Domains

Domain

What you're actually exploring

Possible pathways

1. Sensory Experience

What do I notice, tolerate, seek, avoid?

SPS • ASD B4 • sensory processing difficulties

2. Depth & Intensity of Processing

How much information do I take in and process?

SPS • giftedness/cognitive style • rumination

3. Social Intuition

Do social meanings come intuitively?

ASD A1/A2/A3 • social anxiety

4. Social Compensation

Do I consciously calculate how to socialize?

ASD masking • anxiety • trauma adaptation

5. Relationships

How intuitively do I understand relationship expectations?

ASD A3 • attachment • trauma

6. Interests & Absorption

What does intense engagement look like?

ASD B3 • ADHD hyperfocus • SPS deep processing

7. Repetition & Predictability

What function do routines/repetition serve?

ASD B1/B2 • OCD • anxiety • self-regulation

8. Emotional Responsiveness

How strongly do I experience/respond to emotions?

SPS • affective empathy • emotion dysregulation

9. Emotional Awareness

Can I identify what I'm feeling?

alexithymia • interoception • ASD-associated

10. Overwhelm & Recovery

What overwhelms me, and what restores me?

SPS • ASD • ADHD • anxiety

11. Executive Functioning

Starting, sequencing, remembering, completing

ADHD • ASD-associated EF • anxiety/depression

12. Body & Movement

Coordination, proprioception, motor planning

DCD/dyspraxia • sensory differences • associated ASD

13. Anxiety & Threat

Is avoidance driven by overload or danger?

anxiety • trauma • OCD • secondary ASD anxiety

14. Identity & Adaptation

Why do I change myself around others?

ASD masking • SPS sensitivity • people-pleasing/trauma