Neurodivergent self-screening tools
Research-backed questionnaires to help you explore your traits and understand yourself. A warm, private starting point for reflection and conversation.
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Many of these tests were first built and tested mostly on men. They often miss autistic women, non-binary people, and anyone who learned to hide how they think and feel. If you answer one optional question, we can point you toward tests that might fit your experience best. You can take any test at any time regardless.
Do you tend to hide or suppress the way you naturally think or feel when you are around other people?
This might look like mirroring how others speak, working hard to appear calm when you are not, rehearsing conversations beforehand, or feeling exhausted after social situations in a way other people do not seem to feel.
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Ritvo Autism and Asperger Diagnostic Scale – Revised RAADS-R
80-item scale covering language, social relatedness, sensory-motor, and circumscribed interests. Validated for adults.
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Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire CAT-Q
Measures strategies used to mask or compensate for autistic traits: assimilation, compensation, and masking. 25 items. CC BY 4.0.
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Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire PAQ
24-item measure of alexithymia (difficulty identifying and describing emotions), covering both positive and negative affect. Widely validated in autistic adults.
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Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale – Part A ASRS Part A
6-item WHO-validated screener for adult ADHD. Covers inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive presentations. Quick and clinically validated.
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Glasgow Sensory Questionnaire GSQ
42-item sensory sensitivity questionnaire across 7 modalities: visual, auditory, taste, smell, touch, vestibular, and proprioceptive. Measures both hyper- and hyposensitivity. Validated in adults.
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Wender Utah Rating Scale – 25-item WURS-25
25-item retrospective questionnaire asking adults to recall childhood behaviour and emotions before age 12. Establishes childhood onset of ADHD patterns. Best paired with the ASRS for a two-part ADHD picture.
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Autistic Burnout Scale – Revised ABM
14-item screening measure of recent autistic burnout, developed by and with autistic adults (AASPIRE). Asks about negative changes over the past three months compared with what is usual for you.
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Autistic Burnout Symptom Checklist ABSC
A 40-symptom checklist across six areas, for tracking autistic burnout over time. No pass or fail; it gives you a total to compare with your own future scores.
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Extreme Demand Avoidance Questionnaire (Adult) EDA-QA
26 questions on traits linked to a demand-avoidance profile, often called PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance, or a Pervasive Drive for Autonomy). Usually understood within autism; a self-reflection tool.
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Adult Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire A-RSQ
9 everyday situations measuring rejection sensitivity, how much you anxiously expect and brace for rejection. Central to what many ADHD and autistic people call RSD. A profile, not a diagnosis.
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Autism Spectrum Quotient AQ
Measures autistic traits across five domains: social skill, attention switching, attention to detail, communication, and imagination. 50 questions. Widely used; developed primarily with male university students.
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Empathy Quotient EQ
60-item measure of empathy and social sensitivity. Often paired with the SQ-R.
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Systemising Quotient – Revised SQ-R
75 items measuring the drive to analyse and build rule-based systems. Complements the EQ.
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Sensory Perception Quotient SPQ
35 items covering sensory hypersensitivity and hyposensitivity across multiple modalities.
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Friendship Questionnaire FQ
Explores quality and style of friendships and social relationships. 35 items.
These are general mental-health and functioning screens, not neurotype trait measures. A higher score is a prompt for reflection and, if you want it, a conversation with a GP or psychologist. They do not diagnose anything. If anything here brings up difficult feelings, support is available at the bottom of every screen.
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Kessler Psychological Distress Scale K10
10 questions on how often you have felt distress, such as nervousness, low mood, and restlessness, over the past four weeks. A widely used Australian wellbeing check.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory (Revised) OCI-R
18 questions on how much obsessive-compulsive experiences (checking, washing, ordering, intrusive thoughts, hoarding) have distressed you over the past month.
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WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 WHODAS 2.0
The quick 12-question version: how much difficulty everyday activities have taken over the past 30 days, across six areas of life. A general functioning check from the World Health Organization.
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WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (full) WHODAS-36
The full 36-question version, for a fuller picture across the same six areas of everyday functioning over the past 30 days. Gives a per-area breakdown alongside the overall result.
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Short ARFID Screen (Self) ARFID
7 questions screening for avoidant or restrictive eating that affects nutrition or daily life and is not driven by body image. Common in autistic people, often sensory-based.
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PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 PCL-5
20 questions on post-traumatic stress symptoms over the past month, following a stressful or distressing experience. A heavier questionnaire; take it at your own pace.
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Mood Disorder Questionnaire MDQ
A lifetime screen for periods of elevated or irritable mood and energy. It flags more people than actually have bipolar experiences, so a result is a starting point, not a conclusion.
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Depression Anxiety Stress Scales DASS-21
21 questions on how you have been over the past week, returned as three separate readings: depression, anxiety, and stress. Widely used across Australian mental health services.
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Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA-2) MAIA-2
37 questions mapping how you sense and relate to your body's internal signals, across eight areas. Interoception often works differently for autistic and ADHD people. A profile, not a score.
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Emotion Regulation Inventory ERI
18 questions mapping how you deal with negative emotions, across three styles: understanding them, hiding them, and feeling overwhelmed. A profile, not a score.
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Executive Skills Questionnaire Exec Skills
36 questions mapping twelve everyday executive skills (planning, focus, task-starting, flexibility, and more) into a strengths-and-challenges profile. Often uneven for ND people.
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Parental Stress Scale PSS
18 questions on how being a parent feels, weighing the rewards against the demands. Parenting stress often runs higher, and less recognised, for neurodivergent parents and parents of neurodivergent kids.
These are physical-health screens, not neurotype or mental-health measures. Conditions like hypermobility, mast cell activation, and dysautonomia often travel with being autistic or ADHD. A higher score is a prompt to explore with a GP or physiotherapist, not a diagnosis.
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Five-Part Questionnaire for Hypermobility 5PQ
5 quick questions screening for generalised joint hypermobility, which is common alongside autism and ADHD and can relate to fatigue, pain, and dysautonomia.
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Fatigue Impact Scale FIS
40 questions on how much fatigue has affected your thinking, body, and social life over the past four weeks. Fatigue is common alongside autism, ADHD, hypermobility, and dysautonomia.
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Malmo POTS Symptom Score Malmo POTS
12 questions on symptoms over the past week that point to POTS, a form of dysautonomia common alongside autism, ADHD, and hypermobility. A screen, not a diagnosis; a standing test confirms POTS.
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Mast Cell Symptom Tracker MCAS
28 symptoms across six body systems linked to mast cell activation (MCAS), often reported alongside hypermobility and dysautonomia. A tracker to bring to a doctor, not a diagnosis. No pass or fail.
All instruments are research-validated screening tools for self-understanding. Your scores give you a starting point for reflection and for a professional conversation, where the fuller picture comes together.