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Yeah--there's a theory (I'm not sure how much credence it still has) that part of the rise in ASDs has to do with the increasing value of ASD-ish skills (think IT) to society. Thus, these people have income and cluster together and marry and reproduce. I read a long article in Wired about it once.
However, it seems to me that we keep finding out more potential causes for ASD. Age of father is a big new one, right?
In my own family, we absolutely see unusual, prodigy-like skills combined with ASD-type personalities. AFAIK, only one person was ever diagnosed. One person should have been, according to all who knew him, but he was also a literal mathematical genius who would be well known to anyone with a serious mathematical background.
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Funny thing, I went to the Autism-Spectrum Quotient quiz at Wired that was used for that study: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.htmlDid my own thumbnail analysis of the content and came up with these categories of questions versus personality: (50 total questions) 3 Distinctly ASD 6 Related to creative (scored for negative) 4 Detail-oriented 13 Empathy related (scored for negative) 15 Fairly classical gifted traits 9 Introverted (YAMV) It's a lot like the MMPI: you can draw nothing realistic from middle high score tendencies, but can only really look at the scores that cross into the diagnostic range.
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I don't think I've seen that particular quiz before. I scored very low (7). I took it "as" my DD, scoring everything as high as possible on questions that would give her ASD "points," (So I inflated a bit) and got a 27. That's completely typical of every such (obviously nonprofessional) test/quiz I've ever taken for her. Gray area.
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The specialist in women and girls with Aspergers that we have been consulting actually uses that test as a pre-screener in the paperwork she sends out prior to a first appointment (NOT a diagnostic tool). She obviously thinks it's somewhat useful.
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I scored 32 ... I certainly displayed a lot of aspergerish traits when I was younger and still do ... now, the question is ... was it because I had/have asperger's ... or because I was gifted? lol
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Interesting, MumofThree. I noticed that they didn't have anything sensory on that one, which seemed like a big omission to me. (My own score seems too low to me; I definitely have more than a touch of SPD.)
DD doesn't check any of the boxes for ASD regarding social stuff and pretend play on that one. She's even the other direction. However, detail-oriented? Blunt? Absolutely.
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Interesting, MumofThree. I noticed that they didn't have anything sensory on that one, which seemed like a big omission to me. (My own score seems too low to me; I definitely have more than a touch of SPD.)
DD doesn't check any of the boxes for ASD regarding social stuff and pretend play on that one. She's even the other direction. However, detail-oriented? Blunt? Absolutely. Can I remember details, strings of numbers? Nope. Sometimes I don't realize that the forest has any trees.
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Ultramarina - I was thinking about this after I posted and I am pretty sure that the screener the psychologist used was 95% identical, but I do think it did not have at least one of these questions and may have had one or two extras. I will try to find time to compare the two. But I wonder if she is using a slightly updated/modified version?
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Oh, this just makes me laugh and sigh:
"A further research paper indicated that the questionnaire could be used for screening in clinical practice, with scores less than 26 indicating that a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome can effectively be ruled out."
(Wikipedia)
Again, I scored DD at...27. (I intentionally scored "up" a bit, answering "strongly agree" or "strongly disagree" in some instances when it was more like like "agree"--they don't have that option on this one).
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