On The Aspie Side Of Normal

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Hey, look! The internet says I have Aspberger’s:



Of course, the internet also assures me that time is a four-sided cube, that DnD is a Satanic training program, that Jennifer Saunders is going to be the next Doctor on Doctor Who, that all heterosexual sex is rape, and that Moulin Rouge is a good movie,* so I take what the internet says with a grain of salt.

On the other hand, I do know a few people who’d believe it about me. Mom says I do act a little strange.

Wanna know if you have Aspberger’s? Here. Knock yerself out.  Be warned, some of the the questions are a little vague.


*No, really, all of these are real claims I have seen on the internet. Even the last one. Crazy, huh? 

Comments

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

I would judge that it is very likely that the person who wrote the test is a homophobe. *g*

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Why's that? I've forgotten the questions already.

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

All the questions about romantic/sexual interests were phrased as "someone of the opposite sex" except for a couple of questions about "deviant" or "unusual" sexual preferences.

Either they -really- need to clarify that, or they're taking preferences for someone of the same sex to be deviant.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

So it's definitely heteronormative, if not outright homophobic, then. I can see "unusual" just on the basis of statistics--you can be unusual without being bad--but "deviant" does have a rather unfortunate ring to it.

I remember the question about having views "ahead" or "behind" the times, and thought it was interesting to see the equation of progress with ideals. But I think that's just ignorance and careless phrasing. Which is probably not something you want on a psych test. ;)

[cjtremlett.livejournal.com]

The question is also how they're rating those responses. If you're GLBTQ, and you say yes to questions like that, are they automatically flagging those as being non-neurotypical? In which case, they've got a problem. And if they're not flagging those questions that way, what are they doing on that test?

The test is pretty badly written in general, even though it does get at relevant areas. Maybe it's not -quite- as fluffy as the typical meme quiz, but it's not that much better!