I want get myself an official diagnosis on ADHD and an answer regarding whether I’m autistic.
Typically, a “10 minute test” takes me several hours. I spend a great deal of time contemplating the questions, filled with indecision. So I want to fill out the test before I even get to the psychologist’s office.
Which is why I plugged “official ADHD test” into a search engine, and got overwhelmed by the choices. And my main questions are:
- do some websites offer a test they inaccurately describe as the official test? (If so, do those show up high on search results?)
- do some websites offer the official test… and also augment the test with extra resources that help a cripplingly indecisive person answer more efficiently? (That would save me time.)
Online tests can only get you so far and if anything are at best a tool to see if it would be worth it to bring it up to a doctor.
Personally what I did before my diagnosis was I started hearing about it, then realized I felt a lot of it applied to me, the took an online test, then scheduled an appointment with my doctor.
I didn’t bring the test up but I did use it as a tool for better wording my concerns as I knew I wouldn’t really be able to word them very well.
If memory serves the test I took was from NHS but I can’t recall at the moment.