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 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.
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 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: