Tuesday - March 23, 2004

No wonder I turned out like this. 

Today I found out that my empathy quotient is 60. (Above average: most women score 47.)
And that my systemizing quotient is 53. (Hardly any woman scores this high; I am on the verge of Asperger scores.)

I barely squeak into the balanced brain category. Read more about the Baron-Cohen brain type theory here. Plot your score on the graph below (which I lifted without permission from the Guardian site - *lol*, talk about risk-taking) to find out what your brain type is.


I feel for everyone, and can rationalize everything. And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, explains why I linger in relationships which aren't good for me. Extreme empathy ("Of course I understand") and extreme rationalization ("Of course I understand").

I imagine the grid as a seesaw, and believe that while your basic brain type stays intact, circumstances will force you to lean more to one side than the other. Certainly nothing is simple. As I told a friend last Saturday, "If God wanted things to be simple, He would have put less folds in our brains."