Curious

Hi. I was bored and curious one day and took something called an Aspie Quiz.

Here are the results:

Neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 132 of 200
Neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 93 of 200
You are very likely neurodiverse (Aspie)

Does anybody know about this quiz and how accurate it is? The thing is though, I am diagnosed with Depression and GAD, so maybe those two things can have similar results. But I do wonder if I have other things. There's some things I do that doesn't seem like anxiety to me, if that makes any sense. Like how much I stim and love to stim, I guess.

But um... yeah.

I mean, I have a few family members that have bipolar disorder and ADHD, but they're like, cousins. So I probably don't have any of those things.

Has anyone taken this test before?

Hello dan: I'm not familiar with the test you took. So I can't be of any help. Hopefully there will be some other members, here on PC, who will be. However I noticed this is your first post here on PC. So... welcome to PsychCentral! I hope you find the time you spend here to be of benefit. May I suggest you introduce yourself over on PC's New Member Introductions forum? Here's a link:

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There's a lot of support that can be available here on PC. The more you post, & reply to other members' posts, the more a part of the community you will become. Plus there are the chat rooms where you'll be able to interact with other PC members in real time (once your first 5 posts have been reviewed & approved.) So please keep posting!

I'm sure I have not only taken that quiz, but taken it multiple times. I have an ASD (originally dx'd PDD-NOS back before the DSM changes), so yeah, autism quizzes were a point of interest back then. I have no clue how accurate the thing is, it's one of those things that you'll find some neurotypicals scoring as probably an aspie and people on the spectrum who might score neurotypical. It's just gonna depend, you know? Regardless, it can be fun to take quizzes like that, I think anyways.

There's definitely some overlap when it comes to things like traits you might find with people who have depression, GAD, and/or an ASD. Depression and GAD are also pretty common comorbids for people dx'd with an ASD. It can get a little tricky to pick that stuff apart sometimes. A good psych professional can help with that.

Anyway, you got my attention with stimming. Heh. I can be a stimmy person myself. I never know about that stuff though. I mean, I wonder if a person who is standing in line, stressed about being late or something, is rocking back and forth on their heels, is it stimming? Ultimately stimming is self soothing usually done without even realizing you are doing it, right? So it seems to me that most people end up being stimmy in different situations, except they might call it fidgeting or letting out nervous energy. To me it's all the same, but of course it would be because I'm autistic and so it's just called that in my world.

-Avery