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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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  • 1. What happens physically when you fall in love with a person and haven't told them yet?

    a) I get butterflies but I ide it really well.

    b) I try hard to hide it but it's really obvious anyway - the butterflies flutter all over me rather than just staying inside my stomach.

    c) I don't know/I've never been in love.

    2. What happens emotionally when you're in love with someone?

    a) I admire them, think about them a lot and want to be near them. 

    b) I *feel* their strongest emotions. Almost everything seems to make me think of them. 

    C) I don't know/I've never been in love. 

    3. An object you've had for a while and become attached to breaks or gets lost. Do you:

    a) Feel sad, but replace the object with a similar or apparently identical one.

    b) Feel almost devastated, and refuse to replace the object because *nothing* will ever be identical or able to replace it.

    c) I don't get attached to objects.

    4. You have some medicine to take, and the instructions state it should be taken 'with a meal.' Do you: 

    a) Automatically take before lunch/dinner. 

    b) Look up the dictionary definition of 'meal' to see if your breakfast or evening snack counts.

    c) Forget to take it. 

    d) Ignore the instructions. 

    5. Does discomfort or joy from particular sensory inputs have a significant impact on your life?

    a) Yes. 

    b) No.

    c) How significant is 'significant?'   

  • in reply to sphynx

    For question 4 I would not take it either before or after the meal - the instructions say with so I would take it half way through the meal! After having clarified what constitutes a meal of course. And then I would worry about what would happen if my meal was at a significantly different time of day - should I take the medication at the same time of day with a snack, or with the meal even if it was 4 hours earlier or later than usual.

  • in reply to AuTriker

    We really think alike. I would probably first read the whole leaflet on the medication, then I might end up reading papers on the efficacy etc of the drug. I would then probably decide that I would rather not take it... and if I did feel like it was essential- I would probably think along the same lines as you :) 

  • in reply to Ann :)

    Yes, I have done exactly that! Every few years I re-read the leaflet with my long term meds just in case something has changed. And I am very reluctant to add any more meds, I am only on one, but I don't want to change it to a different one which might not work on me so well, which they have tried to do to me. And there have been a couple of things which they wanted to put me on which i read up on and refused, choosing instead to change my lifestyle and diet.

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  • in reply to Ann :)

    Yes, I have done exactly that! Every few years I re-read the leaflet with my long term meds just in case something has changed. And I am very reluctant to add any more meds, I am only on one, but I don't want to change it to a different one which might not work on me so well, which they have tried to do to me. And there have been a couple of things which they wanted to put me on which i read up on and refused, choosing instead to change my lifestyle and diet.

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