Author Topic: What's your "Autism Quotient"? (Read 32,775 times)

mouser · « **on:** January 26, 2006, 04:52 AM »

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/newsweek/autism_quotient/default.asp

found from a blog today. it's a quiz that rates your tendency torwards autistic characteristics.

i scored a 28.

brotherS · « **Reply #1 on:** January 26, 2006, 10:12 AM »

Quote

(most women score about 15, and most men score about 17)

I scored 17

f0dder · « **Reply #2 on:** January 26, 2006, 10:19 AM »

What, I only got a 13? Weird :-s

jgpaiva · « **Reply #3 on:** January 26, 2006, 10:28 AM »

Omg, i got 24, maybe I'm in the way to become a autist? *scary*!
(mouser: you already are autist, aren't you?

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Rover · « **Reply #4 on:** January 27, 2006, 12:05 AM »

13... nice and normal

tsaint · « **Reply #5 on:** January 27, 2006, 02:49 AM »

me 30 .... now that's a nice, interesting number ....

housetier · « **Reply #6 on:** January 31, 2006, 08:45 PM »

I didn't score anything! After I answered all the questions, I couldn't see the result.

Here's a screenshot

Anyway, I think I scored very high, I always score high!

EDIT;
The screenshot link works kinda, it just displays the wrong image. Sorry about that, I forgot to keep that one imag when cleaning the directory.

mouser · « **Reply #7 on:** February 01, 2006, 03:30 AM »

you broke it!!

hamradio · « **Reply #8 on:** February 01, 2006, 04:27 AM »

Talk about being off the charts! lol

xtremesurfer · « **Reply #9 on:** February 02, 2006, 12:53 AM »

14—Average

prying eyes · « **Reply #10 on:** February 07, 2006, 06:04 PM »

39...what 2 expect from a adhd and bipolar person...maybe asperger???

Gerome · « **Reply #11 on:** February 07, 2006, 08:58 PM »

17 for me

I'm saved ;-P

mouser · « **Reply #12 on:** February 07, 2006, 09:01 PM »

all you people trying to get low scores, you dont realize the higher the score the better!!
at least that is my rules

Sentinel · « **Reply #13 on:** February 13, 2006, 06:27 PM »

37 - Yikes! (back off to my cave...)

allen · « **Reply #14 on:** February 13, 2006, 07:06 PM »

I was chatting with someone while taking it, and mis-clicked several times. I think that my score of 24 is low, I blame my autism for not taking the test right.

tinjaw · « **Reply #15 on:** November 29, 2006, 01:58 AM »

22 for me. I noticed some overlap with my ADHD, but they are distinctly different. I'm no Rain M..... oooooooooo! Look at that!!! Shinnny!

app103 · « **Reply #16 on:** November 29, 2006, 02:03 AM »

Deozaan · « **Reply #17 on:** November 29, 2006, 05:46 PM »

I got a 13. For the first time in my life I'm normal! It's interesting that just a couple years ago some of my answers would have been much different and my score would have been higher. I guess that's a sign that I've become more mentally stable. Hooray!

The question about whether or not I was fascinated by dates was tricky for me. I wasn't sure what kind of dates it meant. I am truly fascinated by dating--the act of going out with/getting to know better a member of the opposite gender--but not so much with the edible dates or dates on a calendar.

I figured it meant calendar dates, but it was amusing to consider answering the question for the fruit or getting-to-know-you types.

Carol Haynes · « **Reply #18 on:** November 30, 2006, 12:51 AM »

8 !!!

Am I subhuman ? It doesn't say what 'low' means ???

cranioscopical · « **Reply #19 on:** November 30, 2006, 04:40 AM »

26
but then I began thinking carefully about what that means to me and how it would affect my position as center of the universe and now my wife tells me that she couldn't break into my train of thought for three days, did I mention that my wife couldn't break into my train of thought for three days, no not for three days, but that was okay because otherwise I'd have had to take time to meet my ~~subjects~~ guests and I don't like them anyway...

Darwin · « **Reply #20 on:** November 30, 2006, 06:28 AM »

18 - dead average!

Ruffnekk · « **Reply #21 on:** November 30, 2006, 07:56 AM »

38... something I expected though

I have some issues

Eóin · « **Reply #22 on:** November 30, 2006, 11:06 AM »

14. But I know myself I should be a bit higher, not too much so (I hope).

Carol Haynes · « **Reply #23 on:** November 30, 2006, 11:22 AM »

Just out of curiosity how did people answer these questions ?

I found myself consciously trying to go for a quick gut reaction to the questions but it was hard to resist the 'what do they expect ...' or 'what do I think I should ...' temptations.

Do you think the scoring system takes into account human nature ?

Eóin · « **Reply #24 on:** November 30, 2006, 11:39 AM »

Excellent point Carol and that's why I suspect my real score would be higher. For most questions it was clear what direction the different answers would push you towards.