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AQ10 vs AQ

firedragon

I have been diagnosed so this is out of curiosity.

I scored 39 on the AQ test and 6.0 on the AQ10. The doctor gave me the AQ test so further diagnosis was quite straight forward but following the AQ10 means I was just on the boundary. Looking at the AQ10 questions I suspect I could easily have scored lower.

The choice of AQ10 seems a bit odd to me. I have quite a good imagination and like fantasy and such. I quite like the theatre but being around people is different. Is it really assumed autism tendencies mean less imagination?

So I am wondering... Are these AQ tests really relevant or just a quick and not very sophisticated way to find a way into further investigation.

I did feel bias towards types of behaviour that more recent studies say are not necessarily true in the questions.

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  • I'm not 100% clear on your question.  The AQ10 is only meant to be a screening tool and I would imagine it is very rarely used at that.  Most GPs are likely never to have heard of it, so most probably adults who suspect they need assessment would bring it along if they got a score of 6 or above to prove the need.

    In the autism world, we all know that tests are not necessarily accurate as the questions are misleading (or easily misinterpreted by us) and our literalness can mean the wrong answer is given.

    For instance, in the AAA (which I believe incorporates the EQ and the AQ) I almost ticked "no" to the question "Did you cut up worms as a child?".  But I had drowned worms and cut the legs off spiders so I should have scored "yes" (which I did in time when I clarified it with the test administrator) because it was about empathy and the types of things an autistic child would do.  But my instinct is always to be specifically correct and factual.

    There is something on another thread about the incorrect assertion that people with autism lack imaginations as we clearly don't.  There are many incorrect assumptions about us out there.

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  • I'm not 100% clear on your question.  The AQ10 is only meant to be a screening tool and I would imagine it is very rarely used at that.  Most GPs are likely never to have heard of it, so most probably adults who suspect they need assessment would bring it along if they got a score of 6 or above to prove the need.

    In the autism world, we all know that tests are not necessarily accurate as the questions are misleading (or easily misinterpreted by us) and our literalness can mean the wrong answer is given.

    For instance, in the AAA (which I believe incorporates the EQ and the AQ) I almost ticked "no" to the question "Did you cut up worms as a child?".  But I had drowned worms and cut the legs off spiders so I should have scored "yes" (which I did in time when I clarified it with the test administrator) because it was about empathy and the types of things an autistic child would do.  But my instinct is always to be specifically correct and factual.

    There is something on another thread about the incorrect assertion that people with autism lack imaginations as we clearly don't.  There are many incorrect assumptions about us out there.

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