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!

that is the test that my sister sent us a few years back saying "Humour me, do this, and then i'll tell you my score".

Her score made the penny drop! My score was normal then (assuming it is now, but will retake). So many of the questions fit for DD though

I only got 23 .

Must try harder

it crashed on me, but I know from the answers I selected I am well in the NT group. I have a couple of little foibles, but that is just the odd thing that most people have (like people who are anal about where things go in the fridge).

Amber - thanks for the link to EQ/SQ test. I got well under average for both 27 and 31, so wonder if that means I'm both disorganised and socially awkward

exactly flame - I expected to be somewhere round the AS/NT borderline, but evidently not.

I did this test a while ago and was shocked to discover that I scored higher than DH who is the one who traditionally gets the "blame" for passing on AS traits to the kids, I think women can be better at superficially masking AS traits but i now realise that i have quite a few, but a lot of them make me happy and it also explains why DH and i recognised each other as kindred spirits when we met.
Talking of thing to read in bathrooms, my mother had a poster of rare breeds of sheep in our downstairs loo, I can still recognise and name a ridiculous number of unusual sheep! ( my mum is a bit eccentric too). Maybe that is why my new obsession is my spinning wheel, I have spent so much time spinning that I have lost wait as I have stopped snacking of an evening, it is very compelling and quite hypnotic. I think I am in the club.

well...i just scored 32 EQ & 112 SQ on the EQSQ...and am described as "Extreme Systemizing"
(now why am i not suprised!!!!)

Lol @ the poster of sheep! I love the really random things you can buy....

Gonna take the other two tests now and then go to bed. I am too intrigued to sleep

amber...when i did the AQ test earlier in this thread i scored 35....i have done it several times in the past few years and never score less than 35...

i'm diagnosed OCD... how do i make the MH team take my belief seriously???? The one that i have AS ...

that's a shame about the psych team and the OCD. the clinc psych (private) I saw for OCD took me quite seriously, he was very switched on about AS, as he was very good on OCD and of course there can be comorbids/crossovers etc.

ally- when you say "but a lot of them make me happy"..that is EXACTLY how i felt recently at DS3's 3Di Autism assesment...the professional kept asking me if DS3's behaviour in certain ways was a problem...and I just kept saying "NO" .... unless we are in public!!! Alot (not ALL) of my AS FAMILY LIFE brings much happiness....

Total...so did you get a AS dx???

No - he felt I defo had traits at the very least, and that the possibility I had AS had crossed his mind before I mentioned it, but he didn't think it was particular severe if I did have it. He wasn't really qualified enough to DX anyway. At that point I had dragon bitch HVs on my back due to antenatal depression/OCD so I didn't want to add any more labels.

in fact, here's the mini-saga as it unfolded...

www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=feeling_depressed&threadid=37643-feeling-a-little-wibbly-wobbly-today-g irls#860662

...TBH ...getting a dx wouldn't make any difference to me really!!! It just annoys me that i get treated for depression, anxiety and OCD....and the more i watch my ds's grow (now 9,almost 12 & almost15)...the more i see myself- and why growing up was so tricky!

EQ:52 SQ:36 And then Systemizing was in red.

I dunno what that means though

So I am over empathetic but under systemic? So why does it say systemic in red?

TC...just read that thread... so looks like you and I are in the same predicament!!!!

when i had my IB exam yesterday... my gut feeling is that the doctor saw it ALL...as within 15 minutes he ended the interview....though ofcourse it could mean he thinks i should be back at work.... I almost got on my knees and begged him to not make me go back to work- i told him i that having the 3 boys means i have no energy left to cope with bitchiness/smalltalk at work...or days off getting swapped around...or being moved to a different desk...or being critisized for getting too involved on one task to the exclusion of all others....

maybe he believed me!

its funny...but the more i learn about AS... the more i am comfortable being me... but the harder it is to interact with the outside world!!!!

fingers crossed that it went as "well" as you hoped. In some ways I've got more aspie over the years (fear of crowds/being trapped) and when very stressed, urges to spin, but in other ways I am better - learnt more social rules perhaps??? I doubt I would be able to return to my professional career, the pressures to be a slick corporate dynamic lawyer buckled me in the end.

i tried to explain that when i had 1 child i was a shop supervisor- managing up to 15 staff...locking/unlocking shop...and i managed to continue on and off till ds3...then changed jobs (BIG mistake!!!) and thats when it all started to slip away.... i found though i loved the job itself- i could not stand to nitty gritty..DH 'kindly' told me that i was never happy at work....I told people "I'm happy in my world- it's just other people that don't fit in"...and that was BEFORE they had even mentioned AS for ds1!!!!

i often wonder if...the years i felt so miserable...but not knowing why....then finding out why has given me permission to just be me....however..it does bother me that i am gradually going out less and less....but because i do go out...and i don't have many panicky feelings... then i guess it doesn't matter!

TC..you mention urges to spin.... i things and have to touch and smell everything!!!

i meant "i SPIN things and have to touch and smell everything!!!

The only way to find out if you're aspie or not is to go find a nice expert psychiatrist/psychologist and get them to do a full set of tests. But generally speaking they'd be looking closely at anyone whose AQ is 32 or more, or whose EQ is below about 30. The SQ score is a bit more debateable.

If you plot the scores you get from the EQ and SQ thingy on the graph in this linkwww.sporkintheroad.com/img/other/eq-sq2.gif you should see which bit you're in. People with an ASD tend to be in the bottom right bit, since we're no good at empathy and tend to be obsessional about things. My EQ was 10, my SQ-R (longer version) was 118. As the diagnostic person said, "Good grief, yes"

The AQ test crashes when I try to get my score, but I've taken it before and got somewhere in the low 40's. Did the EQ and SQ tests and got 12 for the EQ and 105 for the SQ.

thanks amber, you are quite correct that these sort of self-tests don't mean a great deal by themselves. for various reasons I am not inclined to pursue a DX - for my own peace of mind, feeling I have aspie traits and so am not wired to be a popular social butterfly is enough.

Well I scored 38 and DH 34, we have 2 boys with Aspergers and ASD dx respectively.

Hmmmm interesting...