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25 Mar 2011, 7:45 pm

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To the NTs here: Have you taken the rdos aspie test, and/or the AQ thing, and if so, what did you score?

I retook the rdos one recently and scored thusly:

Your Aspie score: 106 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 93 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits

I'm a bit half and half then?

My AQ was 38.


Hi Moog,

Here is my score on the rdos quiz:

Your Aspie score: 78 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 150 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical



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25 Mar 2011, 7:53 pm

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I don't think the in the eyes test is as valid if you spend that much time working on it, I think It is supposed to be a response based around your first gut reaction.


This is something that confuses me. I did very well on the test, but I'm horrible at reading expressions in real life. I think that the time spent is part of it. I also find that there are a lot more distractions in real life.

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I have found that every woman who looks at you when facing in another direction for this test, the correct answer is in some way sexual.


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Also I'm fairly faceblind but if i'm very careful about how i measure and characterize faces on the faceblindness test I can beat most NTs i know. Although i'm not really remembering a face, I'm remembering a set of facial measurements and that is kind of cheating, and does not work nearly as well in a real life scenario. If one of the measurements changes in people that I know it is like they are completely alien.


I don't think that the face blindness test is valid at all. I did well on the test by remembering the shapes of the heads, but that's useless in the real world. Their faces should have had the same shape, but different features.


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26 Mar 2011, 7:31 am

DenvrDave wrote:
Moog wrote:
To the NTs here: Have you taken the rdos aspie test, and/or the AQ thing, and if so, what did you score?

I retook the rdos one recently and scored thusly:

Your Aspie score: 106 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 93 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits

I'm a bit half and half then?

My AQ was 38.


Hi Moog,

Here is my score on the rdos quiz:

Your Aspie score: 78 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 150 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical


Thanks very much for doing that Dave!

Seems like you've a few aspie traits!


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26 Mar 2011, 7:58 am

I'm really interested to see more NT scores. Thanks to all who are taking the time.



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26 Mar 2011, 1:08 pm

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huntedman wrote:
I have found that every woman who looks at you when facing in another direction for this test, the correct answer is in some way sexual.


8O 8O 8O 8O


Ok this was mainly meant to be a joke, but if you try the test it is almost universally true. I know they are doing it to try and show someone cautiously hiding emotion, it's just funny how physc tests always have strange rules to how the actors show emotion.

I think it's just how physc students are taught to see/measure emotion. It's good they don't have to live through that understanding, I don't think they would do very well.

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Also I'm fairly faceblind but if i'm very careful about how i measure and characterize faces on the faceblindness test I can beat most NTs i know. Although i'm not really remembering a face, I'm remembering a set of facial measurements and that is kind of cheating, and does not work nearly as well in a real life scenario. If one of the measurements changes in people that I know it is like they are completely alien.


I don't think that the face blindness test is valid at all. I did well on the test by remembering the shapes of the heads, but that's useless in the real world. Their faces should have had the same shape, but different features.


Their famous faces test (link) was much more difficult. They show you cropped images of historical figures and celebrities, and you have to identify their name. After they show the name, you get an "i don't know this person" option.



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26 Mar 2011, 1:59 pm

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Thanks very much for doing that Dave!

Seems like you've a few aspie traits!


Most welcome Moog. And thanks for recognizing that I have some traits, I'm glad someone besides me has picked up on that. I really like my traits, and some of them are very intense. Throughout my life I've never really related to my peers, though I've been able to fake it pretty good. Also, I relate to my son really well, who has an official diagnosis. Thanks also for asking for NT input, it really makes me feel welcome here :D



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26 Mar 2011, 3:54 pm

DenvrDave wrote:
Moog wrote:
Thanks very much for doing that Dave!

Seems like you've a few aspie traits!


Most welcome Moog. And thanks for recognizing that I have some traits, I'm glad someone besides me has picked up on that. I really like my traits, and some of them are very intense. Throughout my life I've never really related to my peers, though I've been able to fake it pretty good. Also, I relate to my son really well, who has an official diagnosis. Thanks also for asking for NT input, it really makes me feel welcome here :D


Do you remember we spoke about Facebook a few months ago? I kinda thought your reply about how used the site was pretty aspie, but I wouldn't diagnose you from it. :lol:


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27 Mar 2011, 11:57 pm

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Do you remember we spoke about Facebook a few months ago? I kinda thought your reply about how used the site was pretty aspie, but I wouldn't diagnose you from it. :lol:


Yes, I remember. And thanks for the compliment :D



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28 Mar 2011, 5:43 am

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Their famous faces test (link) was much more difficult. They show you cropped images of historical figures and celebrities, and you have to identify their name. After they show the name, you get an "i don't know this person" option.


