Asperger's Affinity

[Recidiva]

Interesting questionnaire. My sister just sent me this.

What's your score?

I got a 26, putting me closer to Asperger's than the test's described "average" scale. This to me fits in the same way that being a Pisces fits.

http://www.piepalace.ca:80/blog/asperger-test-aq-test/

The test assesses five different areas. Autistic-like responses will show poor social skill, attention switching, communication and imagination, and an exaggerated attention to detail. In other words, geekiness. You scored 26. The ranking below provides some idea of where that AQ fits in.

Score
32 - 50 Scores over 32 are generally taken to indicate Asperger's Syndrome or high-functioning autism, with more than 34 an "extreme" score.
31
30
29
28
27
26
25
24 Average math contest winner
23
22
21 Average male or female computer scientist
20
19 Average male scientist, and average male or female physicist
18 Average man
17 Average female scientist
16
15 Average woman, and average male or female biologist
14
13
0 - 12

 

[Vikingstone]

Fuck I got a 32.

 

[LukkyKnight]

I know I can get a higher score if I take it again.

 

[Sassyfrass]

13....

 

[ksmybuttons]

I'm a 12. What can I say? I like to party and play pretend with others.

 

[Recidiva]

I'm a 12. What can I say? I like to party and play pretend with others.

My sister got an 11. She just called me. "YOU GOT A 26!?"

 

[Scouse B'stard]

I got 27, mind you I freely admit to being a geek.

 

[bronzeage]

I scored 10. I didn't even make the scale.

 

[LukkyKnight]

I'm a 12. What can I say? I like to party and play pretend with others.

I'm sure I can get at least a 12 if I take it over. Honest.

 

[Luminatri]

I got 24

 

[Explaura]

14 yeah me too

 

[Vikingstone]

I got 24

Lumi!

Not the life and soul of the party, eh?

 

[Recidiva]

Lumi!

Not the life and soul of the party, eh?

I was telling my sister that at that point of the scale, average people and mindless chit chat annoy me just as much as the hyper nerd.

I need someone with exactly my geekiness level to groove with. Ulaven's perfect.

I can be great at parties. It's just that I'd much rather be reading a book.

To wit, I do know socially better, I just don't usually want to do that anyway. My sister always got lonely and wanted me to hang out with her, and I always wanted to play a computer game or read a book. She'd ask me if I wanted to go see a movie with her, I'd say "Well..." She'd end up bribing me to go.

So I'm good company, enough to pay for. I just probably would rather be doing something else.

 

[The Heretic]

Twenty eight

 

[Luminatri]

I need someone with exactly my geekiness level to groove with.

I can be great at parties. It's just that I'd much rather be reading a book.

Thats me all over.
If I'm in the right company with people I'm comfortable with I can socialize all night.
In the next breath, I also enjoy my own company just as much.
Disappearing in a book can be the perfect night.

 

[cloudy]

I'm average, go figure.

 

[Vikingstone]

I was telling my sister that at that point of the scale, average people and mindless chit chat annoy me just as much as the hyper nerd.

I need someone with exactly my geekiness level to groove with. Ulaven's perfect.

I can be great at parties. It's just that I'd much rather be reading a book.

To wit, I do know socially better, I just don't usually want to do that anyway. My sister always got lonely and wanted me to hang out with her, and I always wanted to play a computer game or read a book. She'd ask me if I wanted to go see a movie with her, I'd say "Well..." She'd end up bribing me to go.

So I'm good company, enough to pay for. I just probably would rather be doing something else.

Right. Big gobs of people jabbering about nothing make me drink too much. I can be fun but in a performancy way, not inter-personal. It's a defense mechanism, really.

I used to have the perfect job, radio. There I could jabber about whatever I wanted to a lot of people while sitting in a small room by myself reading multiple newspapers and magazines.

I can be charming and engaging but it takes a LOT of effort.

 

[ksmybuttons]

I'm sure I can get at least a 12 if I take it over. Honest.

I have great math comprehension and I'm into the sciences, but heck, I went into it for the people. My greatest strength is insight into others and respect for where they are coming from...or, in the case of lit, not. I'm a fabulous multitasker and absolutely hate routine.

I never remember a phone number until I want to and then I do it by the pattern on the phone and not really the numbers.

