Through the Prism-Glass
I took a quiz, and the intertoobs said I was broken. And since I saw it on the Intarwebz, it must be true.
Specifically, I took a quiz that attempts to diagnose Asperger’s Syndrome, or “aspie tendancies” according to it, by a series of 150 questions.
So says the final page, right above the helpful distribution plot shown at left, was my score, which is shown below:
Your Aspie score: 128 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 86 of 200
You are very likely an Aspie
And all this time I thought I was just strange.
I do not accept this diagnosis, and am not going to start claiming this based on a web quiz. It may be true, but I feel that so many people self-diagnose “vanity” illnesses for attention, to excuse their jackassishness, or some other reason, and I further feel that such vanity diagnostics do a real damage to people really dealing with the illness that, if not quantifiably measurable, is at least visible in the way real patients are mistreated.
If you can’t be bothered to get a real diagnosis from a real doctor, keep your damned yap shut.
That goes for me, too.