Today, we are going to discuss my results
after I took an online autism test some of my results surprised me while others were expected. The site I chose was IDRLabs.com. I have no affiliation with this site. I found it using Google. I will put a link to this site
in the description if you are interested to take this test for yourself,
or you can just Google autism spectrum test and find a site
that makes more sense to you. The reason I chose this site
among all the ones I found was twofold
. First, you do not have to give any personal information
to get your results after taking a test. They immediately show up on screen. The second is I like the way the
test results are displayed. I am a very visual person,
and your results are in a wheel-chart. And it's a very awesome way
to see your results. I recommend taking it.
This is for entertainment purposes only. And online self test is not a replacement
for talking to a professional. So the test that I did do
consists of 50 ques
tions that you answer using a five part scale from agree to neutral to disagree. And the results are
then plotted out on a category wheel, that consists of 10 categories. The more shaded a category is,
the more of that trait you associate with. Most of these traits on their own
can be associated with just everyday life for a neurotypical person.
Neurotypical being a term used to describe someone
that is, quote, normal. The best example is
the category of aggression. I know there is a fair
share of people out there
with anger issues that would not be considered
autistic, for sure. The categories are aggression, depression, fixations, abnormal or flat speech, noise, sensitivity, social difficulty, anxiety, abnormal posture. Poor eye contact and tics and fidgets. After you take the test, there is a definition of each of these
that you get along with the score. So I take the test twice at specific
times, and I answered honestly, and then I took the test two more times. As a contr
ol, starting with the controls,
the first control I did, I answered neutral
to every single question on the test. And as you can see from this chart,
answering neutral puts the color shading smack
in the middle of the test results. This is what I would have expected to see. So for the second control,
which was the last time I took it, I tried to answer what I thought
would be the most neurotypical answer. I did pretty well in my guesses. But you can see from my results,
I still messed up
for you again. Both of these controls were taken
after I had taken my two tests because I did not want to have prior insight to the questions
when I took them for the first time. So far, my first test
I took at the end of my day, winding down, laying in bed,
and I was in a good mood. I found some of the questions to be worded
in a way that was kind of difficult, but maybe that was part of the test to see
if you understood the question properly. Here are my results. As you can see, my highe
st
rating for aggression, fixations and poor eye contact. This did not surprise me, but all I did
was abnormal speech and posture. I admit I may not have the best posture. I could not think of four questions. I answered that I answered,
that put this as high as it did on my answers, at first. And then I thought about how I pause
to formulate what I want to say. And then I had to agree. Maybe it is where
it should be on my results. The second time I took the test. I decided to do so
right a
fter a stressful situation at work. The results were very interesting to me. As you may expect,
aggression spiked fully, but also social difficulty
and depression went up as well. This kind of makes sense,
but anxiety went down. I would have thought that
that would have gone up as well. But maybe the way the questions
are worded in my anger at the time, it made me answer a question
slightly differently. All my other categories, as you can see,
pretty much stayed the same, which kind of ma
kes me comfortable
in thinking this is a fair test and representation. For a bonus, I had my partner take this test
knowing nothing about what to expect. Her results show that I should've had
create the controls. She blew through the test with ease, but yet the same questioning on
some of the wording that I did. So I was not alone. If you decide to take this test. Let me know in the comments if you agree
or disagree with your results. Thank you for watching. And if you enjoyed this content,
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