I got picked on by blacks and Irish people for being Jewish but I must love these people

Yowie wrote:

Your Aspie sco 132 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) sco 85 of 200

How come the numbers don't add up to 200? 132 + 85 = 217 - where did
the extra 17 answers come from??

Dunno... could be from the earlier survey type questions that weren't in the
quiz proper. Or perhaps some questions were given more than one point such
that if you answered with a '1' it gave 1 point, but a '2' gave you two.

I couldn't be bothered trying to figure it out. I did that with the MBTI
test I had (it was DOS it was that old) and figured out the weighting of
each of the 50 questions, but it took *ages* going through each variable of
each 50 questions and just changing 1 variable at a time. I'm not going to
do it again without far more motivation.....

Oh, I was just asking it rhetorically. I just found it a bit amusing.

Oddly, I've found wearing makeup a social help. Dunno why. But it seems to
say "Hi, I am normal" to people. I scrape it off as soon as I get home, but
it does seem to give a better impression than a makeupless face. It really
annoys me that this is the case because I really object to my skills being
judged by how well I apply paint to my face, but thats how it is. Its a game
and through fairly concious trial and error I feel Ive worked out enough to
get by. I still hate makeup though and find it vaguely insulting that its a
necessary thing for a women to wear to get respect when its seems the very
*opposite* of what female makeup is supposed to do gives a man respect
(wrinkles and and obviosly serious, aged face gives a man more status, the
same cannot be said for a woman)

I wear the tiniest bit of makeup - some eyebrow pencil, because my brows
are disappearing, going grey and getting smaller. I do this because I like
my face better with darker, fuller brows. I don't do it to get more respect
from others, although I suppose I would, if I wore more makeup. I am
surprised that this would be an issue in your line of work. If you worked
in sales or if you were an executive, I could see it being more expected.
Maybe those norms are a bit different in Australia?

I agree that it's very annoying that we have these gender categories of
behavior that have absolutely nothing to do with what our bodies are
actually capable of or designed for. Why does the fact that I have uterus
mean I should put paint on my face?

I'm always havign an a little internal dialogue that goes something like
"Well, I'm putting a one down, because I think its the closest to what you
think I should put, given the options available, but...."

I do that, too, but at the same time, I'm thinking that it's going to
skew my results toward their limited expectations, which apparently
don't take all variations into account.

There are these quiz sites where you can find out "How jealous am I?"
or "Which animal am I?" etc. I admit it: I sometimes will go to a site
like that and take 5 or 6 of them in a row. Maybe I'm starved for
attention.

Anyway, after the first or second question, it becomes clear that their
target audience is people under age 20. They assume that parents play a
big role in people's decisions, they ask questions about wanting to have
children in the future tense. They assume everyone is heterosexual, that
everyone wants to make a lot of money, etc. Many times there is no choice
among the options that even comes close to what I would answer.

OK, this is an extreme example, but even tests that are designed to be
more sophisticated and realistic fail in some of the very same ways, just
less so.

--
Joyce ^..^

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