ADHD Self-Assessment

Looks at how you focus, manage energy, and move through tasks – and helps you find language for experiences you may have carried for a long time.

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What this assessment explores

If you've spent years feeling like your brain works differently – struggling to focus, follow through, or slow down – this assessment gives you a structured way to look at that. It explores how attention, organisation, restlessness, and impulsivity show up in your day-to-day life, and helps you find language for experiences you may have been carrying for a long time. It's built on the ASRS, developed by the World Health Organization and used internationally in both research and clinical settings.

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What you can expect

There are 18 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on how often certain experiences apply to you in your daily life. Some might feel very familiar. Others might help you name something you've always noticed but never quite had words for. The questions touch on things like:

  • Difficulties with attention, focus, or concentration
  • Feelings of restlessness or mental overactivity
  • Impulsivity or difficulty pausing before acting
  • Challenges with organisation, memory, or follow-through

Your responses are grouped to highlight patterns that may – or may not – align with experiences commonly associated with ADHD. This isn't a diagnosis, but it can be a meaningful first step toward understanding.

Why this is free and private

Insightable Mind is built by clinical and research psychologists to help people better understand themselves, while contributing to meaningful psychological research. These assessments are offered free as part of that work. Your responses are private – when data is used for research, it's fully anonymised and combined with others to help improve the assessments and answer important questions about human psychology.

Top tips

Our best advice to help you get the most out of your self-assessment:

Usually your first instinct is the right one
Try not to over think each question.
Try not to get stuck on specific words
If a statement is 'mostly true' for you, don't get stuck on the word 'always'.
Be consistent in how you rate
If 'often' means weekly to you, apply that meaning throughout.

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