When I saw the 40 point checklist, I remembered that I had wrote a little application to automate the scoring of an Aspie test that appeared in Wired magazine back in 2001.

Here's a link to the test:
http://www.AutismFreedom.com/AQTest/

Post your scores!

Mine AQ is 42.

Dan

This test is totally bogus! If you want a taste of what can be done, then check this out, which is a mickey mouse "free" version of the test I took in 1981, which proclaimed that I am "very strongly autistic":

http://chandlermacleod.com/cmbestfit/content/btw.cfm

You're AQ is 40 points.

How to interpret your AQ score:

0-10 low
11-22 average
(most women score about 15, and most men score about 17)
22-31 above average
32-50 very high
(most people with Asperger Syndrome of high functioning autism score about 35)
50 maximum

You may have Asperger's Syndrome. No kidding, I was professionally dxed in under an hour.

Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher.

The test is not a means for making a diagnosis, however, and many who score above 32 and even meet the diagnostic criteria for mild autism or Asperger's report no difficulty functioning in their everyday lives

I scored 27.  I reckon I would've scored higher if I'd taken this test maybe ten years ago.

I've got better at dealing with people, and quite enjoy talking to people now, but I do tend to talk about serious issues, rather than idle chitchat.

The question about making friends easily was difficult to answer, because although I can get on well with people, I'm not very good at the friendship thing.  To be honest, making and keeping friends has always seemed like hard work to me.

I got 40 which seems about right - it took a professional about 5 minutes of speaking to me to diagnose Asperger's. The score is probably slightly lower than what I would have got at say, age 18, when it would have been in the mid-high 40's.

I get 43 on the AQ test, unsurprisingly.   The latest research from Simon Baron-Cohen's team says that when they are assessing someone, if the person have done the AQ test with a score of 37 or more, it's almost certain that they then find that person is on the autistic spectrum.

I got 35, surprisingly... I thought I was answering very mild and moderate.

Exactly, most of us have compensated over time. So it could mean you score lower when better in compensation. Still does not mean your are less autistic in my point of view...

I got 37...which is higher than I would have thought.

I also got 37...
Interestingly enough my wife (Quackers)...who I always considered to be a quirky NT got 38! lol

I got a 41.

What is included in daily functioning?
What limitations do you have to have to be considered disabled, pertaining to daily functioning?

31
though i have been told recently that i could pretty much pass off as "normal"
and some things, what answer i'd like to give would be more like sometimes yes and sometimes no... so i don't know how accurate it is really.

I got a score of 40.  Higher than I expected.

41
It took me a minute to realise that the "whole picture" question wasn't actually asking you to say how you look at 2-D artworks.

A couple of years ago I would have probably scored lower due to a near-complete lack of self awareness, though I was then displaying more "aspie traits".

I am a nt and got a 34, so maybe not a nt?