Sample ADHD Profile Results

A high inattentive score indicates persistent difficulty sustaining attention on non-preferred tasks, frequent mind-wandering during conversations or reading, difficulty following multi-step instructions without external anchors, and a tendency to lose items or miss details. At 65%, this is among the stronger contributors to your overall profile. The pattern is consistent with the inattentive presentation of ADHD rather than simple distractibility.

A significant hyperactive-impulsive score in adults often presents as internal restlessness, difficulty waiting, impulsive verbal contributions, and a tendency to act before fully thinking through consequences. At 50%, this is a meaningful contributor — particularly the impulsivity dimension — though it does not dominate your profile. Combined with your inattentive score, this places you in combined presentation territory.

This is your second-highest subscale score. It reflects the degree to which your engagement and performance are governed by interest, novelty, and challenge rather than by importance, obligation, or proximity to deadline. At 66%, the interest-motivation system is a dominant feature of your cognitive style — producing both the capacity for deep, driven work on engaging tasks and significant difficulty initiating or sustaining effort on routine tasks.

This subscale captures the downstream impact of executive function difficulties — planning, prioritisation, task management, and working memory load. At 56%, the impact is significant, suggesting that the executive challenges associated with your inattentive pattern are creating measurable difficulty in daily functioning across work, domestic life, and long-term planning.

Emotional dysregulation in ADHD refers to difficulty modulating the intensity of emotional responses — not the emotions themselves, but the speed of onset, the peak intensity, and the recovery time. At 44% (elevated), your responses suggest this is a meaningful but not dominant feature. Emotional flooding, frustration intolerance, and difficulty recovering from interpersonal friction are likely recognisable patterns.

Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) is increasingly recognised as a core ADHD feature. At 53% (significant), your responses suggest that the anticipation or perception of rejection, criticism, or disapproval triggers a disproportionate emotional response — one that can feel overwhelming in the moment even when you know rationally that it is outsized. This score, in conjunction with your emotional dysregulation score, suggests a reinforcing loop worth understanding in depth.

Masking refers to the learned effort of concealing, compensating for, or suppressing ADHD-related behaviours — often developed in response to social pressure, school environments, or internalised expectations. At 63% (significant), this is one of the most important features of your profile. High masking scores in the context of other elevated scores strongly suggest that visible functional impairment understates the underlying trait burden.

This subscale measures the self-reported impact of ADHD-patterned traits on daily functioning — work, relationships, domestic life, and personal goals. At 47% (elevated), the impact is meaningful but does not dominate the profile. The gap between this score and your masking score is informative: the compensatory strategies captured in C1 appear to be moderating some functional impairment, but at a personal cost.

The strength profile captures dimensions that research associates with ADHD-patterned cognition: hyperfocus capacity, creative thinking, divergent problem-solving, risk tolerance, and social pattern recognition. At 70% — your highest subscale score — there is a strong and consistent strength signature. This is not a consolation prize; it reflects genuine cognitive assets that are neurologically linked to the same trait architecture that creates the challenges elsewhere in your profile.