Aspies For Freedom

Looks good. Just for fun I took the test. (got 29) By the way, there is a small error in one of the questions:

I got 25.   :smile:

30 for me.

I got 40/45!

How much is this costing you in domain charges?

Anyway, question 23 says You already that question, when you try to answer.

but i scored 19.

But rather than getting 1 point for the absolute correct answer. you could give 2. and 1 or close answers? that may hopefully improve the accuracy?

I scored a 30 on this test and a 43 on the AQ.

I got 31.

Okay, this is NOT working for me.

10 points and I'm a definite AS (although a rather 'outgoing' one, go to LAN parties and events a lot, and have quite a few friends)

BTW: Typo in Q26 "occsioanlly".

I just did the test, but it wouldn't calculate my score

Don't worry, not a problem with your test, I know it's a problem with my browser settings, I can't figure out - I'm obviously not one of the geeky Aspies! :lol:

Q2.  I don't follow fashion, I can't understand the designer label obsession (why would I want to pay good money to wander around like an advertising billboard?  To do that, they should be paying me for their publicity!)  But I am interested, not disinterested, in my appearance, I like to wear clothes that suit me, relatively fashionable even, but I don't wear something just because it's fashionable.  

I've also got a 'thing' about coordination, when it comes to colours and accessories and styles.  My behaviour when it comes to this varies, depending on whether I'm going through more or less of an OCD phase with it.  For instance, one day I went into work (it was winter, had got dressed in the dark, half asleep) and I thought I'd worn a black jumper and black skirt, black tights and shoes.  But when I got to the office I realised I was wearing a navy blue skirt, which I felt clashed terribly, and also wearing navy and black was a major fashion faux pas.  I felt really uncomfortable at work all morning, and at lunch time (lucky I worked in the city centre) I had to go and buy myself a new black skirt so I could be coordinated again.  All morning I felt really antsy and on edge and couldn't concentrate on my work and thought my colleagues must have noted my 'mistake'.

So, I'm not a slave to fashion, I'm not one of those lemming-like followers who will wear an orange/purple striped one-legged trouser just because someone says it's trendy.  But I do care about my appearance.

I think Q15 is related to this lack of lemmingness.  But it's funny how you mentioned cars/stereos/tvs.  I bet all the geeky types have the latest hard drives, processors, gizmos and widgets relating to their PCs! :lol: :p  I'm only joking, I recognise that PCs are more related to interests and obsessions than slavishly following fashion.

Most of my male NT friends despair, because I have a little stereo system - single not multi-CD, tape and radio, and it's 15 years old.  Some people tend to want the latest, whereas my attitude is 'It's not broke, so why should I spend money on buying a new one?  Why would I want to do that?'

Q22 I don't think I've come across questions about 'collecting sets' before, but it really strikes a chord with me.  As a child I collected Enid Blyton books and also kinder egg toys, that was about it in terms of collecting.

As an adult, I still 'collect' books.  I used to keep all the books I'd read, it took me years to get to the point where I could pass them on to friends, or give them away to charity shops, although I still have a few.  I don't go in for collecting 'collectibles' though.  I'm more of a minimalist, so I don't like ornaments, I just think 'Lovely dear, but what does it *do*?' and if it doesn't really do anything, I can't really see the point.

But the making sets things is the most important aspect of this, for me at least.  I'm really uncomfortable if a set gets broken up.  I like matching sets of plates and glasses.  If I break something, I have to buy more new ones.  I have to have at least one complete matching set, but it's okay for me to have 'spares' from a previous broken set.  I took a pan of soup round for a neighbour who wasn't feeling well, and I've reminded him to return it, but he hasn't, so I had to buy another set of three pans so I had a full set of three pans.  Now I have five pans, a set of three and two spares, and that's okay, but having two 'odd' pans just made me antsy and I couldn't stop thinking about the missing pan every time I went to cook something, and how I didn't have a complete set.

Q31 relates to loud noises, but isn't this just a sensory overload question?  What about incorporating strong smells or other things?  I'm in my second floor flat now, two doors along the hallway from my front door, two flights of stairs away, and I can smell that my neighbour has been smoking in the ground floor lobby again.  Stale cigarette smoke.  Yuck!

Q38 I agree with Bonnie about the heat extremities.  I don't mind being excessively hot, but I can't bear being cold.

Q39 So is not wearing jewellery a particularly Aspie trait?  I'm guessing other people don't, because I don't wear very much (and it seems to be an NT/Chav trait, if the sale of Elizabeth Duke Argos jewellery is anything to go by! :lol: )

I used to collect old computer parts, I had to get rid of most of it because they were taken up so much room :cry: I even had an old server from the year I was born. It was masive It even had holes for it to be bolted to the floor, the inside looked more like an old radio than a modern computer.

sounds wonderful!  :smile:

almost everything I own comes from charity shops (US: thrift stores - I think)

Stella

For someone with a formal diagnosis, what does my score of 7 say about me?

The test wasn't well designed, the answers to the questions are ambigious. I could answer the test just as honestly and score a much higher score. It's very subjective, to say the least.

I got 18.