AQ-Adult
Name: Age: Date:
INSTRUCTIONS: Please rate how strongly you agree or disagree with each item as you reflect upon your life. Please
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1. I prefer to do things with others rather than on my own.
2. I prefer to do things the same way over and over again.
3. If I try to imagine something, I find it very easy to create a
picture in my mind.
4. I frequently get so strongly absorbed in one thing that I lose
sight of other things.
5. I often notice small sounds when others do not.
6. I usually notice car number plates or similar strings of
information.
7. Other people frequently tell me that what I've said is impolite,
even though I think it is polite.
8. When I'm reading a story, I can easily imagine what the
characters might look like.
9. I am fascinated by dates.
10. In a social group, I can easily keep track of several different
people’s conversations.
11. I find social situations easy.
12. I tend to notice details that others do not.
13. I would rather go to a library than to a party.
14. I find making up stories easy.
15. I find myself drawn more strongly to people than to things.
16. I tend to have very strong interests, which I get upset about if
I can’t pursue.
17. I enjoys social chit-chat.
18. When I talk, it isn't always easy for others to get a word in
edgewise.
19 I am fascinated by numbers.
20. When I am reading a story, I find it difficult to work out the
characters’ intentions.
21. I don’t particularly enjoy reading fiction.
22. I find it hard to make new friends.
23. I notice patterns in things all the time.
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24. I would rather go to the theater than to a museum.
25. It does not upset me if my daily routine is disturbed.
26. I frequently find that I don’t know how to keep a conversation
going.
27. I find it easy to “read between the lines” when someone is
talking to me.
28. I usually concentrate more on the whole picture, rather than
the small details.
29. I am not very good at remembering phone numbers.
30. I don’t usually notice small changes in a situation or a
person’s appearance.
31. I know how to tell if someone listening to me is getting bored.
32. I find it easy to do more than one thing at once.
33. When I talk on the phone, I’m not sure when it’s my turn to
speak.
34. I enjoy doing things spontaneously.
35 I enjoy doing things alone.
36. I find it easy to work out what someone is thinking or feeling
just by looking at their face.
37. If there is an interruption, I can switch back to what I was
doing very quickly.
38. I am good at social chit-chat.
39. People often tell me that I keep going on and on about the
same thing.
40. When I was young, I used to enjoy playing games involving
pretending with other children.
41. I like to collect information about categories of things (e.g.,
types of cars, birds, trains, plants).
42. I find it difficult to imagine what it would be like to be
someone else.
43. I like to plan any activities I participate in carefully.
44. I enjoy social occasions.
45. I find it difficult to work out people’s intentions.
46. New situations make me anxious.
47. I enjoy meeting new people.
48. I am a good diplomat.
49. I am not very good at remembering people’s date of birth.
50. When I was young, I found it very easy to play games with
children that involved pretending.
