ArtemisSo shit like this is why autism goes undiagnosed & unrecognized so often.
These will be true of *some* autistic people, but it really has nothing to do with anything.
And that's not even mentioning the fact that a lot of questions ignore the possibility that an autistic person may also have ADHD.
Like "It’s important to me to carefully plan any activities I am going to do". Ummm. I have ADHD, motherfuckers. Of course I don't carefully plan all my activities! How tf would I manage that when I'm fucking impulsive as all hell?
I do carefully plan A LOT of my activities, but "all/any" is so silly. It doesn't just ignore ADHD. It ignores the fact that people don't always act the same way in every situation.
It's so weird to put things in such absolute ways.
But the people writing diagnostic questions for autism don't consider that the person answering them might be obsessed with nuance & accuracy, which seems like a failing.
The true test of whether you're autistic is how much time you spend explaining that the diagnostic questions are unanswerable, overgeneralized, & hard to give a clear response to. 😅
Diagnostic questions for autism are indistinguishable from Buzzfeed quizzes in my opinion. You can often tell what answer you should give to get a specific result, but the actual question is nonsensical.
I also think that they don't realize a special interest can be ANYTHING, including, say, an interest in emotional well-being & nurturing relationships.
The Autistic Innovator 
@artemis Those questions read more like one of those what is your personality type quizzes.
@AutisticInnovator
Yeah, I had to leave the website I was on to do some Googling to confirm that they do indeed seem to be authentic questions that may be used in some settings to assess autism.
Because, yep, they are absolutely personality questions.
Franchesca@artemis @AutisticInnovator been through the diagnosis process twice now, these are absolutely the kind of things they have to ask, but the specialists who run the process are (in the Netherlands at least) very good at getting the context around it to understand the why and see if it really fitted or not.