Camouflaging Traits Quiz
The CAT-Q (Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire) measures how much you adapt, mask, or compensate to fit into social environments. Based on Hull et al. (2017), it covers three subscales: Assimilation, Compensation, and Masking. Takes about 6 minutes.
Your results
Subscale scores
Total score interpretation (25–175)
Refers to copying others' behavior and blending into social environments, often unconsciously. People high in assimilation tend to take behavioral cues from those around them to know how to act.
Involves actively learned strategies, memorized scripts, rehearsed responses, rules for social situations. High compensation is cognitively effortful and is often described as mentally exhausting over time.
Means actively hiding or suppressing autistic traits, pretending to be more comfortable than you are, concealing difficulties from others. High masking is strongly associated with autistic burnout and identity confusion.
Masking is exhausting. Understanding is the first step.
High camouflaging scores, especially combined with autistic traits, often explain years of exhaustion, missed diagnoses, and the sense that something was always being held together through sheer effort. A comprehensive assessment can finally put language to the experience.
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