"...another of my 'things' is i love 'word play'....and when i read "shat"...i smiled...knew what you really meant...then started thinking out what exactly "shat" could mean...then wondered if it is actuially a real word!!! It could be the past tense of a bodily fuction !!!!

Mum23asd, my ds2 is like this. If I don't pay attention to him while he is talking, and that means giving him full eye-contact, he thinks not only am I not listening, but that I don't like him. I find it very difficult to deal with, for obvious reasons. If I don't look at him, he pulls my head round, until I am looking at him.
He is 5 years old. I have noticed however, that when he doesn't want to talk about a topic, then he very pointedly averts his eyes.
He has a problem with understanding about personal space too.

OMG!!! the 'pulling head round' is EXACTLY what my ds3 does...and at a recent meeting with the paed...and after typically not alot of behaviours to 'prove' to the paed that i was justified in taking up her valuable time with my 'apparently NT' child...that i had finally convinced her that i don't have munchausen's...and that ds3 i am sure is ASD etc etc...you know the lengths we have to go to , to be heard.....and just as we were about to leave her room....DS grabbed my face and turned my head abrubtly to within inches of his face...and... the paed began scribbling notes!!! She then nodded knowingly at me and added...that she thought it was worth assessing him further!

we've talked since and she said she also noted how on previous visits (ref other sons) that when he shows me something he
tends to literally shove it to within an inch of my face.

Thank you for the link.

Mine was:

Aspie score:159 of 200
Neurotypical(non-autistic score):68 of 200

Very likely to receive diagnosis:Bipolar,ADD/ADHD,Autism,OCD,
Social phobia.

I always feel like I don't fit in-hopeless at making/keeping friends and have been used many times.I have been treated for anxiety/depression.
My ds is hf autistic and my younger half-brother is awaiting diagnosis.
My worst time is being in a room full of people and trying to hear them talk over all the noises-I often want to 'jump over' them and escape!I struggle with excessive sweating in these situations which only makes me stress even more!

I know what you mean Wooga.
LOL mum23asd!

I have an Aspie score of 123 and an NT score of 55 and am apparently very likely to get a dx of AS/HFA (157 for that). Lots of the questions made me think "But doesn't everyone feel like that?" Obviously not.

Like TC the other results didn't quite ring true for me. It says that I'm also likely to get a dx of ADHD, possibly OCD but tbh I find that difficult to believe.

184 NT, 28 aspie for me. Interesting questions, I agree

PMSL coppertop. No!! Honestly half those questions wouldn't even have occurred to me

Did this out of interest. NT score 173 (or thereabouts - I've closed the page). Fairly accurate on the whole, I thought, except - and this is quite a biggie - only 56 for OCD, and I have a form of OCD, albeit very, very much milder than it was.

I was very surprised at the dyslexic one for me, I wouldn't have even thought it could come up as a possible.

V interesting. NT 177/200. dd1 has Aspie tendencies. Would be interesting to get ex-h to have a go at this!

I got a high score for schizophrenia, which is interesting considering my uncle was diagnosed with that back in the 80's (been in institutions since his early 20's) but I'm pretty sure that the diagnosis would have been autism had it been diagnosed today.

More interestingly, ds's dad didn't even get a likely diagnosis of AS, which considering he has significant social problems and annoying 'quirks' was a little unexpected. My ds's paed(ds got hfa) even suggested he go for a diagnosis.

Good questions that I hadn't considered before.

Oh sorry, shouldn't have said 'annoying quirks', it's just that ds's and dp's 'ways' have been annoying me a bit lately.

mac...i'm sure many of us if honest would admit to our kids and partners having 'annoying quirks'!!! so don't worry!!!

i certainly am up to here with ds1's and ds3's at the moment.

its a good job that i still see the funny moments too!!!

"annoying quirks" is much politer than the terms I normally use. Though after doing that quiz I suspect the words "pot" "kettle" and "black" could be applied to me.

