take this test. im not too sure it's indicative of aspergers

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Ha, my gf said that the one that the ball belongs to wouldn't have remembered she had a ball after she left and came back and wouldn't have looked anywhere...then several days later remember or be reminded that she had a ball then have a tantrum that she didn't know where it was...then everything would have to stop while a complete search was had for the ball...but then she would be happy and felt like she had a brand new ball when she did find it. Yet on finding out it was hiddden from her she would be cross and keep thinking why someone would do that but feel happy again with her NEW ball and obsess over it for the next 12 hours / playing with it and feeling annoyed as to why someone would hide it in the first place and then after all this she would not be interested in the ball at all for sometime until her obsession came back around to it. [basing that on what I would have done in the situation!]

The answer is obviously the basket, but interestingly the first answer that popped into my head was "the box". I corrected myself a couple of seconds later, but I had to think it through rather than follow my "instinct".

I guess the first thing I try to answer is where I would look, not thinking about where she would look. So it appears to have to do with theory of mind.

But the box is always on the right, it's the "right" answer!!

I think the story is too simple for adult minds. It seems insulting to me. I'm capable of following much bigger scenarios.

Sally is a little bit overweight and might have thrown her back out of alignment putting the ball in the basket in the first place. Sally doesn't look for the ball at all.

aha the sally-anne test to test theory of mind skills
its really wierd that im learning psychology and learning of ways they diagnose aspergers when i must have done this test myself (and i suppose i would of failed them too)
what is interesting though is that the study im learning says that the dude doing it does not beleive this is a good way for diagnosing aspergers in adults, this makes sense to me because i don't fail the test now.

How about this:

Sally and Anne are competing for a grade on a test at the end of the week. Naughty Anne (whom I love for being naughty), decides that she needs to disorientate Sally and find her weakest point. Anne deceptively moves Sally's marble while Sally is off studying in another room. Sally doesn't even think to look for her marble, and foils Anne's plan to disorientate her. Anne can't waste any time before the test, and needs to study, but Sally won't leave the room so she has to leave the marble in her box. Anne's mother calls for her to come home, and she has to take the marble in the box home with her. Sally pretends the marble is napping for the rest of the night and doesn't want to disturb it, so it's disappearance goes unnoticed. The next morning, Anne and Sally wake for school, and later see each other in class. The marble that Anne has now stolen, gave Anne a horrible guilt complex, and she has lost hours of sleep over taking it from her friend and not telling truth. Anne looks like hell. Sally, snickers about Anne's dishevelled appearance and takes the opportunity to talk to Anne's crush at lunch. Anne is lugging around her box all day, carrying Sally's marble inside it. Anne sees Sally trying to put the moves on her man.... What does Anne do with the marble inside the box?