Undiagnosed aspie--RDOS aspie results attached

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Perhaps you should start off with some directions. State explicitly that one should answer based on what s/he thinks his/her natural tendencies are, not adaptations? Also phrasing questions so that it is clear you are asking about tendencies would help. I used to do more of the latter, now more of the former, I think. I no longer spin in circles, I used to love it. I might feel a lot better if I did so when I can once in a while, but for some reason I don't. Still, my neurodiverse score is likely still underguesstimated and my neurotypical score overguesstimated.

Last edited by DemocraticSocialistHun on 01 Mar 2012, 12:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I get the impression question selection is based on a two-step process. Question generation is not random -- it is based on the hypothesis. It seems to make more sense for neanderthals to construct traps than asian (or African) H.s.s. The second part is automatic, it either pans out statistically or doesn't.



He hasn't been kept up eight years of sleepless nights and given massive amounts of carefully selected material to read. Even the Unification Church isn't as bad as psychiatry, or even medicine in general.



He is in good company. Crackpots such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Robert H. Goddard, Wegener, Alfred, ad nauseam.






Same answer as above.



Justification comes from hypothesizing and testing the hypothesis. According to RDOS, it pans out.




Who doesn't have an agenda? At least he is honest about it. At least he isn't out to become dictator while claiming you are free. At least his agenda is to find out the truth by reason, not divine revelation.

The best way to find out about Neanderthals is to see if a different set of thinking and behavior introgressed into the gene pool of humans living today. If so, it can be measured and you're in luck.

As I recall, you've previously stated that rates of neurodiversity have been declining at a rate of 1% per year since the 1950s, if I understood correctly. Or is the second statement above about how someone born in the 1950s would have scored had the Internet and Aspie Quiz existed, say in the 1960s vs today? If the second post above is means what I now think it means, I suspect that we can wonder if the rate of decline in our numbers (at least a relative decline if not absolute decline) is greater than it appears.

ok so I've been lurking here for awhile, trying to understand the purpose behind the oddball questions (unusual sexual preferences, pretty much the entire hunting section) and I think I'm beginning to understand, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but basically, the questions would be perceived differently by an aspie vs an NT . An aspies answers are less likely to be swayed by societal norms, or a reluctance to be "different". Also, I speculate that anyone as determined as any of us to try to make sense of and get to the truth of this or any matter, shows a common aspie trait! Most NTs I know would just be like "thats stupid, whatever" and move on, whereas an aspie or someone with OCD would be obsessed with getting to the root of it :p I know I need things to be very specific; generalities annoy me. I'm probably babbling, sorry.

I think you've got it. I believe RDOS would agree.

Aspies and Auties often loose some of the traits as they get older. That is why is is sometimes harder for older folk to get a diagnosis. but no matter how much you learn to mask, and pass, the root problem remains the same.

Since this thread is obviously referred to from the internet, I think it's a good idea to provide a reference to the paper that was published in 2013 (and that is free):

Leif Ekblad Autism, Personality, and Human Diversity: Defining Neurodiversity in an Iterative Process Using Aspie Quiz SAGE Open July-September 2013 3: 2158244013497722, http://sgo.sagepub.com/content/3/3/2158 ... 2.abstract

One of the things that really surprised me when I took the Aspie quiz was how some rather odd, narrow and seemingly unlikely questions really matched me. One of those questions were the fascination about traps question. As a kid, I used to make traps of ropes, wires, buckets and whatever I could think of all over the house. And on saturdays, I used to make drawings of mechanical traps catching jewel thiefs. Once I met a police officer and I started suggesting he should use traps to catch burgulars. He said he did. I was disappointed when it was only a mere alarm.