• InternetPerson@lemmings.world
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    7 months ago

    As far as I know, I am not autistic. I was curious though and took the test. I am just depressed, among other problems. Also in therapy for that. So that is reflected in the results. I also got the message “Your autism symptoms are low”.

    Thanks for the link though! I will forward it to an aquaitance of mine who is wondering whether they might be autistic. They already booked an appointment with specialists in order to investigate that.

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      7 months ago

      Similar; I was just curious and took it. Though I have a sibling that is diagnosed autistic, and I’m kinda wanting to be evaluated for it. I suffer from depression + anxiety, hard (and a lot of these questions I was like “that depends on the context”) and I’ve been in a much, much worse mental state than I am currently. So those values make sense, the rest are kind of “huh… interesting”.

    • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Yes, it’s not encouraged for people with other mental disorders to seek autism diagnosis because of how likely those people are to get a false positive for autism.

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        7 months ago

        I got around 86% on that test, these tests are not good do to people having mental illness, as they will go down a rabbit hole and act out ASD.

        • ABCDE@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          Is there a basis in reality for that? It was created by Baron-Cohen, who knows his stuff.