joe:

I got a 49/50. i dont know if its accurate or not. I came upon the idea early this afternoon, I have stopped researching this since and every minute I become more convinced I have aperger’s. i think a theopist of mine years ago knew and nver told me…also i dont see why people don’t want this. i may be socailly inept but who cares? lol

Brian:

I got 35 out of 50. My sister-in-law suggested AS as a possibility about a year ago.
I’m not young, I am now 54. This, in fact, explains a lot of the problems in my life. I think when I was 25 I would have scored 45+. These days I am less concerned with the social scene just as a consequence of the passage of time.
Right now the way I am looking at the social thing is this…
1) There is a whole bunch of non-verbal communication going on that I don’t clue into.
2) This non verbal stuff is closer to the truth than words, it is the real clue to what people want in any social interaction. For an analogy, if someone asks to meet for coffee, they never car about coffee. The non verbal stuff says if they are interested in getting info out of you, or dating, or what.
3) (2) is a very strong thing and may be more informative than words to non AS people.
4) For example, over my life I have had many situations where words were used that were absolutely in error and when I corrected the indvidual, everyone was angry at me. I would go away confused. It was as if nobody cared about correct communication. Now, I think that they are communicating just fine through non-verbal means and the words don’t really matter much and this isn’t really lying or not caring about truth but really an instinctive type communication that I don’t pick up on.
5) I’m to the point that I feel that it might be that this is the dominant form of communication with people that are close friends, etc.
6) Without the non-verbal ability, one must learn to not take what others say too much to heart. We are missing what they really meant.