I know it's an internet quiz and hardly a cutting-edge diagnostic standard, but I really didn't like this test for a variety of reasons.
Such as its question about the opposite sex, which is so randomly exclusionary when it could be substituted with a more neutral phrase. And the fact that many questions are repeated over and over again, just reworded slightly.
It just kind of felt like the 'Asperger's stereotypes' test. I felt like a lot of questions I answered '2' or '1' too have reasons that are non-autistic in origin, because lots of them are perfectly typical personality traits or habits that might develop for lots of reasons. For example, I scored extremely low on the 'neurotypical social' section (read the detailed .pdf). Half of them are just because I'm a naturally introverted person, and others have to do with my social anxiety, which manifested not because of autism but how I was treated at school, and you're not telling me every kid who was picked on at school ever was picked on because they're autistic. I feel like these kinds of things are too predicated on personality. Like the 'eccentric, introverted kid' personality type is so easily mistaken for Asperger's in general. Although neurological symptoms and comorbidities are taken into account in the diagnosis and I have them in spades, that's how I felt filling out the questionnaire all those years ago at least.
Of course, many of these complaints are in good part due to the medium -- it's an internet quiz administered the same to everyone else, without the special considerations and analysis of a professional. Of course it's not going to take all these background and environmental factors into account. I did feel this quiz was a particularly huge offender, though. And I see a lot of us scored highly, but that's because of all kinds of factors, because of the kind of forum we're on, because of the kinds of people who use the internet, etc.
Your Aspie score: 148 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 51 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
For the record, I was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder when I was about ten years old. I've heard conflicting reports on whether people expect that diagnosis, especially online. I scored so highly in part because I answered based on historical behaviours as well, since my current lifestyle doesn't often feature a number of the situations repeatedly brought up by the quiz. But since then I've grown quite a lot and gotten
much better at adjusting. And let's face it, most kids are really autistic in some ways. Because they don't know how to filter their thoughts and just say whatever they think, they don't have an indoor voice, they don't have as solid a grasp of linguistic nuances, they like to collect things like rocks and shells and stamps and little cars and what-the hell-ever, etc.
It's actually super easy to diagnose anyone you like as autistic if you look at their behaviour from certain perspectives. And, to be honest, if I wanted to amateur diagnose a
child (or else an adult who had been raised by wolves or never, for some reason, grown up) with autism, I'd throw these questions at them. Most adults who were at some point diagnosed with autism have learned to adjust their behaviours to fit in better, and 'grow out of' childish autistic behaviours to an extent.