Quiz: How Neurodiverse are you?

[julep]

Nice graph! It's like mine only smaller ... hehe. (that's what he said).

Wow, you had to pay, for your diagnosis? Wow, why? What a rip-off. I got mine for free. It's meant to benefit me, not cost me.

In fact, my disability benefits increased because of my condition ... so, if anything, the diagnosis has made me money.

In the US, in order to get a dx of this kind, one has to go to specialists, psych people ,etc., and there’s a lot that isn’t covered under health insurance, plus copays which are often insane.  For people diagnosed as an adult, I don’t know about whether the kinds of therapy and assistance offered would be covered by insurance, but I can tell you from experience that many of the treatments and help for children available here require that parents pay out of pocket because the providers do not take insurance or the service isn’t covered.  

The public school system provides some services at no extra charge, but only decent levels once there is a diagnosis—$$$, and sometimes the services are withdrawn abruptly and without notice if, say, a speech therapist leaves for another job and isn’t replaced.  We had to hire an advocate when that happened to us—$$$.  For everything outside of school,the parents are likely to be paying.  It’s a worthwhile investment of time and work and money—my autistic son is doing well because of it—but it is expensive.  

For people who get diagnosed as adults, besides better self-understanding, there are other benefits.  The dx could be useful in working with a specialist, and also with a dx the autistic person becomes entitled to some protections and accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Over the longer term it’s a good idea, but the costs up front can be high.

[EvieTheAvocado]

Yeah, I got diagnosed by a multi-disciplinary team of A.S.D. specialists on March 22nd this year ... at age 29. But it was all paid for by the government.

[unfogged]

Well, I'm glad it isn't diagnostic...

That actually explains a lot...

[unfogged]

I have no clue what any of that means but it feels like I should be concerned about that neurotypical social spike in people skills since the rest of you don't seem to have it.

It is telling you that you are Canadian

[Vic2Ree]

Bump

"Your score: 146 of 200
99% probability of being atypical (autistic/neurodiverse)"

Lol. Oh well...

[Dexta]

Much as I predicted I guess

Your score: 60 of 200
99% probability of being typical (neurotypical)

[Deesse23]

[mordant]

It says I am 89% likely to be typical, with a score of 82 out of 200. I think I am in reality a mild Aspie who over the decades has learned to "act right"; this is my wife's theory anyway and I think it's basically sound. I did some "stimming" as a child for example (a question and a "tell" that is oddly missing from this survey), and social / relationship situations are way more work for me to pull off than they should be. My graph basically says I have average talent, perception, communication and social abilities, and shit relationship skills, the latter of which I greatly tended to overestimate until evidence overcame self-perception. If relationships consisted only of people being kind, attentive, devoted, and loyal, I'd be good to go. But since it also involves being intuitive, perceptive, appropriately supportive, and balancing a bunch of competing concerns, some of which are fairly opaque to me ... well, not so much.