what is the ultimate asperger's diagnostic question?

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Aspie people, if there were to be like 4 questions to determine if you are ASPIE, what would they be

Diagnosing on the basis of four questions would be utterly ridiculous. But okay.

1. Do you have significant, disabling trouble with social skills that is not due to any other cognitive, neurological, psychiatric, or environmental factor?

2. Do you have a significant, disabling tendency to engage in the same repetitive activities and/or intense interests, whether physical or mental, to the exclusion of all else that is not due to any other cognitive, neurological, psychiatric, or environmental factor?

3. Did you have delayed development of speech, idiosyncratic speech, or a lack of communicative reciprocity?

4. Are you currently diagnosed, or could you be diagnosed, with mental retardation, developmental delay, or delay in acquiring adaptive skills?

Yes/Yes/No/No should detect most cases of Asperger's, but would still have a high false-positive rate--and could not be answered by the average person who didn't know what all those things meant, as the first two questions require you to rule out everything from epilepsy to neglectful parents.

Last edited by Callista on 07 Mar 2010, 8:47 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Probably the ones here: http://iautistic.com/test_AS.php

I can't even answer this question. If Asperger's was the same every time, it would be easy. But there is no one set of symptoms you can point to and say "THAT is Asperger's." That's why diagnoses focus on the number of different traits you exhibit, not every trait.

1. Do you own a computer?

I kid, I kid.

Would you like to go to a party?
Would you like to have lunch at a construction site (when the construction workers AREN'T on lunch break)?
Would you like to go out at mid day on a hot sunny summer's day with your eyelids stapled to your forehead?
Do you like being shadowed by a shop assistant, who keeps picking out exactly what you 'want'?

If you can say YES to ALL these things you......................might not be an aspie

Last edited by Blindspot149 on 08 Mar 2010, 12:47 am, edited 1 time in total.

Hi, how are you?

Is everything all right?

Are you a while male that is a math genius? Another sterotype. The most annoying one.

My answer to this questions is two words, first word beginning with the letter 'f'.


Frankly, that's the kind of thing that Miggs would say...................but not any more.

This isn't really the 'ultimate question' but I thought some of you guys might find it amusing!

My sister went in for re-assessment of her abilites not long ago and her doctor asked her a question which supposed to be a good way to determine if someone is an Aspie or not (not only because of their answer, but because of general reaction to the question).

The question was:

"You have a random number generator, while choosing the number the moving parts of the machine spin, but stop once the machine has chosen a number. If you want to, you can choose to stop the random number generator spinning early manually, but the number resulting from an early stoppage would still be random. Now say you are wanting the generator to produce a specific number, do you stop is spinning or do you let it run it's course?"

What the hell......?

I'd stop it spinning. It's the exact same result (a random number), but you don't have to sit around and wait for it.

How many people wanted to sit next to you during lunch or study period in high school?

What is love?

I'd stop it manually because it MIGHT just change the outcome

Random number generator.

Feed the results of the output to a file and keep the numbers you like.

How precise is the number? sigle digits or free floating double?

What do I need a random number for?

How quickly do they change?

Can they repeat?

This does not appear to be an 'Energy Star' generator? Seems like the first number would work fine.

Please answer the following rhetorical question...................

1. Plenty.

2. "Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more..."