The autism spectrum

[James]

Look I just don't want to take the quiz. Is that really a problem?

Geez people stop fricking harping on me over 1 fricking thing.

Yes, it's a problem. The universe will implode if you don't take the quiz in the next 6 hours. Do you really want that to happen?

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Nobody was harping on you, just expressing disagreement with why you said you weren't taking it. Don't take the quiz if you don't want to. Taking the quiz was interesting to me because, from the questions and the results analysis file they give you afterwards, you can infer what it's like to have Asperger's/Autism. I found the results mildly interesting as well, but they need to be taken with a grain of salt and they need never to cause you to alter who you are (in fact, it should be the reverse; the "correct" approach IMO is "my [personality/political views/sexual orientation/etc.] can be described [poorly/somewhat/well/very well/etc.] by X" rather than "X is who I am, I must be ___ because that's one quality of X, I need to try harder to be X", etc.)

This next spoiler might come off the wrong way, but I think it can be turned into a thread contribution:

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From a psychological standpoint, it's interesting that you got immediately and explosively defensive about this. I'm wondering if this is a defensive mechanism people have to help them avoid even considering the possibility of harm to their self-image (especially when "problems" like autism are the "harm" being considered).