asperger's

A year or two ago, I took the same test. I can't remember my exact score, but it was in the same range (definitely in the low 30's somewhere). At the time, this surprised nobody, least of all my mother, who said she suspected it all along.

http://similarminds.com/personality_disorder.html

Paranoid |||||||||||||||||| 74% 49%
Schizoid |||||||||||||||| 70% 53%
Schizotypal |||||||||||||||||||| 86% 53%
Antisocial |||||||||||| 42% 47%
Borderline |||||||||||||||| 70% 47%
Histrionic |||||||||||||||| 62% 43%
Narcissistic |||||||||| 34% 41%
Avoidant |||||||||||||||||| 74% 39%
Dependent |||||||||||||| 54% 37%
Obsessive-Compulsive |||||||||||| 46% 40%

ack - i was hoping for madonna or maybe black sabbath instead i get fucking anthrax - I BLAME SOCIETY!

cousin of the other Baron-Cohen - not brother as it says here: http://www.limbicnutrition.com/blog/archives/021245.html

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I got 18. Hah! I expected to be far more autistic than that. I was once told if there'd been the same label-mania when I was a wee tyke I'd have been misdiagnosed with autism by ANYONE.

or at least that's what i'm telling myself

i'm feeling pretty insane :(((

could that routine stuff manifest itself in sitting in front of the tv all day, every single day, as if its the only thing that occurs to you to do & could that not getting how other ppl think mean not being quiet when you want to watch stuff, & having to have what's happening on the tv explained to you, usw.??

coz that test made me think i could have been a bit more understanding about my flatmate's pain-in-the-assdom

Personality Disorder Test Results Paranoid |||||||||||| 50% Schizoid |||||||||||||| 54% Schizotypal |||||||||||||||| 70% Antisocial |||||||||| 38% Borderline |||||||||||||||| 70% Histrionic |||||||||||||| 54% Narcissistic |||||||||||| 46% Avoidant |||||||||||| 42% Dependent |||||||||||||| 58% Obsessive-Compulsive |||||||||||||||||| 74% Take Free Personality Disorder Test
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Professor Simon Baron-Cohen Director

Simon Baron-Cohen...

* Is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge in the Departments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry.
* Is Fellow in Experimental Psychology at Trinity College, Cambridge.
* Is Co-director of the Autism Research Centre (ARC) in Cambridge.
* Is Director of CLASS, the Cambridge Lifespan Asperger Syndrome Service
* Holds degrees in Human Sciences from New College, Oxford, a PhD in Psychology from UCL, and an M.Phil in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry
* Has held teaching and research positions at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, before moving to Cambridge.
* Has conducted extensive research into autism spectrum conditions at the psychological, diagnostic, and neuroscientific levels.
* Is author of:
o Mindblindness (MIT Press, 1995)
o Autism: The Facts (OUP, 1993)
o Teaching Children with Autism to Mindread (Wiley, 1999)
o The Essential Difference : Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain (Penguin UK/Perseus, 2003)
o and many scientific journal articles
* Has edited:
o Understanding Other Minds (OUP, 1995 and 2001)
o The Maladapted Mind (UCL Press, 1997)
o Synaesthesia (Blackwells, 1997)
* Is author of Mind Reading: The interactive guide to human emotions (DVD-ROM).

Other one -
Personality Disorder Test Results Paranoid |||||||||||||||| 62% Schizoid |||||||||| 34% Schizotypal |||||||||||| 50% Antisocial |||||||||| 38% Borderline |||||||||||||||| 66% Histrionic |||||||||||| 50% Narcissistic |||||| 22% Avoidant |||||||||||||||| 66% Dependent |||||||||||||||||| 74% Obsessive-Compulsive |||||||||| 38% Take Free Personality Disorder Test
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Which, to me, seems a little low.

You got... asparagus?

Exhibit #1 yr honor.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/08/12/autism.college.ap/index.html

That's pretty interesting.

(xp--omg he named his band Final Fantasy!!!!!)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/04/autism-asperger-s-education-society

soudns like this guy started out at my school. idk if i even heard the word 'asperger's' till this decade. this story is pretty effed up & makes u wonder maybe if pathologizing every character trait going is the best approach.

i don't know - he only started to get the support at his other school once the problem was identified, and you need a diagnosis to fins the right solution.

suspect the root of the admissions refusal is his history of not attending school - the school would have been worried he'd make their truancy figures worse. which is depressing in a different way.

The curious incident of the straight-A student with Asperger's syndrome

it's not really that curious

And when he pictures life at university, what does he see? "Umm..." he says. "Lectures. Random chats. Robots. Drinking, possibly."

sounds about right

it's not really that curious

― i em , mad;'e of mdshurjookt (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 15:46 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

met plenty of these types at uni (hell you could almost argue I was one) and on the whole they were pretty regular

Wish I had met more people like this at university rather than some of the twats i had to put up with.

makes u wonder maybe if pathologizing every character trait going is the best approach.

makes u wonder maybe if pathologizing every character trait going is the best approach
makes u wonder maybe if pathologizing every character trait going is the best approach
makes u wonder maybe if pathologizing every character trait going is the best approach
makes u wonder maybe if pathologizing every character trait going is the best approach
makes u wonder maybe if pathologizing every character trait going is the best approach

I also don't think single-case-study articles like that are remotely fucking helpful. And yes, sorry: what the fuck is with the headline? "Curious" how?

