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Am I German or Autistic?
- gostsamo 7mo agoYOUR RESULT Both The Wittgenstein Result GERMAN 49% AUTISTIC 40% Been once to Germany, maybe twice. Can't vouch the other.
- tonyedgecombe 7mo ago>Been once to Germany, maybe twice. Being German isn't communicable, you won't catch it on a business trip or holiday.
- PunchyHamster 7mo agoDidn't suspect getting both is an option
- stumblers 7mo agoSame
- mdotmertens 7mo agoI can verify this. I am autistic and german. The tests also said I am both.
- sigmoid10 7mo agoI am neither, yet the test said I'm both. I guess I need to go to the embassy and start collecting free healthcare benefits for my diagnosis.
- ExpertAdvisor01 7mo agoYou have to wait 9 months for an appointment with a specialist for your diagnosis.
- sigmoid10 7mo agoI've lived 30 years like this, I can wait 9 months. Especially if I don't have to waste 800 bucks per month on Adderall afterwards.
- iammjm 7mo ago"Free" is in fact about 300€/month. And this does NOT include dentist's appointments
- sigmoid10 7mo agoBro, even for an entire year that is less than a single ambulance ride in some parts of the US. Heck, you might pay $1000+ even with insurance coverage.
- storus 7mo agoIt's $1400/month per person in Germany, just hidden from you. That's more than a monthly family plan in the US.
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- vidarh 7mo agoI also got both. I'm Norwegian, so culturally half-German seems relatively reasonable. And the autism part I think more than one person who have met me have suspected (no diagnosis, and probably wouldn't get diagnosed now, because I've had a few decades of getting good at masking quite a few things I know would've shown up on an assessment)
- PunchyHamster 7mo agoI don't think the tests "you care about thing being done well" is good way to diagnose autism...
- vidarh 7mo agoNo single question is. If anything, few parts of an actual autism assessment are that direct. But questions designed to see if a subject takes things too literally, however, will tend to be part of it.
- caminante 7mo agoPer the guide, it's not zero sum. > Scores are independent — they don't need to add up to 100%.
- sdevonoes 7mo agoRegarding punctuality I miss the option: “A moral obligation from my side, but I don’t care if others arrive late to an appointment with me”
- yoz-y 7mo agoTo me it lacks the option “moral obligation but only hold accountable people who live alone”
- ekr 7mo agoWhy? Bathroom queues or things like that? I live alone but am almost always late. A few weeks ago I was late to the airport for a flight by a couple of hours. Yesterday I was late to work, I was commuting by car when an officer thought of stopping me and do some checks for around 10-15 minutes. It does feel like I'm cursed or something. It happens way too often, but almost always feels as if it's completely outside my control. For instance (and maybe this is embarrassing ...), I was late to the airport because the day before I went a bit later to bed than planned, so I overslept my alarm a bit, but still had plenty of breathing room. So I proceed, with the car. As it happens, I live in a country, let's say NL, and the airport was in BE. It also happens that fuel is significantly cheaper in BE than in NL (over 25% cheaper at the time). I'm also quite precise about fuel consumption. As it happens, speed limit in NL is 100km/h during the day, but 130 during the night. I was still well within the high speed section during those very early moments of dawn. But I normally only ride my car during the day. So I know intimately how much fuel I'm using. So I calculate things ,with a lot of safety margins, to optimize fueling costs, by reaching BE with not a lot of fuel. However, as I was a bit underslept. Normally I know exactly how many km I can do after the low fuel indicator comes on. I of course anticipated this would be lower at 130/h rather than 100/h, but somehow, my calculations were a bit off. I ran out of fuel on the highway, well inside BE, but some 2km short of the gas station. Not the best of times, as you can imagine. I was starting to panic a bit, thinking of eventual costs, I don't know the exact law in BE, if I have to pay someone to tow me, it would cost probably hundreds of time more than the potential savings. But somehow, the place where the car stopped was in a location under a bridge, where I could actually get off the emergency lane, so in a very protected spot. Must have been 5AM at the time, I proceed to walk towards the first exit, grabbing a plastic bottle from the ground. After about 800m i manage to get off the highway, to that first settlement, and not long after, a very nice gentlemen takes me to the gas station. I discovered, stupefied, that the station only sells truck diesel. I walk a few minutes to the next one. Same story. I keep walking until I finally find one selling petrol, and a very nice lady, after explaining her my situation, agrees to take me to my car on the highway, which was 1-2km away. I do pay her for her trouble. Now, this whole incident only took about an hour, so I'm still sort of on track. But now it's starting to be early morning, and some of the worst traffic jams I've encountered. Basically the trip takes over 90 minutes more than originally estimated. I buy another plane ticket for another plane later that day and still end up not that badly, but ... yeah.
