Asperger questionnaire

[desperance]

Well, it's hardly a surprise, is it? Me with my cat and my computer, and the teddy bear who travels with me everywhere I go...

Your Aspie score: 138 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 72 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie

If anybody's interested, the questionnaire is here - but I'd regard it with a degree of scepticism, personally. It is something of an invitation to self-diagnosis.

Comments

[jodi-davis.livejournal.com]

Ha - an Asperger's post is just as good a place to leave feedback as anywhere - eh? (LOL)

First - I hate you. The whole dust devil thing - I see them all the time since I live in the desert - DAMN ME! Why didn't I think of that.

My biggest complaint is I felt like I didn't get anywhere - I didn't learn anything - I got clues, I got characters, even with some crush value, but I got no satisfaction. Which made me order the next book from the library and I'm ancing for it... but, Elisande? the fiance? Anton? The stinking tower? I get no answers to any of that? Not any?

I'm a little squicky about religion - but you were enough ambivilant to keep me from going over to the dark side about it...

The writing is just dreamy... so I applaud you, stud.

But if I don't get some answers by the end of two, I'm totally hunting you down. (but that I care is good!)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

First - I hate you.

S'okay, everybody hates me.

My biggest complaint is I felt like I didn't get anywhere - I didn't learn anything - I got clues, I got characters, even with some crush value, but I got no satisfaction. Which made me order the next book from the library and I'm ancing for it... but, Elisande? the fiance? Anton? The stinking tower? I get no answers to any of that? Not any?

Yup. "Never apologise, never explain" - but I'm sorry, and the reason is that you've only read one half of what I wrote to be volume one in the sequence. Over here there are three big fat books; on your side of the pond, six slim ones. Which means that the first of those is particularly full of unanswered questions.

Further to that: the original is not a trilogy either, it's a three-volume novel, one long narrative broken at convenient points, so don't expect wrap-ups at the end of the next book. I do tend to favour cliffhangers (according to my editor, this is a British thing, and Americans as a whole don't seem to like it so much).

And further to further to this: I have this whole thing about fantasy, that the tradition is to make it transparent (where a wise man sits you down in chapter three and says "This is the most powerful magic ring in the known universe, and your task, Frodo, should you choose to accept it..." and that's it, that's the plot, right there - and I resist this frantically (again against my editor's advice, instincts, urgings). I like my books opaque, a level of mystery, secrets held back - so don't expect all your answers by the end of vol two, and if you think you have 'em, you're probably deceived.

Oof. Are you still talking to me?

[jodi-davis.livejournal.com]

You should resist it, frantically, or however else... it has to be your book at the end of the day. I was kind of wondering about the whole breaking points and intentions in writing thing.

OF COURSE I'M TALKING TO YOU. It doesn't matter how many times I SAY I hate you, if I'm picking up the next damn book, then what I really mean is I love you.

You know - I said nice things too - it's OK to believe those as well as my complaints... FYI.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. I'm just anxious about this whole area; one American friend threw the (British) vol one across the room, because she was so enraged by the ending. Tho' she did then demand vol two.

And thank you for the compliments; I only didn't respond to those because I never know what to say. The gracious acceptance of compliments is an art, or at least a social skill, and I don't have it. There is, of course, a developing LJ code for these tricky etiquettical points; I shall fall back on *g*, which seems good for most circumstances.

[jodi-davis.livejournal.com]

re: compliments - I'm the exact same - which is why I notice it.

[spaceoperadiva.livejournal.com]

Your Aspie score: 93 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 81 of 200
You are more Aspie than neurotypical.

I felt like answering differently to a few things that probably would have made my Aspie score higher, but I decided to go with how I actually behave versuses my impulses.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yup, I think that's one of the ways it's self-diagnostic - so easy to skew the answers. I think you done right.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Would you like to introduce your stuffed bear to my stuffed dog and stuffed puppy? (the puppy goes on the short trips).

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I'm counting on it. [Suddenly realises, I don't have a Softly icon. Well, I guess he's a very private bear. Tho' I was going to set him up a MySpace profile...]

[desperance.livejournal.com]

And lo! There was a Softly icon, thanks to shewhomust. He is a most romantic bear; this was taken in the Ritz in Taipei, after he had been flirting behind my back with chambermaids...

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

My stuffed bear (CClaudius) retired from traveling 7 years ago. His health is no longer robust. He stays home, and I have a turtle (Dracomir) who travels with me.

I found the survey badly designed, and did not complete it. All diagnostic questionnaires are invitations to self-diagnosis, but they aren't all so very *stupid*. Well, maybe most of them are. The only one I've seen that seems sensible to me is the Beck Depression Inventory. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=beck+depression+inventory

[desperance.livejournal.com]

My stuffed bear (CClaudius) retired from traveling 7 years ago. His health is no longer robust. He stays home, and I have a turtle (Dracomir) who travels with me.

I have a camel called Claudius. Well, actually Clavdivs. But he keeps disappearing. Lost in the Desert, we assume. Every time I think to look around for him - like now, for example - he's gone. And then he turns up again, unexpectedly. Very camel-like behaviour, I always feel.

[fjm.livejournal.com]

[blush]

The dog is called Woof.
The puppy is called Puppy.

When I was a child I had a blue woolly cat called Puss.

I have always been very literal minded. All my cats have had names that described either their looks or their behaviour.

1. Tom (so re-named when he turned out not to be a girl cat after all).
2. Totty (a tortoiseshell)
3. Dresden (her son, a pale ginger long hair who looked--and acted--like a piece of china)
4. Motley aka Pig (the first described her coat which was pristine white with the most amazingly pure ginger striped patches and deep black velvet patches I have ever seen; the aka, originally Piglet, described her appetite and behaviour. She was, however, a small cat).
5. Hubble (a siamese, he squinted)
6. Potchka (it's yiddish for messing about; this cat can have more fun with a post-it note or an emery board, or your spectacle cleaning cloth than any cat with a "real toy").

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Your Aspie score: 75 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 93 of 200
You are more neurotypical than Aspie

I was frustrated by the bias towards positive answers - you could say "yes, often" or "yes, sometimes", but "no" was always a flat "no". I found myself using "don't know" for values of "not really", "not often" etc. I don't know if this affected the result...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I'm sure so. The whole questionnaire seems constructed, wilfully or otherwise, to produce weighted results. This did not, of course, stop me playing.