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WellbeingResearch-grade· AQ (Baron-Cohen)

Neurotype Check-In, Free 20-Question Self-Reflection

A self-reflection on 5 dimensions: social, communication, sensory, routines, and cognitive style. 20 questions, instant summary. This is a self-reflection tool, not a clinical diagnosis.

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The basics

What is the Neurotype Check-In?

The Neurotype Check-In looks at traits across five dimensions: social interaction, communication style, sensory experience, need for routine, and cognitive style. It is a self-reflection tool, not a clinical diagnosis.

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Many adults reach their 30s, 40s, or later before anyone names these patterns for them, especially women, people of colour, and those who learned early to blend in. Putting words to how you experience the world can be genuinely useful, even if you never pursue a formal evaluation.

This is a self-reflection tool, not a clinical diagnosis. If the results resonate or you are struggling, talk to a licensed professional.

Closely related on JobCannon: Focus & Energy Check-In, Masking & Camouflaging Reflection, Sensory Sensitivity Profile, Cognitive Style Profile, and Executive Function Check-In.

What you get

What You'll Discover

A trait profile across 5 dimensions, social, communication, sensory, routines, and cognitive style
Which areas resonate most with you in daily life
Whether masking or hiding parts of yourself may be affecting self-awareness
A summary useful for a conversation with a licensed professional, if you want one
How your neurotype may connect to strengths and needs at work
What a formal evaluation actually involves, if you decide to pursue one

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

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  • No. This is a self-reflection tool, not a clinical diagnosis. A formal evaluation involves detailed personal history, interviews, and standardised tools used by a qualified specialist. This check-in can highlight traits worth exploring with a professional, but it cannot diagnose.

  • Yes, many adults, especially women, non-binary people, and people of colour, reach adulthood without ever hearing these traits named. If the experiences here resonate strongly, it is worth talking to a licensed professional regardless of what a short self-reflection says.

  • Practical next steps: (1) In the UK, you can ask your GP for a referral. (2) In the US, look for a psychologist or psychiatrist who works with adults. (3) Peer communities online can also offer support while you figure out what fits.

  • Masking (also called camouflaging) is when people suppress or hide their natural ways of behaving to appear more like the people around them, forcing eye contact, rehearsing conversations, hiding repetitive movements, copying expressions. Masking is exhausting and often invisible to the person doing it.

  • They look at different patterns. This check-in looks at social communication, sensory experience, routines, and cognitive style. The Focus & Energy Check-In looks at attention, restlessness, and impulse patterns. Many people relate to both, you can take both.

  • Validated questionnaires like the AQ, and clinical tools like the ADOS or ADI-R, are used by trained professionals as part of a structured evaluation. This check-in is an informal self-reflection that touches similar themes in plain language. It isn't scored against clinical thresholds and shouldn't be read as a screen or a diagnosis.

  • It typically includes a detailed developmental and personal history, structured interviews, sometimes input from people who knew you as a child, and standardised instruments, interpreted together by a specialist. It's a process, not a single test, which is exactly why a short web reflection can't stand in for it.

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For hiring teams

Keep this one out of the hiring decision

This screener touches health. A screener is not a diagnosis, and questions about health or disability before an offer are restricted in many jurisdictions.

A prompt to seek a proper assessment, nothing more. If a candidate struggles in your process, the interview format is usually the barrier — fix that instead.

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Explore all results in depth

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Low Autism Trait Signal
Minimal autistic traits in this self-reflection
Mild Autism Trait Signal
Some autistic traits showing up
Moderate Autism Trait Signal
Significant autistic traits showing up
High Autism Trait Signal
Strong indicators of autistic traits

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