A 25-item validated questionnaire measuring the degree to which a person camouflages or masks autistic traits in social situations. Developed specifically to capture the hidden labor of social performance — a pattern especially common in women, non-binary people, and late-diagnosed autistic adults.
Before you begin: The CAT-Q measures the hidden labor of social performance — the strategies people use to appear neurotypical. High scores are common in women, non-binary people, and late-diagnosed autistic adults. This is a screening tool, not a diagnosis. Your responses are not stored or shared.
This is a screening questionnaire, not a diagnosis. It was developed for research and produces a score that indicates whether a fuller assessment may be worth pursuing. A score cannot tell you whether you are autistic. Only a qualified clinician working with your full history can do that.
Nothing is saved. Your answers stay in this browser tab and disappear when you close it. Nothing is sent anywhere, no account is created, and no one — including us — sees what you enter.
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