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Re: Hi *waves*
Did you do the Aspie quiz? I think it describes the syndrome more effectively than the AQ test.
One of my friends had an autistic sister, and every time I did or said something he would say "You are so much like my sister!"
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Re: Hi *waves*
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I suppose mainly I'm happy to have found somebody who knows what having pocessing difficulties is like, although that may sound selfish; sorry. I didn't fit in on a forum for deaf / HOH people for obvious reasons, although I was hoping to find company in the whole not-understanding-speech and having-immense-trouble-with-backgound-noise things, which to an extent I did. But then I didn't fit in brilliantly on the tinnitus forum there because mine doesn't bother me much, so bang went my hopes. I then felt alien on a forum for people with APD simply because most of them had many other issues related to it, and I don't really (except the frequent non-registeing of the written word) which just made me feel like a bit of a fraud to be honest. So thank you - I at last have found some company, for the moment at least
I'm glad you're glad.  You and Sparkles are adding heaps of life to this forum, so I am delighted to have you.
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Oh yes and I scored 37/50 in that test. So borderline fo that I suppose. Overall this has been an interesting evening.
*Jumps up and down*
Another person like me!!!
Sorry, there are so few people like me in the world....
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Re: Hi *waves*
Have you seen Riki's "Shoes... and music" signature?
I should change mine to
"Timetables... and music"
Another question- do you find written communication a lot easier than spoken? I do.
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.. More on the AQ test..
The biggest reason I have for finding fault with this test is that it presumes that autistic and Asperger-y people have no empathy or awareness of the mental and emotional states of others. This is, quite simply, NOT TRUE. I can pick up on a person's emotional state just by being in the same room as them. I don't even need to be looking at them; I absorb their emotions. I can't be in the room with someone who is very angry or upset, as it feels like a punch in the gut.
And from what I've read, this sort of thing seems to be quite common among people with the syndrome.
I am also exceptionally sensitive to tone of voice, body language, and facial expressions, although I do tend to interpret these things as being more negative than they actually are.
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Now, as for the tendency to go on and on about a subject of interest...
Let us say that someone has asked me a question such as "When was Beethoven born?". This question requires a one-word answer. However, some time later, the questioner will know not only when Beethoven was born, but
*Where he died
*Where he lived during his life
*If he married, and who his children were if he had any
* An overview of his three compositional periods
* His influences
*Who he influenced
*The opus numbers of every one of his works, and my personal opinion of every single one of them.
*My opinion of various performances of every piece he wrote
*A detailed description of the difficulties involved in playing his music
*The entire history of Western music.
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I got 40/50 for that AQ test. It would have been higher if the authors weren't perpertuating the myth that autistic people can't read emotional states.
On the Aspie quiz, I got a score of 141, and the result "You are very likely an Aspie."
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Re: Hi *waves*
I just checked up on the scoring system for that quiz.
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If you score 32 or higher then you have an increased chance of having a disposition towards autism.
You got 37? That would certainly suggest autistic tendencies, I think.
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Re: Hi *waves*
 you wrote so much!
OK, well I think I'd have scored moe highly if they hadtaken into account that autistic people can show empathy / emotion etc. I do know somebody who is autistic (I don't think he has Asperger's though) and he's quite insensitive, but I think a lot of that it just *him* anyway. My fiend's brother has Asperger's and he's one of the nicest people I know, and I don't tend to feel warmly towads unempathic people, and he is sensitive to how people ae feeling. Anyway, I am a very empathic peson, I think. I can usually put myself in somebody else's situation and see things fom their point of view. Which is good fo debates because I can think of possible aguments against my p.o.v and pepae to counter-argue those
The Aspie quiz? Where's that? As fo timetables, well I hardly eve use public tansport but I've a feeling I'll memorise at least all the ones I need to know when I use it on a egular basis. What I meant was school timetables - I made sure I knew which of my friends was in which lesson when I was in a certain lesson. Except I did that fo all of my lessons. It was emarked upon quite a few times, and people would ask me where they were next lesson / the lesson after etc. That was fun  I even managed to wok out if my year 10 fiends (I was in yr 11 last yr) were in a core subject or an option, and often worked out corectly which lesson they would actually be in. That shocked a few people! Hehehe ...
Oh yes. You said you didn't like approaching people - nor do I. I think the fist time I did was two Satudays ago, to ask an elderly couple if they had change fo 50p because I needed 20p to use the toilet at the bus station. That was scary
Written communication ... I find it much easier because there's no chance of mis-hearing anything. The only problem is that I will often ead the words and have to re-read them several times befoe admitting defeat and asking fo it to be re-phrased. The words often just do not sink in - I'll know what the words are but their meaning won't register. It can be a bit embarrassing sometimes! But yes, written communication is so much easier than the spoken word.
37/50 ... yes. Tendencies / traits, but I don't think I do have anything in the autistic spectrum 
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Re: Hi *waves*
The Aspie quiz can be found here
http://www.rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php
I did that thing with school timetables too. I think I did it to a lesser extent than you, though.
I like watching the second hand on clocks.
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Re: Hi *waves*
Thanks for that link Rachel - it was so much more specific that I was cetain of my answer to almost all of them. This is what I got:
Your score
NOW EARLIER
129 103
You seem to have quite a few Aspie-traits
Most Aspies that have answered have scored above 100 (mean 134 for men and 147 for women). Many people with ADD/ADHD also have scored high (mean 115), but not as high.
I like watching second-hands on clocks too! Yay!
I always used to be outgoing with people I knew but quite shy around strangers, and the same is true now, although I can often be a bit shy still with people I nkow. Thee was one question that made me think; it was about relating to animals and Aspies better than to 'ordinary' people. I have only come across two Aspies that I know of, and one never spoke to me because he was befriended by another person and I didn't like that person. But anyway. The other is my friend's brother and the question made me realise how I instantly liked him and had the same sense of humour as him, whereas my friend and I took a while longer to click, and we still don't see eye-to-eye quite often. Maybe it's just coincidence though!
I used to memorise my school timetable within a couple of weeks, although at Upper school we had two-week cycles so it took me a lot longer to vaguely memorise it. But I still made it my business to find out who was where when I was somewhere else!
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