ADHD Self-Discovery

 

Ten free modules, each one built around a single adult ADHD self-discovery screener. You do not have to take them in order, and nothing here asks for an email address.

 

Part One — Start Here

 

Module 1 — How to Read an ADHD Screener (and What a Score Can't Tell You)

 

Before the nine questionnaires: what a screening score actually measures, why sensitivity and specificity pull against each other, what happens to a good screener at real adult ADHD prevalence, and the four validity tiers every instrument here carries.

 

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Part Two — The Broad Screeners

 

Module 2 — ASRS v1.1 — The WHO's Six-Question Adult ADHD Screener

 

How the World Health Organization's adult screener works, why the threshold is different on different questions, what a positive result is genuinely worth, and why the negative result is the more trustworthy one.

 

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Module 3 — SAAST — A Longer, Structured Look at Adult ADHD

 

What twenty-two questions reach that six cannot, why length is not the same thing as accuracy, the requirements a total score can never satisfy, and why four of the questions on this screener are deliberately not scored at all.

 

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Module 4 — Copeland — ADHD Symptoms Across Eight Areas of Life

 

An instrument that produces no total score at all, only the percentage of symptoms endorsed in each of eight areas of living — why that answers a different question, why its language is dated, and what it has never been tested for.

 

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Part Three — How ADHD Actually Shows Up

 

Module 5 — AAMM — ADHD Masking and Compensation

 

Why camouflaging was mapped in autistic research first, what the ADHD evidence actually shows now that it exists, the seven kinds of effort this questionnaire names, and an honest account of an instrument nobody has validated.

 

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Module 6 — BIS-11 — Impulsiveness, Measured Three Ways

 

What the thirty questions of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale actually ask, how six subscales fold into three families, why three of those six read backwards, where the cut-off of 72 came from, and what a high score does not tell you.

 

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Module 7 — ADHD-SIM-24 — Sex, Desire and Attention with ADHD

 

How attention, emotional regulation and tolerance of delay shape intimate life with ADHD, what the evidence on desire, risk and medication actually shows, and why this particular screener runs backwards and has never been validated.

 

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Part Four — Traveling Companions

 

Module 8 — RSD-24 — Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and How It Lands

 

Why the phrase rejection sensitive dysphoria gave so many adults their first accurate description of something real, what the research actually supports underneath it, and what a questionnaire with no published validation can and cannot tell you.

 

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Module 9 — The Dyslexia Questionnaire — Dyslexia in Reading, Spelling and Speed

 

What dyslexia actually is and is not, why it travels with ADHD so often, why adults who read accurately can still be dyslexic, and an honest account of what thirteen self-report questions can and cannot tell you.

 

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Module 10 — CAS — Clinical Anger You Can Actually Look At

 

What the Clinical Anger Scale asks about, why its format and its cut-offs were borrowed from a depression inventory, how emotional dysregulation sits at the centre of adult ADHD, and the honest list of everything else that raises an anger score.

 

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How this course works

 

Every module follows the same five steps: a lesson explaining what the instrument measures and where it came from, what actually helps, the screener itself, a workbook that saves to your own device, and the research behind it with full citations. Each module names its own limitations. Where an instrument is weak, the module says so.

 

Nothing on this page is a diagnosis. Only a clinician can diagnose. A screening questionnaire widens the door to a conversation; it does not walk through it for you.

 

If what you are looking for is not here

 

Several of the traits covered here turn up alongside both profiles. Each one has a single module, filed in whichever course its population usually belongs to, and linked from both. If you are reading this course and something is missing, it is probably in the other one: the Autistic Self-Discovery course.

 

Who made this

 

New Path Family is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit learning centre. It publishes free, neurodiversity-affirming courses, worksheets and screener guides for autistic and ADHD adults and the people who love them. This course is free, self-paced, and asks for no email address. More about the nonprofit.