Posted by Quintal on January 1, 2007, at 14:34:38
In reply to Re: Asperger's Syndrome? » Quintal, posted by Declan on December 31, 2006, at 19:14:22
OK time to add my own results to the debate......
Autism Spectrum Quotient: 38 (Very high)
Empathy Quotient: 14 (Very low and very unexpected)
Systemising Quotient: 48 (Very high)All looking good for the AS theory until......
Mind in the eyes: 32 (*Very* high, way above average even for 'normal' people. Ooh, ooh, ooh)
So..... am I just a nefarious sociopath as jimmygold70 suggests or is something else at work here?
I had a look around one of the Asperger's support sites and curiously most of them were scoring in the mid twenties for the 'Mind in the eyes' tests with a few who had even been diagnosed with Asperger's as children scoring in the thirties. A common theme was that people said they were working out the expressions by a process of elimination - otherwise it seems odd that people on the autistic spectrum are scoring so highly on facial recognition tests.
Curious.
Q
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