- croemer 7mo agoOnly 31% German despite being German. Maybe I'm not German after all.
- tosie 7mo agoI feel you ... only got 44%.
- flohofwoe 7mo agoSame here, 27%, I am disappoint (although maybe the test doesn't account for East-German-ness)
- aswegs8 7mo agoI would argue East Germans are more German than average Germans
- embedding-shape 7mo agoSometimes you're born in the "wrong country". My life was essentially a mess until I moved across the continent to a country that much better follows what I personally want out of life, then suddenly a bunch of seemingly unrelated issues just solved themselves.
- tayo42 7mo agoWhat country? I feel like moving never solves personal problems, surpsing to hear it did for me someone
- gunapologist99 7mo agoTexas
- croemer 7mo agoBased on your username I assume you moved to Texas rather than from there. Correct?
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- codeduck 7mo agoGerman but probably not autistic. I shall go and celebrate with some Dunkerbier.
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- gwbas1c 7mo agoHonestly, I really want to know what the German options are and the autistic options are.
- marvinborner 7mo agoYou can inspect the point system in its source, `const questions = [...]`.
- 1970-01-01 7mo ago"Shut up and follow directions unless you know better." is a phrase I think translates very well in all languages. Not German. Not Autism. Just harsh feedback for people that need to hear it once in awhile. Mostly management types.
- TallGuyShort 7mo agoToo many people think they know better. You're not allowed to think you know better unless you're able to put yourself in the position to be the one to write the directions. You know how many conversations I have with people who are mad about a problem, and I tell them that's the reason we have a policy they didn't follow, and then they say they should tell people that that's the reason for the policy, and then I tell them they do explain it, right where the policy is written. Oh my God, you didn't read the policies before you did this, did you!? What else did you miss!?
- kubanczyk 7mo agoHmm, sounds close to "shut up and mind your own business because sure I know better" so I'm keen to upvote it.
- luckymate 7mo ago44% German. Possible. I’m not German, but I’m from nearby and I do have a German surname. „ Your patterns are cultural, not neurological.” - that’s for sure. My neurological ones were so terrible I had to resort outer sources.
- stavros 7mo agoI'm not sure how I feel about this, but I liked the writing: > You are difficult to work with in the ways all serious people are difficult to work with. This is not a diagnosis. It is a compliment.
- jcmontx 7mo ago64% autistic 31% German disappointed
- wildpeaks 7mo agoI lived in Germany for 10+ years, so unsurprisingly got Both (40/62) as result, although it was slightly frustrating sometimes to pick between answers where none really fit precisely (which in itself is probably a sign too, lol)
- embedding-shape 7mo agoI never lived in Germany, but live in Spain since more than 10 years, also got 40%/67% German/Autistic. And yes, very fun to live in a society with the personal rule of "being on time is being late" when everyone else is basically "late doesn't exists as a concept". I do enjoy pretty much everything else though :)
- Mick-Jogger 7mo ago58% German 49% Autistic As a German the first part I can follow. Autistic was a bit of a surprise.
- captainbland 7mo ago78% autistic, 16% German. My ancestry is Dutch which as someone who grew up in the UK feels about 16% German.
- mikkupikku 7mo agoHogwash, this says I'm German but "probably not autistic."
- GTP 7mo agoTurns out, I'm more autistic than German. But it should have been expected, as the latter isn't my nationality.
- kykat 7mo agoAI slop, absolutely meaningless, don't take it seriously. Btw I tested neither, 30% each; "the controll group". So I am formally authorized to criticise the page as a perfectly normal person.
- cousinbryce 7mo agoFeature request: a worldle style share button. E.g. 42%(DE emoji) 20%(Puzzle emoji) Update: I scrolled down. Your share button is pretty good!
- voxadam 7mo agoI'm not an expert in autism or the autism community but I was under the impression that the puzzle piece mostly represents Autism Speaks, a group which much of the community does not care for. As I understand it many don't care for the way that Autism Speaks treats those with autism as children regardless of age or capability and many find it patronizing if not outright insulting.
- jstanley 7mo agoIt told me I was both German and Autistic? Completely wrong! I am neither German nor Autistic!
- troupo 7mo ago... and here are 123 reasons why, meticulously researched
- amunozo 7mo ago47% German, 20% autistic. Too German for my taste, but I have a couple of very German behaviors even though I am Spanish.
