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27 May 2016, 10:04 am

FlySwine wrote:

It looks like the tests out there misled me into thinking all aspies have to be geeky to some extent. My question is, then, how do you score on the aq test?

Either borderline or above 32 depending on how I answer the questions because of the black and white answers and I am only allowed to pick one. There is no between.

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27 May 2016, 10:06 am

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Well, if you can keep a conversation on any topic and your special interests or routines don't interfere with your daily functioning my guess is that your diagnosis can be discarderd.No impairment, no syndrome.

If you are talking at people rather they are listening or not or not even carrying on the topic with you and if that is all you ever talk about, yes it's considered part of the diagnoses.

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27 May 2016, 10:08 am

FlySwine wrote:

how do you score on this test? http://personality-testing.info/tests/EQSQ.php

22 SQ and 8 EQ.

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27 May 2016, 10:28 am

NathanC wrote:

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I enjoy fantasy and sci-fi books, movies/shows and games. Also I am very much into metal music enough to consider myself a metalhead though I like some music out of other genres to. So yeah not sure that makes me an atypical aspie or not.

You too? Haha I think being a metalhead makes us atypical by just about any standard. Ever get caught headbanging in the car?

I have certainly done that in cars, though the only time I recall getting any odd looks for it is on the bus. But yeah most seem to regard metalheads as atypical in general and don't understand the appeal of such music.

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27 May 2016, 10:32 am

FlySwine wrote:

It's the other way around. If you are an aspie, you tend to categorize, collect information etc. Not necessarily like math or computers.

That is something a certainly do, and whilst it can be a helpful trait for learning information....it also can be impairing, like if I get stressed or worried about something I over-analyze it to death and get myself even more worked up about it because my mind wants all the information about it.

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27 May 2016, 10:54 am

FlySwine wrote:

how do you score on this test? http://personality-testing.info/tests/EQSQ.php

Systemizing Quotient: 1
Empathy Quotient: 47

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27 May 2016, 10:58 am

There are no "typical aspies". So there can be no "atypical aspies".

The OP is talking about stereotypcal aspies.

What folks think is typical. Not what is typical.

There are many aspies who are not clones of Sheldon Leonard on the BBT.

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27 May 2016, 11:06 am

Barchan wrote:

FlySwine wrote:

how do you score on this test? http://personality-testing.info/tests/EQSQ.php

Systemizing Quotient: 1
Empathy Quotient: 47

Wow. You are really low on systemysing. Do you or did you feel an urge to organize, categorize things on a topic of interest or in real life?

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27 May 2016, 11:08 am

naturalplastic wrote:

well, according to this poll, there are typical aspies.
http://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2497167

no one scored higher on empathising than systemysing

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27 May 2016, 11:18 am

What IS "systemizing"?

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27 May 2016, 11:26 am

You tell me there are no typical aspies before doing your research? Even without knowing what it st, you can figure out from the poll i posted above that the vast majority of aspies fall within a category.
Anyway, here you go.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathizi ... ing_theory

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27 May 2016, 11:44 am

FlySwine wrote:

The mantra EVERYONE on WP repeats is "if you have met one aspie you have met one aspie".

Ergo there are no typical aspies.

So I am just going along with what everyone else on WP says.

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27 May 2016, 12:07 pm

I'm more interested in people than say Computers or other machines or other potentially geeky things. Surprisingly I am pretty good at working out how people work, not however because I want to be socially adept, just its always been a skill of mine, or ironic special interest! That said as it says below my Systemising quotient is 128, But my Emotional quotient is 70, the reading the mind in the eyes too 35/36, so yeah maybe a little atypical haha.

Perhaps your desire to see if people are atypically atypical speaks of your own to desire to categorise, or systemise?

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27 May 2016, 12:25 pm

I am not geeky!

And anyone who says I am is gonna get the Vulcan death grip!

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27 May 2016, 12:57 pm

FlySwine wrote:

The article you linked to says that 65% of autistic people have an "Extreme S" personality.

So, it is a majority, but I wouldn't say it's a vast majority. I for one am proud of my type-E brain. It isn't perfect, but it's the only one I got

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27 May 2016, 1:38 pm

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I guess my systematizing is with people than with things. I am interested in how people think and feel and how they react and what their perspectives are and that comes in handy for story writing. I can put in different thoughts and ideas and different feelings and reactions. Something that autistic people struggle in for writing. But yet I still got below average score on the SQ test so maybe I took the questions too literal but they only asked about interests and things, not about people and reactions. I am only interested in things if it's going to influence me like if I get a new car or get a new computer, then I am going to have to know these things like gas mileage and stuff and memory and graphic and speed and if I get a new camera, I am going to have to know the features and the zooming in size and the graphics and if I get a new phone, I would have to know the features for it and memory and what is compatible for it to figure out what phone is right for me. But I think most people would be like this when it comes to buying it.

But someone told me on here about a month about that I might have a higher than average systematizing thing because I had observed a boy throwing chairs in my class when I was six and he got in trouble for it and had to go to the office and he was there all day so I had learned if I did that, I would have to go to the office too and sit there all day and be bored.

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