What do you do aside from being on a PC? (Not jobs)

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Hm what are you trying to tell me ? :D
 
I got it to work today, took forever to do it, kept getting distracted.

Aspie Score: 106 - 200
Neurotypical: 130 - 200

It says I have traits of both.

As I told my testers before, on many questions I could flip flop depending on the situation. I sit thinking about it, which way to go that I finally just click one and move on.

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Interesting.


Your Aspie score: 63 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 152 of 200

I also produce different scores. Normally I score much higher on Aspie. I should start taking note and doing the tests more regulaly
 
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Fred - yours doesn't surprise me at all mate. ADHD is a form of autism so I expected you to score a reasonable Aspie score :)
 
No of course not. Be concerned when you are suicidal all the time and have anxiety that's so bad you won't even leave the house to take the rubbish out :lol:

We all have a little aspie in us dude. It's when it dictates how you live your life that you need to be concerned :)
 
i wonder how accurate this test is!

im not one to talk about my personal health issues....not just the net but ever, but recently ive had a spurt of health issues, severe sciatica which left me on crutches for best part of a year, and more recently i was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy, which apparently bought on by stress, and i think ive developed a little case of OCD, its not like full blown stuff, but ive noticed i kinda involuntary do things...tidy up stack of magazines and piles of paper...place mats on the table have to correctly aligned etc etc i dont like things out of place anymore....

2 weeks ago i did suffer a anxiety attack, it was random as hell, just at work doing what i do, and then bam i was all disorientated and stuff and heavy breathing, i didnt even know what it was till i saw the doc next day!

i wonder if i do the test monthly i would have noticed a change.....

just a random thought...
 
In some Asperger's is hard to spot when you are young. This is mostly because we are forced into public/social situations that we can not avoid (like school for example).

Due to that I used to think I liked hanging around with people in groups but my mind was still telling me just to go home and be alone. Had I taken this test in my teens for example I would have scored way lower, because I was still under a lot of pressure socially to do what was expected in a normal world.

However the cracks were already starting to appear. I could not hold down a job for more than a couple of months before I would just either get up and walk out or not go in the first place leading them to sack me eventually any way.

This went on and on until I got a job working with computers where I was pretty much left alone all day and the broken computers would be handed to me through a hatch. I would then repair them and pass them back through the hatch without having to have anything to do with the customers. This worked quite well for me and although I quit two or three times and then ended up going back (I was very bloody good at it to be fair to myself) eventually the stress got too much and I packed it in for good.

So from my own experience of suffering with mental illness I wouldn't say I was fine, or happy (I was exhibiting terrible problems even as far back as 7 years old) but I managed to live a somewhat normal life (even though I was going crazy on the inside) until I was about 25. That was when the Bipolar disorder started becoming incredibly strong and dictating my life to me instead of me having any power over it. "Down days" where I would sit and cry all day turned into days where I had very strong urges to jump out of a window head first for example and the longer time went by the stronger the urges became.

I was 26 when I finally went to a psychiatrist and sought help and since then I have been in the constant care of doctors psychiatrists and psychologists. I visit a mental health team every three weeks, for example.

Now? if I spent a week off meds I would commit suicide. Even today, loaded up to the eyeballs on mood stabilisers and anti depressants I feel really down and feel like crying. That's mostly because my PC is still broken and I just feel a bit desolate.

And that's me loaded on Citalopram (SSRI uptate inhibitor) as well as the modern synthetic valium and a big dose of anti psychotics...

As I said before MANY people have a mental illness but still manage to press on with their lives so that it doesn't become apparent, known or diagnosed. It's only when your brain stops you doing that and you have the wish to live enough that you see a psychiatrist that you'd ever know about it.
 
i wonder how accurate this test is!

im not one to talk about my personal health issues....not just the net but ever, but recently ive had a spurt of health issues, severe sciatica which left me on crutches for best part of a year, and more recently i was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy, which apparently bought on by stress, and i think ive developed a little case of OCD, its not like full blown stuff, but ive noticed i kinda involuntary do things...tidy up stack of magazines and piles of paper...place mats on the table have to correctly aligned etc etc i dont like things out of place anymore....

2 weeks ago i did suffer a anxiety attack, it was random as hell, just at work doing what i do, and then bam i was all disorientated and stuff and heavy breathing, i didnt even know what it was till i saw the doc next day!

i wonder if i do the test monthly i would have noticed a change.....

just a random thought...

When I was young I never talked about myself, even to my best friends. I was very shy, hardly talked at all. I was an enigma, they could not figure me out. Excuse me while I take the long way to explain what lead to a change. Part of my psychological need, way over explain things. :)

In March of 83 I went to work for an international company called, Berkel. I was their in house repair tech for the electronics equipment...printers like used in meat packing plants, printers used at the meat counters and the electronic weight scales used in those situations. Field techs repaired in the field and sent us the bad parts and I repaired them. In 3 months I got promoted and took over being the company specialist of the electronic products which I had top know everything and took support calls from the company techs having problems, I also had to teach classes (trained techs from the US, Canada, Puerto Rico and traveled to Mexico City, Mexico to train their engineers) and I'd write manuals, newsletters and service bulletins.

That job forced me to be in front of people, company big wigs down to the people in my classes. I'd be a wreck a week before I taught a week long class, hardly sleep and during the class I'd go into auto pilot. Steve and Ed, the in house repair techs I hired to replace me after I was promoted asked, "How the hell do you do that?" They worked in the same huge room I taught in and heard everything. I said, "What?" They wanted to know how I could teach a week long class 8 hours a day and impart all the information I did and not look at notes or the stacks of manuals/newsletters/service bulletins I handed out. I said, "Survival." I was so high that week, a natural high, I'd be so pumped up, I barely slept the whole week, even less than the week before. The first time I taught the class I was done in 3 days, I went so fast...I had the mechanical specialist (meat slicers, huge bowl mixers like maybe used in a bakery, choppers and more) come up and go over the mechanical equipment for 2 days. I had to learn to SLOW DOWN and fill 5 days.

That was the beginning of my change. Later when out of work I was talking to a employment counselor, somebody to help me get a good job. Things were bad around here then, jobs were hard to find. She said I needed to seek out a stress class, I was too easy going for being out of work, I took it too well. Long story short, I agreed to meet with a girl going to Notre Dame uni for a PHD in Psychology and we talked about everything. She was helping me with stress I didn't show, I was helping her since I agreed to let her write about me in her doctorate dissertation. She graduated and then I got into a group thing, the only guy with 9 women. We all had grown up in alcoholic families and we talked about everything.

Those things got me to be able to talk in front of people and talk about anything about myself. Now I think sometimes I need to learn to shut-up. Like now. :lol:

Now people may understand me a little here. :)
 
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