Autistic people often process sensory information differently. A person may be unusually sensitive to particular sounds, lights, textures, tastes, smells, movement, pain, temperature, or internal body signals, while noticing other sensations less readily or seeking stronger sensory input. These differences can vary from one sense to another and can change with stress, illness, fatigue, environment, and how much other information the brain is already handling.
Sensory needs are not merely preferences. They can affect communication, concentration, eating, sleep, movement, relationships, work, healthcare, and the ability to remain in an environment without pain or overload. Understanding your own pattern can make it easier to explain what is happening, plan accommodations, reduce avoidable distress, and find safer or more comfortable ways to meet sensory needs.
These tools are for self-understanding, conversation, and deciding what might be worth exploring further. They do not diagnose anything by themselves, and your answers are not stored by Autistic Empire.
Some are short prompts, some are fuller questionnaires, and some point you towards a more formal external assessment where that is the better source.
Faces Test
A facial-expression recognition test based on Autism Research Centre materials.
Joint Hypermobility: Beighton Score
A guided Beighton Score checklist for generalized joint hypermobility, included here because body perception, proprioception, pain, and mobility often overlap with sensory life.
MAIA-2: Interoceptive Awareness Profile
A 37-question profile exploring eight aspects of how you notice, interpret, attend to, and respond to signals from inside your body.
PI20 Prosopagnosia Assessment
A 20-item self-report assessment of lifelong face-recognition difficulties, with a link to Birkbeck's external Cambridge Face Memory Test research project.
S-Five Misophonia Assessment
A 25-item assessment of misophonia burden across threat, impact, internalising, externalising, and outburst dimensions.
S-Five-T Misophonia Trigger Checklist
A companion checklist profiling which sounds affect you, your main reactions, and their intensity.
Simple Aphantasia Test
A quick phone-friendly visual-imagery prompt, with a link to the fuller VVIQ.
Synesthesia
An introduction to automatic, specific, consistent cross-sensory or concept-to-sensory associations, with links to the formal Synesthesia Battery.