Analysis of Test

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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Undiagnosed4321 over 9 years ago

NAS18906 said:
It isn't necessarily so!, but it seems to me that there should be something more than curiosity before you take this step. I think you should be comfortable with identifying yourself as autistic and it shouldn't need to be any more official than that. If you read about it and you can benefit from thinking about yourself as autistic then perhaps that can be enough?
I think this reply applies to me as well, but how do people without an official diagnosis be comfortable with identifying themselves as autistic?
At this stage, I suspect. I see some traits and can relate to so much to what other people on the spectrum say, while there also seems to be some differences.
Without an official diagnosis, I know I would obsess about that and it would eat me up badly until I find a new obsession. I've already let this affect work in some respects by spending a great period writing up all the history I can remember and then moving it all around to make some kind of linguistic sense, followed by two re-writes. Not to mention all the investigation.
Plus without an official diagnosis, I don't know what kind of path I should be on. I mean, if I am on the spectrum, I might decide to think about how I live my life with a bit more rigidity, perhaps have more of a structure, more routine, perhaps it explains why Im unhappy in my job in a problem solving role and growing wearier by the day. I could find something that suits me and my needs better.
But what if I do those things, and Im not on the spectrum? Then I'll have messed things up.
Without a diagnosis, I would also feel a fraud. Im just not comfortable with self diagnosis.
I'd be happy to go private if that would be a better route. I just don't know where to turn. Im not after treatment or anything when there are so many resources and information on the internet. Just after a diagnosis - whatever it might be.

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Undiagnosed4321 over 9 years ago

NAS18906 said:
It isn't necessarily so!, but it seems to me that there should be something more than curiosity before you take this step. I think you should be comfortable with identifying yourself as autistic and it shouldn't need to be any more official than that. If you read about it and you can benefit from thinking about yourself as autistic then perhaps that can be enough?
I think this reply applies to me as well, but how do people without an official diagnosis be comfortable with identifying themselves as autistic?
At this stage, I suspect. I see some traits and can relate to so much to what other people on the spectrum say, while there also seems to be some differences.
Without an official diagnosis, I know I would obsess about that and it would eat me up badly until I find a new obsession. I've already let this affect work in some respects by spending a great period writing up all the history I can remember and then moving it all around to make some kind of linguistic sense, followed by two re-writes. Not to mention all the investigation.
Plus without an official diagnosis, I don't know what kind of path I should be on. I mean, if I am on the spectrum, I might decide to think about how I live my life with a bit more rigidity, perhaps have more of a structure, more routine, perhaps it explains why Im unhappy in my job in a problem solving role and growing wearier by the day. I could find something that suits me and my needs better.
But what if I do those things, and Im not on the spectrum? Then I'll have messed things up.
Without a diagnosis, I would also feel a fraud. Im just not comfortable with self diagnosis.
I'd be happy to go private if that would be a better route. I just don't know where to turn. Im not after treatment or anything when there are so many resources and information on the internet. Just after a diagnosis - whatever it might be.

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