Autism tests

If you think you might be autistic,
this is where most adults start

The tests below are widely used in research and clinical screening to identify autistic traits—especially in adults who may have gone unnoticed or masked for years.

You don’t need to take all of them
Most people start with 2–3 key tests, like the AQ, the RAADS–R, and the CAT-Q.

Recommended starting tests

Autism Spectrum
Quotient

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

50 test items

Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale–Revised

A detailed look at autistic patterns across your life. This test was developed to identify high-masking autistics as well.

80 test items

Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire

Explore how you adapt or mask/camouflage autistic traits
in daily social situations.

25 test items

Other autism tests

The Aspie Quiz

Many autistic people find that this test resonates with their experiences, and the results are presented as a diagram.

119 test items

Emotional & cognitive
empathy tests

Toronto Empathy Questionnaire

Focuses on emotional (affective) empathy—how you feel what others feel.

20 test items

Empathy
Quotient

A general measure of empathy (primarily cognitive) across different situations.

60 test items

VIA Inventory
of Strengths

An assessment of your strengths and weaknesses—including empathy.

96 test items

Patterns & systemizing tests

Systemizing
Quotient–Revised

A measure of your ability and propensity to detect, understand, and use patterns.

75 test items

Repetitive Behaviours Questionnaire

Assesses your drive to notice, analyze, and predict patterns in everyday life.

20 test items

Reading the Mind in
the Eyes test–Revised

Measures your ability to understand and reason about mental states via eyes.

36 test items

Autistic burnout tests

Autistic Burnout
construct

Assesses autistic burnout via
the impact of your chronic autistic
stress and exhaustion.

8 test items

Copenhagen Burnout Inventory

Measures 3 types of burnout (personal, work, client) and their effect on daily functioning and well-being.

19 test items

Short screening tests

Autism Spectrum Quotient-10

A shortened version of the AQ, which can quickly give a sense of whether you show autistic traits.

10 test items

Autistic Burnout
construct

An autistic burnout test that assesses
the impact of your chronic autistic
stress and exhaustion.

8 test items

The Asexuality Identification Scale

Assesses asexuality and discerns between asexuality and sexuality—irrespective of whether you self-identify as asexual.

12 test items

Alexithymia tests

Toronto
Alexithymia Scale

Measures difficulty identifying
and describing feelings and
emotional experiences.

20 test items

Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire

Assesses awareness of
and attention to one’s own
emotions in daily life.

24 test items

Online Alexithymia Questionnaire

Assesses awareness of
and attention to others’
emotions in daily life.

37 test items

Executive skills tests

Executive Skills Questionnaire

A screening of executive skills (planning, organizing, focusinging our attention, multitasking, self-regulating, etc.).

36 test items

Executive Skills Questionnaire–Revised

A shorter version of the ESC for a quick screening of executive skills (though it does omit relevant measures of the ESQ).

25 test items

Anxiety tests

The Liebowitz
Social Anxiety Scale

Measures your social anxiety and its impact on your daily activities.

24 test items

Dimensional Obsessive Compulsive Scale

Measure OCD symptom severity across four relevant dimensions.

20 test items

ADHD tests

ADHD Self-Report
Scale v1.1

Measures ADHD traits in adults, consisting of a main test, and an extended test that yields information you can discuss with your medical professional.