Neurotype test
Six free self reflection tools for adults. Each one takes about ten minutes, needs no account, and keeps your answers in your browser. None of them is a diagnosis.
The short answer
A neurotype test is a self reflection questionnaire that groups your answers into patterns, such as how much sensory input you notice, how much effort social situations take, or how attention and task starts behave. It shows you how your own answers cluster. It does not compare you against a clinical threshold, and it cannot confirm or rule out any condition. Formal assessment needs a qualified professional.
Choose where to start
There is no required order. Pick whichever description sounds closest to what you have been noticing. Sensory preferences and masking are common starting points, because both ask about things most people can recall clearly from the past week.
Sensory Preferences
Noise, light, touch, texture, and the everyday environments that add or reduce load.
about 10 minutesOriginal NeuroType tool
CAT-Q
Camouflaging and masking, split across compensation, masking, and assimilation.
about 10 minutesPublished questionnaire, used with attribution
Masking Reflection
Social preparation, self monitoring, suppression, performance, recovery, and identity strain.
about 10 minutesOriginal NeuroType tool
Autistic Traits Reflection
Social exchange, communication style, routine, interests, energy, and attention to detail.
about 10 minutesOriginal NeuroType tool
ADHD Trait Reflection
Attention, starting tasks, impulsivity, working memory, time, and follow through.
about 10 minutesOriginal NeuroType tool
Rejection Sensitivity Reflection
Language for rejection sensitivity, common experiences, and reflection prompts. Unscored.
a short readOriginal NeuroType tool
If you would rather work through them in a set order and see the patterns side by side at the end, the full journey walks through the scored tools one at a time and keeps your progress in this browser.
What these tools can and cannot do
They can
- Group scattered observations into named areas.
- Show which areas stood out for you and which felt quieter.
- Give you plain language for something you have struggled to describe.
- Help you prepare concrete examples before speaking to a professional.
They cannot
- Diagnose ADHD, autism, AuDHD, or anything else.
- Confirm or rule out a condition you already suspect.
- Replace an assessment, a referral, or a clinician's judgement.
- Account for sleep, stress, trauma, health, or life circumstances that can produce similar patterns.
That second list is the important one. A questionnaire only ever sees the answers you give it on the day you give them. A qualified professional can look at your developmental history, how much a pattern actually affects your daily life, and what else might explain it. Those are the parts that decide a diagnosis, and no online test has access to them.
What is my neurotype?
This is the question most people arrive with, and the honest answer is that it is not a question with a single output. There is no official list of neurotypes to be sorted into, and no test that returns one. What these tools can give you is a description: which patterns are prominent for you, which are not, and how they sit together.
For many adults that description is more useful than a label anyway. It is easier to act on "open plan offices cost me more than I realised and I need recovery time after meetings" than on a single word. If you want the background on the term itself, what a neurotype is covers where the word came from and how it is used, and the terms people commonly use goes through the vocabulary.
Privacy, in practice
Your individual answers stay in this browser. They are not sent to a server, saved to a database, written into the page address, or passed to analytics. There is no account and no email requirement, and results are shown in full without payment.
The practical trade off is that progress is tied to this browser on this device. Clearing site data clears your answers, and results do not follow you to a different device. That is the cost of not holding your data, and it is deliberate. The privacy policy sets out exactly what is and is not processed.
Two different uses of the word
The word neurotype is used in more than one field. On this site it means a person's pattern of thinking, attention, sensory processing, and social processing, which is how it is used in neurodiversity conversations. In strength training the same word describes a typology used to match training styles to people, which is a separate idea by a separate author. If you arrived looking for training programmes, this is not that.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a neurotype test?
- It is a self reflection questionnaire that groups your answers into patterns such as sensory load, masking effort, attention regulation, or social exchange. It shows you how your own answers cluster. It does not compare you against a clinical threshold and it cannot tell you whether you have a condition.
- Can a neurotype test tell me if I am autistic or have ADHD?
- No. No online questionnaire can do that, including this one. A formal assessment looks at your developmental history, the context you live and work in, day to day impact, and other explanations such as sleep, stress, trauma, or health. That work needs a qualified professional. These tools are a starting point for reflection and for organising what you want to say.
- How long do the tools take?
- Each scored tool takes about ten minutes. The rejection sensitivity guide is a short read rather than a scored questionnaire. You can do one tool and stop, or work through the full journey across several sittings.
- Do I need an account?
- No. There is no sign up and no login. Your answers stay in your browser, which means you can pause and come back on the same device and browser without creating anything.
- Are my answers sent anywhere?
- Individual answers stay in your browser. They are not sent to a server, stored in a database, put in the page address, or passed to analytics. If you choose to email yourself a summary, only the summary is used, never your individual responses.
- Is any of this free?
- Every reflection tool on this site is free to use, and results are shown in full without payment or an email address.
- Which tool should I start with?
- Start with whichever description sounds closest to what you have been noticing. If you are not sure, sensory preferences and masking are common starting points because they describe things people can usually recall clearly from the past week.
Safety note
Reflection tools can surface patterns; they can't confirm or rule out a condition. Take any concerns about your mental health or neurodevelopment to a qualified clinician.