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Similarly, if your answer to The Question of “Do you struggle with X?” essentially boils down to either “No, for you see I have A System™,” or “No, for you see I have a series of Backup Plans for just for this Specific Scenario,” then yes, you DO actually struggle with X.
I don’t have a problem with socks. I just don’t wear the bastards.
Same with tags on clothing, or escalators (I have a phobia). Very stationary objects in the macro sense, escalators. Easy to avoid and generally near stairs or elevators.
this is so incredibly true. it’s ridiculous.
I like to think people appreciate when I show them all the typos and errors and vague wordings in their contracts, tests, and EULAs.
Wait what’s the question about?!
Some people think autism means taking everything literally but that’s actually kleptomania
I was getting my flu vaccine the other day and the nurse asked me why I checked “I don’t know” in response to the question “Is the patient sick?”
She seemed genuinely annoyed when I told her that the only two truthful answers to “Are you sick?” are “Yes” and “I don’t know”.
If the question had asked “Is the patient showing any symptoms of illness?” it would have been a different story, but I answered the question as asked.
i went in for a surgery a couple of years ago. receptionist asks if I’ve had covid. i say i don’t know. receptionist looks at me like im trying to be funny. i specify that i haven’t had symptomatic covid. receptionist asks me again if I’ve had covid. my partner tells me to stop being difficult. receptionist rolls their eyes. as far as i was aware you can have covid without symptoms, so i really think answering ‘no’ is dangerously arrogant. or at least foolishly naive.
My trick for this is to replace “I don’t know” with “not to my knowledge” or “not as far as I know”.
Same sentiment, but much less pushback from others.
This is the way. “I don’t know” could imply you haven’t even thought about it, while “Not to my knowledge” implies you know but may be wrong.
Saying that and adding a small smile and a quick laugh does wonders
“Have you ever committed a felony?”
“Not to my knowledge, ha ha”
Meanwhile, I’ve never had Covid and whenever i tell this to medical receptionists they’re like “you’ve never been symptomatic” 😂 every time! You can’t win
Have you done repeated tests, alternatively taken antibody tests (for covid19 proteins not in the vaccines)? (because this is a thread about being pedantic)
Yes, I kept various taking tests weekly for years until it finally got too expensive. I still have only been sick once since 2019, got a cold in 2025. N95 mask nearly everywhere, nearly all the time.
I’m in a couple different academic studies for possible covid resistance, but I keep telling them I don’t think there’s anything biologically keeping me from getting covid, it’s just the masking + forsaking society.
It’s more “fun” for me. I had something that presented quite a bit like covid early on, but it was just barely not bad enough for my province to let me get tested. Then when I got something similar again later I tested negative.
Whenever asked if I’ve ever had covid I tend to explain the whole situation because I have no idea if I’ve had it or why it’s relevant to the asker.
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I’ve had some of my family get annoyed at me for a similar thing lol. If someone asks me if I’d do something in a hypothetical scenario, I basically always answer with “probably” or “probably not”. I just feel like no matter how certain I feel I would do something in some given situation that I’ve never experienced, I can’t know 100% unless it were to actually happen, so answering as if I’m sure would be incorrect of me.
Finally, some people who incorporate a bit of epistemology into their lives. Y’all are my people.
“too literal” is inherently subjective. Too literal to whom? What if my friends group is also neurodivergent as fuck, does this invalidate me then because it’s the new neurotypical?
I conclude that we need tests for what’s usually thought off as “normies”. If they know about their rhetorical precision deficits surely they can get therapy to solve that issue and integrate better into society.
I’ve been told many times I’m too literal. They are wrong, I am appropriately literal. However, it is something people tell me.
Same! I can exaggerate and make jokes just fine, I just usually am being serious because i’m focused on the task at hand
Enough that people tell you that you’re too literal.
But also, this isn’t an age or disagree question, it’s a does this happen question.
but what about people who don’t even have irl social interaction?
but it literally is “agree to disagree” tho. If they didn’t want it to be, they should’ve used those words! 😤
Seriously. I get the impression that some people don’t like to engage with me at work because I try to be precise to the necessary degree. I work with software, so the degree of precision I need to use to express the behaviour of a system is decently high. I do a conscious effort to be only as technical as the context requires, often opting for being not technical at all when engaging people whose job is not technical.
A few days ago I was in an email chain that went something like this:
manager: we need to add <non-existing functionality> asap.
me: is it for <other team’s software> so they can <do thing>? If it is, we did <just landed functionality> for that. <other team’s software> doesn’t need to check <condition>, they can just <do thing> and <our team’s software> will handle it gracefully.
other team’s programmer: that’s what we do.
other team’s manager: so we do <opposite of what I described>?
other team’s programmer: yes
If that’s what passes for normalcy, I don’t understand the appeal.
Psrhaps other team’s programmer has learned to just smile and nod with that particular manager?
Yeah, it should present a statement, that could be interpreted literally or not, and then ask you to select the closest response to what you initially interpreted, or something like that. I guess that could encounter a lot of error with different cultures and education though.
Autism tests are useless because I can already see which are the autistic answers and can manipulate the results either way.
Isn’t that true to an extent for all mental health quizzes? The question rather is, why would you want to manipulate the test? Usually it is in the persons best interest to answer as honestly as possible
It is, I once manipulated an IQ test by giving all the correct answers.
