but i don't wanna be average!

[solarbird]

Sorry no posts lately, been busy work murksouth and other summer catch-up. CWU later today. Meanwhile, have an Asperger's test score:



muah!

Comments

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

Where did you find this? The results don't seem to link anywhere.

[solarbird]

Oops, I'll add. It's here.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i think i took that and scored a 35 or so, despite which i'm a reasonably functional biologist :)

[waysofseeing.livejournal.com]

Score: 0-12.

Oh, right. I was a PM. :)

[solarbird]

I think that my score would have been a pretty good bit higher not long ago, and that's at least in part due to conscious self-training.

[foibos.livejournal.com]

44... but I already knew it would be something like that. And now you know why my comments often are slightly off-kilter.

[dogemperor.livejournal.com]

Erm, I didn't exactly test neurotypical *laughs* (41. Pretty much "ok, tell me shit I didn't know", because I have had people spontaneously tell me I am apparently the very model of a modern Aspie. Multiple people, in fact. I should probably be formally tested one of these years for it :D)

[mathmuffin.livejournal.com]

I scored 16, despite having been a math contest winner in my youth. And I became more extreme with age, rather than less. Now I am a math contest writer.

I can identify the factor that threw off my score: due to 21.5 years of fatherhood I am perfectly comfortable with chaos and social situations.

37, lol

[blues-kun.livejournal.com]

I have ass burgers... the internet said so :(

[solarbird]

<math contest winner high-5!> -_^

Re: 37, lol

[solarbird]

Icon choice ♥

[rosepurr.livejournal.com]

I scored as an "average man". I have no idea what that means.

28

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

That was higher than I was expecting...

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

26, and no one really things *I'm* neurotypical, do they? ;)

Cathy

[janne.livejournal.com]

25, and I never even won a math contest!

[quen-elf.livejournal.com]

'Average man' (hrmph!). But at least that's three points better than the average computer scientist! (I am amused that being a computer scientist outweighs all gender difference.) I don't remember that I 'won' any maths contests but I did get several letters from an exam board for getting full marks in some maths module exams at A-level [age 18], was picked to attend special maths classes at local university, etc.

I might've answered some of the questions a little generously; I find social chitchat easy in the sense of 'IRC' (duh) or even in RL 'talking with friends I'm comfortable with', but 'talking with people I have nothing whatsoever in common with' can be more challenging. Mostly in an 'I could say something really witty here but then I'd have to bore them for about twenty minutes explaining it' sort of way, but also nervousness if they are people I don't know. Also, there wasn't a question about being afraid to do things involving dealing with people for services; if they had a 'given a choice between walking five miles or getting a taxi which would involve talking with the driver' question I would fail big time. :) And although I don't pathologically avoid it, even at railway stations I always buy tickets from a machine unless the ticket I want is too complicated for it. (And the newer machines are better at that, so yay.) So, uh, yeah, maybe I deserved a couple more points... or maybe that's just a different disorder!

IRC seriously helped me a *lot* in terms of ability to chat, which works in real life too. (No, I do not say 'ell oh ell' out loud. :)