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:
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?
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!