Adult Autism Questionnaire

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I would be happy to take it.

Hello Mark!
may I say I greatly appreciate your own mug on your avitar! Good to finally see you, but I will forever associate your username with that dynamic pic I learned you as!

ciao!

Merle

Who, me?

Well just in case; I have an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering, a Mensa rating (by postal test; I stuck to the rules) of 154 (since confirmed by several others) and a proven exceptional inventiveness...and just recently, I found a one-page solution (maybe two) to Fermat's last theorem (which you'll probably never hear about officially; mathematicians, like scientist in general, or autism experts in particular, don't like us autistics showing them up...).

Nearly forgot; I was only second to Scooter in solving the "red hat black hat" problem.

I'm just being informative, you understand?

I'm 24 and officially diagnosed, and I would love to help you.

I think he was referring to Sophist, (because she was the OP.)


Merle

Interesting. The test was mostly accurate. I came out in their "NAE" category.

Hey, Merle. Thank you. I just took that picture about 2 weeks ago. I didn't like the one I had taken previously (couldn't get the lighting right), so I used the one of Foucault instead.

You're playing the fool , are you? We all know that you are very smart now, good work for your degrees

No it's not you , I was asking the OP.

Count me in.

That's on a slight pause for the moment. Trying to figure out how one would actually GET the brains, make sure everything is well-documented (cause of death, etc.), and that we know how long the brain basically sat in the skull before extraction, since knowing how long decay has occurred will affect research results.



Most definitely. I am using "autism" in a broader spectrum sense.



Sounds good. We can see how they measure up to each other for intertest reliability so we can help each other improve our respective tests.



Hi, LePetitPrince. I am currently finishing off my Bachelors in Psychology. I will be attending the University of Louisville for my PhD in Experimental Psychology and training under Dr. Manuel Casanova, who is in the field of autism research. He also has special expertise in brain anatomy, especially in autism and Aspergers. In the past, I have been an ABA therapist (I have many criticisms of the method), a research assistant to a professor at my university, and I am currently an assistant for a practicum at Washington University, working for Dr. Tom Conturo, who is currently involved in a larger HFA study involving fMRI. I also own and help administrate another autism forum called Gestalt (see signature). And finally, on the personal side, I have AS.

My reason for attempting to design an adult-focused autism questionnaire is because, currently, in working at WashU I am having to do research on the ADOS-G. To my mind, the diagnostic method is too exclusive to those who are less severe. It also has never been fully tested on Asperger populations and especially adults. So, with my discontent in hand, I decided to try and build a self-report questionnaire which could be used as one additional tool when diagnosing an adult ASC.

This is in the very beginning stages and I won't be able to truly test reliability and validity until I am in graduate school. However, I have a year and a half to get this as good as possible.

Thanks, everyone, for the interest. I'll get the questionnaire to you in a PM.

I'd be happy to help out! Was officially diagnosed at age 21 and am now age 24.

Would I be allowed to take it? I'm sixteen, but I would format the result in my head to what I am

I don't know if I took the right test, but I got "AP" personality type, whatever tht means.

I'll take it. I'm 27, and upon getting my assessment, I noticed there are absolutely no options for an adult at all. I'm filling out the thing, a 40 page questionnaire that asks "what age did your child first walk?" "date of child's birth" "guardian of child". It's definitely geared towards only children, and boggles me to be filling it out, lol. I actually get stressed out due to how ridiculous it is to be filling out something that regards me as a child because they have nothing age appropriate.

Anybody else interested?

Just PM me.

im confused, does adult aspies means that they have been always an aspies since childhood but never got diagnosed or that they live a normal childhood but start developing AS when they turn into adult?

in any case, i wanna join, but i think i hav AS, so not sure if thats helping your cause.