Are you Aspergian?

[annie aronburg]

I have been researching autism and related states of being.

Here's a quiz that's at least as fun to take as the Historical Lunatic one:

http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php

When I took the quiz my score was NT 124 ASP 87, so mainly Neuro-typical.

When my boyfriend answered the questions for me, the score was NT 106 ASP 97, considered a split.

We both agreed I have High Aspie Talents.

Don't be shy, post your score! Test your family and friends!

In the future we'll all be autistic.

http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/papers/blume.html

[annie aronburg]

like this:


Autism, Scientology and the Moonies

http://leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk/?p=463

AA

[chiggerbit]

Uh-oh.

[Doodad]

Your Aspie score: 39 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 165 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

I was going to do the ADD test but forgot what i was doing, lol

[Susserer]

These Q's made me laugh:

Have you been fascinated about making traps?
Do you drop things when your attention is on other things?
Do you enjoy mimicking animal sounds?
Are you usually unaware of/disinterested in what is currently in vogue?
Do you notice patterns in things all the time?

My score:
Your Aspie score: 160 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 43 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

Asperger's is a high functioning form of autism. Autistics have difficulty with verbal communication but are eloquent in text. The internet has allowed autistics to come out and express themselves, not as disabled people but as neurologically different people who are cognizant of their difference and do not experience themselves as "suffering from" a pathology.

Unfortunately the NT (neurologically typical) biased medical establishment doesn't "get it" and persist with aggressive and torturous "interventions" aimed at normalizing autistics, an impossible and unnecessary goal:

The Judge Rotenberg Center is a government funded residential school system with 50 locations that uses aversive shock therapy to "program" "disabled" children, including autistics, very much like what was done to Native children in Canada in the residential schools.

USE OF SKIN-SHOCK AS A SUPPLEMENTARY AVERSIVE
AT THE JUDGE ROTENBERG CENTER (JRC)

Matthew L. Israel, Ph.D.2002

The use of skin-shock as a behavior modification treatment procedure is the most widely researched and scientifically supported punishment procedure in the psychological literature. The web site www.effectivetreatment.org contains an extensive bibliography of research articles documenting the effectiveness of skin shock as a punishment procedure.

Skin shock is not generally used in treatment programs today. This is due to an unfortunate current cultural bias against aversive treatment procedures as well as a general lack of information among the public concerning skin shock’s remarkable effectiveness, its total lack of negative side effects, its safety, and the fact that students often choose it over alternative treatments.

The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) first began using skin shock to supplement its powerful positive treatment procedures in 1989. Because this treatment was so effective, JRC has employed skin-shock with many of its students during the past 13 years with constantly increasing success. At this point (May 27, 2002) JRC has accumulated the most extensive experience with the use of skin shock as a supplementary aversive therapy treatment of any organization. The purpose of this paper is to make the most important aspects of this information available to others.

http://www.judgerc.org/writeup3.html

How can this possibly be an accepted "treatment?" Read more:

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature ... shock.html

[battleshipkropotkin]

I took the quiz. Thanks for giving me an excuse to avoid my metric assload of end-of-the-semester work. Now I'll go get some coffee.

My Aspie score: 132 of 200
My neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 58 of 200
I am very likely an Aspie

[§ê¢rꆧ]

Your Aspie score: 134 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 79 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

Interesting test... I had looked into the Asperger's stuff before and it didn't seem to fit my profile to me at least (almost to my disappointment, lol) Perhaps I should look more closely into it.

[Doodad]

Interesting trend here.

[chiggerbit]

I was startled to see one of the questions, about face blindness, in this particular questionairre. I had come to the conclusion a number of years ago that I had problems recognizing faces I wasn't so familiar with, but had no clue that there were other people out there who did, too, but I never thought to mention it to anyone. Then a couple of years ago, I was talking with an aunt who said that she had problems recognizing faces, and my jaw about dropped on the floor. That's when I googled it and discovered there were more than two of us.

Is this an autism characteristic or a neurotypical one? I guess I don't understand what the neurotypical one is about.

[Doodad]

I was startled to see one of the questions, about face blindness, in this particular questionairre. I had come to the conclusion a number of years ago that I had problems recognizing faces I wasn't so familiar with, but had no clue that there were other people out there who did, too, but I never thought to mention it to anyone. Then a couple of years ago, I was talking with an aunt who said that she had problems recognizing faces, and my jaw about dropped on the floor. That's when I googled it and discovered there were more than two of us.

Is this an autism characteristic or a neurotypical one? I guess I don't understand what the neurotypical one is about.

The problem is that just because a symptom is indicative of Aspergers doesn't mean it isn't also indicative of a general range of normality.

[annie aronburg]

Interesting trend here.

I really hope more forum members take the quiz and share their results.

If nothing else it might help clear up some hard feelings.

At the end of the test it generates a pie chart of your score, which is nice for visual thinkers.

I did two versions and my partner did two, we made print outs and overlaid them, which was a fun way to compare and contrast.

It would be awesome to take the charts from RI respondents and make a visual composite of typical RI traits a la visualcomplexity.com

(Uh, I'm sure someone in a cubicle at Ft Mead is squirming with glee over this proposal...)

I found these questions particularily resonant:

Do you feel an urge to correct people with accurate facts, numbers, spelling, grammar etc., when they get something wrong?

Do you feel that people are watching you?

Is being honest so natural to you that you often don't notice - or care - if others may find your remarks inappropriate, hurtful or rude?

Do you tend to get so absorbed by your special interests that you forget or ignore everything else?

Has there been a period of time when you were not your usual self and you were so irritable that you shouted at people or started fights or arguments?

Do you have trouble with authority?

Do people see you as eccentric?

Do you have values & views that are either very old-fashioned or way ahead of their time?

Do you feel tortured by clothes tags, clothes that are too tight or are made in the 'wrong' material?

Famous Aspergians is a fun google search to try sometime....

I'm going to post more stuff on autism and autistics over in the lonely old Health forum, because I can't stand how cluttered things get in General Discussion.

Annie A.

[annie aronburg]

Is this an autism characteristic or a neurotypical one? I guess I don't understand what the neurotypical one is about.

Face blindness is a characteristic of autism. Some of my friends seem to have this to the point I have considered myself a "seeing-eye dog" to them. All of them are extremely gifted artists with terrrible social skills.

The neurotypical ones are your "normal" charcteristics.

What was your score?

Annie

[Jeff]

Cripes.


Your Aspie score: 157 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 62 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

[Susserer]

The problem is that just because a symptom is indicative of Aspergers doesn't mean it isn't also indicative of a general range of normality.

True. In fact I would argue that what has been labeled Autistic and Asperger's is entirely within the range of, if not normality, than humanity. The labels indicate a narrow cultural bias toward certain ways of perceiving and interacting, and pathologises difference. I do not experience myself as suffering from a disease and yet I am happy to call myself an Aspie, because I'm a freak and I know it.

chigger, my face blindness is contextually driven to the degree that when I flew to Toronto recently to meet my BF of several years, after not seeing him for a couple of weeks, I wasn't sure that I would recognize him at the airport. Happily, I did, but strangely it was with a sensation of shock.

[Et in Arcadia ego]

Cripes.


Your Aspie score: 157 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 62 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

My, my..

Who'd have thunk it?