- thi2 7mo ago60% german, 40% autistic. Seems fair since I'm german and work in IT. The rules question did not have an answer I liked tho.
- sersi 7mo agoHaving lived in Germany and experienced the wonderful Deutche Bahn, I wouldn't really associate punctuality with being German.
- ramesh31 7mo ago>"Having lived in Germany and experienced the wonderful Deutche Bahn, I wouldn't really associate punctuality with being German." This is relative. In Germany, people complain when the train is late. Everywhere else, the train is just late.
- pja 7mo agoIIRC DB currently has a worse punctuality record than the UK rail network. That takes some doing.
- dgb23 7mo agoThe Swiss nervously check the time when a train is 2-3 minutes late. When a train is late, the situation is basically on the brink of a national emergency.
- alex_young 7mo agoIn my experience this is often commiserate with an announcement that the service is late due to it’s arrival from [Germany, Italy, France].
- arkensaw 7mo ago> In Germany, people complain when the train is late. Everywhere else, the train is just late. You think people don't complain when the train is late in other countries? That's hardly a uniquely German thing
- saalweachter 7mo agoTo be honest, I complain more often when the train is on time.
- blitzar 7mo agoI am 40% German, 40% Autistic. Will be gone a while while I look for the other 20%.
- bena 7mo agoThey explain it on the site, the two percentages are independent. You are 60% non-German and 60% non-Autistic.
- blitzar 7mo agoI dont want people to think I am German, Autistic or Pedantic but the question posed was ... Am I German or Autistic? not Am I German or Autistic or Non-German or Non-Autistic?
- bena 7mo agoObviously the title is cheeky as a lot of attributes ascribed to Autistic people are also stereotypes about Germans. The site is exposing the reality that you can come to the same place from different directions. For example, if you are more "German", your sense of fairness, adherence to rules, regard for punctuality comes from a place of moral obligation. You act in ways you hope others will also act because you believe that if everyone acts that way, we'd all get along better. However, if you do these things because those are the arbitrary rules set forth and they must be followed because that's the definition of a rule, something you follow, then you're likely Autistic because that kind of rigid thinking that is a hallmark of the condition.
- ramesh31 7mo agoAm I the only one who got "neither"?
- jahnu 7mo agoAlso got neither. I’m Irish but have lived a long time in Austria now. The punctuality thing is common with Germans. They have a different approach to rules here I think.
- knappa 7mo agoNope. 31% German, 27% Autistic.
- lgeorget 7mo agoI'm also neither. But I'm also very good at lying to myself, so who knows? (not me)
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- injidup 7mo agoThe test doesn't follow the correct procedures for diagnosing autism and after a thorough reading of the DSM-5-TR I could find no mention of German a mental illness being and I challenge anyone to me wrong prove.
- kykat 7mo agoIt's obvious Claude slop, a stupid meme for people who want to think they are special
- shevy-java 7mo agoI think the archetype does not work well. For instance, people in Bavaria are very different to people in the northern areas of Germany. This includes the language too. The first question was about punctuality; I don't think all germans are always on time, it totally depends on many factors, including age. Perhaps decades ago this was accurate, but nowadays it feels to me as if people living in larger cities, are often much more alike to one another. And I think this trend will continue. Back in the 1990s I was in Hong Kong. The city was epic, cool and alien. Today I feel I could live there even without speaking cantonese (I understand the top-down control via Beijing being a huge problem; I refer to what a city may look like in 2026 and beyond though from a theoretical point of view. Naturally knowing the language helps insanely, but english works as a substitute in many modern areas, even in non-english speaking countries).
- arkensaw 7mo agoI am German, not autistic. This confuses me as I have never been to Germany and do not speak German. But rules are rules.
- pwdisswordfishy 7mo agoSo ist der Geist!
- ahofmann 7mo agoIt's always funny to see people try speaking/writing german and screw it up in four words/14 characters :-) I got 38% german, 58% autistic btw.
- nickvec 7mo agoSo you’re not German?
- addandsubtract 7mo agoThere's a German word for that: Deutschgeistlichveranlagt.
- RunningDroid 7mo agoDo you have German heritage or live in an area that had a large number of German immigrants at one point?
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- kylec 7mo agoI'm neither apparently, which I guess is a relief? Some of the questions I felt didn't have an answer I would select, like the inner monologue one. I generally don't have an inner monologue as I understand it described by people who do. Also, there's way more wrong with the world than those four answers.
