How exactly do I interpret this scale :)?
For those curious: https://dlcincluded.github.io/MQ/
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I always hate these type of tests. Maybe cus I have some weird problem, but I could take this test every day and score weirdly differently. Heck even in the same day. I always feel like I should just answer it all down the middle cus I can apply it depending on my circumstances.
It's like those job surveys crappy jobs have. Like yeah I have a great personality, when it's a good day and people are nice, otherwise no my personality is real bad when people are mean and I didn't get sleep. What answer do you want from me lol. I eventually learned they want one of either extreme on these questions when i landed a manager job way back when. So silly. Just let me interview people.
Anyway I got a 190 today. Maybe I'll do it again in a day or two and see what it is then.
"I usually mean what I say and no more than that."
God, I need to get this printed on a t-shirt.
The number of times I've had people read into something that I most certainly did not say.
This reminds me of those facebook quizzes that were all the rage some years back.
Just so you know, one of my spirit animals was the unicorn. And yes, I do fart rainbows at times.
You can interpret it any way you want, I keep them in memory as accolades and move on.
Took a look at the test, just a consideration:
After a period of instability, I need a quiet and predictable environment.
I need a quiet and predictable environment for me to switch from one task to another easily.
I often struggle to concentrate in busy and/or unpredictable environments.
The very same physical person, same neurology and genetics, taking this test after having lived 10 years in the countryside working crops, will respond differently than after having lived 10 years in a noisy city working in a cramped office, because they will have different frameworks of what constitutes "quiet", "busy" and "predictable". Change the variables, and plenty of questions in the questionnaire will have the same issue. To use anoter example, this question:
I rarely find simultaneously holding eye contact and making a verbal conversation with another person uncomfortable.
When asked to autistic people, tends to have different answers depending on whether they have a SO or not.
You shouldn't use the test as an objective, scientific measure of "this is how monotropic/autistic I am", but rather as a space of self-reflection to evaluate how well you're "working" (in terms of rest, leisure, productivity, socialization) in your current environment, and wonder if you should seek changes to better enjoy your life, such as seeking in-doors social activities (such as roleplaying games) rather than restaurants for socialization, or request accomodations at work (such as specific periods of time when you're allowed to focus on your job undisturbed).
I've been masking and compensating for so long that I often feel that my answers don't fully reflect my autism. I'm also incredibly particular about the wording of questions. In many cases a single word changed would dramatically change my answer even though I suspect most allistic people would consider them to be the same question.
Monotropism Score: 168 / 235
Your Average: 3.57
This score suggests that you are more Monotropic than about 5% of autistic people and about 75% of allistic people based on data from the initial validation study.
What does monotropic mean?
Monotropism is often described as a "tunnel vision" and is posited as the "central underlying feature" of autism
It is described as a person's tendency to focus their attention on a small number of interests at any time, tending to miss things outside of this attention tunnel.