The document contains a selection of stories designed to test understanding of mental states and social situations. The stories cover topics like pretending, joking, white lies, figures of speech, irony, misunderstandings, forgetting, and making logical deductions based on limited information provided. Each story is followed by one or more questions to probe the reader's comprehension of why the characters said or did certain things.

1. A selection of ‘Strange Stories’ Adapted from: Kaland et. al (2005) The Strange Stories test. A replication study of children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome. and Jolliffe & Baron-Cohen (1999) The Strange Stories Test: A Replication with High-Functioning Adults with Autism or Asperger Syndrome.

2. The Mentalistic Stories

10. The Physical Stories