Are there good tests? All tests that I have done so far don’t make sense, the questions are general and hard to answer. I don’t go to social events and I don’t meet new people often so I can’t answer how would i feel about it and they don’t give an option to skip the question. And how am I supposed to know if people around notice small sounds or not? Such questions don’t make sense to me. Deepseek bot told me that not understanding how to answer tests might be a trait by itself. Do you have any good tests for potential autistic person to do to figure out more about themselves?
I hate that most of these tests only have 4 options, Fully or Partial Agree/Disagree. Sometimes, the most correct answer for a person is “Neither” or “Depends” - or the question should be made clearer. Even a professional will just try to say “think about the most common situation”, which doesn’t help.
“I enjoy social occasions” -> Depends. What sort of social occasion? Game night? Church meeting after mass? Party at a friend’s? Family dinner? Going to a bar with music I don’t enjoy?
This is my uninformed, dumbass opinion: psychology/psychiatry are still in their baby steps in actually properly diagnosing neurodivergences in adults. The tests (which are these big folders that psychologists have to pay for, like WISC-IV or NEPSY-II) feel like they can only properly diagnose ‘mericans, because some of the questions’ “average answer” will vary significantly on different cultures. There’s also the whole problem of constant use of computers/phones/social media that creates several symptoms that are common in certain neurodivergences, so all this tech might be increasing the number of false positives or actually causing divergences on brains that wouldn’t otherwise
Sometimes I wonder if general questions like that aren’t. Like I hate going out for pretty much any reason, so logically there are people that love going out for any reason at all.