My gripe with some of these simple questions is that they do not provide a framework to answer the questions within.

"How often do you feel X?" With answers as "very often" means very different things to different people. For one person once a month could be very often since they expect this to never happen, while for another person a few times a day might be expected.

The problem here is that if people think that they might have a condition or be sick, it has been shown time and time again that this might emphasize the symptoms and make a person "sicker".

In addition these general questions that a lot of people can relate to will cause a lot of people to get unneeded screening, thereby straining an overloaded health service (it might be different in the US, I'm in Europe).

thought the test was finishing the article in itself

Am I missing something, or do they not actually say how to score the test? From playing with another version [1], any answer in a grey box counts for 1 point.

[1] https://psychology-tools.com/test/adult-adhd-self-report-sca...

Interesting. I'd give it a try but I don't think I can focus on it for a whole minute. j/k

I scored 7... Sorry, joking but yes - I can relate to all the questions there. Some of those (like appointments) I learned to cope with. I just schedule everything in my phone and have 20 alarms throughout the day, which I enable to remind be about certain events. I wonder however, how many people would pass this test in this world of distractions.

When I was young I used to look at the watch compulsively to check what time it is and I never went late to an appointment. Is this ADHD too? Or maybe just depression that I procrastinate everything nowadays? Or maybe effect of extensive usage of technology?

unless I misunderstood what little I know of ADHD, shouldn't these symptoms have been there all your life, not just 6 months prior? I score 4/6 on the scale without question, but I wasn't functioning like this before (maybe 2/6), only these last few years, with no change in environment or routine