I have autistic people in my family, and one of them said (jokingly) that not knowing how to answer the questions on self assessment forms should be enough evid

I have autistic people in my family, and one of them said (jokingly) that not knowing how to answer the questions on self assessment forms should be enough evidence of autism. It was a joke, but there's something to it. People's autism can manifest in many different ways, but from what I have observed: - Language seems full of ambiguity. ('How often is "often"?', or 'Concentrate on the full picture? It depends on the picture!') - Reading too much into a question, so everything sounds impossible. ("How can I really know if someone is actually bored or pretending to be bored?") - Questions from a neurotypical perspective seem absurd, since your experiences are so different. (Adaptive behaviors like assuming people are bored could make this seemingly simple yes/no question irrelevant.) There's probably more.