How are you defining ‘tests’ in this context?
It could be 1 or 2 or 4. You do as much testing as necessary to get the answer.
I picked 3, because that’s what came into my head straight away. But 4 would also work.
But the really important thing here is … what on earth happened to the OP??
I’m not voting, because the entire debate is so poorly construed. The phrase “my mother had me tested” is meaningless, particularly w/r/t Asperger’s Syndrome. Depending on what Mom knew about testing and what sort of professional or non-professional did the testing, a meaningful battery of tests, observations and so forth might have been done properly, so as to yield as definitive a conclusion as possible. The same battery might have been administered improperly, so as to yield no reliable result. There might have been a superficial assessment by a pediatrician, an utterly meaningless “test” she read on the internet involving sticky tape and food coloring, a spurious home blood test, or a self-concocted test where you drizzle cerebrospinal fluid on a home pregnancy test stick. ANY of these might be implied by “my mother had me tested,” and I don’t think that the dramatic significance of the line is addressed by any of them, to wit: “I categorically deny that I have Asperger’s Syndrome because I am placing absolute confidence in the ‘objective result’ of what is inherently a highly subjective assessment.” Just like an Aspy.
Oh, tested for what?
There’s nothing in the phrase to indicate how many tests were given. In order to be definitively a single test you’d need an article: “His mother had him given a/the test.” Likewise, to know for sure there were multiple tests, the word would need to be pluralized.
Erm, wtf happened to sam? A search on her most recent postings reveals this thread and the one that spawned it, both of which have her behaving perfectly rationally and not-at-all bannable.
Hoping it’s just an administrative hiccup, I’ll soldier on…
Being tested in this context means evaluated. There is no diagnostic component that falls outside the rubric of testing as implied by the phrase “had me tested.”
I’d think you were talking about me.
To nitpick and/or clarify, the character of Sheldon has never stated one way or the other about being tested for or diagnosed as having Asperger’s. The line about being tested refers to his being crazy.
ETA: He’s not, btw. His mother had him tested.
I voted before reading the thread…I must be a bad person, because I voted for the “You missed” category, because my FIRST thought was, “What, no dad?”
I’m blaming the head cold.