Spectrum & perception

Autism spectrumtraitsin adults.

40 questions, 8 to 12 minutes. The initial result is free and arrives at once.

A structured reading of how you communicate, how much routine holds you up, how your senses answer the room, and where your attention goes deep. Not to tell you what you are, but to organise what you already notice in yourself — and give it a name.

A self-knowledge tool. The result is informative, is not a diagnosis and does not replace assessment by a qualified professional.

What you will explore

Focus and detail

Where your attention goes deep, and the cost of pulling it away.

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Routine and repetition

How much predictability holds you up, and what shifts when it breaks.

Who it is for

For adults who recognise themselves in persistent difficulty with social interaction, changes of routine or sensory sensitivity, and want to understand those patterns better — out of curiosity, or as a step before a professional assessment. Many people arrive at this question late, after years of assuming it was shyness, stubbornness or making a fuss.

Methodology

This self-assessment uses the NURA spectrum traits scale: 40 items written by us and organised into four territories the literature describes — social communication, routine and repetition, sensory processing, and focus and detail. Six items are written in the opposite direction, so that agreeing with everything out of habit does not produce a high score that means nothing. Unlike the ADHD assessment, which uses the World Health Organization's ASRS-v1.1, this scale is our own and has not been through a validation study — it organises a self-observation, and that is how it should be read.

Limits of this result

It is not a diagnostic instrument and has no clinical cut-off. Spectrum traits appear to different degrees across the whole population, and recognising several of them in yourself does not mean having a diagnosis — just as recognising few does not rule one out. Anxiety, ADHD, trauma and personality traits produce similar patterns on some of these questions. Confirmation requires assessment by a psychologist or psychiatrist experienced in adult autism.

Before you start

Questions that may come up.

No. NURA's experiences are informative and meant for self-knowledge. Some instruments can work as screening, but no result replaces a professional assessment or diagnosis.