Thanks for the suggestion. I actually did about average on that test. I can learn faces. It just takes me a little while. I have to see someone a few times before I can remember their face. I don't really know if there is a term for that. I'm just a slow-face-learner, not face blind.


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28 Mar 2011, 10:29 am

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Have any NTs here read the book 'A field Guide to Earthlings'? If so - would you say that the way the author depicts NTs is accurate?


I haven't read it but you did post a little excerpt in another thread and Amazon was pretty generous with what they let me read without buying it. The excerpts that I did read seemed accurate. Honestly, I'm hoping more people on the spectrum read it. Maybe they will after you posted the other thread about it. I see many threads where people struggle to understand this or that NT behaviour. These threads often contain peoples' theories about the root of an NT behaviour and the theories are often just so incredibly wrong it's frustrating to read. I'm thinking, "no! no! that's not why at all". Generally Callista posts in these threads too and her theories are so much more accurate that she could have written this book too. I think it's a good book with accurate explanations. I hope more people read it.



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28 Mar 2011, 5:30 pm

Yensid wrote:
huntedman wrote:
Their famous faces test (link) was much more difficult. They show you cropped images of historical figures and celebrities, and you have to identify their name. After they show the name, you get an "i don't know this person" option.


Thanks for the suggestion. I actually did about average on that test. I can learn faces. It just takes me a little while. I have to see someone a few times before I can remember their face. I don't really know if there is a term for that. I'm just a slow-face-learner, not face blind.


I got what it says is average. Though, two of the faces that I didn't get, I recognized, but just could not think of the name. Another 2 that I did get right, it's because I googled it... I remembered enough to look up who it was, just not the name. Keanu Reeves was one of those. And there was one where I recognized the face, but it wasn't a name I'd ever known. Like, someone who was in a movie I saw, but not one of the main stars.

I was afraid it was going to be a lot of new current stars I wouldn't recognize. Glad it wasn't.

Taking it reminded me that I'm better with faces than I am with names.


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29 Mar 2011, 9:27 pm

I didn't do well on the faceblindness test. To may, all the faces look "bland" if you know what I mean. I don't find it that way with real people. I also didn't like that they showed 6 faces and wanted you to remember them. I can't remember many things at once. I don't know what very many celebrities look like, I just know their names so the famous faces test might not work either. I don't think I have faceblindness, but there are certain people who I find harder to recognize than others.


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30 Mar 2011, 4:47 am

Janissy wrote:
Sowlowsolo wrote:
Have any NTs here read the book 'A field Guide to Earthlings'? If so - would you say that the way the author depicts NTs is accurate?


I haven't read it but you did post a little excerpt in another thread and Amazon was pretty generous with what they let me read without buying it. The excerpts that I did read seemed accurate. Honestly, I'm hoping more people on the spectrum read it. Maybe they will after you posted the other thread about it. I see many threads where people struggle to understand this or that NT behaviour. These threads often contain peoples' theories about the root of an NT behaviour and the theories are often just so incredibly wrong it's frustrating to read. I'm thinking, "no! no! that's not why at all". Generally Callista posts in these threads too and her theories are so much more accurate that she could have written this book too. I think it's a good book with accurate explanations. I hope more people read it.


That's why we neeed you guys, to tell us when we might be making fatal mistakes :)


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30 Mar 2011, 10:10 am

Another totally awesome avatar Moog 8)



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30 Mar 2011, 11:55 am

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Another totally awesome avatar Moog 8)


Thnks Dave :)


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30 Mar 2011, 12:49 pm

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If you are in an AS/NT relationship, what is most difficult for you and your Significant other? If you have one thing you want your partner to understand or just let go, what would it be?


I would want to see my husband (NT) truly understand that I'm not 'trying' to be rude, I just can't get my head around being sorry for something that isn't logical that I should be.