Have you seen this AQ test?

[Wallace]

I read this board a fair bit, and have read that some of you with Autistic kids reckon you may be on the spectrum yourselves.

I cam across this test while I was looking for info on asperger's as I sometimes suspect dd may be borderline. I scored 32 which certainly makes ME borderline!

10/10 for spellings CT!!!!

I know you've only changed it because you're p*ssed off, MrsF but I love your new MN name!

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i've seen this test before - first time I tried was 28, second time 32.

32,,uuummm...i know i don't laugh much..jokes or boring to me, i thought it was because i was just to literal....i am a very anxious person...job interviews or killer...even when i was younger i would feel nausious on the way to the skating rink (every single time)....i tend to come off rude even though i am very very sensere....oh well....my husband is the same way...only he is compulsive with numbers....one track minded...GEEEZ!! is that why my ds is so different......?

38.....oh dear!!!!!

Mmmm, I analysed the questions alot too, but where as I am okish (when I get the chance) in social situations (but only with people I know), it is only because I have to say things to myself to see if they sound ok first, not just blurt them out as I used to.

I am aware that I could upset people - even on here - if I didn't carefully read through my replies first and it would mortify me to do that! I scored 20, but reckon if I did this on a down day, would score alot higher.

Thanks Wallace, it's really useful!

MrsF - did you see my thread about my big package?

The results seem to change each time I do the test. (The lowest was 32, MrsF so you may have 'beaten' me after all. ) I wonder just how much depends on the particular day you're having.

yes i did cHocky!!!

Glad he was happy!

Is that you in disguise, MrsF?

yepeedo!!!

I might put on my fancy dress more often....seeing that i can't fool you!!!!

It's my X-ray MN vision that can see through MN aliases.

Just did it, scored 21. I don't remember feeling 'different' as I was growing up, and I'm quite sociable, in fact I love social events. Although afterwards I often have a crisis of confidence and think 'did I really say that?'. Since knowing about ds' problems, I can recognise more ASD traits in myself, but don't we all have some?

I must ask dh to do this test. He finds it really hard to make a decision. When he was choosing a company car a few years ago, he drew up a matrix and listed all the cars down the side and all the features across the top. He put crosses in the boxes and totals at the bottom, and that's how he decided. If it had been up to me, I would probably have chosen on the basis of colour or liking the upholstery .

I scored 9.

Ah! Davros..... do you think laminating the quiz first would help??? (i want you to score more!!!!)

Oh yes, let me laminate it and velcro it and sort it into alphabetical order on a nice chart. I think that is my ASD side, the liking for order and things having their place Mind you, I could just be a big liar!

its funny really...but when i look at the questions i cannot ever imagine ever in my life that i would have scored less than 30!!!! And then theres you scoring 9!!! Disgusting!!!!
Suppose it proves that simon baron-choen is right that those who he teasted it on that had AS could score very high and not have a 'poor quality of life'....where as if you take the difference between you (@9) and me at 35..... then it would infer that i should be crippled by it!!!! ....and whilst i do have some days when it is very hard to get anything right...i suppose as a mum of 3 and having been in good jobs (though struggled inwardly all my life with the social niceties)...then it shows that high scorers function fine....OMG hope this makes sense!!!!

I still reckon that a lot of "quality of life" is down to your underlying personality. You can see 2 people with just as good/bad situations and one is fine with it and the other is a misery. You always sound such fun MrsF that I'm sure it makes a huge difference. You also seem to completely acknowledge your difficulties, or should I say differences, and your DSs' and I'm sure that makes a difference.

How many times can one person use the word difference in a post? New MN competition

thanks davros...like i said many times...i am GRATEFUL 100% to Tom.

For getting diagnosed with something that on reading up on i realised explained ALL my difficulties....ALL my life!!!!

For me it has been like finally being able to take off the blidfold and ear muffs....and climb out of the goldfish bowl!!!!! In that before i knew about Asperger's Syndrome....i completely believd that I was the ONLY person to feel as i did.

I still have difficulties with my parents...they will never take on board AS....but what has changed is my 'expectations' of them....and forgiveness for how my childhood was.

For them i was everything that Tom & Leigh are to me....except that they DIDN'T UNDERSTAND.....so saw all my 'odd' ways as ittitating....and never ocnsidered my need for routines etc..... so the result is that i hated them- and i truly believe that if i'd never had kids....then i may never have learnt about AS....and the result would have been that I'd still hate my parents.....and I'd still be 'locked in my own world'.

Instead i feel liberated by it all....it's still hard....but i think i know myself so much better now....so if like on that questionairre they talk about 'difficuklties at social events'....then i feel OK to have difficuklties....cos i KNOW why!!!

And then when i look back on my working career...all the times i panicked when things got moved....plans were changed...misunderstood what i was told.... got swamoped in tasks and lost my way....and then in my personal life how i am always being told I take things too much too heart or the wrong way....which i know now is the 'Adult' for of 'Taking Things Literally'

And finally..... i have always been aware that i get sooooo carried away- over enthusiastic/talk way too much etc ...to the exclusion of all others....and to total exhaustion.... and to finally understand why this happens....well it's a huge weight off my shoulders!!!

I know 1 other lady who is an Un-diagnosed Adult AS.....but i would love one day to meet someone who has been diagnosed....and just compare notes!!!

Even without an official dx your post explains why either a dx or self dx can make so much difference. People are always saying what's the point of a dx for an adult with AS? If my sister could think and feel like you I'm sure she'd be a lot happier and function much better.

I scored four. If DH did it honestly, though, he would score a lot higher...

Dh scored 42 on the test. Is it any wonder that we have 2 boys on the spectrum?

I think I'm not autistic enough. No wonder DH is always bollocking me for being untidy/not putting things back in exactly the right place etc!!