24 Average math contest winner
Yet I my TI-83+ and/or FK-5001 being within reach to be a necessity...
Autism in All of Us?
2010.03.23 (Tuesday) – 11:43 am
Autism might be a magnification of tendencies we all share. We’re labeled autistic when we do not limit certain behaviors that all people have. We’re mainstreamed when we learn to limit the behaviors.
Obsession is just one of the autistic behaviors I’ve seen, for example in Gabriel’s passion about trains. He can identify Caltrain vs Amtrack Capital Corridor vs Amtrack regular by the horn it blows. He can tell me whether the Shrek train is in the Bachman or MHT train catalog, and probably what page it’s on. My guess is that it’s only a short time until he memorizes the light rail schedule. He sponges up everything he’s exposed to regarding trains.
I can obsess about a piece of technology, researching and planning all night, buying multiple flavors of it even while unemployed or otherwise fiscally irresponsible (don’t tell my wife), take it apart and re-assemble to the exclusion of all other activities (…were it not for the demands of my family). Once I’ve learned ridiculously more about less and less, I can set it aside. Then I can offer encyclopedic advice to my friends.
I think that our ability to be temperate, to balance our obsessive and non-obsessive behaviors takes us off the autism spectrum. This ability to gate or throttle is not trained or present in autistic people: obsession, sights, sounds, touches, passions, are all 100% all the time for them.
Scored 25 here. I've sometimes felt I have slightly autistic tendencies. But it could just be that the world is full of jerks and I have no inclination to get on with them. I think the latter is the more significant explanation.
Simple.
Are you in IT?
No - rest easy
Yes - be worried, very worried
source: Wired (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aspergers_pr.html)
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Medication and Marriage.
Medication and Marriage.
I scored 16... Not sure what that means by that scale, even if only "for entertainment".
Notice the typo.
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Proves the author of this survey was not a detail person.
I'm thinking mm/dd/yy kinda dates.I have a feeling Rip knows that and is just making fun of the test.
It'd be funny to see what people here get; my score was 23 on that.
If a relatively short test can be trusted for any accuracy at all, it just means you have "autistic tendencies," which is a far cry from saying you may have autism. If you have general anxiety and depression, you could easily rack up some quick points, yet not really have any behaviors attributable to likely autism.
I've only ever taken one accurate online quiz/test. The question was "How adventurous are you?". I picked the "I like to take risks" option. My result on the test was: You are an adventurous person who likes to take risks.
There's a reason for the excessive length. One of the effects is that it makes it harder for you to skew the test by answering the way you'd like to be rather than the way you actually are. You can always totally lie and skew it of course, but the stuff that's a judgement call that you bias toward your ideal can really skew a short test noticeably.
I wrote this earlier this year:...
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Medication and Marriage.
Medication and Marriage.
Notice the typo.
Needs specificity.
Proves the author of this survey was not a detail person.
36/50, fortunately near the very low end of the extreme spectrum.
It seems to be fair to conjecture that the test will output a high result if one is merely uncaring towards other people and their actions. This is simply one circumstance in which it would seem to fail to meet the criterion upon which it is based.
36, should i be worried? naah f*ck that
this of course is not funny if you do have aspergers. But then nothing is so why should i worry about it?
I got 36 and I'm in sales. ;)
I'm not so sure an internet administered test has much accuracy, and I'm also not so sure that this type of test can be self-administered without some check in place (perspective is everything).
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I'm not so sure an internet administered test has much accuracy, and I'm also not so sure that this type of test can be self-administered without some check in place (perspective is everything).
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I don't think aspergers is a "disease", it's more of a mindset. I'm probably biased, but, I think if people change their attitude, they wouldn't have such issues (everyone has volition and can choose what to do, blaming it on something else is stupidity). My best guess is that it usually spawns from a bad childhood and poor parenting, gosh, so many people today are such horrible parents it's no wonder.
I don't think aspergers is a "disease"
0 - didn't take the test.
Smart dude.
This statement is actually correct, but not for the reasons why you think it is. Asperger's is now considered a fully qualified subset of autism rather than a different kind of disorder... so I guess you should go and say people who are autistic can quit being autistic whenever they feel like it.
You are wrong again.
I agree 100%. People with horrible social skills used to be called nerds. Now they have a disease to blame.
Poor parenting have nothing to do with it. All autism spectra disorders are very inheritable and recently several genetic markers have been found that explains the condition.
On the other hand, good parenting can help a kid to function quite well and cope with the disorder.
Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_autism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_autism)
Have you ever met someone with autism? How do you propose they just 'snap' out of it?
At the same time, there should be some sort of support and help for such children. Calling them lazy ****s and telling them to try harder doesn't accomplish much.
But the only reason they're lazy ****s in the first place is because they're led to believe that they have a disease. Vicious cycle. When I was around 8 or 9, I had heard of a child who was exempted from taking math classes because he had ADD.
