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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’ve got off subject, I’m so confused about Simon. 

  • in reply to Stephen

    This is the undoubtedly bonkers but boring story of how I eventually stopped being Simon and started becoming Steven...er...Stephen. My reason for adopting an alias was to me a truly serious and considered one but unfortunately I'm a stooopid gonk, as you will see:

    My real name is Steven. I've used 'Simon' as a username because I've always liked the name and because it was slightly similar to my real one, thus making it easy to remember for me, a person who often manages to forget his own birthday. Much more importantly than all this, I went incognito because I was worried after reading about the controversial views of some leading researchers regarding autistic people. These views seemed debatable, to say the least. So I fretted for hours about being easily identifiable to those researchers, worrying about being personally targeted by them and so being a possible subject of future research or enquiry. I subsequently lived amongst chameIeons for weeks and studied their cryptic behaviour until I was ready to slip, shadow-like, onto the board undetected. So I finally went ahead and joined the forum because by then *I knew that my brilliant disguise would never be discovered*...

    Within seconds of joining the forum, my brilliant disguise had been discovered. It was blown away by gales of laughter that left me looking like a nudist in a wind tunnel with his name tattooed on his forehead, as I discussed my highly serious identity concerns with RT ('Rainbow-Tree') and she laughed at my world-class camouflage because I'd already given my real and full name, twice, when signing-up and also joining the NAS. What a twit! She laughed even more as she told me I'd unwittingly chosen the same first name as the most famous researcher of all. Poop.  :(

    *world population facepalms*

    Since my 'brilliant disguise' was torn apart faster than pvc rugby shorts were by teeth on Sparkly's hen night, I've been tempted to change my username but thought this might confuse forum members, and also me; I'd almost forgotten my real name and was enjoying being someone who wasn't as rubbish as that Steven bloke with his portable shower curtain stooopid disguise. Having procrastinated about sending a Friend Request to myself, I then pondered for centuries over making a decision about the new name-change. And so empires rose and fell as icecaps slowly melted until a friend gently saved me from myself by suggesting that I cease acting like a homemade Hamlet and 'stop twittering on about it, FFS, and just MAKE A BLOODY DECISION. Jesus Harold Christ in an Asda trolley, gimme strength...'

    THE END (of my sanity)

    ----------------------------

    Feel free to laugh, to cry, or to shoot me. Or all three at once.

  • in reply to Steven

    I now understand man of many names :-)

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