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Undiagnosed4321

Hi,

I've signed up here because this community seems so much more populated, so Im sure of an answer.

Far be it from me to be a hypochondriac, but every time someone talks to me about aspergers, I think 'that sounds like me'. I thoughts I'd run the online tests and they came out very interest.

I don't have all the symptoms, but I feel it is the closest match and Im looking to go to my GP so I have somewhere to start.

The things that don't seem to match with me though, is that Im good with eye contact (as far as I know - I remember playing the "who blinks first" game at school), Im good (as far as I know) with detecting emotion - but I'll tell you more about that later, I'm happy with change and don't have routines. I also have a desire to be social - though that may have come about due to starting to go to Church and learning different priorities.

However I do have a desire to be in control, my eye contact is different with different people. My social skills are poor, I don't invite anyone anywhere. Most of my adult life, my repertoire when talking to others, has been jokes, tv quotes, and relating to people by talking about my interests. I don't connect very well with other people as I just can't think of any questions.

The AQ test is a nightmare, do I enjoy social chit chat? Define enjoy, define chit chat? I like being with my friends. So do I prefer the theater or museum? No idea. My friends invite me to the theater, so I go. Haven't been to a museum in ages. I don't know if I would enjoy it. Mostly I want to keep to myself though. I have no special skills. 

I have problem with emotion and memory recall.

So. My test results.

AQ between 31 and 41 depending on how I interpret the questions.

EQ 22

SQ 60

FQ 71

Eyes in the Mind (looking at the answers) 27

Eyes in the Mind (not looking at the answers) 14

AS you can see AQ and EQ are the anomaly ones here. Whether SQ and FQ could be learned behaviour?

The interesting one is the reading the mind in the eyes test.

If I do it while looking at the answers, I get 27. Normal NT score. If I do it while looking at the eyes and trying to guess the emotion, I get something which doesn't even exist in the choices. Mostly I'll get Happy, Sad, and "that face makes me feel angry", I might extrapolate a couple of more words like, guilty looking, concerned, concerned about something... So without looking at the answers, I get 14. When I uncover the answers, I quickly work out which one it is. Thre's a few faces where I'll get "Happy", there's only one happy answer but it's say Flirting with three negative emotions, it's clearly not flirting though so I actually end up putting the emotion on the face from the choices. Very quickly.

I have absolute zero idea what any of these actually mean.

Can you offer any interpretation?

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  • The probable reason you were good at who blinks first is that you are not registering the information properly - wholly mechanical. I could win at that as a teenager but how on earth, given the discomfort it normally gives me in conversation. Clearly I can mechanically.

    These tests are based on the Triad of Impairments, which is a diagnostic tool that looks for indications that cannot be confused with other conditions. So it doesn't define all of autism, especially missing out on sensory issues.

    Also it was set up to diagnose children, where these manifestations can be quite obvious. By adulthood most people compensate in various ways, not least to avoid all the adverse attention. Eye contact becomes subtler. People find ways of predicting cues in conversation or guessing their way through conversations etc.

    Similarly a lot of the visual tests were designed for children.

    Autism action has been dominated over many years by parents' groups. They seem to have got it into their heads that if you do certain things their children will magically grow out of it. Consequently any adults still facing difficulties were deemed not to have tried hard enough/own fault.

    It is only very recently as transition mounts into utter chaos that people have woken up to adult needs.

    If you think it fits, try to get a diagnosis. Knowing one way or the other is more productive than guessing games with these tests.

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  • The probable reason you were good at who blinks first is that you are not registering the information properly - wholly mechanical. I could win at that as a teenager but how on earth, given the discomfort it normally gives me in conversation. Clearly I can mechanically.

    These tests are based on the Triad of Impairments, which is a diagnostic tool that looks for indications that cannot be confused with other conditions. So it doesn't define all of autism, especially missing out on sensory issues.

    Also it was set up to diagnose children, where these manifestations can be quite obvious. By adulthood most people compensate in various ways, not least to avoid all the adverse attention. Eye contact becomes subtler. People find ways of predicting cues in conversation or guessing their way through conversations etc.

    Similarly a lot of the visual tests were designed for children.

    Autism action has been dominated over many years by parents' groups. They seem to have got it into their heads that if you do certain things their children will magically grow out of it. Consequently any adults still facing difficulties were deemed not to have tried hard enough/own fault.

    It is only very recently as transition mounts into utter chaos that people have woken up to adult needs.

    If you think it fits, try to get a diagnosis. Knowing one way or the other is more productive than guessing games with these tests.

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