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As I reported when I joined, I took the Wired mag version of the

Autism Quotient and got a 36 the first time. I then went back and

took it again a few times. (Is that an autistic thing to do, to keep

taking one test over and over and comparing little cariations in

scores?) One time I did it putting in what I thought " normal " people

would write, except for the ones about which I just could not

outright LIE. I got a 21 one time but mostly 31,33,36 (high scores

for autism according to their scoring system). So, out of curiosity,

my husband took it. He got a 9. Ha! I guess it helps to have an NT

around to help me remember stuff...

Then I took another, the " Aspie test " which someone made up based on

other tests (I can look it up if anyone is curious and post the URL

but I don't have it now...) The way that was scored, I got " You are

more Aspie than Neurotypical. " To get to the verbal portion of that

test I had to wade my way through those darn dot puzzles... and the

result of that was I was told I had discalculia. I was pretty sure

that that meant " can't add 2 + 2 very well " which I already know. But

it was interesting to find that having a math learning disability has

other features, such as not being able to remember names or put them

with faces. I SUCK at names. I had a choir once with about ten people

and it took me months to remember all the names. Church directories

help a lot...

I always thought that " not being able to do math " was because I had a

bad attitude or was lazy or had " math anxiety. " But the list of other

symptoms is so ME. No one diagnosed me with anything other

than " doesn't pay attention " in the 1970s when I was in school.

Don't you need to know math to do computer science, or engineering or

any of that? All the aspie/autism sites I read say that engineering

and math and computers are favorite careers.

It kind of explains why I am kind of like a math geek in personality

but I'm a " math geek who can't do math " or something equally silly.

Re: this list. I'll be gone for awhile, have a HUGE deadline at work.

I've just been lurking a bit.

Rhonda