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Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 5:54 pm**

Step 1) Go here.
Step 2) Fill in your answers.
Step 3) Find out your 'Autism Spectrum quotient".
Step 4) Report back here with your score, not forgetting to complain about how bad a test it is.
Step 5) ...
Step 6) Profit.

(I got 38, which seemed a bit high...)

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 5:58 pm**

I got 24, which is markedly above average while not being orty as such. I'd say that's about true. I'd like to see some more statistical breakdowns e.g. whether the average is higher amongst people with degrees, men of a certain age, and so on.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:12 pm**

I got 14, so I'm average for a woman.
But also, autism doesn't exist. There is no biological difference that can be tested for that you can then look at and say "there's the autism bit. Should we cut it off or leave it in?"
All psychological disorders are inventions for us to kid ourselves that people different to us are malfunctioning.
From the test, 13) Like going to a library more than a party? Then there's something wrong with your brain. 19) Enjoy maths? Then you must have been born prematurely or something, because you're messed up.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:22 pm**

32. Not a trememdous surprise, but to my knowledge I've never received any label. I was slightly amused by the theatre/museum question. Many good museums are still free to enter, which I think makes the choice quite easy.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:24 pm**

Kieran Child wrote:I got 14, so I'm average for a woman.
But also, autism doesn't exist. There is no biological difference that can be tested for that you can then look at and say "there's the autism bit. Should we cut it off or leave it in?"
All psychological disorders are inventions for us to kid ourselves that people different to us are malfunctioning.
From the test, 13) Like going to a library more than a party? Then there's something wrong with your brain. 19) Enjoy maths? Then you must have been born prematurely or something, because you're messed up.

You seem to be taking this rather seriously. Are you sure that score is right?

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:26 pm**

I got 24 - which is above average, which I'm surprised at because I'm very sociable. And as I was answering the questions I had no sense of falling into anything other than 'normal' category. I'm also pretty independent, and do do things the way they suit me especially as I've been single for 5 years so I don't know if that translates as unsociable. Who knows?

Lost interest now.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:36 pm**

*hopes Michael's comment was a joke, but cannot quite tell if it was*

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:48 pm**

Another 24 here

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:04 pm**

39 - Definite proof of my Asperger's.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:12 pm**

So it seems autism is not the reason no one likes Kieran Child.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:14 pm**

I don't like these no-one likes Kieran Child jokes

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:16 pm**

Sheventeen. Thats one bit of autism for every year of my life.
I think There were about 8 or 9 answers where i wasnt sure what to pick between 2 answers, so I could have got a few points either side of what i did.

My friends wont believe that i got "normal" on an autism test, they all think i'm a right spazwoid.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:22 pm**

30, which from what I can tell is 'high'. This is the first ever test of this nature I've ever taken, incidentally.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:34 pm**

I got 30, yet it says people who have Asperger's like myself get around 35, so my score seems below average for people like me.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:37 pm**

34 apparently, seems to be one of those tests you could very easily get any score you want on.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:41 pm**

21 for me. Like Jack, one bit for every year of my life.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:42 pm**

27. Seems about right.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:44 pm**

15 for me. I'm not special at all, damnit!

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:58 pm**

30, which surprises me slightly.

I suppose I did spot that one of the questions has words transposed, and I am a statistician who particularly dislikes his phone ringing at work.

See if you can find the question

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:12 pm**

Innis Carson wrote:34 apparently, seems to be one of those tests you could very easily get any score you want on.

Yeah, I'm about to take it now and a quick skim seems to reveal that the questions are all basically "Are you autistic?" Look at the first one - "I prefer to do things with others rather than on my own." Bollocks question. What things? It depends. Someone's answer could depend on how autistic they want to end up.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:21 pm**

17, but I doubt it's a good test.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:40 pm**

21 - rats. I hate being average.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:41 pm**

@ Gavin, it's as good a test as any. It finds out how far you are from the test-writer's opinion of normality, which is what proper autism tests do just as well.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 9:54 pm**

25 - so many people have told me recently that they think I'm slightly autistic. I'd disagree with them.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:07 pm**

Just a 9 for me. But i am thinking my age, a sociable job or two under my belt, and having children might make a difference to quite a lot of my answers. Plus i am crap at maths!

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:16 pm**

It's a 29 for me, which seems near enough right.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:21 pm**

Kirk Bevins wrote:25 - so many people have told me recently that they think I'm slightly autistic. I'd disagree with them.

Autism is usually correlated with high IQ, so I think you're safe.

Edit: Before anyone leaps to his defence, I should point out that I love Kirk dearly and my constant mocking of his low intelligence, ugly face and poor sexual performance is just to rebalance his ego after Series 60.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:35 pm**

Kieran Child wrote:I don't like these no-one likes Kieran Child jokes

Jokes?

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:39 pm**

Hugh Binnie wrote:
Kieran Child wrote:I don't like these no-one likes Kieran Child jokes
Jokes?

Hey, why did you edit your score away? That sort of behaviour seems worthy of an increase in your ASQ...

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:51 pm**

0, I gave up on the test half way through.

