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Title: How Autistic Are You?
  
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(Date Posted:02/10/2003 18:35:46)

I have a very good friend who has Asperger's Syndrome. She sent me this link to a test created by Dr. Christian Gillberg, a world expert in autism spectrum disorders. My friend scored 32, I scored 20.http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.htmlSmudit

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(Date Posted:02/10/2003 22:41:27)

i scored a 34. 
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(Date Posted:02/10/2003 23:46:18)

32

Hmm

did autistic tendencies send us fundy?

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(Date Posted:02/11/2003 02:07:38)

13 for me.   Probably one of the salient things in the test that kept my score down was that I suck at math. I noticed several of the questions were numbers related. I don't know much about autism, but I recall (if it's good info) from the movie "Rainman" that the character was  high functioning autistic and very good with numbers.
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(Date Posted:02/11/2003 02:44:05)

19 for me!

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(Date Posted:02/11/2003 04:34:32)

30 for me...but that's because I have an incredibly vivid imagination and a bizzare memory for phone numbers, liscene plates, and random facts.

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(Date Posted:02/11/2003 05:43:25)

32.  Not surprising.  Always knew I was a bit bizarre compared to those around me.

Did anyone read the Wired article attached to the autism test?  I was especially interested in the genetic component that most researchers associated with autism and Asperger's syndrome.  If you make it all the way to the last page, there's a nice part about about how those with Asperger's syndrome may be necessary for the progression of society.

For UCSF neurologist Kirk Wilhelmsen - who describes himself and his son as being "somewhere on that grand spectrum" - such statements cut to the heart of the most difficult issue that autism raises for society. It may be that autistic people are essentially different from "normal" people, he says, and that it is precisely those differences that make them invaluable to the ongoing evolution of the human race.

"If we could eliminate the genes for things like autism, I think it would be disastrous," says Wilhelmsen. "The healthiest state for a gene pool is maximum diversity of things that might be good."

One of the first people to intuit the significance of this was Asperger himself - weaving his continuum like a protective blanket over the young patients in his clinic as the Nazis shipped so-called mental defectives to the camps. "It seems that for success in science and art," he wrote, "a dash of autism is essential."

For all we know, the first tools on earth might have been developed by a loner sitting at the back of the cave, chipping at thousands of rocks to find the one that made the sharpest spear, while the neurotypicals chattered away in the firelight. Perhaps certain arcane systems of logic, mathematics, music, and stories - particularly remote and fantastic ones - have been passed down from phenotype to phenotype, in parallel with the DNA that helped shape minds which would know exactly what to do with these strange and elegant creations.

I'm wondering just how much something like A's syndrome might be part of the walk-awayer population.

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(Date Posted:02/11/2003 06:32:35)

i have to wonder if my score would have been any higher if i'd taken a test like that when i was younger. i was always a strange, quirky kid. kept to myself for the most part. my mother's told me on quite a few occasions that she'd have birthday parties for me and i'd just disappear...only to be found later, playing somewhere by myself. apparently, i had to have a schedule, too, and HATED having it interrupted in anyway. it would literally make me sick.
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(Date Posted:02/11/2003 07:22:58)

I scored a 20.  I wonder if the results would have been different if I had not been concerned about the results or if someone else was giving their opinion of me.

I saw "A Beautiful Mind" this weekend.  Without giving away the story line.  I am amazed at how the sharpest minds can be self deluded.  That is a problem with tests that are not "blind".

However, this was illuminating, I have a friend that has a severely autistic child.  Until now, (althought I had never met him) I believed  him to be just "retarded".

One final note.  When I was a kid, I remember seeing a commercial on TV about a company called Artistic Carpets.  The announcer pronounced it Autistic Carpets.   I wonder how much business they lost due to mispronunciation.

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(Date Posted:02/11/2003 21:56:35)

34.

interesting, it was my complete lack of social skills and fascination with number patterns that got me.
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(Date Posted:02/12/2003 08:16:04)

8 guess hating numbers has some positives.

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