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The Autism Quotient Test - Everyone here should seriously take it.
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2017-06-25 at 3:07 PM UTCАutism Level should be a stat on everybody's user page
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2017-06-25 at 3:09 PM UTClol this thread. -_-
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2017-06-25 at 5:42 PM UTCI got 11/50 lol.
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2017-06-25 at 5:49 PM UTC
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2017-06-25 at 5:54 PM UTC
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2017-06-25 at 6 PM UTC§m£ÂgØL never struck me as particularly au.tistic.
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2017-06-25 at 6:24 PM UTCI thought it would be higher, personally.
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2017-06-25 at 7:49 PM UTC
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2017-06-25 at 8:02 PM UTCi'll bully everyone with higher HIV levels than me and school shootie everyone with lower
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2017-06-25 at 8:29 PM UTCSo, I scored high on the test. Funny thing is tho I can read body language more clearly than most people. Everything else I suck at. Reading body language isn't helpful when you can't speak in conversation properly. I spent a lot of my time growing up trying to learn how to act; this is common for women on the spectrum. Since I don't speak in conversation well, I just try to listen all the time instead. I listen and I study their facial & body language. I probably would have never learned to do this if I had been born male.
All I wonder now is if I was a man instead, would I have scored a straight 50 instead of a 39. Shite.
At least I've got superhuman powers... My sensory overload...
At this time I don't plan on reproducing and possibly putting my offspring through anything like I have. -
2017-06-25 at 8:33 PM UTC39? I scored 40. You're the second highest scorer here, and by a good margin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism-spectrum_quotient#Use_as_a_diagnostic_tool80% of adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders scored 32 or more, compared with only 2% of the control group.
The test was also taken by a group of subjects who had been diagnosed with autism or Asperger syndrome by a professional, the average score being 35 and 38 for males and females, respectively.
Average for women was only around 15.
Well, you are a diagnosed aspie. At least with this you know the diagnosis was likely accurate. -
2017-06-25 at 8:37 PM UTCYep.............,,,,,,...,..,...,
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2017-06-25 at 8:41 PM UTCI got a 14
We should absolutely have this on our user profiles. How hard can it be to implement? -
2017-06-25 at 8:42 PM UTCI actually feel quite superior despite my speech issues. I interrupt ppl when they're talking lol
But it's typically because I already know wtf they're going to say based on their body language and the conversation subject... thing is I can't control it, I just do it, I feel like there's no time for fucking around when speaking about shit that needs done... and that's really the only time I ever talk to anyone. Besides people online and my bf who forgives me. Lol. -
2017-06-25 at 8:43 PM UTCI wish I didn't feel superior... But I just know
That may be an issue
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2017-06-25 at 8:55 PM UTCCheck out this fascinating study I found on sensory hypersensitivity in ASD and vision:
Talent in autism: hyper-systemizing, hyper-attention to detail and sensory hypersensitivity
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677592/Participants were administered the Freiburg Visual Acuity and Contrast Test, a standardized optometric test that uses the Landholt-C optotype (Bertone et al. 2003). The gaps in the C-shape range from 0.4 to 25 mm and appear in one of four positions: up; down; left; or right. Participants sat at a fixed distance of 60 cm from the computer screen and identified the location of the ‘missing’ part of the C-shaped stimulus by selecting one of four arrow keys on the keyboard. Participants had 3 s to respond on each of the 150 trials. The results generated a Snellen decimal, where a value of 1.0 represents ‘normal’ 20 : 20 vision (Heaton et al. 2008). A score of 20 : 10 is regarded as excellent vision, and means an object normally detected at 10 feet can be detected at 20 feet. Thus, Snellen values above 1.0 represent increasingly accurate vision, and values below 1.0 represent worse vision. The ASC group scored a mean acuity measure of 2.79 (s.d.=±0.37), which was significantly better than the control group mean of 1.44 (s.d.=±0.26), t(40)=4.63; p<0.001. The Snellen score of 2.79 for the ASC group represents acuity 2.79 times better than normal, and translates to vision of 20 : 7. This approaches the range reported for birds of prey.
We're birds of prey.
There's also some neat information on how the effective visual field, peripheral vision, may be considerably wider, information gleamed from that region more accurate than normal. I noticed a long time ago, during my late teens at least, that my peripheral vision seemed to be unusually large and detailed, that I relied on it far more than normies. I may be able to consistently notice movement as far as 180 degrees and get some rough visual info from that region.
I won't link to the studies on this, no one's going to read them. Trying to look for some quantifiable data, a numerical value, for exactly how different peripheral vision is.
Considerable differences in the visual cortex have been found, along with the other main neurological differences each contributing to it (Would take way to long to explain everything, and ultimately it still leads to the same outcome)The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2017-06-25 at 8:57 PM UTCITT: Aspies grasping for straws
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2017-06-25 at 9:09 PM UTCWhat straws? Specifically, grasping for what?
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2017-06-25 at 9:16 PM UTCYes, I have extremely fast reflexes, extremely fast thoughts, and when in dire situation like an "fuck I might die" moment of adrenaline I am completely clear headed and relaxed feeling in a way. I can see the flicker of a 60 fps refresh rate tv, flicker of fluorescent lights (I fucking hate them)
In a way, I know this makes me superior, I honestly believe autizm is the first steps of the next type of human. The improved version. It's certainly not perfect at this time but someday I believe all humans will be quicker with everything they experience and do -
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