Still: getting cross about shit Guardian articles isn't really worth it, is it?

Curious, like the incident a la Mark Haddon, is what they mean by that.

Except not a mystery about a dog getting killed by a shovel and a kid who hates yellow cars, but the even more otherworldly and sordid case of academic success.

Curious, like the incident a la Mark Haddon, is what they mean by that

Yes, I get the reference. I've not read the book; however, I'm guessing that the incident so described could be described reasonably objectively as "curious". But for a lad with Asperger's to get good results ... is that really so "curious"?

As a wise old sub -- who now works for the Guardian, oddly enough, but sadly not on this stuff -- once told me: if you're going to make a pun or any other kind of reference in a headline, it tends to help if it makes sense.

And isn't potentially offensive, too.

Yeah the book is about a barely-functional child with asperger's who finds a dog that was killed by a shovel & finds out his mom died or was divorced or something (IIRC, I read it one afternoon many years ago).

Which is totally tantamount in weirdness to getting all As.

guys u are missing the ur-referent here which is that one old sherlock holmes story, although that doesn't really help much - the one with "watson, you are forgetting the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" "what was curious about it holmes" "i will tell u later watson" "fu holmes"

i was going to argue that the curious incident from that story (the dog not barking) was somehow the ref they were going for, but on second thoughts that doesn't really work at all

the one with "watson, you are forgetting the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" "what was curious about it holmes" "i will tell u later watson" "fu holmes"

lolll

But for a lad with Asperger's to get good results ... is that really so "curious"?

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 18:13 (4 hours ago)

no, the curious bit is why the school wouldn't accept him, considering he was a straight-a student - the standfirst makes that clear. the stuff in the copy where decca aitkenhead professes astonishment that he has a sense of humour is the offensive bit.

Cripes, I did not even register who the writer was. Gah.

The bit about his sense of humour was within the tone of the article, I think. It's an introduction for people who don't know anything about Asperger's, really, so it seems fair that she should talk about some of the myths around AS.

i'm sure it's well meant, but in describing her own reactions she just sounds like she approached the assignment in an incredible simple-minded way. writing about how someone doesn't fit a stereotype is a pretty lazy device anyway imo and can just end up propping up misconceptions - "oh, so this guy's an exception but..."

*incredibly

Decca Aikenhead in making an article about her non-shocker.

I observed, here and there, many in the habit of servants, with a blown bladder, fastened like a flail to the end of a stick, which they carried in their hands. In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas, or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed. With these bladders, they now and then flapped the mouths and ears of those who stood near them, of which practice I could not then conceive the meaning. It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is CLIMENOLE) in their family, as one of their domestics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him. And the business of this officer is, when two, three, or more persons are in company, gently to strike with his bladder the mouth of him who is to speak, and the right ear of him or them to whom the speaker addresses himself. This flapper is likewise employed diligently to attend his master in his walks, and upon occasion to give him a soft flap on his eyes; because he is always so wrapped up in cogitation, that he is in manifest danger of falling down every precipice, and bouncing his head against every post; and in the streets, of justling others, or being justled himself into the kennel.

I think about this passage quite often.

http://vimeo.com/11305685

i really love that video

thanks roxy, that's beautiful.

weird fucking asperger's test I found on Encyclopedia Dramatica, of all places, w/ questions like "Are your views typical of your peer group?" and "Do you naturally fit into the expected gender stereotypes?" and "Do you have one special talent which you have emphasised and worked on?" "Do you become frustrated if an activity that is important to you gets interrupted?" you'd have to be a pretty bland and thick-skinned person not to possess some of the aspie traits they're testing for.

also I think I must be an aspie because this test was written by a bunch of Swedes(?), and I keep getting hung up by all the grammar crimes scattered throughout.

you'd have to be a pretty bland and thick-skinned person not to possess some of the aspie traits they're testing for

A diagnosis of AS isn't about having some of the traits, it's about having a whole bunch of the traits in a pattern defined as AS.

that vid made me emotional!

"i was the one who made you a parent" aw lol <3

that vid made me emotional!

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rip

Ha, this is cool and all, but also seems slightly exploitive:

http://i.imgur.com/svzj9dB.jpg

"Ok, boys! Next up: VEGAS!"

I've seen that image around and I don't get it. Are they having you have to have mild autism to sort boxes, or to even want to in the first place?

http://i.imgur.com/JpcRRZN.png

Thanks for the great post, CURT AUTRY. #pleaseshare

"succeeding with Autism" - very condescending and assuming they no scope beyond menial jobs. I'd hope there would be plenty of people on the autism spectrum who would do the bare minimum for a shit job and occasionally tell the boss to get fucked, and all the other things that neurotypical people are allowed to do.

^^
have no scope

apparently this young man will also work for free because all walmart employees are uniformed at all times

xxp

I can assure you calzino that I know loads of peeps on the spectrum who can do that

it looks like he's just had fun sorting everything neatly and is happy about it

has no-one here ever neatened up the display or rearranged the filing on a bookshop shelf or CD shop rack?

ok, so I got bored while the pharmacy was filling out my prescription.

http://i.imgur.com/rzdO7sn.jpg

those bean sprouts look mighty messy

Interesting Chris Packham documentary last night.

yo dog latin this is the place