The Quick and Easy Asperger's Test (Asperger's Syndrome is basically a mild version of Autism)

[hunter]

6. I took the quiz and scored very highly.

Not surprising, I've had that diagnosis for years.

Then I started obsessing about all that was wrong with the design of this quiz... no, no, no!

Besides, the diagnosis of Asperger's was eliminated in the DSM-5 in 2013 and replaced by a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder on a severity scale.

Oh well, meds are helpful for the OCD/Depression aspects of it and I'm not entirely dysfunctional in normal society. It's something genetic in my family. Going back in my family tree there are people who were not functional at all, sometimes to the point of non-communication. I can read and write well enough, but I'm extremely clumsy in verbal communication.

I have gained the skills and experience in my half century of living to "fake it," more or less, and whenever I fail it seems my white male privilege often gets me a free pass as "eccentric."

Our society is not friendly to people who are "odd" in some way, especially those who are not white, not male, and/or not heterosexual. Many of these people end up living on the streets or in prison acquiring self-destructive habits and addictions along the way. The solution to the problem is a genuine acceptance of people who are not "normal" in some way, and free professional help for anyone who needs it.

Most people are not a danger to themselves or others until society crushes them down and spits them out that way. Truly dangerous psychopaths, sociopaths, rapists, active pedophiles, and other dangerous people, the sort who are rightly isolated from ordinary civil society, are much rarer than can be accounted for by U.S. homelessness and prison statistics. Even worse, there are dangerous people in high positions who are insulated from the legal and social system by their political power and wealth.