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Emotional Blindness

Marjorie195

I came across the test for Alexithymia the other day. www.alexithymia.us/test-alexhtml

I scored 146. Has anyone else tried this test? There seems to be many similarities between ASD and Alexithymia.

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    I looked at the test. It has a lot of questions that would be answered one way by people with ASD. I suspect that there is no statistical validity to the test but that it is just someones attempt to create a test and see what happens. The site isn't an official site of anything like a charity. Tests like the AQ test have been designed by specialists and carefully tested to ensure that they actually can make a differential diagnosis that does not come up with too many false positives and false negatives.

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    I looked at the test. It has a lot of questions that would be answered one way by people with ASD. I suspect that there is no statistical validity to the test but that it is just someones attempt to create a test and see what happens. The site isn't an official site of anything like a charity. Tests like the AQ test have been designed by specialists and carefully tested to ensure that they actually can make a differential diagnosis that does not come up with too many false positives and false negatives.

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