Source: Octavia Trotter
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Mine.
https://www.idrlabs.com/autism-spectrum/test.php
Moderate Symptoms according to test
"Your autism spectrum symptoms are high".
Ok. It's not like I can do anything at this point anyway.
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I have moderate symptoms, according to this test.
Poor eye contact and abnormal postures have their own categories? I've always lumped them together as "poor body control"
Eye contact aversion isn’t necessarily poor body control, it’s been studied quite a bit from various angles and found that people with autism who avoid eye contact do so because they feel actual discomfort, which can be found with fmri in combination with eye tracking software. In milder cases, the aversion is like an inversion of normal social sensations (that is, NT people feel similarly uncomfortable avoiding gaze as ASD with mild aversion do meeting it). In worse cases, it appears to be an over activation of a facial recognition system that produces intense distress.
https://www.sciencealert.com/for-those-with-autism-eye-contact-isn-t-just-weird-it-s-distressing
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5645367/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71547-0
As far as I know, I am not autistic. I was curious though and took the test. I am just depressed, among other problems. Also in therapy for that. So that is reflected in the results. I also got the message "Your autism symptoms are low".
Thanks for the link though! I will forward it to an aquaitance of mine who is wondering whether they might be autistic. They already booked an appointment with specialists in order to investigate that.
This is what I usually link people to: https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient
I got around 86% on that test, these tests are not good do to people having mental illness, as they will go down a rabbit hole and act out ASD.
Yes, it's not encouraged for people with other mental disorders to seek autism diagnosis because of how likely those people are to get a false positive for autism.
Similar; I was just curious and took it. Though I have a sibling that is diagnosed autistic, and I'm kinda wanting to be evaluated for it. I suffer from depression + anxiety, hard (and a lot of these questions I was like "that depends on the context") and I've been in a much, much worse mental state than I am currently. So those values make sense, the rest are kind of "huh... interesting".