Oh, and I always get the joke.

 

[killallhippies]

i got a 29. i'm guessing it's cause i hate parties and making new friends.

 

[Recidiva]

Thats me all over.
If I'm in the right company with people I'm comfortable with I can socialize all night.
In the next breath, I also enjoy my own company just as much.
Disappearing in a book can be the perfect night.

This combined with my Myers-Briggs Jungian typology test also really helped explain "me." The concept of "introverted" versus "extroverted" in the sense that introverted people gather their energy alone and groups tire them out, and extroverted people gather their energy in groups and being alone tires them out...very helpful.

Extroverted people often think you're socially awkward because you choose your own company. But I just prefer solitude. All the social advice of "Go out! Meet people!" if I'm in a bad mood is a nightmare.

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

I'm an INFJ

Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
(Introverted Intuition with Extraverted Feeling)

Counselor Idealist

The Counselor Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in reaching their goals, and directive and introverted in their interpersonal roles. Counselors focus on human potentials, think in terms of ethical values, and come easily to decisions. The small number of this type (little more than 2 percent) is regrettable, since Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare of others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions. Although Counsleors tend to be private, sensitive people, and are not generally visible leaders, they nevertheless work quite intensely with those close to them, quietly exerting their influence behind the scenes with their families, friends, and colleagues. This type has great depth of personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and deal with complex issues and people.

Counselors can be hard to get to know. They have an unusually rich inner life, but they are reserved and tend not to share their reactions except with those they trust. With their loved ones, certainly, Counselors are not reluctant to express their feelings, their face lighting up with the positive emotions, but darkening like a thunderhead with the negative. Indeed, because of their strong ability to take into themselves the feelings of others, Counselors can be hurt rather easily by those around them, which, perhaps, is one reason why they tend to be private people, mutely withdrawing from human contact. At the same time, friends who have known a Counselor for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that they are inconsistent; Counselors value their integrity a great deal, but they have intricately woven, mysterious personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.

Counselors have strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another's emotions or intentions -- good or evil -- even before that person is conscious of them. This "mind-reading" can take the form of feeling the hidden distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types to comprehend. Even Counselors can seldom tell how they came to penetrate others' feelings so keenly. Furthermore, the Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future. What is known as ESP may well be exceptional intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such supernormal intuition is found frequently in the Counselor, and can extend to people, things, and often events, taking the form of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance."

 

[Scouse B'stard]

Thats me all over.
If I'm in the right company with people I'm comfortable with I can socialize all night.
In the next breath, I also enjoy my own company just as much.
Disappearing in a book can be the perfect night.

And me.

Mrs Scouse is always on at me to go to things like the kids school fairs or dances etc, then introduces me to all the peopel she knows from school, then expects me to be the life and soul of the party and then gets a grump on when I'm not. However when we're with our normal friends I'm totally different.

 

[Hester]

22


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[unregistered]

 

[Recidiva]

And me.

Mrs Scouse is always on at me to go to things like the kids school fairs or dances etc, then introduces me to all the peopel she knows from school, then expects me to be the life and soul of the party and then gets a grump on when I'm not. However when we're with our normal friends I'm totally different.

I'm much more "aspergers" in lots of respects like that.

My family is big on social connections and getting to know people because they're of value.

"You should go out and make a friend that's a mechanic so you can get some good advice on your car..."

To me...that's just...what? Make a friend to use them? Ew. Ew. EW. Ew.

I make friends to have friends. I don't consider networking for personal gain to be something I will spend a moment on.

I know other people see it a different way and it works very well for them. I'm just not one of them. The entire concept grosses me out. Back to my books.

 

[Scouse B'stard]

I'm much more "aspergers" in lots of respects like that.

My family is big on social connections and getting to know people because they're of value.

"You should go out and make a friend that's a mechanic so you can get some good advice on your car..."

To me...that's just...what? Make a friend to use them? Ew. Ew. EW. Ew.

I make friends to have friends. I don't consider networking for personal gain to be something I will spend a moment on.

I know other people see it a different way and it works very well for them. I'm just not one of them. The entire concept grosses me out. Back to my books.

I'm just a miserable bastard who likes his own company. Also being deaf in my right ear gives me the perfect excuse to ignore people sometimes.