Autism-spectrum quotient

We- you know, it's backed up by research.

So for example, we developed, um, a questionnaire called the AQ, the Autism Spectrum Quotient, and it's just a questionnaire that anyone can fill in.

You can find it online, and it's 50 questions which measures how many autistic traits you have.

Uh, and we gave that questionnaire, the AQ, to people in the population, and then we divided the population into people who work in STEM, science, technology, engineering, or math, or people who don't work in STEM.

But I prefer – I tend to not like to take medicine in general.

excuse me now for the autism i've taken three different assessments and i'm going to give you the names of those just because they're interesting uh one is called a cat q the camouflaging autistic traits questionnaire the next one is uh what i understand to be the gold standard in this which is called the RADS-R, R-A-A-D-S-R, stands for Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale Revised, and the third one being the AQ, the Autism Spectrum Quotient.

And What these things measure is a number of things, right? I think people automatically tend to say, oh, if that's what that means, then that means I have autism too.

Well, I think that's what the test is for.

While autism and ADHD are distinct medical profiles, they frequently co-occur with aphantasia because of alternative sensory processing configurations and executive routing.

In the peer-reviewed study, What is the Relationship Between Aphantasia, Synesthesia, and Autism?, published in Consciousness and Cognition, Dance and colleagues, 2021, identified elevated statistical trends, such as higher average scores on the Autism Spectrum Quotient, AQ, and roughly a twenty percent increase in self-reported autistic traits among aphantasiac cohorts.

Mechanically, when a brain bypasses visual simulation, it relies entirely on semantic, logical, or linguistic data structures.

Combined with the working memory bottlenecks and sensory differences inherent to autism spectrum condition and ADHD, the brain processes internal and external data through different pathways, explaining why these traits so frequently cluster together.

And we've looked at people who work in STEM, and we wanted to test this idea that maybe autistic people have a stronger aptitude in understanding systems, so they might end up in STEM.

And so we gave an instrument called the AQ, the Autism Spectrum Quotient, which is just a questionnaire.

It counts how many autistic traits you have.

We gave it to 600,000 people online.