one of my beloved friends (very autism) was in.. not denial but ignorance sounds mean. but that abt themself last time you brought up the raads r test so i sent it to the gc (full of autism) and they were like psh. fake test no one could get below 100. they know now but i think about it so much
The thing is. When you take the autism test. And you see your score is in the 100 to 160 range. You think. Oh this is probably the middle? Middle autism. Tinge of autism. Your relatives calling you bright but shy autism. Just a whiff of autism. And then you see the score ranges. And you go. This test is lying to me there is absolutely no way the majority of people score under 65. The 65 number is such a low cutoff and so many of these experiences are clearly universal a score under 65 is something they made up in a lab. People who score under 65 are obviously scoring just under that mark from 59 to 64 and they’re also obviously lying or purposely misrepresenting their experiences as less severe than they are. And then you find out there are real people who get a 20 or 30 or 7 on it. And you go. Ah
adding the previous poster’s notes because they’re spot on: i just took the test and got 145 on it, but like... i have adhd, and a lot of those questions were like ‘yeah i do this because add...’ plus a lot of the questions don’t take into account aromanticism or asexuality (no i’ve never wanted an intimate relationship with someone because i am romance-repulsed, and have been my entire goshdang life and only learned it was a thing in adulthood. that’s a seperate thing). not to mention the lack of nuance or inbetweens. And then i have to wonder ‘oh this is a question about figetting/stimming right? it seems like a general stim question but what if it’s only about these particular specific 2 stims, rather than like... anything other than hand movements?
tldr: lots of wiggle room and nebulous overlap to consider in interpretation.
