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What questions would you set for an online Autism test?

Steven

It must be difficult, in fairness, to set suitable questions for such tests. Most are reasonably decent and fitting, perhaps (often, it's the inflexibility of the multiple-choice answer options that bother me). But some of the questions & answer-options appear loaded, borderline prejudicial or assumptive. Some seem vaguely similar to this:

'If your parents caught fire, would you:

A. Pick your nose.

B. Buy popcorn.

C. Cry until your socks shrank.

D. Toast marshmallows.

E. Hit the firefighters with a mallet, thus confirming complacent opinions that all autists are empathy-free, violent sociopaths.'

If you, as an autist, had to set questions and possible answers, what might they be?

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  • I would set some random and possibly annoying multiple choice questions, but which had an option to write something either in explanation of the choice, to say none of the choices really fit, or to complain about how annoying the questions were. The answers themselves would not be diagnostic, but if anyone just ticked the options without writing anything they would probably be NT and if anyone chose the option of writing they they would most likely be autistic!

  • in reply to AuTriker

    Oh yeah... is that an autistic thing? I am the person that will tick in between boxes sometimes and write explanatory notes etc. I get quite frustrated at questionnaires sometimes as none of options fit or just by the way they are designed. I approve of your questionnaire design- i feel like there should at least be a place for people to explain or give opinion... surely that would give useful feedback about the design of questionnaire... i understand that for some things they want something that can be easily scored but that can easily be complemented 

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  • in reply to AuTriker

    Oh yeah... is that an autistic thing? I am the person that will tick in between boxes sometimes and write explanatory notes etc. I get quite frustrated at questionnaires sometimes as none of options fit or just by the way they are designed. I approve of your questionnaire design- i feel like there should at least be a place for people to explain or give opinion... surely that would give useful feedback about the design of questionnaire... i understand that for some things they want something that can be easily scored but that can easily be complemented 

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