- franktankbank 7mo ago> I took the German or Autistic diagnostic. Result: Both. The Wittgenstein Result. I don't know whether to be proud or concerned. It was 47% 47%. AMA!! I've got stories man, just give me a specific prompt. I can also tell stories about my PhD advisor (100% german, 70% autistic).
- dark-star 7mo agoI am German but the test says I'm neither (31%/36%). I will now think about this result for a few days, if not weeks.....
- Yossarrian22 7mo agoI scored Neither and received a congratulation for being the control group
- movpasd 7mo agoFrustratingly, many of the questions have multiple answers that can apply simultaneously! (You may like to guess my result.)
- alper 7mo agoThis test is good and also I'm not sure it's meant to be funny, but it is very funny.
- zdc1 7mo agoThere's an interesting spectrum of reactions here. Maybe the real test is peoples' reactions to the test...
- fch42 7mo agoI always thought I had learned to successfully mask as one of my compatriots, but the test ruthlessly exposes me as 80% Autistic / 20% German. The test is broken, if you ask me.
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- antiloper 7mo agoThanks chatgpt
- marstall 7mo agoI got 20% autistic, 80% Irish?
- marcusverus 7mo agoOn being interrupted, "It's difficult to describe. Something like a physical sensation." This is extremely relatable. I'm pretty confident that this physical sensation is related to my (rather severely) limited working memory, which I have to carefully manage at maximum capacity and which is catastrophically overwhelmed by some interruptions. A token interruption ("hey, do you have a sec"?) Doesn't tend to cause the sensation, but an interruption that contains data ("I called Greg about the plan for Wednesday and he said that Susan said...") is psychologically painful and even enraging in an oddly visceral sort of way.
- WA 7mo agoQuestion 9 imho is the most German one ("When someone says 'we should get coffee sometime,' you understand this to mean:"). It depends on context a bit obviously, but most Germans are sincere about it. You either propose coffee or you don't. However, there's a subset of Germans who seem to propose coffee and then don't follow up themselves, but it's not just a phrase. If you are the one to follow up, they'd join you. Which, to say the least, is annoying, too. From my German perspective, asking someone for grabbing coffee sometime and not meaning it is a completely stupid thing to say. Why would you suggest it? Why should the other person have to decode this as a "nice thing to say but not meant literally" if you could say a hundred other things that could be meant literally and are still nice, like "see you around" or something like that?
- abcde666777 7mo agoIt's the whims of emotion - in the moment a person says it it can be quite sincere, as that's their genuine mood in that instance, but later on the mood passes and the effort involved in arranging something outweighs the desire. In that sense it does communicate something: I like and have enjoyed your company in this moment. Flippant of course, but not too dastardly.
- 7bit 7mo agoMaybe Germans are emotionally more stable to know that the statement will hold true in the future, when they say it now.
- anujmore 7mo ago> If you are the one to follow up, they'd join you. I get this. I don't want to be imposing myself, and I want to give the person an out if they don't want to meet me. But I also want them to know that I would be up for having a coffee.
- anticorporate 7mo agoThat was the one I struggled the most with. I generally mean social invitations sincerely, and expect that other people do too, but also my social anxiety leaves me somewhat relieved if we don't follow through.
- ludicrousdispla 7mo agoI got "the Wittgenstein result", which I guess makes sense as I used to live down the street from his childhood home.
- juancn 7mo agoPosting my result here in case you want to see the different results without redoing the test: German 47% - Autistic 47% Wittgenstein was Austrian, which is close enough. He was also, by most accounts, someone whose relationship to social convention was at best functional and at worst a source of significant suffering to himself and everyone around him. He rewrote philosophy twice. The first time by establishing what could be said with precision. The second time by dismantling the assumption that precision was the right goal in the first place. Both versions emerged from the same source: an absolute refusal to accept confusion as a resting state. You have, apparently, both the cultural formation that produces systematic people and the neurological substrate that makes systematic thinking feel like breathing. This is either a significant advantage or an explanation for certain recurring difficulties in your life. Probably both. Schopenhauer also fits here. So does Ramanujan, though he wasn't German. The category isn't German or autistic — it's people for whom the gap between how things are and how they ought to be is not an abstraction but a constant, low-grade irritation. Share blurb: I took the German or Autistic diagnostic. Result: Both. The Wittgenstein Result. I don't know whether to be proud or concerned. https://german.millermanschool.com/
- chronogram 7mo agoI got the very same 47/47. What if it's always giving that?
- whynotmaybe 7mo agoIt's not, I'm 36/44.
- reaperducer 7mo agoI got the very same 47/47. What if it's always giving that? Might just be that a lot of people on HN skew that way. Kinda makes sense. I got 47/62.
