Asperger's online test

[sangheili90]

22

I don't see Aspergers as a disorder, it is part of the normal male spectrum in my view. The men who have built the world we live in exhibited many similar characteristics. Much of this is not valued by many today by those for whom social success is the only success. But I'm grateful for the technology, science and culture we have, and the men who had the ability to understand and make things work.

I'd go so far as to see the tribal celebration of the penis as a response to the current social diminishing of men's status and male attributes.

I was watching this youtube channel last night, the guy has aspergers,

Anyway, watching him really reminded me of a kid I went to high school with, the basic mannerisms are remarkably similar. He had a very strong obsession with conspiracy theories and was rather maladapted to regular life, couldn't hold a job etc, so its likely he had some other issues as well.

 

[temptotalk]

Got a 9. Very interesting test.

 

[sangheili90]

Got a 9. Very interesting test.

Maybe you should try a multi personality test, you are Deadpool after all lol.

 

[temptotalk]

Maybe you should try a multi personality test, you are Deadpool after all lol.

Very true Pat Sajak, very true. Also, can i buy a volume?

 

[EllieP]

Very interesting indeed. I got a 9. And I'm surprised I even rated!

 

[sangheili90]

Very interesting indeed. I got a 9. And I'm surprised I even rated!

The average score for women was 15, so it would be highly unusual to score 0 lol.

 

[AlteredEgo]

11. I like silly quizzes.

 

[hzs3fg]

The first time I read about Asperger's (I think it was an online nytimes.com article), I forwarded it to my wife and asked, does this sound like anyone you know? As expected, she said yes and referred to both me and our son. Of the two of us, I am the worse, especially in regards to social skills.

Now, there are two problems with this test:

1. I now know a great deal about Asperger's. So when I take this sort of test, even though I try to be scrupulously fair and honest with my answers, I cannot guarantee that my knowledge does not in subtle ways influence my responses.

2. Being a bit older now (60's), I have most definitely learned how to hide my symptoms and how to "act more human" when it seems appropriate to do so, but overall, I still suck at it. Nevertheless, when taking a test such as this one, there is always the clash between how I would act in a given situation naturally vs. how I have taught myself to act because it seems to be a social requirement. For example, I try to exchange social pleasantries with my co-workers ("Good morning; how are you today") even though I, quite frankly, have no interest in the outcome whatsoever. I do it because people seem to expect it and they talk about me behind my back if I don't.

3. As a child and well into my late twenties (when I finally cut off all communication), I was severely bullied by an older brother. Although I recall having social difficulties from a very young age, I cannot with any certainty guess how much of said difficulties are caused by ASD and how much by the bullying. Of course, he may have bullied me specifically because I was a bit weird to begin with...

Anyway, having said all of that... I scored 40. Twenty years ago I probably would have scored somewhat higher.

 

[lapdog2001]

I got an 18, which is the average or normal range. I was afraid it was going to higher, based on some of the questions!

 

[Hoss]

I managed to get a 30.

Considering the Asperger syndrome tag was placed on me a few years ago, I'm not surprised.

 

[Brisler]

I scored 5.

 

[185248]

I became bored with it about half way through. Maybe it points to I have attention deficit disorder.

 

[sangheili90]

I became bored with it about half way through. Maybe it points to I have attention deficit disorder.

LOL

 

[GBF64]

