Aspies For Freedom

Male 20 Score:30
I have no problem understanding these or reading most body-language I think.

This is true for me as well, but not only for that reason. I have been wrong about what people are thinking so many times. I just assume there is a hidden agenda. Even if they say there is none.


Male
age 25
My score was 18
I could not find a fitting option for most of them, so like some of you I had to guess. It also surprised me at how uncomfortable it was to look at the eyes. Even more so at the eyes that was looking right at the camera. I will not even do the test again because I hate looking at eyes.

Same here, though I still had no clue. I just guessed at most of them.
There was only 4 to pick from, so just guessing will most likely get you 25% right!
Thats what I like about multiple choice.

Are you talking about the test with the eyes? Were those famous people?? I thought I saw someone who looked like Tom Cruise but I figured they were just models and such! I guess they must have taken screenshots from movies and TV.

I took the empathy test, and I only scored 15, which I think is strange because I don't think I'm *that* unempathetic.

I also took the systemizing test and I scored 50. Do other people really not wonder how things work and how they fit in with their surroundings and the rest of the world?? What a boring existence!

I tried one of the tests on this site, the celebrity face recognition, and thought I would be above age on face recognition but actually found that I was below the average persons percentage. I'm about to try the old-new face recognition one................

Again I got below that of the average person.

Oh, I see the tests you mean. I did pretty well on those. I got 94%. I don't think I have any problems with face recognition. There were a few people I knew all about but hadn't seen pictures of, like Margaret Thatcher. I said I wasn't familiar with them because I knew I'd never or rarely seen their faces before. I don't watch much TV.

I'm male, 23 years old. I scored 26 on this test, which is pretty good

It's kinda easy though when it's multiple choice. I bet if you were just given a picture of eyes and then someone asked just to fill in what they mean, I'd score pretty badly.

I scored 90% on the famous faces test. The only one I didn't recognize was Patrick Stewart (Capt. Picard from Star Trek)

Female 31 I scored 26, but the multiple choice means you can use elimination as a method to work out the answer. Found it harder to do the more subtle expressions, most of them either looked indifferent or hostile.

I got 20 for empathy and 36 for AQ and 26 for systemizing so two tests make me aspie and the other two make me average!

No, i'm not sure, Batman. In fact, this seems such a stable problem for everybody here - as opposed to some other difficulties, which some have and some don't - that I am beginning to think I might not be Aspie. I joined this site simultaneously with getting a diagnosis (still waiting) and had made the connection mainly because of social/communication difficulties mixed with compulsive routines and obsessive interests. Although I do have problems with eye contact and I have the neutral/miserable looking face I don't have any problems reading others' expressions. The interpretational problems, lack of empathy and of understanding seem so ubiquitous among aspies and whilst I often make inappropriate responses, i usually have an awareness of what I have done wrong (There are a lot of question posts saying things like why did my nt friend do this? The answers are usually fairly clear to me). Also, far from being close to animals, I have animal phobias.

I think that I maybe have a severe social phobia, depression, and OCD and have perhaps come to a conclusion that isn't actually the case because I wanted to have a nice neat explanation and feel part of a group.

got a 12
gender:male

I scored only 9 on the empathy test

But I'm not sure if I did the test right, I find it hard to answer a lot of those questions because I never really thought about them.

What do you mean by typical, surely the word spectrum would suggest that there is no typical aspie/autie. Also we do have learned coping strategies using and based on our strengths. As for the poor Maths ability this may be due to how it was taught and how well you coped at school as a child with minimal experience of other people. I was pretty rubbish at school, but now have a degree in the subject, it was soley because my brain wasn't ready as it had too many other things and distraction to deal with.

Hello,

I attempted to take the test and completed about half of the questions, before I found looking at all the eyes so unsettling (and a little sensory-overloading) that I quit, many of the questions I had no idea what the eye positioning meant, so I had to take a guess.

Wm