I see why psychology tests are considered quackery so much. Being anti-social, or just not interested in other people’s life is not being autistic.
This test is repeatedly asking just two questions:
- Do you like numbers, the same way Hollywood likes to paint autistic people.
- Do you like talking to other people?
A test like that can only ever be a first indication. If you score high on this, it doesn’t mean you’re autistic. It just means you might want to talk to a mental health professional.
Sadly humans always want to boil things down to simple metrics (or maybe we just like numbers… wait a minute!) and people can’t be bothered to do the hard part after getting the number. The classic example is IQ tests, which just measure how good you are at that particular quiz (despite certain people obsessing over them like the number is your IRL intelligence stat).
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https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient for people too lazy to type.
44/50
Ugh, why do I see your comments after I typed it. You are the hero we need.
- When I was young, I used to enjoy playing games involving pretending with other children.
Well my favourite activity is D&D, so forget the “when I was young” part
I guess children’s imaginations are autistic now? Lol.
The exact opposite. Autistic children have difficulty engaging in games with collaborative imagination.
I assumed the opposite. D&D is cooperative imagination, something I would think would be difficult for an autistic individual. If you strongly agreed with that, your score would be lower. The 40 is not the person’s score but the number of the question.
That’s fair, I don’t know why I assumed the opposite, but youre probably correct.
28/50
It asked far too little about trains, Rome, and the color blue. 3/50
“Do people joke about you being a walking Wikipedia?”
12/50 damn i thought i was more on the edge. I guess it’s add only, reassuring.
- Hah, same as my age.
25 / 50. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
24/50 here, so close to being balanced ahhhhhhhh
32/50. I’ve undergone an official diagnosis test and it came back negative. Don’t put too much stock in this online quiz - it’s not a substitute for real doctors.
27/50
Though, I had to put in semi random answers several times because the statements were not applicable. Some examples:
- I find social situations easy.
I do find them easy. I just hate them most of the time and try to avoid them.
- I would rather go to a library than to a party.
Definitely the library over the party. Though, I’d rather cut myself between the fingers with paper than go to a library. What century is this test from? We have the internet!
- I find it hard to make new friends.
Making friends is super easy. Keeping them is what requires effort which I’m not willing to invest most of the time. And I stopped making new friends, not because I couldn’t, but because I didn’t see the point.
- I frequently find that I don’t know how to keep a conversation going.
I frequently find that I don’t want to keep a conversation going.
- I don’t usually notice small changes in a situation or a person’s appearance.
Those are two very different things. I notice the tiniest of changes in “social” situations but am ignorant to changes in outer appearance or decoration that many would consider major. It took me like half an hour, after being prompted about a change, to figure out that an entire wall in a room changed from white to red …
- I find it easy to work out what someone is thinking or feeling just by looking at their face.
Reading emotions is easy. Telepathy/mind reading is proven to not exist.
- I am good at social chitchat.
I am. But I hate it and avoid it unless I see a clear benefit from enduring it.
- I find it difficult to imagine what it would be like to be someone else.
If anybody thinks they can really imagine what it would be like to be another (existing) person, they are delusional. Even getting a crude approximation right would be mere coincidence.
I can imagine a million fictions of what I could be.
- I find it very easy to play games with children that involve pretending.
I assume I’d have no trouble with it if I set my mind to it. But why would I want to?
For spending the time to write this entire spiel out, you should have 5 points added to your score.
Not to say I don’t agree with every single point you made.
Whatever score you got, it probably wasn’t high enough.
There should be an option for: “I’m to autistic to take this test.”
20/50
Apparently other disorders (like depression, anxiety, ADHD) can show up on this test too though XD
I am fascinated by dates.
Dates are a very fascinating fruit indeed.
34/50 oh well, moving on