I mentioned the college senior who asked for more time because of ADHD, because I thought culturally ADHD is only talked about when you are young.
Surely through years of school he would have found out how best to cope with it, no?
I would expect someone like him to work extra hard if being an engineer is what he wanted. In that case I would find it inspiring. But I didn't see it in that particular student.He might have been working harder than you could have ever imagined... or you might be right. The guy may have been a lazy worthless **** who gives all other hard working people with disabilities a bad name, but you can't use this as an excuse to condemn people who ask for special considerations because of a disability as lazy cheaters.
The entrepreneurs who got bad grades in school is something completely different. Most of them just don't like what they are taking, so the grade system is only holding them back from their real passion. Fortunately in the US people have many different paths to success.I'd say that's probably true of high school, but a lot less true for college coursework. Either way, what you just said is really not very different from the point I was trying to make... that some people suffer in instututionalized environments, but go on to thrive when they no longer have to follow rules and regimens imposed upon them and many people with psychological disorders have great difficulty with rules and regimens because those rules an regimens were not designed for people who work the way they do.
You CANNOT "inherit" mental attributes. That's like saying a baby will be able to paint a masterpiece just because their parents can. Mental stances of the mind have to be developed, they don't appear over night, and cannot be inherited. There's science, and there's philosophy. That's philosophy.
I think of it like this, if someone is addicted to something, they may have TROUBLE changing their mindset, but with a little practice it IS possible. Nothing is impossible when it comes to changing thought. Aspergers is merely like an addiction or being sustained in a bad environment for too long.
You CANNOT "inherit" mental attributes. That's like saying a baby will be able to paint a masterpiece just because their parents can. Mental stances of the mind have to be developed, they don't appear over night, and cannot be inherited. There's science, and there's philosophy. That's philosophy.
Anyone claiming to get less than 20 needs to post a picture of their GF with a keyboard on their head before I'll believe it.
You CANNOT "inherit" mental attributes.
Besides having a healthcare background, this runs in my family so I know quite a bit about it. It was traditionally thought that you outgrew ADHD, but we now know that you don't. People often outgrow the hyperactivity part or at least become a lot less hyperactive so the most obvious signs of the disorder disappear. The distractive part of ADHD doesn't go away so adults who really do have untreated ADHD have a high tendency to be failures in life (for lack of a better term).
Stigmatizing them to just get over it doesn't do them any good and perhaps more importantly, it doesn't do YOU any good either because they might be driving the next taxi cab you get into or flying the next plane or conducting the next passenger rail you hop on. You might live a longer life if these people get the treatment they need.
Yes, that's partially correct. If he made it that far, then he's probably actually extremely smart for having made it that far. However, coping with something doesn't mean that it goes away. You cannot just try harder and be a fundamentally different person tomorrow.
He might have been working harder than you could have ever imagined... or you might be right. The guy may have been a lazy worthless **** who gives all other hard working people with disabilities a bad name, but you can't use this as an excuse to condemn people who ask for special considerations because of a disability as lazy cheaters.
I'd say that's probably true of high school, but a lot less true for college coursework. Either way, what you just said is really not very different from the point I was trying to make... that some people suffer in institutionalized environments, but go on to thrive when they no longer have to follow rules and regimens imposed upon them and many people with psychological disorders have great difficulty with rules and regimens because those rules an regimens were not designed for people who work the way they do.
...neural system that doesn't produce enough dopamin...
Anyone claiming to get less than 20 needs to post a picture of their GF with a keyboard on their head before I'll believe it.On a certain image board you'd get over 9000 replys with fleshlights + keyboards on top!
On a certain image board you'd get over 9000 replys with fleshlights + keyboards on top!
I got a six. Hooray?
The test said I'm the "average female scientist". The only problems are that I'm male, and I'm not a scientist.
Maybe they'll fuse together to form something vaguely useful.
This is getting confusing. I can never tell EverythingIBM and MW apart and now you guys are trolling each other?
Maybe they'll fuse together to form something vaguely useful.
Fuse together? Why don't you go fuse together with some irish beer =p
Irish beer is highly over-rated...
36.
Not surprised. (Not that I think that that test was meaningful. There's ways for people who aren't anywhere near the autistic spectrum to score high, and people who have been diagnosed to score very low.)
Never been diagnosed, but considering that I don't use it as an excuse, and know how to work around my limitations, I don't think I need to be diagnosed. I've definitely had to LEARN social cues, though, and if I'm not concentrating on them, I miss them.
The trick to adapting to Asperger's is to hyperfocus on social cues for a while. Turns the downsides of Asperger's upside down on themselves.
And, at least in my experience, once I hyperfocus on something, for the most part, the knowledge doesn't leave me, even when I switch to hyperfocusing on something else.
Oh, and I think the descriptions of "assburgers" are ****ing funny. I guess I lucked out and got this thing called "a sense of humor." :D