2D chess
I believe IQ are made in such a way thire are no correct answers.
You didn’t tag that ragebait
😂
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Why would you?
To score Adderall, duh
The most “fun” ones are the control questions askinging you exactly the opposite of something you’ve been already asked.
Except inversion also reverses subtext so your honest answer has to be different than just the opposite of the previous answer you have. But if the two answers are not a perfect mirror, you might trigger too many control questions and not get diagnosed. What should you do? AAAAAAAAAAAAAH
This is why I broke up with an ex, my answers were always contradictory and he couldn’t handle it 😂
That’s why assessment is done by professionals who can interpret your answers, not online quizzes
Sometimes the professionals also give you quizzes just like this.
Ask me how i know
Standardized quizzes written by professionals, even.
This is probably America, professionals are expensive. Quizzes are free.
All online tests are basically
Test: from 1 to 5, how much X do you feel?
You: 4/5
Test results: You are 75% X
You: so true
You can always tell immediately which question confirms your preconceptions, so you can never answer genuinely. It’s all confirmation bias.
This is all amplified by the fact that if you are taking the test, you already think that you are the thing in the test (in this case, autistic).
P.S. this includes mbti tests. Don’t let their sciency looks deceive you. It’s all confirmation bias, all fake.
Myers Briggs is complete pseudoscience, if it helps. Literally nonsense made up whole cloth by some mother and daughter
You mean astrology for MBAs?
I’m confused. Why would you bring up astrology for astrologists? Of course astrologist study astronomy
Autism test: Look at this picture of a face, what is this person thinking?
Me, an experienced masker: You can’t tell what a person is thinking from their face, they expend a lot of effort keeping their face in a socially acceptable position to hide their true feelings.
That’s not even look at a picture of a face, it’s look at a picture of low res eyes cropping out the entire rest of their face. Also that 2nd picture, I couldn’t even see an eye on the right side 🤣
As opposed to the cptsd answer: “what did I do to cause you to show me a bunch of pictures of people who are mad at me”
This is always what makes me a little unsure of if I have autism. Cause I have very little trouble understanding a person’s feeling from their facial expression. Admittedly I am self-diagnosed, but I also know it’s a spectrum so there’s gotta be a few outliers who don’t struggle with this, right?
Honestly, I think neurotypicals put too much emphasis on facial expression. I can read facial expressions fine most of the time, yeah, but rarely does someone accurately read my facial expression.
People either assume I’m upset (because I’m not actively attempting to emote, such as when I’m thinking about something), or assume I’m happy (because I’m masking - in which case I may look happy, but that doesn’t mean I feel happy.)
Considering that “resting bitch face” has become a known cultural phenomenon, I’m tempted to argue that neurotypicals have as much trouble reading faces as they claim we do. The difference is, if they’re wrong they either don’t recognize it, or double-down because obvs you’re lying for some reason. (You’re autistic after all, they clearly know how you’re feeling better than you do. /s)
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Ha yeah I got that resting bitch face too. When I’m feeling just fine I look like someone just kicked my shin with dogpoop-smeared boots. Agree we put way too much emphasis on facial expressions.
I had a test with a short movie, cut scene by scene and each time they asked to explain what happend and what did were thinking. I thought I did good on it, but apparently I didn’t, just too autistic to know.
Unironically, when I did my tests, I did complain to my psychologist about how some questions were “too open for interpretation”
Because they are, dammit. I remember taking a test that had like 50 questions and it seemed like I’d answer every single one of them differently if it provided more context in one way or the other.
There were two questions far away from each other probing for readiness to use violence which I thought would make an for odd result because I answered them “differently”. I filled in some more missing context, what else are you supposed to do to find an answer?
Well, apparently that just turned out to make my result unreliable.
The actual purpose of those questions has two parts, one is to check if your answers make sense (in polling you reject responses with too many contradictions), and the other is to check strength of an opinion
I told my psychologist that the questions/answers were constructed so poorly that I had started to suspect that the real test was whether or not I would complain about them.
People dont tell me anything. They usually just get uncomfortable and walk away or become my lifelong friends, and nowhere inbetween. Something like a 200:1 ratio on that, though.
This should be part of the diagnostic criteria. I figured out when I was a kid - if I feel like I’m putting in all the effort for the friendship and the other person isn’t trying, then it’s not worth it. Chances are, I’m just annoying them and they’re trying to be polite. In reality, either we click immediately or we don’t click at all, and the difference is unmistakable. Finding a like-mind feels like a chemical reaction going off.
Or another way to put it, it’s like how two waves meeting can either amplify each other or completely cancel each other out. If we’re the same wavelength, we’ll both be riding high. If we’re too different, everything just kind of peters out.
My autistic ass says its like two Stand users from jojos, if that makes any sense. We attract each other and mesh well (or kill each other, i guess)
Part of the reason my therapist diagnosed me was because, when running a test like this, I was constantly asking questions to get clarification for the questions of the test because I couldn’t answer them correctly because of this.
Probably around 8th or 9th test question, my therapist was already certain of my diagnosis.
Same thing happened with me, and I think that’s where the actual strength of the test is. You need a professional who can observe how you interact with it to really get a proper assessment. If you just do it on your own you’re not going to get out of it an accurate assessment.
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It kinda sounds like you’re just good at masking tbh
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