Autism in Everyday Life
A workbook for adults who recognise themselves in autistic patterns: regulate sensory load, budget social energy, steer masking more deliberately and prepare for an assessment.
€4.00 · 11 pages, A4, PDF
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The RAADS-R and CAT-Q are screening questionnaires that capture autistic traits and camouflaging in adults. Many autistic people are only identified as adults – often because they have adjusted their behaviour to fit in for years, at a cost. This workbook treats that as an adaptation, not a deficit: it helps you sort out your own patterns, shape your environment to fit you better and – if you want to – prepare well for a professional assessment. A companion to the RAADS-R and the CAT-Q.
What's inside
- How to use the workbook – why identification often comes late and what masking costs
- Baseline: enter your RAADS-R total and subscale scores and your CAT-Q scores
- Sensory & energy log: two weeks of what is draining and what helped afterwards
- Sensory profile: gather triggers and effective adjustments per sensory channel
- Social energy as a resource: what costs the most and how much recovery it takes
- Steering masking more deliberately: where it is necessary, what it costs, where a safe space remains
- Communication & clarity: ready-made sentences for asking for directness and warning
- Adjusting everyday life: routines, transitions, retreats, workplace accommodations
- On the way to an assessment: checklist, where to turn, notes for the conversation
- Notes and sources
Free preview: Sensory & energy log (page 4)
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Scientific basis
- Ritvo, R. A., Ritvo, E. R., Guthrie, D., Ritvo, M. J., Hufnagel, D. H., McMahon, W., et al. (2011). The Ritvo Autism Asperger Diagnostic Scale-Revised (RAADS-R): a scale to assist the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 41(8), 1076–1089.
- Hull, L., Mandy, W., Lai, M.-C., Baron-Cohen, S., Allison, C., Smith, P., & Petrides, K. V. (2019). Development and validation of the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q). Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(3), 819–833. — Open Access, CC BY 4.0.
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