<p>Your score: 9; Male:</p>
<p>jessiehl, I can’t believe it!! I was joking! And it turns out these guys really ARE first cousins (author of this test and the entertainer Borat) ??!!</p>
<p>Small world, not so much… ROTFLMAO</p>
<p>Both guys are seriously very smart to do what they are doing. I mean that. I’d love to be a fly on the wall at their family gatherings.</p>
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<p>In addition to his famed cousin Sasha, Baron-Cohen’s son is a filmmaker and another of his cousins is a composer/musician. So yes, they must have some interesting family gatherings.</p>
<p>I was a neuro & cog sci undergrad, and I worked in a lab that was studying the genetics of autism. My postdoc supervisor was the one who first told me about the Simon Baron-Cohen/Borat family connection.</p>
<p>I’m in a social profession (medicine), where my powers of interpersonal perception are important, going into a field (pediatrics) where perception is even more important. Appropriately (I think) I ended up with an 11.</p>
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<li> Not sure if that means I score an extra point or lose one for immediately thinking of Spinal Tap upon receiving that score…</li>
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<p>34…low end of normal. how about “i dont know how well i can tell other peoples’ faces…i can usually tell what they’re thinking tho?” haha</p>
<p>It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever:</p>
<p>17, dead average for male.</p>
<p>“Gotta watch Wapner”…you made me laugh…
My Aspie son loves Rain Man. Now, whenever he is obsessing over something (e.g. repeatedly asking how many minutes are left on the parking meter), one of us says, “Gotta watch Wapner, gotta watch Wapner…” I’m glad my son can laugh at himself.</p>
<p>I took it twice in two separate days-scored 15 day one and 10 day two. I am far less thorny in person that I am here because I usually only post when I have a contrarian pov.</p>
<p>Female - 32 here. Not surprised.
Shy as a kid, though not so much now. Love to talk, but hate large gatherings of any kind. This has actually been a recurring bone of contention in our marriage as well. Husband loves socializing and parties; I avoid them as much as politely possible.</p>
<p>As for Aspergers-- if I’d known about it when S1 was small, I’d have sworn something was up-- he’d become completely fixated on one thing at a time (army men, Ghostbusters, fighter planes, etc), to the exclusion of EVERYthing else. He would line up things all over the house - toys, shoes, etc. Extreme sensitivity to clothing he found restrictive or uncomfortable. Enjoyed companionship, but not physical affection. He could deal with a hug, but was completely freaked out when his aunt once gave him an innocent peck on the cheek. Also had a number of ‘tics’ that changed over the years-- nose rubbing, throat clearing, etc.
That said, though, he was also friendly, reasonably polite, and had plenty of attention span when it came to bedtime stories and reading aloud. We just put it down to quirks. As a young adult, most of these seem to have faded over the years, though some habits probably still linger,</p>
<p>Lspf72, have you read “Look Me in the Eye”? The author is a self taught engineer, diagnosed wtih Asperger’s as an adult. He worked at one of the toy companies in the early days of electronic toys.</p>
<p>He says that as he’s grown older, he’s become more “normal.” However, the fantatic engineering skills he posessed as a young man have also faded.</p>
<p>Interesting trade off that I think should be researched.</p>
<p>It was 40 questions. I hated it, so much so that started to put more far left and far right answers and I still ended up as dull.</p>
<p>My score was 14. I thought it might be higher, because I’m not extremely social.</p>
<p>Thanks, Missypie - Sounds like an interesting read. Will check out the library database</p>
<p>And I can’t tell you how many times I was reminded by my parents to “look people in the eye” as child! They wrote it off as bad manners, but it was always incredibly difficult. Even as an adult I constantly have to remind myself.</p>
<p>The author is John Elder Robinson. He’s the older brother of the guy who wrote “Running with Scissors.”</p>
<p>so maybe looking people in the eye should be one of the questions.
Scored a 14 - female - pretty much as expected.
S would likely score much higher - maybe even in range for AS. He’s terrible at giving or picking up social cues - and small talk - but seems to have adjusted OK. I worry how he will do on interviews ( I always look for eye contact as an interviewer) and wonder if coaching might help in this case. I haven’t sent him this test because I KNOW he would abhor a negative label like this.</p>
<p>Has anyone also taken the systemizing and empathizing tests? Although none of these are valid to diagnose autism/Asperger’s, you might get a much better understanding of where you “fit” on the spectrum by taking all 3, not just the autism quotient test. The other 2 tests are more central to Baron-Cohen’s theories on autism: that men are better at systemizing and women are better at empathizing and that autism is an extreme of the systemizing male brain. From a 2005 NYT article by Baron-Cohen: </p>
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<p>[The</a> Male Condition - New York Times](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/opinion/08baron-cohen.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=497fba7d39bb5396&ex=1281153600&partner=rs]The”>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/opinion/08baron-cohen.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=497fba7d39bb5396&ex=1281153600&partner=rs)</p>
<p>Oh and for the record, although I scored relatively high (upper 20s) but still within a “normal” range on the autism quotient test, I scored higher than average on systemizing and lower than average on empathizing, so this theory seems to play out with DS…</p>
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Similar scores. Average on empathizing, but lower than average female. Apergery range for systemizing. High but normal on the autism quotient. Oh and I was low average for face-reading too.</p>
<p>wow, I scored a 35…i must be some kind of a social ■■■■■■…</p>