Duncan74
Well-Known Member
I'm trying to work out if asking me to walk into a room of strangers and introduce myself is a test ;-)
So my story, 48y/o male, senior professional role, but have always struggled with the 'people' side of my roles. Big style struggled. Over the years I've done all manner of work personality/profile tests and I guess the summary is I've always been very binary on those - extreme left extreme right, or on others at the 0-5th percentiles for some attributes and 95%iles for others. And then yesterday I saw on instagram this post by the author Matt Haig. Insta post which when I read left me sat in shock as he described me with spooky accuracy.
Over last 24 hours done several online tests and every single one has shown strong autism.
AQ-50 - 38
Aspie quiz 118 cf 83 (very strong)
Cat- Q - 127 (37/40/50)
As a young child (5yo) I was assessed by some sort of pschologist and the nett result I was moved up a year. Basically my poor behaviour was put down to being smart and bored. I didn't have any siblings, so awkward social skills I think got put down to lack of practice.
Through school I hated everything, but found for me getting there really early - being first in a room and then people joining 1 by 1 set me up way better for the day. Same for every class/break, getting in first. I still do this in every work meeting, and tend to get up at 4:30-5am, do my exercise and be in the office for 7:30am.
I have always had a hatred of phone calls, even as a kid then for some reason I've hated making calls. So texting has been a revelation, and in a work environment the use of chat/teams has really freed me.
In a work environment it's only been in the last couple of years I've got my head around the fact that not everyone is entirely open an honest. Even typing that now makes me smile at how ridiculous it is, but honestly the hours and hours I've spent trying to 'understand' what I misunderstood in conversations, when in reality half the time it was that the person was just being duplicitous.
I've had several 'obsessions' over the year - I think I'm still the top poster on two totally unrelated internet forums that I've not been on for 10 years (so warning ahead, first but may not be last post here!).
So what more from here? Well I've been seeing a counseller for about 6 months now (3rd time of gettign professional help, first twice for depression after getting into a real bad self-destructive spirals). And on Monday I'm going to explicitly raise this.
But perhaps this isn't the forum to ask this, but what's the likelihood of every test showing such strong positives, and yet not being autism?
So my story, 48y/o male, senior professional role, but have always struggled with the 'people' side of my roles. Big style struggled. Over the years I've done all manner of work personality/profile tests and I guess the summary is I've always been very binary on those - extreme left extreme right, or on others at the 0-5th percentiles for some attributes and 95%iles for others. And then yesterday I saw on instagram this post by the author Matt Haig. Insta post which when I read left me sat in shock as he described me with spooky accuracy.
Over last 24 hours done several online tests and every single one has shown strong autism.
AQ-50 - 38
Aspie quiz 118 cf 83 (very strong)
Cat- Q - 127 (37/40/50)
As a young child (5yo) I was assessed by some sort of pschologist and the nett result I was moved up a year. Basically my poor behaviour was put down to being smart and bored. I didn't have any siblings, so awkward social skills I think got put down to lack of practice.
Through school I hated everything, but found for me getting there really early - being first in a room and then people joining 1 by 1 set me up way better for the day. Same for every class/break, getting in first. I still do this in every work meeting, and tend to get up at 4:30-5am, do my exercise and be in the office for 7:30am.
I have always had a hatred of phone calls, even as a kid then for some reason I've hated making calls. So texting has been a revelation, and in a work environment the use of chat/teams has really freed me.
In a work environment it's only been in the last couple of years I've got my head around the fact that not everyone is entirely open an honest. Even typing that now makes me smile at how ridiculous it is, but honestly the hours and hours I've spent trying to 'understand' what I misunderstood in conversations, when in reality half the time it was that the person was just being duplicitous.
I've had several 'obsessions' over the year - I think I'm still the top poster on two totally unrelated internet forums that I've not been on for 10 years (so warning ahead, first but may not be last post here!).
So what more from here? Well I've been seeing a counseller for about 6 months now (3rd time of gettign professional help, first twice for depression after getting into a real bad self-destructive spirals). And on Monday I'm going to explicitly raise this.
But perhaps this isn't the forum to ask this, but what's the likelihood of every test showing such strong positives, and yet not being autism?