Free educational self-assessment
Monotropism Questionnaire: Free Online Self-Assessment
Take the free 47-item Monotropism Questionnaire. Learn how reverse scoring and N/A answers work, what your average means and the research limits.
Start the free questionnaireFree on-screen results · No email gate · Not a diagnosis
What does monotropism mean?
Monotropism is a framework for understanding attention becoming concentrated on fewer interests or activities at a time. It can describe deep engagement alongside difficulty with interruptions, task switching, or competing demands. It is an attention style, not a medical diagnosis.
The framework has roots in autistic experience and is being studied in relation to autism and ADHD. Not every autistic person is necessarily monotropic, and relating to these experiences does not establish either condition. The questionnaire's authors caution that these relationships need further research.
Monotropism Questionnaire instructions
The MQ contains 47 statements and usually takes about 8 minutes. Choose Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Neither Agree nor Disagree, Agree, or Strongly Agree. Answer based on your own experience rather than trying to obtain a particular score; no fixed clinical recall period is imposed here. Select Not Applicable when a statement does not apply. You can review and change responses before submitting.
How Monotropism Questionnaire scoring works
The five agreement choices are scored from 1 to 5. Seven original reverse-scored items are scored in the opposite direction. Not Applicable responses are excluded, and the remaining scored responses are averaged. You see one descriptive average from 1 to 5 and the number of questions scored. If none are scored, no average is available.
The themed groups in this quiz help organize the questions; they are not validated clinical subscales. This version does not provide a diagnostic cutoff, percentile, autism probability, or separate domain report.
What results mean—and the research limitations
A higher average reflects greater endorsement of the monotropic experiences measured by these questions. It cannot diagnose or rule out autism, ADHD, or any other condition. Consider the experiences themselves and their effects on daily life, rather than treating a number as an identity or diagnosis.
Garau and colleagues made questionnaire research and materials available through OSF. The author resource linked below describes the original work as a preprint and explains that further testing and refinement are needed. We do not claim a verified journal publication or independent validation of this website. Source-tool research is different from validating the online scoring and interpretation.
Sources and useful next steps
Published by Sachs Center. Meet our clinicians and see their qualifications. Screening does not replace a professional evaluation.