If you’re going to answer forty personal questions on a website, you deserve to know where those questions came from, how the score is computed, and who checked the words before they went live. This page is the whole chain — sources, scoring, review, and the hard limits we’ve built in on purpose.
Source instruments
None of our screens were invented from scratch. Each one is adapted from validated, publicly documented instruments and then translated into plain identity-first language — the kind a tired adult can answer honestly at 11pm, not clinician-speak.
- Autism-trait items are adapted from the RAADS-14, the short form of the Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale — a screening instrument developed for adults, including adults who mask.
- ADHD items follow the structure of the ASRS (Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale) item pool — the frequency-based “how often does this happen” format that works better for adults than childhood-behaviour checklists.
- Sensory items are built on the Dunn model of sensory processing — the four-quadrant framework (seeking, avoiding, sensitivity, registration) behind the Sensory Profile family of instruments.
Every test page cites which instruments it draws on. Where the validated instruments have gaps — the AuDHD-specific signatures like hyperfocus colliding with executive failure, or masking burnout — we add items from the self-report literature and mark them clearly as such on the AuDHD Test page.
What the scores are — and aren’t
Your result is a trait-matching band: it tells you how strongly your answers pattern-match the traits that autistic, ADHD, and otherwise neurodivergent adults commonly report. The scoring is transparent by design — each answer contributes a visible amount, the band thresholds are fixed, and there are no hidden cutoffs that shift to nudge you toward a paid product.
What the score is notis a diagnosis — and not because of a legal disclaimer we were forced to add, but by design. A self-screen can’t observe you, can’t take a developmental history, and can’t rule out the dozen other explanations a good assessment considers. Only a qualified clinician can assess ADHD, autism, or related conditions. A high band is a reason to read more and consider a formal assessment; a low band doesn’t rule anything out, especially if you mask heavily.
Who reviews the content
Everything on this site — the screens, the guides, the result pages — is written and reviewed by autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD adults. That’s lived-experience review: people who recognise when a question would be answered wrongly by someone who masks, or when a phrasing quietly frames you as broken.
What we do not have today is a licensed clinician on the team. We are not doctors, psychologists, or therapists, and we say so everywhere it matters — on the tests, in the results, and here. We are actively looking for licensed clinical advisors to add a formal clinical-review layer on top of the lived-experience one. If that’s you, please get in touch.
The AI coach’s hard boundaries
The AI ND coach(part of Neurodiverge Pro) is grounded in our own guide library — it works from the same reviewed, identity-first content you can read for free, not from the open internet. And it has hard boundaries it will not cross:
- It refuses to diagnose. Asked “do I have ADHD?”, it explains what a self-screen can and can’t tell you and points to assessment routes.
- It refuses medication dosing questions — those belong with your prescriber, full stop.
- It does not do crisis counselling. If a conversation shows crisis signals, a mandatory hand-off kicks in: 988 (US), 116 123 (UK & Ireland), 112 (EU). That hand-off is built into the system, not left to the model’s judgement.
The coach is designed to work alongside professional care — helping you track patterns, prepare for appointments, and get through the executive-function parts of daily life — never instead of it.
Change log
Methodology changes are dated here, so you can see what changed and when:
- 2026-05-15 — launched with five self-screens: AuDHD Test, Adult ADHD Test, Neurodivergent Test, Am I Neurodivergent?, and Sensory Profile Test.
- 2026-06 — German and Polish editions of the screens and core guides shipped.
- 2026-07-10 — safety-language review across the whole site: checked every screen, result page, and guide for wording that could overstate what a self-screen can tell you.
Questions about anything on this page — a source we should cite better, a threshold that seems off, a phrasing that lands wrong — go to our contact page. A human reads everything.
Last updated: 10 July 2026.