i got about 145...which makes sense considering by now i've learned to converse and understand body language better through sheer practice x

Your Aspie score: 172
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 30

Your Aspie score: 154 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 48 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

I attempted the occuppational test & didn't get past
question #2 ....as I'm neither !

i got a autism score of 108 of 200 neurotopical score of 92 of 200
i am a hybrid of autism and neurotopical

What does hunting mean? I don't like to go hunting.

I do like playing hunting games on my computer, however.

I think in this context that hunting is a technical term. It means something whose 'behaviour' moves backwards and forwards between several positions, apparently seeking to settle but never reliably settling. eg the needle on a dial is 'hunting' when it continually goes up and down and never stays still at a particular value. in this sense it's an engineering term.

so in an AS context, i guess it refers to the stimming, repetitive behaviour stuff?

hey, i really like this graphical display we're sharing It shows really clearly the kinds of variation that we have here among us. I especially like the way it distinguishes the intellectual and physical aspects: it's true that i'm an intellectual aspie rather than a physiological one - so for example, my 'hunting' and perception scores are very NT.

like others, i'm not sure how well i feel the test discriminates (or can do). there were plenty of questions where i answered '?' because the true answer is, it all depends on the situation and how recognisable it is. my aspie scoring on 'talent' is closest to my own sense of my being. my nt scores on social and communication come down, to some extent, to high iq (figuring things out fast) and many years of pretending to be normal.

despite my reservations at how fully it reflects my sense of being aspie, i do like the spider diagram as a way of showing ourselves to each other and getting the 'shape' of our different selves.

OTTO Hunting, I thought it had something to do with how much one wants to attain a certain goal...

i took it earlier, and my scores are as followed.

Your Aspie score: 151 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 56 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

since i can't go back to the quiz, i can't post the chart. is there a way to go back to it or do you have to take it over again?

Besides the Aspie quiz, what do people think of the assumptions/science of this website RDOS- the Neanderthal connection?

Things like how Neanderthals were probably a female-dominated group? The hibernation thing, slower maturation given their diet (lower levels of guanine and l-carnatine amongst Aspies)and hibernation, the preference for caves, even, how a motorbike sounds like a bear etc.

I've always supported the Neanderthal theory, but wonder if traits like the above could persist from a genetic standpoint this far into the future....

I don't see how this could be true. Even if some frequent autism-community participants might have come across some of the research-type questions in Aspie-quiz that have made it to the stable version, few would have come across all of them. Many of the questions in fact are novel when viewed from a standpoint of DSM-criteria for AS.

About the hunting group in the graphical presentation. I don't want to be too obvious about what this exactly is. The neurotypical hunting group is closely related to team-sports that are "play hunting" for NTs. The Aspie hunting group is closely related to Valerius Geist hunting theory of Neanderthals. One can see the questions that are involved in this dimension in the PDF. It is things like jumping over things, fascination for making traps, fascination for water and mimicking animal sounds.

In the last few versions all 12 (previously 8) dimensions of the graphical presentation are based on axises from centered factor analysis of previous versions. It is not direct axises because those differ between versions, rather weighted axises with different weights for different versions. Weights are calculated from correlations between each axis and dimension in each quiz. The Aspie and NT scores are directly related to first and second axis from non-centered factor analysis. This method of scoring is now well-established and have been used for more than a year now. This is what guarantees stable scores.

As for score stability over time, there are several reports on this now.
Between versions: http://www.rdos.net/eng/aspeval/vervar.htm

Within version:
http://www.rdos.net/eng/aspeval/retests2.htm
http://www.rdos.net/eng/aspeval/retests3.htm
http://www.rdos.net/eng/aspeval/retests4.htm

The entire evaluation is here:
http://www.rdos.net/eng/aspeval/

oh dear. oh deary me. i had no idea that this kind of (over)theorising was beneath the spider diagram's multi-axis analysis. i assumed it was something to do with AS, not some megatheory of evolution!?

well. i do like the graphic shape as a way of seeing something in differences among us. but the meaning of the axes??!! this doesn't help me at all live my life - or see meaningful relationships with other people.

oh well, one blind alley a day is a pretty reasonable expectation.

see you in another thread.

It is only the hunting axis that has this (almost AS-unrelated) theme. Most of the other axises are quite useful. Aspie obsession is closely related to OCD. NT obsession is obsessiveness about style, image and status. Social is pretty straight-forward. NT social is closely related to social phobia and a desire to socialize with strangers. Aspie-communication is stimming and unusual nonverbal communication. NT communication is the typical nonverbal communication of NTs that many have a hard time to understand. Talents should be obvious. Aspie-perception is acute hearing, smell, taste and so on. NT perception is talents for judging distance, speed and time.