Friday, July 14, 2006

More autistic than your average human

It was about 2.5 yrs ago that there was a super long article in The Globe and Mail about how the percentage of autistic kids in the Silicon Valley is somewhere between 200 and 20,000 times greater than the US national average. Something about engineerings mating = greater chance for an autistic kid. The article had a test to see how one compares to control groups and autistic people. Procrastinating on wikipedia.com this evening, reading up on Ali G / Borat / Bruno / Sacha Baron Cohen, I linked over to Simon Baron Cohen, who actually wrote the test. Fancy that! So, here is the test. You should go take it. Maybe you don't feel like working today because your autism is flaring up. (I scored 25. Not quite autistic -- I like imagining the lives of ppl in books too much to be full on autistic.)


2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hmm - I only scored 16 and Ben 13. And yet someone told me the other day that kids who walk on their toes apparently are showing an early indication of autism. Hmmmmmm.....

Mon Jul 17, 12:56:00 a.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have a hard time believing that Claire only scored 25!!! Me thinks someone is suffering from delusions and autism ;)

Becky

Wed Dec 20, 12:50:00 p.m.  

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