I hate how all these online tests overly emphasize social skills (or the lack thereof) while ignoring stimming and the general physiology that’s related to autism.

I would add these questions:

• Do you vocalize or make noises when you feel emotional?

• Do you repeat lines you hear from movies to yourself?

• Do you literally jump up and down when you are excited?

• Do you perform regular body movement (leg shaking, head rocking, arm flapping, finger snapping)?

• Do you curl your toes when your bare feet touches the floor?

• Do you like chewing on things?

• Do you clap when you are excited?

• Do you walk in a stiff and robotic manner?

• Are you a picky eater?

• Do you tailor what clothes you wear based on how comfortable they are to the exclusion of almost everything else (fashion, cost)?

• Are there entire types of noises that you find completely intolerable on par with nails on chalkboard?

• Do you have a comfort plushy?

I answered truthfully as possible and got 9 on the first one, but it was definitely easy to tell what answer to lower/raise the score.

I got 7 on the first one and 60 on the second one

I have severe ADHD but I’ve never thought I was autistic except if you get me talking about magic the gathering or starcraft

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28 on the first: okay, not too high and a lot of the questions sound like introversion rather than autism to me

144 on the second:

remembering the period of my life around age 15-16 where i deliberately tried to become more skilled/proficient at social interaction

remembering the scripting behavior where i would (and sometimes still do) imagine possible conversations i might have about something and try my best to plot out possible questions and responses

remembering how i’ve described social interaction to my therapist as a performance where my goal is to entertain and get the other person to like me

I have ADHD and got 29 on the first one (although the first one just seemed like a “are you an introvert” quiz tbh)

And I got this for the second:

17 and 73 here. Never really thought I was autistic, just had severe social anxiety, but it’s a lot better now. Could explain why my masking score was so high on the second test.

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Still kinda reeling from the information that it is not typical to practice facial expressions and body language 😂🤦 amongst other things, of course, but yeah. Wow.

Sure it is, just not for normies.

3 for me

whats funny is i have terrible anxiety and ptsd, but social situations are the thing i love most lmao. what if someone is autistic and their special interest is conversation 🤔

I know how most answers effect the score, so my knowledge influences the results, so I don’t trust them.

That said, I tried to answer honestly and got 33 ASQ, 129 CAT-Q (41,41,47).

I worry that I’m biasing my answers toward higher scores so I can be special in some way, but I need to just trust myself and my memories of my experiences.

ADHD here and I took both and got 29 on the first and 99 on the second. Both pretty borderline, so that makes sense.

38 on the first test, 41 total for the second (11, 14, 16). Guess I don’t mask this shit, lol

yeouch for the cat-q i got total 133: 54 compensation 28 masking 51 assimilation

In autistic people, the total CAT-Q score and the Assimilation score negatively correlate with well-being. The higher your scores on these measures, the lower your well-being tends to be.

hmm

40 AQ 😎