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Sometimes the first step toward understanding yourself isn't a diagnosis — it's a question. The free, research-based self-assessments below, from Embrace Autism, are a place to start exploring that question on your own time, at your own pace, with no cost and no pressure.

Autism ADHD AuDHD Alexithymia Asexuality Dyslexia Dyspraxia / DCD Aphantasia A Few More Worth Your Time

A note before you start

None of these are diagnostic. A high score doesn't mean you definitely have a condition, and a low score doesn't mean you definitely don't — masking, co-occurring conditions, and how a question happens to be worded can all shift results. What these tools are good for is giving you language for a pattern you've maybe always sensed but never had words for, and a starting point for a conversation — with yourself, or with me, if you'd like company in figuring out what comes next.

Autism

Most people start with two or three of these, not all of them.

50 items

Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ)

A general overview of autistic traits across communication, social interaction, attention, and thinking style.

Open resource

80 items

RAADS-R

A detailed look at autistic traits across the lifespan, developed specifically to catch presentations that mask or camouflage well.

Open resource

25 items

CAT-Q

Measures how much you adapt or mask autistic traits in daily social situations — often the missing piece for people who've been told "you don't seem autistic."

Open resource

10 items

AQ-10

A short-form version of the AQ if you want a quick first read before committing to a longer test.

Open resource

119 items

The Aspie Quiz

A longer, community-developed test that also screens for possible overlapping traits — ADHD, dyslexia, and others.

Open resource

ADHD

18 items

ADHD Self-Report Scale v1.1 (ASRS)

The standard adult ADHD screener, with an extended section you can bring directly into a conversation with a prescriber.

Open resource

6 items

ASRS for DSM-5

A quick-screen version built on the items most predictive of an ADHD diagnosis.

Open resource

AuDHD

Autism and ADHD co-occur often enough that Embrace Autism maintains a dedicated hub for it — worth a look if the Autism and ADHD screens above both resonate.

Multiple tools

AuDHD Resources Hub

A dedicated collection of resources, articles, and assessments for people navigating the overlap of autism and ADHD.

Open resource

Alexithymia

Alexithymia — difficulty identifying and describing your own emotions — shows up in a large share of autistic adults, and often gets mistaken for autism itself, or for simply being "unemotional."

20 items

Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20)

The most widely used clinical alexithymia measure.

Open resource

24 items

Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire (PAQ)

Assesses awareness of your own emotions in daily life.

Open resource

37 items

Online Alexithymia Questionnaire (OAQ-G2)

Focuses more on recognizing others' emotional states.

Open resource

Asexuality

12 items

Asexuality Identification Scale (AIS-12)

Helps distinguish asexuality from other patterns of low or situational desire — useful whether or not you already identify as asexual.

Open resource

Dyslexia

Dyslexia is significantly more common in autistic and ADHD individuals than in the general population — and it's frequently missed in people who compensate well academically. These screeners are a starting point, not a diagnosis.

Checklist

British Dyslexia Association Adult Checklist

The field's standard free screening checklist for adult dyslexia. Covers reading, writing, memory, and organization patterns that often go unrecognized in people who've developed strong compensatory strategies.

Open resource

Screener

Dyslexia Screener — Embrace Autism

Embrace Autism's dyslexia resource page, written with neurodivergent overlap in mind — useful context if you're already exploring autism or ADHD and want to understand how dyslexia fits in.

Open resource

Dyspraxia / DCD

Dyspraxia (also called Developmental Coordination Disorder) affects motor planning, coordination, and spatial processing — and is more common in autistic and ADHD individuals. It's one of the most underdiagnosed conditions in adults, partly because people learn to compensate and partly because the field's self-test landscape has been in flux since the UK's Dyspraxia Foundation closed in 2024.

Screener + info

Dyspraxia / DCD — Embrace Autism

Embrace Autism's dyspraxia resource, written with neurodivergent overlap in mind. Covers motor, spatial, and coordination patterns alongside the autism and ADHD connections.

Open resource

Resource hub

Dyspraxia DCD America

U.S.-based nonprofit providing information, community support, and resources for people with DCD. A solid starting point if you want community alongside the clinical picture.

Open resource

Aphantasia

Aphantasia is the absence (or significant reduction) of voluntary mental imagery — the inability to "see" things in your mind's eye. It's not a disorder, but it shapes how you think, remember, and experience imagination in ways that can be disorienting to discover as an adult. Aphantasia is more prevalent among autistic individuals and those with alexithymia.

16 items

Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ)

The most widely used research measure for visual imagery vividness. A score at or near the floor (16) is the standard indicator of aphantasia. Takes about 5 minutes.

Open resource

Screener + community

Aphantasia Network — Screener & Resources

The Aphantasia Network hosts the VVIQ alongside research participation opportunities, community forums, and one of the best plain-language explanations of the spectrum from full aphantasia to hyperphantasia.

Open resource

45 items

Object-Spatial Imagery and Verbal Questionnaire (OSIVQ)

Goes beyond visual imagery to assess spatial and verbal thinking styles — useful for understanding how you process information when visual imagery is reduced or absent.

Open resource

A Few More Worth Your Time

A curated handful of resources that don't fit neatly into one category but are genuinely worth bookmarking.

Curated list

Neurodivergent Insights — Free Screener Roundup

Dr. Megan Anna Neff, an AuDHD clinical psychologist, maintains one of the best-curated free screener roundups available, plus workbooks and self-paced courses on burnout, masking, and AuDHD identity.

Open resource

25 items

Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS-25)

A free, well-validated retrospective screener for childhood ADHD symptoms — meant to pair with a current-symptoms tool like the ASRS. Adult ADHD evaluation typically wants evidence from both ends of your life, not just the present.

Open resource

Interactive quiz

Synesthesia Self-Assessment

Do letters have colors? Does music produce shapes? Does the number 7 have a personality? This 15-question quiz explores 8 types of synesthesia and identifies which may be present in your experience. Synesthesia is significantly more common in neurodivergent individuals.

Grapheme–ColorSound → ColorNumber FormMirror-TouchWords → Taste+ 3 more

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What Comes Next Is Up to You

Some people take one of these, get their language, and that's enough for now. Others want a fuller conversation — about what a pattern like this has meant for your relationships, your work, your sense of yourself, and what support (formal diagnosis or not) might actually look like for you.

If that's where you're at, I'd genuinely like to talk with you.

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Self-assessment tools linked above are hosted by Embrace Autism and are not affiliated with or administered by Love Psychotherapy, LLC. These tools are educational and self-reflective in nature; they do not constitute a clinical diagnosis. If you have concerns about your mental health, please consult a licensed clinician.