There’s nothing wrong with those things, but I don’t want to do them, and I don’t want company who expects that we share every interest. What’s the scoring metric on this garbage?īut I’m not willing to concede if what the question really wants to know is if I want to go to a sporting event or shopping mall, or if I want to belabor myself with the company of people who enjoy sporting events and shopping malls. If I say the most autistic-esque thing, then it is not true enough, and I won’t be confident in my score. So now, on the first question, I’m panicking. I adore people who are at least not going to burden me with small talk or be offended when I leave the room without announcing where I’m going, why I’m going, and what it means to our relationship– like not checking in constantly is a personal attack on the sanctity of our friendship. I love being with people when I’m not expected to mask. If we’re saying “things,” do we mean going to the library? A restaurant? Watching Netflix? Neflix n chill? Bathing? Assembling an Ikea shelf? Going to a public protest?ĭoes this mean my weird friend who also hates the mass majority of people and who will sit on the recliner while I sit on the couch and send me memes instead of talking to me?īecause yes, I rather enjoy a guest who doesn’t demand that I forfeit my communication style, my sensory needs, and my boundaries. Given the ambiguous verbiage, the answer is equal parts “almost always” and “almost never.” We’re starting out with the first question having the word things in it? And others? Question 1: I prefer to do things with others rather than on my own. For follow-up articles of this series, my friend Sebastian has interviewed quite a few autistic adults and will show you their internal processes as they respond to other questions. This first article is my own interaction with a few of the questions. So for those developing tests, and for audience entertainment, we are going to tackle the questions from the AQ by showing you autistic people’s internal dialogue in response to them. While this series focuses on deconstructing this one measurement, most of the tests out there are similar– and similarly flawed. The answers are the standard almost always, sometimes, rarely, or almost never. The AQ is a 50-question self-reported tool designed for undiagnosed adults who are not intellectually disabled. My colleague, Sebastian Joseph, and I are working to put together a series on one of the most frequently used autism screening tools, the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) questionnaire, which was developed by Simon Baron-Cohen and cohorts. When I take autism indicators designed to help figure out if an adult is autistic or not, I feel like the questions can’t be accurately answered without some context and clarification, and I’m not the only autistic person who feels this way.
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