- 7bit 7mo agoIt would be factually incorrect.
- giacomoforte 7mo agoHaving lived in Germany, the strongest cultural conflict I felt was inflexibility of plans. The German way is to plan something very meticulously and the to follow through with the plan no matter what. I am however of the persuasion of not planning too much beforehand especially when the input is lacking. But also to be flexible and reactive during execution.
- sniderthanyou 7mo ago56/31. I'm really unsatisfied with the choices for Question 15, "The real problem with the world is...". None of them seem to capture "not everyone is playing by the same rules"
- harladsinsteden 7mo agoThe test says that I'm 66% German. As a German I'm not really sure how to interpret that :-)
- stevenalowe 7mo ago40/40 - nailed it (not actually German though) “The category isn't German or autistic — it's people for whom the gap between how things are and how they ought to be is not an abstraction but a constant, low-grade irritation.”
- morellt 7mo agoAs a member of the German diaspora (who has faced the autistic allegations his whole life) who grew up with, and was heavily influenced by, his Oma, this is immensely reassuring.
- humanpotato 7mo agoI got 36% German, 33% Autistic. I didn't think I was that normal, but here we are.
- dahateb 7mo agoSame here. 36% German, 31% Autistic. Funny thing is, I am actually German. I wonder how many Germans would be classified as German via this survey
- analog8374 7mo agoI took the German or Autistic diagnostic and scored Neither. I am apparently the control group.
- nyell 7mo agoI lived in Germany for four years, but no longer there. I got 42% German / 20% Autistic grade and I am not European at all.
- rawgabbit 7mo agoI got neither. Is this good or bad? You are, as far as this diagnostic can establish, neither specifically German in your cognitive habits nor particularly autistic in your neurological profile. You are something rarer in the context of people who take quizzes like this: apparently normal about it.
- notabhishekrai 7mo agoOne heck of a title this one
- dramm 7mo agoI'm Australian, I didn't finish the stupid test.
- nxpnsv 7mo agoYou might be Aussietistic?
- OkayPhysicist 7mo agoThis site is Neo-nazi propaganda. Dude's trying to sell his "courses" (read: podcast) where he espouses a... concerning list of philosophers. Plato (like every philosophy discussion in the western world, nothing too bad yet...) Nietzsche (thanks to his sister, very associated with the Nazis) Heidegger (literally a Nazi, as in, card-carrying member of the Nazi party) Strauss (close ties to the Nazi party, acting as their head of the Reich Music Chamber) Schmitt (literally a Nazi, as in, card-carrying member of the Nazi party, and part of the government at the time) Dugin (Nazi sympathizer, extreme far right asshole, in bed with Putin) That's the entire list. If it was 1 or 2 of those, mixed in with a bunch of other philosophers who weren't Nazis, I wouldn't be so confident in calling it fascist. But it's not. The list of philosophers that Millerman espouses are basically a complete list of literal Nazi-aligned philosophers.
- periodjet 7mo agoFound the autist.
- dualvariable 7mo ago27% German, 31% Autistic. I think I'm old enough to have an awful lot of IDGAF which I think greatly suppresses those numbers. If I took this test back when I was 16, I think the numbers would be very different.
- dartharva 7mo agoResult: Both. The Wittgenstein Result. I somehow got a perfect 40%/40% balance, don't know if that's the most rare or the most common
- Garlef 7mo agoIdk: Assuming you're just partially knowledgeable about psychology and the nature of human interaction (and don't consider yourself infallible) - How can you approach these kinds of questions even remotely genuine? To express it conversely: Unless you're totally oblivious wrt social interaction some of these answers seem rather stupid. So: This does not really test anything but knowledge. I chuckled twice, though.
- amai 7mo agoResult: Both. The Wittgenstein Result. I don't know whether to be proud or concerned.
- Lockal 7mo agoPeoples, I have a big announcement This man is gay and European!
- mrunkel 7mo agoSo, why no German language version? I am convinced that the majority of Germans are on the spectrum. What other country builds viewing platforms for construction sites?
- krolley 7mo agoIn Switzerland, when you pass by a building site that has opaque boards up around the perimeter, they often have a little hand-sized cutout at eye level so you can have a peek inside. It's strange, and I assume it is for the curious to have a look, not sure.
- therealdrag0 7mo agoSome fence holes are to allow wind through and reduce the sail effect. Not sure if that applies to your reference.
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- usmur 7mo agoI must say I expected a german question
- MrSkelter 7mo agoIt assumes you have an internal monologue which is a problem if like me you don’t.