This is kind of neat. Humor me and participate?

[Sword of the Lord]

Yes. All the time. I can't think straight until it's corrected, or I check on whatever it is. If I'm in bed at night and this happens, forget sleeping. However, I am so tedious and precise and comfortable at home, and my routines are set, that it's not typically an issue. This problem is usually a work problem. Right now I have been unemployed for 7 weeks. But for example, at my last job, I'm a forklift driver (everywhere I work this is what I do). Work is so unknown, crazy, unorganized, uncomfortable, mostly out of my control. My mind spins and I think that I may have forgotten something on my paperwork and I'll check 4, 5, 6 times. Even if I've handed it in, I'll be on my bosses office, "Are you sure? Can I just look one more time..." or I may think I forgot to put something away in the racks and check over and over again. It just sits there in my head and I dwell on it. There's more examples, but I don't feel like writing a book. This is a problem when I make an error as well. I hate screwing up. I will dwell on the mistake for hours, maybe days depending in what is was, "stupid, stupid, stupid" and apologize profusely, over and over and over again.

How you are with the cat and the door, I am with the dog and his water. If I see that his bowl is dry, to me that means it's been dry for days (never truly has) and I go on a rant about how he's going to die and we need to be careful, and darn it (gracious words here) am I the only one that cares?! That checks?!

 

[Antigone]

Work is so unknown, crazy, unorganized, uncomfortable, mostly out of my control. My mind spins and I think that I may have forgotten something on my paperwork and I'll check 4, 5, 6 times. Even if I've handed it in, I'll be on my bosses office, "Are you sure? Can I just look one more time..." or I may think I forgot to put something away in the racks and check over and over again. It just sits there in my head and I dwell on it.

I used to have this when I first started working when I was a teenager. I remember the first day after I worked at the cafetaria of the swimming pool in a local holiday park, and there was so much to process that I couldn't sleep, I kept mulling it over, thinking about all the things I'd seen and heard and that one coworker who'd already decided I was useless and she hated me and that I'd mixed the chlorine tablets the wrong way and served someone food from the deep fryer that was still frozen and I'd gotten coke sludge all over my clothes so I'd have to wear the long trousers that weren't regulation...

It got better, though. I'm able to process and store these things nowadays. Writing it down and making lists usually helps me. I'm not a naturally organised person - quite the opposite - so I have to be structured.

 

[Genersis]

If we ever go gallivanting around jolly ol' London, I am going to bear hug you.

Whatever you may get up to, keep the noise down.
Some of us have to live here.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Let's recap:

Females:

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 71 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 149 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 54 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 154 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 43 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 158 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 94 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 130 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Males:

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 165 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 52 of 200
You are very likely neurodiverse (Aspie)

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 89 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 115 of 200
You seem to have both neurodiverse and neurotypical trait

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 91 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 116 of 200
You seem to have both neurodiverse and neurotypical traits

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 112 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 113 of 200
You seem to have both neurodiverse and neurotypical traits

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 64 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 166 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Any other takers?

 

[Antigone]

Whatever you may get up to, keep the noise down.
Some of us have to live here.

If you don't like noise, why live in London?

 

[Genersis]

If you don't like noise, why live in London?

It's people that make places noisy. It's always good to be pre-emptive about these things.

A few noisy tourists and soon the overburdened Noise Police, followed by the city would face total collapse.


In reality, it just seemed like something silly to say(like the above).

To answer the question though:
Familial tradition, and symbolically putting my middle digit up to a guy who once told me no decent British people live in London.
I may end up moving to Jersey(that is, the isle) eventually.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

71
164

 

[Sword of the Lord]

My wife took it and scored 77 for neurodiverse and 128 for neurotypical. Thanks for taking the test Avila.

Females:

Amy
Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 77 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 128 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 71 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 149 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 54 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 154 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 43 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 158 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 94 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 130 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Males:

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 165 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 52 of 200
You are very likely neurodiverse (Aspie)

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 89 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 115 of 200
You seem to have both neurodiverse and neurotypical trait

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 91 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 116 of 200
You seem to have both neurodiverse and neurotypical traits

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 112 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 113 of 200
You seem to have both neurodiverse and neurotypical traits

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 64 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 166 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 71
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 164
You are very likely neurotypical

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 31 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 172 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

LoAmmi: We're STILL the only ones above 100, pal.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Antigone: if you look at our scores, we are literally the almost exact opposite. Imagine being locked in a room together for a day! *shudders*

 

[LoAmmi]

LoAmmi: We're STILL the only ones above 100, pal.

It's just because we're awesome.

 

[MikeK]

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 31 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 172 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

 

[Sword of the Lord]

It's just because we're awesome.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 31 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 172 of 200
You are very likely neurotypical

Whoa! Now THAT makes sense.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

(I'm excluding myself from this since I'm so far off the charts compared to everyone else, and since I asked you all to take the test.)

Average Male:
76 (neurodiverse)
141 (neurotypical)

Average Female:
68 (neurodiverse)
144 (neurotypical)

 

[Michie]

Well the quiz says you can't take this too seriously. Nothing beats a specialist but it was an interesting test. The questions would be different for me during different periods in my life though.

 

[MikeK]

I do share tinnitus with some of you. It ranges from being a non-issue to a major annoyance, robbing me of sleep. Mine stems from too many years spent abusing my ears with competitive shooting, motorcycles, chainsaws, drums and loud music. I have significant hearing loss as a result. I'm a person who really likes to be out and about, meeting new people and so on, and hearing loss and tinnitus are a real bummer in a crowd.

 

[Michie]

My husband came home from work a couple months ago & it was like someone just flipped a switch in his right ear & nothing. He has been seeing a specialist to determine the cause. He just had a MRI done & will get the results the 19th. But he describes it as a bad speaker. He can't hear anything but he picks up static, buzzing, etc.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Is anyone taking this too seriously, though, Michie? I found the test on Wrong Planet, an ASD forum. I was/am curious to see who differs from me the most, and who is most like me. My fascination with numbers and experiments has me creating averages and using you guys and gals in a personal OBOB study; just something I'm interested in; hope you all don't mind! It's very interesting to me that this has done some pretty cool things: it has confirmed my diagnoses (not that I needed it to, but I honestly don't know how I would have reacted had it said the opposite!); it has shown LoAmmi to have some mild characteristics, which he had known and suspected, but not necessarily anything ASD; and it has confirmed, thus far, that males are typically more ASD than females (4:1 ratio for those diagnosed). I don't know why Mike's score being so incredibly NT shocked me; it makes sense.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

I have always had snow/static vision. No known cause for it; there's nothing wrong with my eyes or brain that would cause it (maybe the cyst that I had or was thought to have, but that isn't even there anymore, if it ever really was). The flashes started happening in 2008; again I got my eyes checked, and again nothing was found to be wrong with my eyes. Not too long ago I had my MRI and that checked out, so good there. The tinnitus started in 2009. I got my ears tested and I have phenomenal hearing. I argued with the doctor that there must be something snd he was adament that anyone should be happy with me hearing, that he wanted my hearing, and there was nothing physically wrong. I've never exposed myself to too much loud noise. I'm a huge ear protection guy, as I hate loud noises. None of this added up or made sense. I now wonder if this is related to my ASD. I wonder if my perceived tinnitus is typical white noise that my ears and brain picks up on more profoundly than others because of being sensitive to noise. I wonder if the odd visual phenomenons are ASD related.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Wow! I just noticed that out of the females my wife is second most Aspie and least NT. Maybe it's from spending nearly 9 years with me? Still, that gives me some hope.