Aspies For Freedom

Hmm... mine went up too... thirty points to 164.

I'm not as aspie as you though, guess I'm not worthy.   That is wierd that my score changed, I wonder if they changed some of the questions?  They had a few in there three times just asked differently. (THat really bothers me when taking a 200 question test...)

Your Aspie score: 113 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 85 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits

I feel that this test has much more loaded questions than the occupational test. For example, if someone is feeling different, that person is more likely to answer the social avoidant, or perhaps the odd posture/ gait questions in the affirmative.

Anyone aware of aspie criteria would be predisposed to answer the questions so as to qualify themselves as either an aspie, or not one.

I left a lot of them question marks.   Mostly the ones asking what other people think, do other people understand me, do other people see me as...etc.  How am I supposed to know that?

Your Aspie score: 153 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 52 of 200

On the 2nd quiz: 33

Not to knock your quiz, or rather, Newsweek for putting it out.

1) However, it is once again full of questions involving your desired level of sociability which should skew the results away from us selecting Aspie characteristics since many of us desire to be sociable.

2) This test lays out the criteria for us to select ourselves as Aspies. The social/ occupational test was a little less direct about the questions so that the test taker could not presuppose the desired intent of the test questions.

This is not to reflect on you in any way, Bella. It's just my harping on the same point, that being:

If we are able to preconceive that a question labels us as Aspie, or not, then the test is not valid.

Since you already know the criteria that the test maker is labelling, by self-selecting responses that confirm that you are an Aspie the self diagnosis is a self fulfilling prophesy.

There aren't any variations. It's like binary code. (0) and you aren't an Aspie, (1) and you are an Aspie.

I disagree. I can't see how anyone could make a test that does not do this same thing... all the more reason for the "not a diagnostic tool" disclaimer.  I'm pretty sure if you tried any of these sorts of tests with a mind towards what they're looking for and get a good score... I think it goes to the state of mind of the test taker and their honest evaluation of themselves that dictates the answers' accuracy.  I could probably take a test that classifies me as a million things if I tried to make my answers go that way.

None of these tests are 100% accurate, but from what I've seen on here neither is a professional diagnostic!  Though, admittedly at least with a pro you have someone else to confirm or deny.

I wonder how no one around me could not see the signs in me. Why I don't tell someone in real life what I suspect and what this test shows I don't know.
I really want a professional opinion on my thoughts of me having AS. But I have big problems with asking for help, telling people my thoughts, and starting things. Also I still don’t really now how to go about doing this in Oregon.

Your Aspie score: 176 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 27 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie.
Wish I could edit.

There is a local autism support group, and they might have an Email?
I'll be searching Google and if that comes up with nothing then maybe I'll look in a phone book for a local autism support group.

Hello and thanks.

Eh, well, there's also plenty of Aspies who have a social phobia...

Well, it looks like you are measuring your perceived Aspieness against the "stereotypical image" of an Aspie, and that is doomed to make you doubt your AS.  There will be plenty who fit the stereotypes perfectly, and just as many that do not.

My point is, spectrumites are all so different and just because we don't fit stereotypes, doesn't mean we have AS "any less" than the next Aspie.

I think the intellectual component might just be about how "systemizing" you are in nature, do you like to figure out what each part of a machine does, do you like to collect train schedules and search for patterns, etc.  If you are not very systemizing in a classically Aspergian way, then you'll probably get a low score for intellectual.  But this has nothing to do with your actual intellect, it is only looking for "tendencies."

You can also be an Aspie without the Aspie kind of intelligence, and I am an example of this.