A new aspergers dating site called Spectrum Singles

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guessing its geared towards successful aspies/autistics vs those who are on welfare or have low paying jobs.

theres unregister which removes it completely is that what you did tagnacious?

Diagnosis in general makes little sense when working with dating sites as there isn't any diagnostic criteria related to relationships in ASD diagnosis. This aspect of the autism simply is not understood by psychiatry.



Not really. More like upset that not any of the questions are related to neurodiverse relationship preferences, which are bound to be the main players in trying to match a sample of people high on neurodiverse traits.



Uhhm, not really. I've put down 11 years and many thousand hours on Aspie Quiz, and it's free and on a site without ads. I don't think that good tools for aspies needs to generate income. I'd prefer them not to because that is a sign that they are developed for the good of the community rather than as a business idea.



You just cannot makeup a survey like that. You need to validate it in some way, otherwise nobody knows if it is any good or not. If you are really seriously interested in this, you could get the data from Aspie Quiz where I have answers for both people in a relationship which gives an idea which traits are best complimentary and which are best similar. Because this is what you need to research in order to provide people with good matches. And there isn't any current studies on this you could use.

Besides, the AQ test is a horrible starting point for doing a test for romantic compatibility between neurodiverse people.

Just a fancier aspie affection site resulting in a sausage fest!

Why should we care that you are women?

The site looks seriously second rate, it is so bad that I am considering building my own. I wouldn't release it until it was a finished product (or at least close to one) and I think I'd make it ad supported - nobody likes ads but I really despise paywalls, that site is also a bit of a joke wrt what you have to pay for (forum privileges? yeah sure xD). I had a few cool ideas too but I don't feel it's wise to give everything away.

Verdict: great idea, terrible execution

Though the AQ tests were typically scored on just the "agree"/"disagree". Ignoring of this was "strong" or not.

[quoteThings like this surprise me, how an aspie (the site creator), who would stereotypically be detail-orientated, could fail to see what they have done.[/quote]

Yes. The AQ test has 4 alternatives, but they are aggregated into only two when scoring. No idea why they made this strange design. It could be because autistic and non-autistic people use large Likert-scales differently.

There is also a lack of relationship paradigm questions. Which makes little sense since the target demographic is more likely to include people who want something other than co-habiting vanilla monogamy. About the only options appear to be "friendship" or "relationship". Self evidently they don't believe neurodiverse relationship anarchists exist.

The LGBT options don't make a lot of sense anyway. With there being no obvious setting for sexual orientation.

The offered "matches" appear to be given on a "distance is no object" basis

Or maybe they simply didn't consider whatever "neurodiverse relationship anarchy" means?

But probably avoid the OKC questions. Especially the ones full of logical fallacies.

Yes, polyamory and time alone requirements (was that one there??) should be in any neurodiverse matching algorithm, but so should attachment style because when this is different it can create a lot of pain. In addition to that, asexuality, BD/SM and hugging vs kissing should also be there. Then, ideally, there should be some special accommodations for shy people so they dare to set up meetings.

It makes little sense to me. Since it equates to ignoring part of the answer which has been specifically requested. They might just as well ask "agree"/"disagree". Even that's missing "don't care" and "it depends on something else".

That's typically hard to handle in tests with fixed cutoffs, like the AQ test. You basically cannot omit answers in the AQ-test without affecting scores.

I'd suspect that some of the questions being vague and broad can also affect the scores. I guess these tests were created by NTs...

From memory, they found it made no significant difference to score it on the four point scale, compared to two. However when I studied it, I did find a difference, and I preferred the results using the four point scale, so I dunno. But it certainly makes it easier for a person to ANSWER, even if it makes no difference to the scoring. Part of survey design is creating a pleasant experience for the respondent.

How about a dating site without the stupid questionnaires and the stupid matching things altogether?

Let the person's looks and basic info be the front, and people explore further thro conversation, like in real life?