Quite revelatory!

In case you're interested in taking them too:

Still kinda reeling from the information that it is not typical to practice facial expressions and body language 😂🤦 amongst other things, of course, but yeah. Wow.

There is so much of my experience of the world that I have genuinely spent 40+ years thinking was the same for everyone, I just dealt with it worse than they did.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    I hate how all these online tests overly emphasize social skills (or the lack thereof) while ignoring stimming and the general physiology that's related to autism.

    I would add these questions:

    • Do you vocalize or make noises when you feel emotional?

    • Do you repeat lines you hear from movies to yourself?

    • Do you literally jump up and down when you are excited?

    • Do you perform regular body movement (leg shaking, head rocking, arm flapping, finger snapping)?

    • Do you curl your toes when your bare feet touches the floor?

    • Do you like chewing on things?

    • Do you clap when you are excited?

    • Do you walk in a stiff and robotic manner?

    • Are you a picky eater?

    • Do you tailor what clothes you wear based on how comfortable they are to the exclusion of almost everything else (fashion, cost)?

    • Are there entire types of noises that you find completely intolerable on par with nails on chalkboard?

    • Do you have a comfort plushy?

    • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Well this was a fun one to have on the top in the inbox when I woke up!

      Yes, except my comfort plushies are alive pets, I don't have a stiff walk (childhood dance and mime lessons gave me the skills to mask that), and I will occasionally willingly suffer uncomfortable clothing textures for a short period of time if that feels like a better choice than the social discomfort I'd suffer from not Wearing The Thing.

      But yeah, holy shit. Thanks for this illuminating list!