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cleolindaSome very interesting personality-type tests--I got them off ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
hawleygriffen's journal while I was desperately trying to catch up with my f-list. Basically, the premise is that women are wired to empathize and men to systematize. The weird thing is, I scored above average on the reading faces and empathy tests--and above the male average on the systematizing test. But then, I find sorting things--papers, computer files, pictures--to be very relaxing. It's probably more of an obsessive-compulsive thing than anything related to autism--and trust me, I usually get convinced that I have whatever the test is on. But autism and/or Aspberger's is one of the few things I can be dead sure I don't have--I was awkward as a child and a teenager, but I grew up to be way too much of the family diplomat for that, and once I got into college, I had this weird social blossoming. Like, I'm not all that great at parties, and I'm still a little awkward when I first meet you, but I basically forced myself to learn how to have a conversation with strangers. It's easy, actually: keep asking the other person about himself. (I find this works really well with guys. A little too well, if you inadvertently show too much interest, as I did one time at a niddle-school church social with this one guy and his fixation on model airplanes. Yikes.) If you're not familiar with what they're talking about, ask them. Seriously, I've talked to people I didn't even know that well for hours with this technique in mind. Anyway. If I could stop freezing up every time someone asked, "How are you?" ("I'm... uh... you know ... tired... busy... HOW ARE YOU??"), I could rule the world.
Reading the mind in the eyes
Your score: 31
A typical score is in the range 22-30. If you scored over 30,
you are very accurate at decoding a person's facial expressions
around their eyes. A score under 22 indicates you find this quite difficult.
Systematizing quotient
Your score: 31
0 - 19 = low
20 - 39 = average (most women score about 24 and most men score about 30)
40 - 50 = above average (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score in this range)
51 - 80 is very high (three times as many people with Asperger Syndrome score in this range, compared to typical men, and almost no women score in this range)
80 is maximum
Empathy quotient test
Your score: 56
0 - 32 = low (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 20)
33 - 52 = average (most women score about 47 and most men score about 42)
53 - 63 is above average
64 - 80 is very high
80 is maximum
Autism Spectrum quotient
Your score: 15
0 - 10 = low
11 - 22 = average (most women score about 15 and most men score about 17)
23 - 31 = above average
32 - 50 is very high (most people with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism score about 35)
50 is maximum
In other news--well, after that little tangent, it should not surprise you to find out that I have a Phear of Phones. In fact, the last time we discussed this, I discovered that tons of y'all have similar Phone Phreakouts. This weekend I ended up having to have extended conversations with my grandmother (which is fine; it's more of a struggle to keep talking) and my great-aunt, so that was sort of practice. (Great-aunt is Cindy the set decorator's mother, btw; Cindy is between jobs at the moment, having just finished that Bruce Willis movie--Hostage?--but her husband is apparently in Mexico working on The Mask of Zorro 2. I have an unholy affection for the first movie, so this is v. v. exciting.) Anyway. I am expecting at least one major business phone call this week, maybe two, and--PHEAR. PH34R!
You have to remember, prior to this, my idea of a "business phone call" was "Thank you for calling Movie Gallery, how may I help you?" And now I'm expecting a call from friggin' London. Hi, I'm a scared little white Southern girl, how can you help me?
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Date: 2004-06-13 10:04 pm (UTC)I made a bunch of icons by the same artist you have here. I really wanted to get an artbook of hers while I was in Japan, but I never found one.
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Date: 2004-06-13 10:10 pm (UTC)Re: Ask and you shall recieve
Date: 2004-06-13 10:41 pm (UTC)I don't know if it's in stock but it's worth a shot.
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Date: 2004-06-13 10:32 pm (UTC)Is that bad?
No offense but why are you scared of phones?
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Date: 2004-06-13 10:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-13 10:39 pm (UTC)What am I supposed to talk about?
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Date: 2004-06-14 04:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-14 08:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-14 08:29 am (UTC)Tho it is in a way better than talking to someone. Depends who, of course. Official call are the worst. Yech.
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Date: 2004-06-13 10:58 pm (UTC)Wow, yet another opportunity to remind myself that to every stereotype there are some outliers.
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Date: 2004-06-14 06:29 am (UTC)I've said for a long time that I don't want to leave and go someplace "better" once I get my master's, because that's why things suck the way they already do--we need creative, talented people (of which we already have several--only there aren't as many outlets for them as there could be) to stay and keep working here.
