Are you Aspergian?

[brownzeroed]

Aspie score: 36 of 200
neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 165 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Cool. Where's my pony?

[Susserer]

I'm in love with this "epidemic" because a world of rude, poorly-dressed, unmanageable obsessives sounds just peachy to me.

Autism=Asperger's with more visible differences.

Tue October 9, 2007
Autism diagnosis rates on the rise

Autism, once considered a relatively rare disorder found only in about four of every 10,000 American children in the 1970s, now is being diagnosed in one of every 150 children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Some states report higher rates. New Jersey's is one of 94. The numbers are even more pronounced in other countries. In Japan, the rate is one of every 86 children. In some areas of England, the rate is one of 54. The steady rise in diagnoses has led many experts worldwide to conclude that autism has become an epidemic.

"How high do we need to let that number go before we start taking it seriously?”

http://newsok.com/article/3143480/1191879932

[jingofever]

I scored, I think (it was a couple of hours ago), 86 for Asperger's and 95 for neurotypical. It said I exhibited traits of the two types, though sometimes people say I remind them of an "aspie". Maybe it has something to do with introversion but I don't think the two need to go together.

About face blindness, I don't have it, in fact I often surprise myself by putting names to faces. I'll see a face and the name will pop in my head and then it will hit me, why do I know this person? Usually happens with obscure politicians on CSPAN. I don't know that I'm unusually good with faces, but I think I can hold my own... in a face-off! You have to give that to me.

This talk reminds me of a joke: How do you spot the extrovert in a group of computer programmers? He's the one staring at somebody else's shoes! That one kind of sucks but it's not mine.

[erosoplier]

NT 123

ASP 67

But I was going easy on myself, in anticipation of the result turning out the reverse of what it did.

[Jeff]

Missing question:

When viewing Ghost World, did you find yourself relating inordinately to the character Seymour?

[Et in Arcadia ego]

Your Aspie score: 39 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 168 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Jeez, I have the same frigging score as Doodork..

[chiggerbit]

Usually face blindness is a problem for me only with people I've met only once or twice, but it would make me a terrible witness in court. I'm trying to think what the name of the bobblehead is that I would confuse with Bob Woodward on tv. I have the hardest time telling them apart. But it would be scary if the problem were worse--kind of like being lost.

I had a hard time answering some of the questions on certain issues, always thinking "that depends". Llike on things that used to be hard for me but that I've worked on to the point that they aren't such a problem for me now--well, maybe not. I didn't used to be able to use language at all, to summarize an event coherently, for instance. I told someone once that using language for me was like using a foreign language, that I didn't used to think in "language". I don't know how to describe what I did think in, but it wasn't language. (And, wintler, don't give me any shit about what I just said.)

[Susserer]

Jeff,

David Byrne is more it for me. Here he is on Letterman in full-blown Aspie glory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwCEajWOjKE

And one of my all-time favorite songs which I use to illustrate to NT's what it's like in my head and why I can't always pay attention to them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RlZ4-ZbRog



When David Byrne figured out he was an Aspie, he said it was more like an explanation than a diagnosis.

[chiggerbit]

Your Aspie score: 127 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 98 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits



ADD-score: 31 of 78
You might have ADD

[Et in Arcadia ego]

Your Aspie score: 127 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 98 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits



ADD-score: 31 of 78
You might have ADD

Don't worry; you're an Aquarian.

It balances out.

[Seamus OBlimey]

I'm Seymour!

[Susserer]

chigger, you are definitely there!

Most Aspies develope very sophisticated techniques to cope with the innerworld/outerworld disconnect they live with. And the acute sensitivities that can overwhelm cognition tend to diminish over time. There are lots of things I can do now that couldn't when I was younger.

My "thoughts" work in two ways. When information is inputting, it's all images colours and sensations. In order to express I have to wait till I can perceive a coherent pattern, then I can translate approximations of it into words. Or something like that... it's tough to describe.

[annie aronburg]

Most Aspies develope very sophisticated techniques to cope with the innerworld/outerworld disconnect they live with.

I wish more of my verbal friends were this cogent.

Amanda Baggs throwin' down on youtube:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZhnsEJRJgeA

Annie

[chiggerbit]

What's interesting for me is that this seems to indicate that Asperger's/autism is not either/or, black or white. I glommed onto this questionairre because I've suspected that several members of my family, immediate and extended, exhibited characteristics of Asperger's/autism--a couple for this person, a couple of different ones for that person, but nothing "classic". But there seemed to be an awful lot of those characteristics for these relatives collectively. Very bright people, the ones I'm thinking about, but a lot of clumsiness, lack of "social radar", doing better at self-employment than working for others, walking to a different drummer. So I had asked my teacher-sister a couple of years ago if there is a continuum of traits. She didn't know, said the ones she had dealt with were pretty classic, with an extended cluster of characteristics.

Hehe, and now I see that I, too, may be an Aspie.

[Doodad]

Your Aspie score: 39 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 168 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Jeez, I have the same frigging score as Doodork..

Doodork, lovely but don't start sucking my dick yet.