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15. I didn't like looking at all the eyes, I find eye contact to be unsettling.

Solana Wrote:

Solana Wrote:
I scored 28. I've read a couple of books on body language, so I'm not *too* bad at that kind of thing. :-)

Oops. I forgot to mention that I am female and 27.


That reminds me, I am male at 17.

erkolos Wrote:
Wow! I learnt alot of new English word from that test!


I don't even know what the words 'aghast' and 'despondent' mean, and English is my speaking lanuage.

First Try; score: 16
Second Try; score: 16
Gender: male
Age: 19 (nearly 20)

I tried the test twice as I did not take it seriously the first time. Even though I changed quite a few of my answers I still got the same score.
I got 17.  I guessed most of the answers because I had no clue.  I just picked from the multiple choice answers maybe the best guess.  I would have totally failed if there was no multiple choice answers.  I just know maybe sad from eyes and maybe angry.  That is all.

Max the Bear Wrote:
People who are non-native English speakers would probably score higher in their primary language.


I tried this test in German (my mother tongue) once and scored 17, whereas in English I scored 19 the first time Rolleyes

I guess those kinds of emotion-bound words are something I have only preoccupied myself with since reading up more about these things, which was after moving to the UK.

Boo... I just tried to do this again at home, without guessing too much and I got 23 (2 less!)
I'm female, 40, and scored 30 points.
I'm male, 18 and got 27 which is a little unexpected as was the score of 12 I got for the systemising test (people with AS apparently score on average between 40 and 50). But as far as I'm concerned my diagnosis is definitely not in doubt.
Does eyebrows in a "V" shape mean anger?  I think squinty eyes are sad.  I really don't know.  Usually I look at the mouth.  

I tell a person's mood from their voice tone and from what they are saying, not their face.  I have a huge problem in knowing people are lying or being sarcastic if I don't know them well.  Being that, some people have a habit of being sarcastic and I find that out.
I use V shaped eyebrows alot when I am walking about because I am squinting so much.

Batman55 Wrote:
Hmm I also scored low on the systemizing test.  Perhaps we are in the same part of the spectrum?

Are you poor at math, BTW?

Maybe and like the general population I don't suppose everyone with AS has to be good at the same things.

I was ok at maths in primary school but I once got to secondary school and the work got more difficult I began to have big problems with it. What I always hated and couldn't do was formulas and equations and I never understood what I was supposed to be doing. I managed to narrowly pass my 4th year maths exam but had to drop the subject in 5th year after getting 25% in my prelim.

Including the two I've already posted my scores were:

EQ: 32
SQ: 12
AQ: 28
ME: 27

As I said my ME and SQ scores are higher and lower than would be expected for people with AS while my AQ and EQ scores are fairly narrowly within the expected range.
I got 14 (male, 20 yo). While scoring somewhere around the "Aspie minimum" in other tests (well, 16 in Empathy and 33 in the AQ-Test)), I appear to be worse than most Aspies (not to say NTs) when it comes to "reading" people's eyes..
I also think they weren't very good pictures - too unclear.
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