The graphical Aspie map

[unixronin]

No surprises here.

Aspie: 152/200, neurotypical: 55/200.  I seem to recall that's about what I got on the previous, non-graphical version.  Find the test here.

Afterthought:  I wonder how difficult it would be to write a little program that would take any two result sets, calculate the amount of overlap vs. the amount of difference, and express that as a kind of commonality factor...?

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[wyrdling.livejournal.com]

well, i took part in a research study as a "healthy control" this summer and blasted through a number of their tests. they told me they'd never seen anyone get scores so high on certain things (reaction time, for one.)
it was sort of mind boggling.
(they were testing the effects of schizophrenia and alcoholism on brain function)

they told me there was no way i had add. which i'd also been pondering. (that more typically "female" kind where one spaces out and daydreams when something's boring. like most of elementary school, for me.) not with those reaction times. apparently no one with add could sit at a blinking screen for 15 minutes pushing a button when a letter popped up. ;P in fact, apparently "normal" people tend to stop before it's done, too.

anyway, i have to agree, there's a lot of compensations. i can do a lot of things really well that most people can't. one reason why i refuse to believe there's anything "wrong" with me. i'm wired different and function different. but finding an explanation and perhaps figure out some adaptational strategies for my aptitude deficits would be nice.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

apparently no one with add could sit at a blinking screen for 15 minutes pushing a button when a letter popped up. ;P in fact, apparently "normal" people tend to stop before it's done, too.

Yeah, that one was part of the neuropsych testing too. I think they had me in front of it for about 20 minutes, and I think I missed something like two letters when my attention wandered and I just zoned out thinking about something else for a moment.

"Wired different" is exactly it. (In fact, some recent research suggests that where the wiring is different is in the mirror neurons that enable neurotypical humans to anticipate and understand other people's actions. New Scientist has had several articles on this in the last year or so.)

There's an Asperger's Association of New England out here that apparently has a lot of sessions on adaptation strategies and skills, but, well ... a more honest name for it would be ASperger's Association of Massachusetts. Sessions are, more or less, open to anyone who can get to downtown Boston in time for a 7pm meeting. :p

[wyrdling.livejournal.com]

that is amazingly geographically inconvenient for me.
but i guess i could go look into seeing what's around here.
maybe i can get in touch with the research institute and see if they can suggest anywhere for me to go. i'm sure they'd have a better idea than i do.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

that is amazingly geographically inconvenient for me.

Heh. My point was that, even though they claim to be for all of New England, it's geographically inconvenient for me here in New Hampshire. ;) I wasn't suggesting for a moment that you should even consider travelling from ABQ to Boston for an Aspie support group.

But yeah. It can't hurt to ask around. There's even that Famous Web Search Engine that could be pointed at, say, "Asperger's support services" or somesuch search string.