Diagnosis
A score cannot establish ADHD, RSD, a mood disorder, trauma condition, or any other diagnosis.
Clinical positioning
A screening profile is not a diagnosis.
This tool is designed to organize evidence and uncertainty—not replace clinical judgment.
This is a screening and structured self-assessment, not a diagnosis. ADHD diagnosis requires a qualified clinician to evaluate developmental history, current symptoms, impairment, context, and other possible explanations. Emotional-regulation and rejection/evaluation profiles describe current experiences; they do not establish ADHD or a separate diagnosis. Numerical scores are prototype estimates, not percentages or medical probabilities.
What this tool may help with
It may help an adult describe concrete current patterns, developmental evidence, persistence, impact, compensation, state conditions, associated emotional experiences, and information worth discussing with a qualified clinician. It can make missing context, low confidence, event exposure, and source discrepancies visible.
What it cannot establish
Cause
Similar difficulties can arise from sleep, anxiety, depression, trauma, medication, substances, medical conditions, environmental demand, or other factors.
Probability
Prototype scores are neither percentages nor medical probabilities and are not validated treatment-response measures.
Safety assessment
The service is not monitored, cannot dispatch help, and is not a substitute for local crisis or emergency services.
Adult screening gate
The prototype references the conventional adult screening gate of at least five elevated core dimensions in either the inattentive or hyperactive/impulsive domain. Passing that gate is necessary for an unqualified strong ADHD-consistent label, but it is not sufficient for diagnosis.
Associated emotional profiles
This profile includes experiences sometimes called rejection-sensitive dysphoria or RSD. RSD is not treated here as a formal diagnosis or a required feature of ADHD.
Emotional regulation, rejection response, criticism/evaluation response, positive activation, masking, and associated childhood items never satisfy the conventional five-dimension gate or add points to the public ADHD Pattern Score in this prototype.
Validation status
Version 2 is a production-capable research/beta implementation with deterministic rules and extensive internal fixtures. It has not yet completed the independent clinical validation, normative studies, fairness analyses, test–retest studies, reliable-change analysis, and peer review needed for diagnostic or medical-probability claims. Public numerical display therefore remains feature-gated pending a documented clinical/content review.