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Original CAT-Q 25 · Four full guides free
Complete the original 25-item CAT-Q and read your raw total and three subscales with full free guides. A reflection tool, without autism diagnosis, score bands or signup.
25 statements · About 7 minutes · Untimed · Ages 18+ · No signup
The Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire asks about your own experiences during social interactions. This edition uses the 25 English statements and keys in Hull and colleagues’ original published appendix, with a new FermatMind working Chinese translation. It reports arithmetic readouts for adult self-reflection, not an autism assessment, a measure of social ability or a treatment outcome.
Answers and scores stay only in this page’s memory. Refreshing, changing language, leaving or clearing removes them; returning through browser history also starts fresh. No draft, account or answer history is created. Ordinary page analytics is disabled. Optional anonymous action counts need this page’s permission and your site analytics choice.
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Read each original statement and use its seven agreement choices. The source instruction concerns your experiences during social interactions; this page does not add a past-week or past-month recall window. The question about pretending to be “normal” retains the source’s quoted wording, without defining a normal kind of person or a standard you must perform.
Choose a response or explicitly skip each statement. A skip is not disagreement, a midpoint or zero. You may stop at any point. All four full guides are available without answering, and no one needs to disclose a diagnosis, identity, personal example or reason for skipping.
All source items use 1–7. Items 3, 12, 19, 22 and 24 are reversed as 8 minus the selected number. Compensation has nine items; Masking and Assimilation have eight each. A complete total is the sum of all 25 recoded values, from 25 to 175. Each part’s sum and mean use its own items, without weights or a winning-type rule.
This site withholds a part’s numbers unless every item in that part has a numeric response, and withholds the total unless all 25 do. Complete other parts remain readable. Means use the unrounded sums and are displayed to two decimal places. This explicit missing-data rule adds no estimated answers and does not establish a validated shortened form.
The readout summarizes agreement with these statements, not the number of times you performed a behaviour, how convincingly you appeared to others, or how much energy you spent. It cannot confirm or rule out autism, explain why a response occurs, or set a low, moderate or high clinical band. A total of 100 is not a diagnostic threshold.
The developers’ 2026 public perspective cautions against using CAT-Q scores for diagnostic decisions or intervention monitoring. This page does not compare your score with gender, diagnostic or national groups, track treatment progress, or apply another language’s norms to this Chinese working edition.
If useful, consider privately whether an interaction felt chosen, expected, comfortable or tiring. The same action can have different meanings across settings. You do not need to reduce a score, force eye contact, disclose personal information, or remove a strategy that helps you feel safe.
If you want support, your needs and preferences are enough reason for a conversation with a qualified professional; no CAT-Q threshold is required. Retaking starts a fresh record and clears the previous one. A difference between attempts is not evidence that your health, authenticity or treatment has improved or worsened.
Read without answering. These pages are identical for everyone, without personal responses or scores.
No. CAT-Q scores describe responses about social camouflaging, not an autism diagnosis or probability. A low score also cannot rule autism out. Similar answers can have different meanings, and this page makes no diagnostic decision.
No cutoff is applied here. Choosing the midpoint 4 on every statement produces a total of 100 after the reverse keys, but mixed answers can also total 100. That arithmetic does not define a clinical threshold.
The original 25-item edition includes separate statements about monitoring and adjusting expressions, and thinking about versus being aware of impressions. They are retained in their original order and assigned to the published parts; the interface does not merge or rewrite them into fewer items.
Yes. Explicitly skip any statement you prefer not to answer, including all 25. A skipped item withholds the numbers for its part and the overall total; complete other parts can still be shown. All four full public guides remain free.
This is a new FermatMind working translation of the selected English appendix. It has not been validated or shown equivalent to the English edition. It does not adopt another translation’s validation, thresholds or norms. You can read the original English version separately.
No saved draft or account record is created. Responses and scores stay in this page’s memory and clear on refresh, language change, leaving, exit or retake. Copying shares public explanation links only, without responses or numerical results.
For a broader view of preferences, you can separately explore Big Five. It does not diagnose autism or validate this readout. The entry shows its question count and time; no answers or scores are transferred.
View the Big Five test entry