I Wish I Took These Tests When I Was A Kid

Recently I took a few tests for a researcher who’s done a study about Adults with Asperger’s Syndrome.  These are two of the results.

From the Asperger Syndrome Diagnostic Scale (generally used to assess children between the ages of 5 through 18, but was used for the purpose of the researcher’s study to assess adult subjects).

The Scale of ASQ

>110 – Very Likely
90-110 – Likely
80-89 – Possibly
70-79 – Unlikely
≤69 – Very Unlikely

My Asperger Syndrome Quotient is 124
The probability of Asperger Syndrome is Very Likely.

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

Description of a person’s personality type.  There are four dichotomies:

Extraversion-Introversion: describes where people prefer to focus their attention and get their energy – from the outer world of people and activity or their inner world of ideas and impressions.

Sensing-Intuition: describes how people prefer to take in information – focused on what is real and concrete information gained from their senses or focus on the future and on patterns and meanings in data.

Thinking-Feeling: describes how people prefer to make decisions – based on logical analysis or guided by concern for their impact on others.

Judging-Perceiving: describes how people prefer to deal with the outer world – in a planned and organized way or in a flexible spontaneous way.

My personality type is INTP (I = Introversion, N= Intuition, T=Thinking, P=Perceiving)

Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests them.  Theoretical and abstract, interested more in ideas than in social interaction.  Quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable.  Have unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems in their area of interest.  Skeptical, sometimes critical, always analytical.

I first took the Myers-Brigg test back in 1995 and it came back as INTP.  The tester at the career counselor office had no idea that I had Asperger's Syndrome.