Severity level test

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38 - No PDD.

Interesting. I'm aware that this test is based around the behaviours typically exhibited by young children with PDDs, but I did answer on the basis of how I typically behave now, at the age of 16. Consequently, 'Resolved' was selected rather often. I don't know whether this distorted the overall picture.

I was diagnosed with AS when I was a child, but I do often feel as though the label 'doesn't quite fit' these days, in certain ways. Even at the time of diagnosis, I was only seen to have a mild AS.

I got 165, but I answered it as though I was still 9 years old (which is much easier for me when the word "child" appears everywhere and "adult" appears only a few times). I would probably score lower now.

107 "moderate"

Those descriptions really are good.

I tried to answer from about ages 3 to 8, but it was hard trying to remember how often things (like stimming or spinning things) happened. It seems like that would require some sense of finding those things more notable or differentiable from other everyday things. Or, maybe it's a matter of having a weird sense of time. Then again, I suppose if it was too often then other people's reactions would've made it 'notable,' so maybe it wasn't as much as I remember.

Seems to me that you'd get the same score with a few really strong traits as with a lot of mild ones... in practice, those are two completely different things.

It gave me Moderate; but I think a lot of those questions say more about the person who wrote the test than about autism itself. It seems like they have little understanding of what autism is actually like... there's this huge focus on imaginative play, and not much sensory at all. There are a lot of implicit assumptions in the test that I really don't like...

Last edited by Callista on 14 Apr 2011, 10:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

This is true

This test sort of freaks me out. I probably remember my mind set and behavior best for grades 6 through 12 so I went through the questions again from that perspective. It's really hard of course to know how accurate a self assessment from memory really is, but I'm scoring in the 130's. Which is really wild considering now I am "high functioning". How the HELL did I ever get through school unnoticed. I know that was late 60's early 70's but geez people, couldn't you tell SOMETHING WAS WRONG!! ! Didn't ANYONE notice? It makes me feel like screaming or curling up in a ball and weeping.

I could be WAY out of line, and if so I'm sorry, but the way I see it is lacking social skills can be more debilitating than having language issues. My language issues are mild, but my social skills are atrocious. As a result, I am not cuddly, I have no friends, and no one other than family ever wants to be with me...sometimes they don't even want to, I think. I have bad sensory issues that make me meltdown a lot. I'll always have trouble keeping real friends. Perhaps this is why I scored severe. I would rather have language issues and be sociable than have an extensive vocabulary and be alone for the rest of my life. I am not saying language isn't a problem, it is. But I also think a lot of PDDs are rated on a person's function, and if he is very sociable and functioning, than that is probably why he scored so well. People with severe PDDs don't tend to be sociable with no behavioural issues.

Could be, though I rated my language issues as mild.

I've heard of people growing out of an AS diagnosis, but I really am skeptical that that can actually happen (how can you outgrow a glitch in your brain?) Of course I am not saying that this applies to you especially since I don't even know you, but perhaps you never really did have it but just some symptoms that resembled it that you have since outgrown?

I can really relate to that. I scored severe, and I do feel like I am severe on the high-functioning end. I have always been different, everyone knows it. My parents didn't bury their heads in the sand; they knew something was up and had me to countless doctors. Not one of them ever mentioned ASD, and I am very CLEARLY ASD and an 80s/90s child. The system let us both down.

I'm right there with you, although people did notice. My childhood was a perfect storm of almost but never quite getting necessary support and basically being left to sink or swim on my own impairments. I nearly got placement in a high school where my learning styles would be accommodated. I had people notice I was autistic and my mother rejected it because she felt insulted by the suggestion. I had my mother try to get an ADHD diagnosis for me and had the family doctor blow her off. I had my abusive father basically prevent me from getting any kind of psychiatric help because I might have told the psych that he was abusive.

130 - Moderate PDD.

I took the test as I am now and used the rating guide. I think it scored me accurately; I have some severe traits and other traits that are mild or even non-existent, and a whole lot in between.

I got a 45. If it's supposed to measure the severity NOW, which I assume must be the point, then that sounds about right.

I would be interested to know how many autistic people make it through life without having any other diagnosable condition.

Severity level NOW would be based on comparisons to peers, not comparisons to children. So how does my behavior compare to other 53 year olds? My socialization? My communication?

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