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From: Kon T. Amusse on 1 Sep 2008 11:50
I came to this ng to get a better understanding, since a friend of mine has
a child with ASD.
I learned about Asperger, and that sounded strangely familiar: hey, that's
me!
I took a test online for myself, and this is the result:

Your Aspie score: 125 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 92 of 200

You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits

http://www.rdos.net/eng/poly12b.php?p1=87&p2=75&p3=74&p4=77&p5=53&p6=49&p7=34&p8=63&p9=47&p10=38&p11=54&p12=35


This doesn't really classify me as an Aspie. However, I am sure the result
would have been much more Aspie-like if I had taken it 20 years ago.
In these years, I worked a lot on my communication skills, which will never
become my strongest area, but they are average now.


From: Bob Badour on 1 Sep 2008 12:22
Kon T. Amusse wrote:

> I came to this ng to get a better understanding, since a friend of mine has
> a child with ASD.
> I learned about Asperger, and that sounded strangely familiar: hey, that's
> me!
> I took a test online for myself, and this is the result:
>
> Your Aspie score: 125 of 200
> Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 92 of 200
>
> You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits
>
> http://www.rdos.net/eng/poly12b.php?p1=87&p2=75&p3=74&p4=77&p5=53&p6=49&p7=34&p8=63&p9=47&p10=38&p11=54&p12=35
>
> This doesn't really classify me as an Aspie. However, I am sure the result
> would have been much more Aspie-like if I had taken it 20 years ago.
> In these years, I worked a lot on my communication skills, which will never
> become my strongest area, but they are average now.

Hi Kon!

Jump on in, the water's fine! :)

Contrary to some of the propaganda you may have seen and as you seem to
have discovered, folks on the spectrum do not lose the potential to
develop after the age of two or three. We continue to develop and grow
throughout our entire lives.

What's more, our growth often doesn't seem very gradual and linear as it
does for most people. For example, I have a friend who reported to me
having very aspie-like traits well into his twenties who then had an aha
moment and has been able to read people very well ever since. He has an
autistic child.

I was unable to take dual perspective into my thirties. I had an aha
moment where I discovered a way to do it. It's not the way most people
do it, and it is not entirely reliable, but at least I can do it now. I
marvel at my nephews gaining social insights at six or seven that I did
not gain until I was an adult. But I did eventually get those insights.

Regardless where you might be on the spectrum or even whether you are on
the spectrum:

Welcome to a.s.a!
Bob
From: Terry Jones on 1 Sep 2008 13:07
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 17:50:00 +0200, "Kon T. Amusse"
<kon(a)tamusse.invalid> wrote:

>This doesn't really classify me as an Aspie. However, I am sure the result
>would have been much more Aspie-like if I had taken it 20 years ago.
>In these years, I worked a lot on my communication skills, which will never
>become my strongest area, but they are average now.

As Bob says, things change with time - But I'd also add that the
diagnostic criteria (perhaps because of their roots in psychology [an
assumption now discredited since the basis has been shown to be
neurological]) strongly emphasise certain traits, yet largely neglect
others, such as executive function & sensory issues, which are *at
least* as common as the features included in the formal definitions.

So you'll find significant gaps in tests based only on the official
definitions.

As you become familiar with the real life / "unofficial" traits, you
may find more that fits your own experiences.

--

Terry

The alt.support.autism FAQ is at:
http://mugsy.org/asa_faq/

From: Anne Kristin on 1 Sep 2008 16:48
On 1 Sep, 17:50, "Kon T. Amusse" <k...(a)tamusse.invalid> wrote:
> I came to this ng to get a better understanding, since a friend of mine has
> a child with ASD.
> I learned about Asperger, and that sounded strangely familiar: hey, that's
> me!
> I took a test online for myself, and this is the result:
>
> Your Aspie score: 125 of 200
> Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 92 of 200
>
> You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits
>
> http://www.rdos.net/eng/poly12b.php?p1=87&p2=75&p3=74&p4=77&p5=53&p6=...
>
> This doesn't really classify me as an Aspie. However, I am sure the result
> would have been much more Aspie-like if I had taken it 20 years ago.


I hope this will benefit you to have learnt something more about
yourself. I guess its a mixed feeling to score this high to a test.
But maybe you somehow knew that you were "different"?

Anne Kristin

From: scattered on 1 Sep 2008 17:30
On Sep 1, 11:50 am, "Kon T. Amusse" <k...(a)tamusse.invalid> wrote:
> I came to this ng to get a better understanding, since a friend of mine has
> a child with ASD.
> I learned about Asperger, and that sounded strangely familiar: hey, that's
> me!
> I took a test online for myself, and this is the result:
>
> Your Aspie score: 125 of 200
> Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 92 of 200
>
> You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits
>
> http://www.rdos.net/eng/poly12b.php?p1=87&p2=75&p3=74&p4=77&p5=53&p6=...
>
> This doesn't really classify me as an Aspie. However, I am sure the result
> would have been much more Aspie-like if I had taken it 20 years ago.
> In these years, I worked a lot on my communication skills, which will never
> become my strongest area, but they are average now.

I had a similar result:

Your Aspie score: 103 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 87 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits

I my case I'm not sure if it is because I'm not really Aspie despite
having an "official" diagnosis. When I was a teenager I was diagnosed
as being schizoid (a term not used much any more). Maybe in my case
this result suggests that the earlier diagnosis might be correct after
all. I tend to think of myself as an ANT: an Aspie - Neurotypical (or:
an Atypical neurotypical). It's interesting to be a living-breathing
oxymoron.

-scattered

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