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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.
Assessments built on this site
AQ-10 Autism Screening
10 items · instant score
CAT-Q Autism Masking Test
25 items · masking subscales
ASRS v1.1 ADHD Self-Test
18 items · inattentive + hyperactive
PAQ Alexithymia Questionnaire
18 items · three subscales
VVIQ Aphantasia Test
16 items · imagery vividness
AuDHD Sensory Profile Quiz
Dunn's model · spoon cost
The Gender Lab
Avatar builder · 6 axes · matched terms
Ace Spectrum Map
Attraction types · not scored
Is This Low Desire or Is This Me?
Orientation vs desire · not scored
How Much of This Is Actually Mine?
Compulsory sexuality · not scored
Notes for an Appointment
Desire · reflection tool · not scored
Autistic Burnout Baseline Check
16 items · PHQ-9 · baseline comparison
Sensory Intimacy Map
18+27 items · 6 sensory channels · print & compare
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.
ADHD
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.
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."
Asexuality & the Ace Spectrum
Asexuality is an orientation, not a symptom. The tools below help you explore your own attraction landscape, untangle desire from orientation, and examine how much of the distress around this is actually yours — versus the pressure to want something you don't.
See also: Asexuality & the Ace Spectrum — Sexual Health Topic Index
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.
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.
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.
A Few More Worth Your Time
A curated handful of resources that don't fit neatly into one category but are genuinely worth bookmarking.
No validated instrument
Rejection sensitive dysphoria — why we don't list an RSD test
We are frequently asked for an RSD test. There isn't one. Rejection sensitive dysphoria is a clinical description rather than a formal diagnosis, and no validated, normed instrument for it exists as of 2026. The RSD "tests" widely circulated online are educational content published by directories, clinics, and assessment startups; several are explicit that they are not diagnostic and are benchmarked against their own site users rather than a normed sample. We do not list them.
The closest validated proxy is the Adult Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire (A-RSQ; Berenson et al., 2009), an 18-scenario measure of rejection anticipation. Two caveats belong with it. First, it measures a narrower construct than RSD describes — it captures how much rejection you expect and how anxious that makes you, not how hard the response hits or how long it lasts. Second, its psychometrics are contested: Innamorati et al. (2014) found only 44% of the variance in total scores attributable to the intended common factors and concluded that its construct validity is disputable. Read the subscale pattern, not the total, and do not treat any score as a threshold.
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.
Book a ConsultationSelf-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.