What's your A.Q.?
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September 18th, 2013
This is a fairly short test that measures where you are on the autistic spectrum. Where do various Flutherites fit on the scale?
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I have a score of 9. For whatever that is worth, though.
In essence, I still am a man and sometimes it feels to me that some of the autism labels are merely extremes of what would still the ‘normal’ male condition.
(Not dissing anyone, here! To me, it just feels that our modern society with all its demanding social requirements is becoming more and more challenging to – especially – the men amongst. What was perfectly acceptable for men 50 years ago puts us into trouble now.)
I gave up about 15 questions in since I don’t really care that much. And we define short differently.
18. I feel like my anxiety impacted the results more so than anything else.
Did anyone else have to keep scrolling back up to remind yourself of where “agree” and “disagree” were? Man, my short term memory is shot!
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@augustlan If you couldn’t remember that, you should knock some points off your score :p
I did wonder what that fact said about me, haha.
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Why were so many questions focussed on whether one cares for small talk?
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Not sure what it means. I think I am a sociable, flexible person who enjoys challenges and new settings. But I also enjoy going to the library.. Is that not allowed?
19. I thought it would be higher.
My score was 32. “Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher.” I wonder what my “related disorder” might be.
29. I usually score higher in these things – it’s a big joke at work.
So… 26, but on another day it could have gone differently.
27 Hey! I’m above average! That’s good right?
When I saw this question, I was somewhat taken aback.
My friends and I have used the acronym “AQ” for years but we always thought it stood for Asshole Quotient, a number derived by dividing the number of times you did something stupid or irritating by the number of years we had known you to do so. The greater the consistency the greater the AQ.
Someone with a high AQ could get away with more dumber stuff than someone with a lower AQ because it was expected of them. It helped us be more tolerant of social gaffes or polically incorrect actions. As in
Person A – “I can’t believe he just said that!”
Person B – “Yeah, well, he does have a high AQ.”
Person A – “Oh yeah, Well, OK then.”
@rojo, that is coming with me.
32.
Right on the cusp, which is where I think I am. Had such scales and assessments been available 25 years ago, I think my score would have been higher. Most of my social skills have been learned and I still struggle with them. Being female, it does come across as very awkward in out culture, and I agree with @whitenoise that gender does make a difference. I’ve often felt that my personality quirks would be tolerated by others if I were male.
Jeez!!! After looking at those scores I can see why JellyFest would not be a well attended event!
@rojo We say the same thing about guys going through hormone therapy.
A: “Hey! What did that a**hole just say to me?”
B: “Well… he just had his hormone therapy injection.”
A: ” Oh…Nevermind… Poor guy.”
Those poor saps can get away with anything
I do think it would be fun to meet up some day. JellyFest? FlutherFest?
FlutherFest would be an OK event. JellyFest sounds like a KY event
I’m up for attending either one. :-)
Well, with that score you would be up for that, @LuckyGuy. It seems that many of the rest of us might prefer to have the FlutherFest, but each attend on different days…
I’d be totally comfortable at Fluther fest. I know you all already, and got to know you in a way in which I feel safe.
@hearkat You’re outnumbered about 5–1 by us “eccentrics” that have a Y-chromosome. To many, an autistic woman is as inconceivable as a black guy with a sunburn.
11 – So what is the opposite of being on the autism spectrum? Being a puppy dog?
@jerv Inconceivable, yes; impossible, no
So far it looks like there are only 5–6 people with scores below 12.
In general does that mean they are the only ones who think a FlutherFest would be fun?
(Not that it’s likely we would ever do it.)
No fluther fest unless we charter a plane to crash land on a deserted uncharted island that doesn’t exist in this space time continuum.
Last one in the hatch is a rotten autistic egghead.
”...does that mean they are the only ones who think a FlutherFest would be fun?”
Sounds like a blast. Can’t wait to hear all about it in a full report which can be debated ad infinitum.
Exactly, @jerv. Being a professional woman is tough enough, because what constitutes leadership skills and high standards in men qualifies as cold-hearted bitchiness in women. Add being inherently deficient in social niceties to the mix, and it’s really challenging.
I would attend FlutherFest is I had the time and means. I have used online socializing as a way to push my limits socially and force myself out of my comfort zone. As @Seek_Kolinahr states, I already have a comfort level with my fellow jellies, so it wouldn’t be as intimidating as walking into a room of strangers.
I got a 40 I guess that’s not too good.
10 Whatever that means. But Flutherfest sounds cool.
I’m not doing it, that’s two minutes of my life i’ll never get back.
Might watch Rain Man later so some good came of it I guess.
@Adirondackwannabe It means you are the type of person that would think a FlutherFest sounds cool. I figured as much.
One of these days we have to meet up some place in the middle (outskirts of Syracuse?) It would be fun.
@ucme There were 100 characters in your response. Nice.
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I want to go to a Western NY flutherfest too!!!
Flutherfest idea: Get a bunch of buses, depending on the number of jellies and do the Finger Lakes winery trail. Cupcake just gets the Shirley Temple.
hey – Make it Westchester County and I’m in. That’s as far as I can go from Jersey!
or, as I like to call it, a cheese and cracker tasting trail.
@ucme 19 characters in that response. And 19 is the atomic number of potassium, which has the symbol, K, for Kalium which contains a U, M , K which is sometimes pronounced like a hard C and the letter I which sounds like E, and can thus spell UCME. I don’t think that was a coincidence.
Another 23 here. I’m sure my disain for small talk bumped my score too @Seek.
@LuckyGuy R butt u c, u kapitalised mi kname…skoolboy error.
24. But if I do it again I may well get another result.
For serious, if there is a Jelly meet-up, I will find a way to be there.
I could make it to Syracuse or Westchester. Or Florida :)
@wildpotato Well aren’t you the venturesome vegetable?!
27, but I already knew where I stand on the autism spectrum. I have some of the obsessive-compulsive traits like seeing patterns in things, but without the social phobia. Interestingly, I recently discovered that there is a higher-than-average prevalence of autism amongst transsexual men than amongst the general population.
If a meetup ever happens anywhere in my vicinity, I’m in.
I was not surprised to discover that my score was 30. Even though I trained in clinical psychology, I gravitated toward research design, methodology and statistics where my personal style and preferences were a much better fit.
I’ll spar with you anytime lady.
12. I love to be social I do not collect and categorize information nor play pretend games and I easily understand and am understood by others. Numbers do not fascinate me in the least. lol
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With all the questions focusing upon obsession with numbers and number skills (at which I totally suck) I’m not too surprised.
However, the same obsessiveness with number detail which some people have apparently doesn’t have a corollary with Spelling, punctuation and grammar obsessiveness (at least not for this test).
That seems a little odd to me because wordsmiths can be every bit as OCD-ish and detail oriented as those obsessed with numbers.
Interesting.
I got a 16. I’ve got lots of obsessions about stuff, but not about numbers. Anything to do with math makes me anxious, but I enjoy organizing and categorizing things (hence my love of Pinterest). I can make small talk with people in line at the grocery store, and have deep serious conversations with family and friends. I spend a lot of time alone and feel perfectly comfortable with that (I house sit a lot) but I enjoy going to our huge family parties too. What I hate are forced social situations, like events at work where I don’t know many people, although I am usually one to plan a work potluck, with co-workers.
So I’m a little bit country, and a little bit rock and roll.
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