Reverse Engineering My ADHD Test
After a friend's autism diagnosis, the author decides to get evaluated for ADHD. The psychiatrist administers an online test that tracks spacebar presses, timing, and focus loss. Curious about how it works, the author saves the page scripts and discovers the test's mechanics, including different assets for children and adults. The author then creates a provider account, administers tests to themselves, and compares results from a spam attempt versus a serious attempt, revealing why the psychiatrist suspected cheating.
The charts were so far outside the normal and that as long as I promised I wasn't trying to cheat, she would let me retake the exam.
- flysand7
Opening up devtools during ADHD test is so ADHD, almost as if he didn't even need the psychiatrist to explain the results :D
- izzylan
I took a similar ADHD test. It seemed so easy and simple that I always wondered how it was actually supposed to catch me.
Good to know that neurotypical people mostly likely test differently than I did.
- _fw
I found myself trying to come up with a system that used the position of my hands to “solve” the problem for me.
But then I worried if my system worked, I would be misdiagnosed.
It didn’t work. I was 98th percentile.
Thanks for sharing this!