Famous People Who Have/Had Aspergers Syndrome
Adam Young, multi-instrumentalist, producer and the founder of the electronic project Owl City.
Adrian Lamo, American computer hacker
Carl Soderholm, speaker in neuropsychiatric disorders
Clay Marzo, American professional surfer
Craig Nicholls, frontman of the Australian garage rock band, The Vines
Dan Aykroyd, comedian and actor: Aykroyd stated he has Asperger's, but some feel he was joking.
Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant, believed to have Asperger Syndrome
Daryl Hannah, actress
Dawn Prince-Hughes, PhD, primate anthropologist, ethologist, and author of Songs for the Gorilla Nation
Gary Numan, British singer and songwriter
Heather Kuzmich, fashion model and reality show contestant on America's Next Top Model
James Durbin, finalist on the tenth season of American Idol
Jerry Newport, American author and mathematical savant, basis of the film Mozart and the Whale
John Elder Robison, author of Look Me in the Eye
Judy Singer, Australian disability rights activist
Liane Holliday Willey, author of Pretending to be Normal, Asperger Syndrome in the Family; Asperger syndrome advocate; education professor; and adult diagnosed with Asperger syndrome at age 35
Lizzy Clark, actress and campaigner
Luke Jackson, author
Michael Burry, US investment fund manager
Nicky Reilly, failed suicide bomber from Britain
Paddy Considine, actor
Peter Howson, Scottish painter
Phillipa "Pip" Brown (aka Ladyhawke), indie rock musician
Raymond Thompson, New Zealand scriptwriter and TV producer
Richard Borcherds, mathematician specializing in group theory and Lie algebras
Robert Durst, American real estate developer accused of murder
Robert Napper, British murderer
Satoshi Tajiri, creator and designer of Pokemon
Tim Ellis, Australian magician and author
Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author
Travis Meeks, lead singer, guitarist and song writer for acoustic rock band Days of the New.
Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Laureate in Economics
William Cottrell, student who was sentenced to eight years in jail for fire-bombing SUV dealerships
Speculated to have Asperger's Syndrome
Abraham Lincoln,1809-1865, US Politician
Alan Turing, 1912-1954, English mathematician, computer scientist and cryptographer
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German/American theoretical physicist
Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922, Scottish/Canadian/American inventor of the telephone
Anton Bruckner , 1824-1896, Austrian composer
Bela Bartok, 1881-1945, Hungarian composer
Benjamin Franklin,1706-1790, US polictician/writer
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British logician
Bobby Fischer, 1943-2008, World Chess Champion
Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychoanalyst
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1868-1928, Scottish architect and designer
Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, US poet
Erik Satie, 1866-1925 - Composer
Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Czech writer
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish playwright, writer of Pygmalion, critic and Socialist
George Washington, 1732-1799, US Politician
Gustav Mahler, 1860-1911, Czech/Austrian composer
Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, US actress
H P Lovecraft, 1890-1937, US writer
Henry Cavendish, 1731-1810, English/French scientist, discovered the composition of air and water
Henry Ford, 1863-1947, US industrialist
Henry Thoreau, 1817-1862, US writer
Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, English mathematician and physicist
Jane Austen, 1775-1817, English novelist, author of Pride and Prejudice
Kaspar Hauser, c1812-1833, German foundling, portrayed in a film by Werner Herzog
Ludwig II, 1845-1886, King of Bavaria
Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Viennese/English logician and philosopher
Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827, German/Viennese composer
Mark Twain, 1835-1910, US humorist
Michelangelo, 1475 1564 - Italian Renissance artist
Nikola Tesla, 1856-1943, Serbian/American scientist, engineer, inventor of electric motors
Oliver Heaviside, 1850-1925, English physicist
Richard Strauss, 1864-1949, German composer
Seth Engstrom, 1987-Present, Magician and World Champion
Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, US inventor
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, US politician
Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter
Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, English Writer
Wasily Kandinsky, 1866-1944, Russian/French painter
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791, Austrian composer
Historical people
Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, English/American film director
Andy Kaufman, 1949-1984, US comedian, subject of the film Man on the Moon
Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, US artist.
Charles Schulz, 1922-2000, US cartoonist and creator of Peanuts and Charlie Brown
Glenn Gould, 1932-1982, Canadian pianist
Hans Asperger, 1906-1980, Austrian paediatric doctor after whom Asperger's Syndrom is named
Howard Hughes, 1905-1976, US billionaire
Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, Russian/US writer on science and of science fiction, author of Bicentennial Man
Jim Henson, 1936-1990, creator of the Muppets, US puppeteer, writer, producer, director, composer
John Denver, 1943-1997, US musician
L S Lowry, 1887-1976, English painter of "matchstick men"
Contemporary People
Al Gore, 1948-, former US Vice President and presidential candidate
Bill Gates, 1955-, Entrepreneur and philanthropist. A key player in the personal computer revolution.
Bob Dylan, 1941-, US singer-songwriter
Charles Dickinson, 1951, US Writer
Crispin Glover, 1964-, US actor
David Helfgott, 1947-, Australian pianist, subject of the film Shine
Garrison Keillor, 1942-, US writer, humorist and host of Prairie Home Companion
Genie, 1957-?, US "wild child" (see also L'Enfant Sauvage, Victor, )
James Taylor, 1948-, US singer/songwriter
Jamie Hyneman, 1956-, Co-host of Mythbusters
Jeff Greenfield, 1943-, US political analyst/speechwriter, a political wonk
John Motson, 1945-, English sports commentator
John Nash, 1928-, US mathematician (portrayed by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, USA 2001)
Joseph Erber, 1985-, young English composer/musician who has Asperger's Syndrome, subject of a BBC TV documentary
Keith Olbermann, 1959-, US sportscaster
Kevin Mitnick, 1963-, US "hacker"
Michael Palin, 1943-, English comedian and presenter
Oliver Sacks, 1933-, UK/US neurologist, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings
Paul Kostabi 1962-, writer, comedian, artist, producer, technician
Pip Brown "Ladyhawke", 1979-, New Zealand Singer/Songwriter, Musician
Robin Williams, 1951-, US Actor
Seth Engstrom, 1987-, Magician and World Champion in Sleight of Hand. The best man with a deck of cards that the world has ever seen.
Tony Benn, 1925-, English Labour politician