Posted: **Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:11 pm**

Michael Wallace wrote:Hey, why did you edit your score away? That sort of behaviour seems worthy of an increase in your ASQ...

I thought it distracted from the main purpose of my post. >.>
I scored 31, which is only "above average". Just. But if you want me to say I'm abnormally high, I'll concede that.

Posted: **Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:02 am**

I started on 8 but then I tried again and whittled it down to 1. I reckon if the government gave away free iPods to autistics like they do to dyslexics, I'd be able to fake it no problem.

Posted: **Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:29 am**

19. Although I reckon about 4 or 5 years ago it would've been a lot higher. Still a shod of a test though.

Posted: **Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:57 am**

Hey Mikey! Where've you been for the last year? You haven't posted for ages!

I scored a 14.

Posted: **Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:07 pm**

25 for me - the same as Kirk.

Shame my Apterous scores don't match his as well!!

Posted: **Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:29 pm**

I got 18, which is one point above the average male score, in the average category of the results, in this above-average test.

Posted: **Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:01 pm**

23 just on the boundary but I reckon that's a given since anyone who is a bit of a hobbyist (which we obviously are) will score on certain questions asked.

Posted: **Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:39 pm**

Posted: **Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:03 pm**

31: I tried to answer honestly, but with this sort of test it's easy to see what they're up to, so you could bias your answers to come wherever on the spectrum you want.

Posted: **Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:46 pm**

I scored 29, though I agree with the post above that this may be skewed even though consciously I tried to answer honestly and think of situations from which I could most accurately draw my conclusions.

Posted: **Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:54 pm**

16, you lot of fucking freaks.

Posted: **Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:40 pm**

Posted: **Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:50 pm**

22, I thought with my OCD I would be higher than that!

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:26 am**

I got 38, although I suspect that I subconsciously gave the Autistic answer to a few questions. A combination of my dyspraxia, Catholic upbringing / restrictive parents and childhood medical problems have probably weakened my social skills to a point where I come up higher than I am on this.

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:09 pm**

Ian Fitzpatrick wrote:22, I thought with my OCD I would be higher than that!

It's not normally about what dictionary you have.

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:12 pm**

Gavin Chipper wrote:It's not normally about what dictionary you have.

...it's what you do with it that counts?

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2009 6:40 pm**

Martin Smith wrote:I got 38, although I suspect that I subconsciously gave the Autistic answer to a few questions. A combination of my dyspraxia, pro-AIDS upbringing / restrictive parents and childhood medical problems have probably weakened my social skills to a point where I come up higher than I am on this.

Fair enough.

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:01 pm**

Nice editing Gareth. But surely an anti-sex upbringing is an anti-AIDS upbringing?

Posted: **Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:46 pm**

Martin Smith wrote:Nice editing Gareth. But surely an anti-sex upbringing is an anti-AIDS upbringing?

It could be argued that way, Keith.

Posted: **Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:15 am**

The autistic guy on last night's X Factor was really rather good. (Yes, the build-up to his appearance was shamelessly emotionally manipulative blah blah blah. I loved it. I just hope the poor guy doesn't end up as the next Susan Boyle, complete with press hounding, global adoration and subsequent backlash.)

Oh, and speaking of last night's telly, I hope the disembowelled raccoon on Harper's Island didn't cause too many nightmares.

Posted: **Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:01 am**

Phil Reynolds wrote:The autistic guy on last night's X Factor was really rather good. (Yes, the build-up to his appearance was shamelessly emotionally manipulative blah blah blah. I loved it. I just hope the poor guy doesn't end up as the next Susan Boyle, complete with press hounding, global adoration and subsequent backlash.)

Never had much interest in X Factor but if the program has done any good I'd have to say it's introducing people to the idea that not everyone who can sing looks like Britney Spears (and indeed vice versa). Although the press treat this with great surprise every time it happens, I imagine the public spotted the trend a while ago.

Posted: **Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:10 am**

30, which - like Ian - surprised me slightly. Apparently being shy and quite geeky is enough to tip the scales.

Posted: **Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:54 pm**

Like Darren and Phil, 21. Esteemed company.

Posted: **Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:11 pm**

Now, 15. Reverting to age 15, 25. Reverting to age 8, still 25.

Posted: **Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:22 pm**

14 - that's just under half of my score when I was on Countdown

Posted: **Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:20 pm**

Davy Affleck wrote:14 - that's just under half of my score when I was on Countdown

This reminds me of a girl who bragged to me that her bra size was further into the alphabet than her name. Which is fairly impressive, when you think that her name was Francesca.

Posted: **Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:29 pm**

Charlie Reams wrote:
Davy Affleck wrote:14 - that's just under half of my score when I was on Countdown
This reminds me of a girl who bragged to me that her bra size was further into the alphabet than her name. Which is fairly impressive, when you think that her name was Francesca.

Was her full name Francesca Faulkner?

Posted: **Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:38 pm**

Davy Affleck wrote: Was her full name Francesca Faulkner?

Let's say it could easily have been Helen.

Posted: **Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:44 pm**

9 - not sure I like being described as "low". Hmmmmmm

Posted: **Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:48 pm**

Lesley Hines wrote:9 - not sure I like being described as "low". Hmmmmmm

GTFO freak.

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