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Date: 2004-06-14 08:07 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-06-13 11:44 pm (UTC)Actually, I was surprised by how low that was, because people tell me all the time that I'm empathetic to a fault.
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Date: 2004-06-14 06:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-13 11:47 pm (UTC)...now that that's out of my system...
Gah, talking to aunts/great-aunts/whatevers can be a royal pain if you don't know what to say. Funnily enough, I have no problem at all talking to more obscure relatives from Australia, France etc...or my uncles. Come to that, I'm not very good at talking to most girls on the phone. Comes from spending three years with guys.
*rambles*
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Date: 2004-06-14 01:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-14 01:20 am (UTC)And do all those floods of books by/about Southern women--excuse me, belles--and how we're just always glammed up and full of pluck and grit (and grits) and fire and sass and practically a sub-nation of Scarletts just make you feel a stranger in your own region?
I'm not a belle, and I'm not fearless, and I'm not an adult about my fearlessness, either. I'm a big wailing kid. I'll hold your hand while you're on the phone, metaphorically speaking, at least. Phone calls don't worry me per se but I have plenty of my own freakouts.
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Date: 2004-06-14 01:27 am (UTC)51 - 80 is very high (three times as many people with Asperger Syndrome score in this range, compared to typical men, and almost no women score in this range)
Um, I'm a woman and I got a 53 on this one. Should I be worried? Or just accept this as further proof that I'm slightly off my rocker?
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Date: 2004-06-14 06:46 am (UTC)What was your empathy score? I wouldn't be worried about Aspberger's unless you *also* scored very low in social skills.
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Date: 2004-06-14 06:54 am (UTC)I'm sure you have a lovely mother. But between that and the baby in the supermarket... she may be the one with the unusual reactions. I don't know that it's you at all.
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Date: 2004-06-14 02:29 am (UTC)Pyra
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Date: 2004-06-14 09:05 am (UTC)Oh, and total sympathy on the important phone thing. Maybe a little stress toy/ball would help during the call. Hold the phone in one hand and that in the other. :)
Of course, it being London, a very culturally mixed up place, you never know, you might ending up talking to a fellow southerner.
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Date: 2004-06-14 11:29 am (UTC)Maybe a little stress toy/ball would help during the call
*squeeeeeeeeeze*
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Date: 2004-06-14 12:21 pm (UTC)*cackles*
Well, as long as you're not imagining the accents from Steel Magnolias, I guess we're okay.
I think when I last saw that movies, some ljers were not even born, yet. :)
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Date: 2004-06-14 04:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-14 05:00 am (UTC)When I was in grad school- yes, studying psychology- we learned that grad students typically go off the scale on the MMPI Hs ("hysteria") scale. That doesn't mean that grad students are classic hysterics; it means that that sort of behavior is adaptive if you're in grad school.
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Date: 2004-06-14 05:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-14 05:11 am (UTC)I went back and looked at the individual items on the tests and I strongly suspect that a very few of the questions have the highest item validity. For instance, consider this item:
"When I talk on the phone, I'm not sure when it's my turn to speak."
Most of us have no problem with that task. Agreeing with it would be a very strong marker for autism.
Almost all the questions were fairly transparent. The ones that woould coirrelate with autism would be those that indicate an inability to do "mind reading"- that is, an inability to read the mental states of others, something we all do every day in social interaction.
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Date: 2004-06-14 08:19 am (UTC)This is exactly how I survive social situations. I don't know why, but I can't seem to allow myself to be easy and open when I'm around people, even ones with whom I'm acquainted. There are only a few people who could claim that they know me well.
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Date: 2004-06-14 10:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-14 06:20 pm (UTC)*kicks phone*
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Date: 2004-06-14 06:57 pm (UTC)Phone Phear
Date: 2004-06-14 08:55 pm (UTC)But I hate cold-calling people, so I wait for a reason to call (end of school, for instance). Still, it's mildly awkward. I do find my awkwardness helps break the ice - they know I'm not trying to be slick and sell them anything.
Changing subject: I found out today my lil' sis might need dialysis, so I needed cheering up some. Thanks!
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Date: 2004-06-14 08:58 pm (UTC)