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.
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:
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Do you vocalize or make noises when you feel emotional?
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Do you repeat lines you hear from movies to yourself?
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Do you literally jump up and down when you are excited?
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Do you perform regular body movement (leg shaking, head rocking, arm flapping, finger snapping)?
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Do you curl your toes when your bare feet touches the floor?
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Do you like chewing on things?
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Do you clap when you are excited?
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Do you walk in a stiff and robotic manner?
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Are you a picky eater?
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Do you tailor what clothes you wear based on how comfortable they are to the exclusion of almost everything else (fashion, cost)?
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Are there entire types of noises that you find completely intolerable on par with nails on chalkboard?
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Do you have a comfort plushy?
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!
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I answered truthfully as possible and got 9 on the first one, but it was definitely easy to tell what answer to lower/raise the score.
I got 7 on the first one and 60 on the second one
I have severe ADHD but I've never thought I was autistic except if you get me talking about magic the gathering or starcraft
I have ADHD and got 29 on the first one (although the first one just seemed like a "are you an introvert" quiz tbh)
And I got this for the second:
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28 on the first: okay, not too high and a lot of the questions sound like introversion rather than autism to me
144 on the second:
remembering the period of my life around age 15-16 where i deliberately tried to become more skilled/proficient at social interaction
remembering the scripting behavior where i would (and sometimes still do) imagine possible conversations i might have about something and try my best to plot out possible questions and responses
remembering how i've described social interaction to my therapist as a performance where my goal is to entertain and get the other person to like me
Worth noting the second is specifically for picking up masking, so people with social anxiety will also score very high.
remembering the scripting behavior where i would (and sometimes still do) imagine possible conversations i might have about something and try my best to plot out possible questions and responses
Aaaaaahhhhhh relating so hard right now, this takes up SO MUCH of my brain omfg
17 and 73 here. Never really thought I was autistic, just had severe social anxiety, but it's a lot better now. Could explain why my masking score was so high on the second test.
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.
Sure it is, just not for normies.
Online questionnaires like those are only start points, not a direct diagnosis. So the points you get don't tell very much. The differential diagnosis between ADHD and autism or ADHD with autism as co-morbidity (or the other way around) isn't that easy. I guess at least someone in 2008 diagnosed you?
In any case what you "really" are or have is something I couldn't say. Would you like to explore "I wonder if it was just ADHD masquerading" further?
3 for me
whats funny is i have terrible anxiety and ptsd, but social situations are the thing i love most lmao. what if someone is autistic and their special interest is conversation 🤔
I know how most answers effect the score, so my knowledge influences the results, so I don't trust them.
That said, I tried to answer honestly and got 33 ASQ, 129 CAT-Q (41,41,47).
I worry that I'm biasing my answers toward higher scores so I can be special in some way, but I need to just trust myself and my memories of my experiences.
38 on the first test, 41 total for the second (11, 14, 16). Guess I don't mask this shit, lol
What does it say about me if I got 29 on the first test, and didn't finish the second because I was anoyed that some questions were being repeated?
yeouch for the cat-q i got total 133: 54 compensation 28 masking 51 assimilation
In autistic people, the total CAT-Q score and the Assimilation score negatively correlate with well-being. The higher your scores on these measures, the lower your well-being tends to be.
hmm
Oh I missed that little tidbit, thank you for pointing that out. Guess we have some work to do, huh?
