Does this mean I do not have Asperger's?

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i did pretty well on it. but it's multiple choice and i found that usually only one of the answers was remotely plausible.

plus, i can stare into eyes in a picture without issue, a real talking human, that's entirely different.

and i'm not trying to keep up with the conversation at the same time. and the picture isn't saying something that might not jive with the "eye expression" they have.

it's a silly test.

scored a 31, so meh, whatever

I got that excat score on the test, OP. I screwed up with some guy who was supposed to be looking "concerned" that looked "worried" to me, and something else.

Heck, I don't even know what I have. All I know is that face blindness is not specifically in the DSM for Aspergers.

I think that in my case I am just particularly good at that eye expression test for some reason.

When I do other tests I am always firmly in the Autistic/Asperger's category. Just did some more of Baron-Cohen's ones -

http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/Systemi ... tient.aspx

http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/Empathy ... tient.aspx

On the systematic one I scored very high and on the empathy one I got this rather pathetic result:

Your score: 13
0 - 32 = low (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20)
33 - 52 = average (most women score about 47 and most men score about 42)
53 - 63 is above average
64 - 80 is very high
80 is maximum

But I think I might have been a bit too hard on myself and put myself down a bit when I was doing the empathy one. My own opinion of my ability to empathise is probably even lower than the reality.

I should stop doing all these tests - yes I know, don't tell me

the whole face one, I scored a 70$, so whatever

Got 46%, but what was more interesting was the pattern. Joy and sadness were the easiest, fear and contempt the hardest. I keep mixing anger and contempt up, but that's not terribly important.

I pretty much expected being able to tell positive from negative, but not much else. That's the way it goes in life.

Scored 22 on the eyes test. I sometimes get conflicting messages from eyes and mouth, maybe that's why I did better there.

Another thing to consider: how long did it take you to do this test? I find that looking at a picture of someone´s eyes and taking as long as you need to to work out the answer isn´t all that difficult. In real life, these expressions happen in a split second. I think I just miss a lot of what´s going on in real life situations.

Now if it were a timed test, it would be much more accurate I think.

All this test tells me is that I'm pretty good at taking multiple choice tests. My answer is almost never in the listed answers, so I reason it out from the selections offered. I think if it was given in a clinical setting, it might be more open-ended and would probably tell the tester more. It would also help if one of the selections was "none of these" or "other."

I scored 12. I did worse than I thought...

I took the test once, but have forgotten the results.

However, I'm pretty good at reading faces, but still have AS. Eg. I can tell whether people are listening or not, whether they recognise me or not, if they are happy or sad etc.

But I think I was worse at it when I was a kid. I remember that I once was going by train with my little sister. Every time it was said what the next station was, she would look at me and wrinkle her forehead. I might have a vague idea that it was a sign of wondering, as in "what did he say?", but I wondered why she didn't just ask what was said instead of making that weird expression, and I would ask her why she made such a face.

I loved this test. I can't remember what I scored, but it was high within normal, and I was so pleased, because I feel like I can read the mind in the eyes. I just looked at it again to try to figure out how I was doing it and realised - this is weird - that when I see the eyes I'm really confident I know what the mouth is doing. It's like my brain fills in the rest of the face, using the eyes as a cue.

I'm really excited because a long time ago I could recognise faces, but after spending two months in hospital by myself, a long time ago, I couldn't recognise them or visualise them any more. But just figuring out how my brain fills in the face for the expressions, it's like pressing a switch in my head. Remembering being able to visualise - I think maybe all I needed to remember was the eye detail and then maybe everything else will fit back in.

Thanks for posting this and as others have said I don't think one test unmakes a diagnosis. Faces isn't in the triad of impairments anyway, it's just a common problem for AS people.

AuntyCC - you're post made me smile - especially considering how you couldn't recognize or visualize faces before and now you can - wonderful