Published on 12, July, 2020
I have counted 53 which apply to me, including the last one
Feel free to add your score, discuss any of the items or suggest new additions to the list.
53...
Maybe about forty.
I just love that 'repetition' appears twice.
I said... I just love that repetition appears twice.
Ben
battybats said: I mostly just wear black
Me too, battybats, it's just so easy!
According to a friend, I have 27 shades of black in my wardrobe.
Yeah I thought that one was odd tbh. That's why I don't put a lot of stock into these things, they run on stereotypes and the bright colour thing is often based on assumptions of a "child mind" in autistic people. AFTI is a good YouTube channel though so there's probably a "doesn't apply to all" disclaimer in the actual video linked.
I got about 45, though people who observe me from the outside might add a few more that I haven't noticed!
Number 1 made me laugh because I mostly just wear black. I like it, it's easier to put oufits together that won't bother me OR other people, and it makes people think you're scary so they leave you alone. Given the number of other autistic people I know who do the same, I think this one might actually be another "we're at the extremes" autistic thing rather than all of us liking colour.
44. Some of them were difficult to decide on. I don’t really understand compartmentalising different parts of my life. I suppose my work life and home life are quite separate things, like I wouldn’t want to socialise with people I work with. Is that it?
some are quite general and might be down to social anxiety/self esteem issues as well. And I have no idea whether I think in pictures, I just think. If there is a picture then it’s something like a Jackson Pollock (complete mess).
interesting though. I love quizzes like this.
51.
Funny, looking at it written down they look and sound so small and yet they impact my life in such a big way a lot of them.
51, number 5, I’m okay with seams and labels, all clothes have to be cotton and 80% of my clothes are dark blue. Some aren’t traits, they are laws!
I cringed when I read these because so many of them apply to me.
Even yesterday I got things very wrong, I was watching a TV program and later I read online reviews about it and I discovered that I totally misread the social relationships between the various characters.
I need to post a score or I'll be overthinking this all day lol! 36ish, there are some where I think sometimes I'm like that and sometimes I'm not, I find if I'm tired everything is amplified. I'd be interested to know how my other half scores me from two aspects, one if I think I'm a certain way but they think I'm not, but also to be able to have a conversation about the things that effect me that they don't realise. Point 43 feels like my nemesis, I'm frequently told I need to let it go, at which point I have to try and explain that I can't as my brain isn't wired that way, occasionally that song from Frozen comes into my head, but I try and block that out!
38, the last one definitely. Especially last Friday at work that was a very long week
That was really interesting .
Thank you for posting.
Mine was 44.
The ones that were correct for me tended to be VERY correct and these especially resonated with me:
Autonomistic said:Having an atypical sense of humour
Autonomistic said:Not having a strong sense of gender.
Autonomistic said:Over-planning everything
Autonomistic said:Having a high pain tolerance
Autonomistic said:Being the kind of person who people think, how could someone so clever be so stupid?
A couple of these I hadn't realised were the autism: sense of humour (mine is very dry); the clever/stupid thing.
People are always laughing at things I say where I just don't 'get it'.
48. And I’m glad no. 17 is a thing, people are just people.
46. But then, I'm a rubbish autist.