Abstract
The broad autism phenotype (BAP) is a set of personality and language characteristics that reflect the phenotypic expression of the genetic liability to autism, in non-autistic relatives of autistic individuals. These characteristics are milder but qualitatively similar to the defining features of autism. A new instrument designed to measure the BAP in adults, the Broad Autism Phenotype Questionnaire (BAPQ), was administered to 86 parents of autistic individuals and 64 community control parents. Sensitivity and specificity of the BAPQ for detecting the BAP were high (>70%). Parents of children with autism had significantly higher scores on all three subscales: aloof personality, rigid personality, and pragmatic language. This instrument provides a valid and efficient measure for characterizing the BAP.
Note: This questionnaire is meant to be administered to individuals with an autistic relative to assess if they have traits that are similar to autism but not enough for a diagnosis, ig?
I would like to read your thoughts on the scale and general concept of this scale. Also, feel free to share your scores!
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Here are mine…
Aloof: 5.67
Pragmatic Language: 4.25
Rigid: 5.17
SUPER AUTISM!!!
The ‘aloof’ description cracks me up- there’s a photo of me possibly 5 or 6 years of age with me looking ‘aloof’ (my mothers description). I look so not interested and ‘over it’…I’d actually post it here for a laugh, but I’d rather remain anonymous
HOW THE FUCK WAS IT NOT PICKED UP ON???
Oh I forget, I’m a woman and I slip under the radar 🤣
edit ‘years of age’
Observing my family members, they all seem to fall into this category (I’m diagnosed as autistic). They tend to be either introverted and at most only keeps a few friends despite the constant socialization.
I think it might be interesting to have them complete some autism questionnaires. Some of them might be masking and not diagnosed.
I understand this post is a couple of weeks old now, but I’m not able to access the site using Firefox on mobile using ublock / privacy badger. Frustrating spin as the site loads the content then slammed me with a non-compatible browser overlay.
Adding to insult, a simple misclick via chrome ate all my entries and I’ve not got the capacity to finish what I’d almost completed nor attempt to complete the questionnaire again.
Ugh, sounds pretty frustrating. Sorry you had that experience. I don’t know of a way I can help remedy that tho. Any ideas?
Not sure friend, was a spur of the moment “yeah this will be fun” became a frustrating experience. I could probably change my user-agent on my desktop or try blocking elements in ublock to get around the unsupported browser junk.
Thanks for lending a hand however, very supporting <3
You’re welcome! 🙂
Not related to the article, at all, but it just popped up in my head. Is having an autistic child related at all to drug use? As in party drugs, nothing too heavy (weed, molly, acid).
Have a friend who has an autistic daughter, was just wondering if this was somewhat related (we used to party back in the day, I know he did a lot more shit than I did… him and his, later on in life, wife… though she didn’t do as much as him as well).
We’d probably see higher rates of it in societies that used those drugs often, which afaik we don’t
specifically mescaline, mushrooms, ayahuasca/dmt, and weed have all been used by humans for a long time, and I haven’t heard anything about higher rates of neurodivergence in those societies
i could see mdma having an impact like that though, since it’s much riskier than psychedelics and weed (iirc it can be cardiotoxic, neurotoxic, and much more likely to be addictive than those) and we don’t have historical/traditional users of it to look at
Sheesh, I knew I was autistic but not 5+ out of 6 in each category autistic. The imposter syndrome is real. 😂
I completed this questionnaire before reading about it to limit any possible impact my knowledge of the scale could have on my responses. When I got the scores,
Aloof: 4.25
Pragmatic Language: 4.17
Rigid: 4.17
I thought, “Hmm, maybe I’m not that autistic after all.” Then, I saw the statistics of the study here, and cracked up. I’m definitely 100% autistic. When will this impostor syndrome end?
I got
Aloof: 4
Pragmatic Language: 4.17
Rigid: 2.67
my rigidity is very low, I’m definitely not autistic :D
Or you got the ADHD & Autism combo. Routines are more of a suggestion, but you don’t have the motivation to keep them. Like, yeah, I should put away my clothes, but that seems like extra work. I’ll just leave them in the pile. (There are multiple piles)
