Social Stories Questionnaire

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Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read this quiz as a pdf file (looks nicer).
Do you irritate other people without meaning to? This is a common problem for people who have autism. 85% of autistics have a comorbid condition called Alexithymia. Alexithymia makes it difficult for it's sufferer to evaluate the emotional content of statements. This is why most autistics can appear insensitive, even though its not their intention to be insensitive. 10% of the general population also has Alexithymia, so its not just autistic individuals who have a problem with appearing insensitive. I found this questionnaire online; it's from the Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge Department of Psychiatry. Go ahead and take the test, and tally up the number of questions that have a yes answer. In the answers below, it tells you what line number you should have selected for the yes answers.

 

 

 

 

The maximum score is twenty points. I scored 3 points, pretty bad, but my excuse is I have Alexithymia. If you have an abysmally low score, like mine, you can still get by in life by adhering to the rules of proper social etiquette. If you do get a really low score, visit http://alexithymia.us and take the online Alexithymia test. If it turns out you have Alexithymia, at least you'll know why you scored so low on the Social Stories test. If you don't have Alexithymia, but still scored low on the SS test, then you need to work on your sensitivity.

BTW, if you've been keeping up with my emotions program, I haven't quit on it. I started working on the emotions program after moving to the country. I was only able to get DSL out here, and the max download speed was 7.5 Mbps. To make matters worse, our DSL provider was screwing up DHCP; it was killing our Chromecast devices - we rely heavily on Chromecast. I looked up what ISPs were available out here, and HughesNet looked good; told my wife, and she immediately switched us to HughesNet. Unfortunately, I could no longer host my own website with HughesNet. After some serious effort, I got most of my website back up and running, on iPower. I've been meaning to switch from IIS to Apache for awhile now (I like IIS a whole lot, but I decided I want to switch my main OS from Windows to Linux; Apache is the most common web server used on Linux systems), so this event just accelerate the process of switching. However, it did grind my development of the emotions program to a halt. I only had 700 positive images ready for creating my own haarcascade file when I ran into this speed bump; I think I'll just try making a haarcascade with what I got so far, and see how well it works in my emotions program; I'll add images as needed. Anyway, I should have another blog finished about my emotions program before the year (it'll be December of 2016 in a couple of days, as of this blog) is out.

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