Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello,
I was chatting to an acquaintance of mine about how I was struggling with unmasking and wanting to understand my masking behaviours better.
She mentioned that I should read the "PHQ-9", as a lot of the new questions gave insight into masking as they relate more to what's going on inside you than your behaviours.
I tried g**gling it but the PHQ-9 is a psychometric for depression. I thought maybe she meant the AQ50 but I couldn't find anything that looked like a new test (I've done the AQ50, I usually score on the borderline because it's impossible to answer the behaviour-based questions accurately with any of the 4 options you're given.)
Incidentally, when I tried to contact this person I got the wrong person with the same name who said they would also be intetested to know! They confirmed that they had heard of some new better questionairres.
So does anyone know anything about some new autism psychometrics?
Oh I am self-diagnosed for 2 years and formally diagnosed for 1 year.
Try the RAADS-R test, it is far from perfect but its discrimination between autistic and non-autistic is claimed to be better than the AQ 50.
I was really looking for a test with questions that provide insight into the internal processes behind masking but thank you.
That's fair enough.Thank you for the link!
That was not entirely clear from your original post. Here is a relevant scientific paper for you - a free full version download is available: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10130518/
It is called "Self-reported camouflaging behaviours used by autistic adults during everyday social interactions."