In our house it certainly is a question of which came first the chicken or the egg...as i certainly cannot tell where ASD begins nor ends in my life!!!!

I'd LOVE it if it were like litmus paper...just give everyone a quick dip...and if they come out red...they are AS!!!!
(cos i know that my dad and brother...will not entertain this quiz...cos 'there's nothing wrong with them- its everyone else"!!!!...but who could refuse a 'litmus test'!!!!!

I just did this test on behalf of my ds2 who is 5 and has suspected aspergers, and apparently I answered inconsistently on too many control questions! I had to guess alot of the answers, like questions about a 'mate' etc.
My ds has been going absolutely bonkers at school, (had meeting with school teacher and lsa). Apparently he spends alot of time sitting drawing in a corner and talking to himself and laughing, he also says strange things. I knew he had alot of problems at school, but some of it has really thrown me. Also, while I was at school he would not make eye-contact with me, and did as soon as we left. I have never noticed this before. He did not want to say 'bye' to the teacher, and yet he loves her.
I feel so for my ds, his problems are worse than I thought. He has started attacking some of the other children aswell, and only because he wants them to play with him, but inevitably (and understandably) parents have been complaining.
He is so bright though, and has to be taught by year1 and year2 teachers, he is in reception. He is very talented at art and thinks in a very creative manner nad is good at problem solving, is gifted apparently. Teacher must have been quite surprised by my insistence on talking about his behavioural and emotional problems. What is the use of intelligence if he is so unhappy

the bit where you said......
"Also, while I was at school he would not make eye-contact with me, and did as soon as we left. I have never noticed this before. He did not want to say 'bye' to the teacher, and yet he loves her."
made me snap back in time to the first day i took DS1 to school for the 'induction' days.

there we all were...proud mums with our 4 yr old darlings...all mums sat alongside they children doing activities together....except ds and I

he would not do anything WITH me anywhere near him...he told me to go home.

so appeared as an 'independant, confident little chap'

few of months later...wouldn't let me watch him in assembly holding up his work....

wouldn't let me go on trips.....

etc

etc

etc

i took this all very personally- especially as at hometime i had to stand well away - yet as soon as we left the school gates he was close by my side.

Then i was hurt...now i think i get it.

right from days at nursery- i dropped him off- i collected him. i never satyed in where he was being cared for.

so school had to be the same for him...he did not see any reason for me being there.

he's 14 now and still the same. school is school and home is home.

your son not saying by to the taecher couls be that as far as he is concerned the school day ends as soon as he sees you...and the same in the morning- as soon as he sees his teacher...he won't look at you.

i am clutching at straws here....i'd feel better if someone else agrees!!!

bottom line is....don't take it to heart...XXXXX

ref the attacking others...

at 5 my son was always in trouble for either squeezing people too tight, or from a distance appearing to shake them....'what i call the 'judder'.....or for kissing anyone- or standing too close......so we worked on it (in a totally disciplinarian way as we had no idea at this point he had SN)

so he stopped kissing- and started licking people.

when he was asked why- he explained he was not allowed to kiss - and because "i just love everybodyy SO much i have to lick them like dogs do."

so....that had to nipped in the bud....and the result.

well he withdrew from the class- he'd choose to sit away from others ...he started blocking his ears in storytime- wouldn't let anyone look at him. teacher (without AS knowledge she later admited!) allowed him to sit with a screen between him and the others at storytime....and gave himm a mat...this worked wwell.

and in Nov of yr2...the suggetion of SN was raised.

i freaked out...."my son's not stupid....My son's cleaver...he's so bright" etc....then came the "well the SN register applies to anyone"

6 months later he was diagnosed ADHD

(AS mentioned...but again i went into strict denial)

then at age 9 i realised he did have AS and he was assessed.

It's a good quiz to do, but to be honest I don't agree with a lot of the diagnoses it gave me. I can see where they are coming from with some of them, especially when the criteria is so closely intertwined, but most of what they come up with can easily just be fitted to my Aspergers, I don't need seprate diagnoses on top of that.

Separate, even.