 

[sykray]

I scored 3. Not too surprising as I am an empathetic thinker and was a psychotherapist. People who are systematic thinkers (usually more men than women) have ASD characteristics in their way of thinking and processing their experiences but within the normal range of scores.

 

[Brisler]

22

I don't see Aspergers as a disorder, it is part of the normal male spectrum in my view.

It certainly can be a disorder, in that it can be very disabling. Of course it depends on the severity. I'm glad that it isn't something I've had to deal with myself, but I have seen it in others. One guy I knew during childhood was very affected by it in particular. It's a great thing that awareness about the condition is being spread, even if it isn't enough. I am sure that the kid I knew could have been spared of a lot of hardship had he been diagnosed. But back then nobody knew about the condition, least of all the kids he went to school with. All we saw was an intolerably egotistical kid with no empathy whatsoever. Which led to him being brutally bullied, every single day.

I remember that one of my teachers approached me and some of my friends and asked us if we'd mind hanging out with the kid, just once in a while. She told us that he was just a normally functioning kid who'd had some bad luck making friends. At that point we knew very little about him, but when we invited him home one day, it became obvious within minutes that the kid was insufferable. He just did not function socially and he threw tantrums all the time, literally.

When he was finally diagnosed with asperger's, I guess the damage was done. He had been left to fend for himself in the schoolyard jungle as a kid, through puberty, as an adolescent, and I'm not sure he's experienced much else than defeat during those years. It's such a shame that he wasn't diagnosed much earlier and placed in environments much more fitting to his condition. Instead he ended up being bullied and beaten up, kicked out of several schools, kicked out of home by his own parents. His parents took him back when he was diagnosed, but the last thing I heard of him was that he'd attempted suicide several times.

Looking back, I feel extremely bad that I didn't do more to make his life a little easier by being around him more, but the truth is that it wasn't possible. I also feel ashamed that nobody tried to help out a kid that obviously had problems, that nobody even tried to find out if he had a disorder of some kind. And finally, it makes me sad to think about how many kids have experienced the same thing. Awareness, awareness, awareness!

I should mention, of course, that I also know people with the disorder who have no severely debilitating problems functioning professionally, socially and romantically.

 

[950483]

I was watching this youtube channel last night, the guy has aspergers,

Anyway, watching him really reminded me of a kid I went to high school with, the basic mannerisms are remarkably similar. He had a very strong obsession with conspiracy theories and was rather maladapted to regular life, couldn't hold a job etc, so its likely he had some other issues as well.

Yes, this person probably has Asperger's. Watch this video, where you can see Zizek stimming, yet he is not diagnosed with Asperger's, he has NPD apparently. Not all Aspies stim by the way.

 

[sangheili90]

Yes, this person probably has Asperger's. Watch this video, where you can see Zizek stimming, yet he is not diagnosed with Asperger's, he has NPD apparently. Not all Aspies stim by the way.

I never said they did, but the individual in the video I linked is like a mirror image of the kid I went to high school with, though he wasn't diagnosed with the disorder. The strange eye contact with the camera, the general mannerisms and movement, particularly with the hands.

 

[950483]

If I met the person in your video, I would probably think they had Asperger's. You can't always tell by looking at people though. I suppose really that I'm wondering what has prompted your interest in it? Are you seriously wondering whether you have it?, or are you wondering whether someone you know might have it? There is no need to feel defensive, I'm not trying to shoot you down, I'm trying to contribute what I know.

 

[sangheili90]

If I met the person in your video, I would probably think they had Asperger's. You can't always tell by looking at people though. I suppose really that I'm wondering what has prompted your interest in it? Are you seriously wondering whether you have it?, or are you wondering whether someone you know might have it? There is no need to feel defensive, I'm not trying to shoot you down, I'm trying to contribute what I know.

A few posters on here tried saying I had it simply because I have a hard time making friends and that I'm not a particularly outgoing guy who enjoys talking to people. I know I don't have it, but I decided to retake this test and post it on here to see how others fared.