🧠9-Question Asperger Syndrome Quiz: What's Your Trauma Dating Style?

Growing up, your brain's unique wiring was treated as a problem to fix rather than a different way of experiencing and processing the world.

Throughout your childhood, having ADHD or spectrum disorder meant constant messages that your natural behaviors, sensory experiences, and thought patterns were wrong and needed to be constantly modified or fixed.

You were often unfairly treated by your parents or siblings—like all problems were your fault.

As a child, you developed elaborate masking behaviors to appear "normal"—studying neurotypical people and practicing their expressions, phrases, and social rules.

Growing up, the sensory overwhelm you experienced was interpreted as defiance or misbehavior, leading to punishment and exclusion.

Growing up, your extraordinary abilities in certain areas often went unappreciated while your challenges in others were magnified and pathologized.

Pretending to be "normal" exhausted you, but the alternative was worse.

You monitored every word and gesture, terrified of slipping up.

You learned your natural way of being was wrong and needed fixing.