You can enjoy a new idea and still need to know the plan. Follow a fascinating subject for hours and lose track of an ordinary task. Look comfortable in a conversation while spending considerable effort on every response. Which contrasts appear in your own experience?
Take the free AuDHD Profile Test to explore 65 original questions about autistic traits, attention, organisation and impulses. The test and basic information are free. Detailed analysis is optional.
A profile with room for more than one side of you
AuDHD is a community term used when autism and ADHD experiences are considered together. Everyday life does not always fit a simple either-or description. Structure can make a new activity accessible; movement can support concentration; a lively conversation can be enjoyable and demanding at the same time. This test invites you to look at these different experiences side by side.
Instead of asking you to choose a stereotype, the questionnaire follows eight areas. Some concern how you communicate and manage sensory or social demands. Others concern keeping track of intentions, waiting and responding to new possibilities. The interest lies in how your own answers compare across them.
What your 65 answers explore
Social navigation
Joining conversations, managing social uncertainty and finding enough processing space around other people.
Communication and implied meaning
Following indirect language, shifting topics, conversational timing and the meaning behind a message.
Social camouflaging effort
Consciously monitoring expression, rehearsing responses and managing how your natural reactions appear to others.
Movement and self-regulation
Using repeated movements, rhythms, familiar objects or actions to settle, focus or manage stimulation.
Predictability and transitions
Working with changed plans, switching tasks and balancing familiar structure with new interests.
Sensory load
The effects of competing sounds, light, textures, smells and sensory recovery on everyday participation.
Attention and everyday organisation
Starting, sequencing, remembering and returning to tasks when attention competes with other demands.
Activity, waiting and impulses
Restlessness, conversational timing, waiting and the gap between an urge and an intended response.
What might be easy to overlook?
A social interaction can look effortless while requiring conscious preparation. A repeated movement may help someone stay present, while a different impulse may pull them away from an intended task. An uncomfortable sound and an interesting distraction can both affect attention through different routes. Looking at the details gives these experiences more room than a single combined label.
How to complete the test
Think about your typical experience over the past six months, across more than one setting. Choose how often each statement applied to you, including statements describing ease or comfort. Use your usual experience rather than an unusually good or difficult day. There are 65 statements and five response options. Allow about 10-14 minutes.
There are no preferred answers. If an experience changes between settings, think about how often it occurs across your ordinary routine. A question about repeated movement asks what you experience, rather than whether you think the movement looks acceptable to somebody else.
Your free test and optional detailed analysis
You can answer every question and view the basic information without buying a report. If you want the full comparison, the optional detailed analysis opens all eight area scores, explanations matched to your responses and a review of every answer. Your downloadable report helps you return to the same profile without relying on memory.
The companion e-book, Two Lenses, One Everyday Life, adds short practical chapters on communication, sensory surroundings, transitions, attention and the interaction between competing needs. It is included with the report. The purchase is one payment, and the detailed analysis is your choice.
Research behind the topics
The CATI literature explores six areas of autistic traits, including social and non-social experiences. ASRS research addresses attention and activity or impulse-related experiences. These published research areas inform the topics of this original Mind Indicator questionnaire. Its 65 statements and response summaries were written for this site, rather than reproducing a published CATI or ASRS assessment.
Area scores summarise the answers you selected on a 0-100 scale. They are not percentages of the population, and the areas do not add to 100. The detailed report explains how each score was formed so that you can read the number together with the actual experiences behind it.
Questions before you begin
How long does it take?
Allow around 10-14 minutes for the 65 statements. Give yourself enough room to read statements about both difficulty and ease carefully.
Will everyone with a similar score have the same profile?
No. Two similar area scores can come from different answers. The full answer review is useful because it keeps those individual choices visible.
Can I explore autism and ADHD separately too?
Yes. The related tests below focus on connected topics. Comparing your answers can help you decide which everyday experiences you would like to understand more clearly.
