Discover what’s happening “under the hood” with CENSES, a groundbreaking assessment for the neuroatypical body. By analyzing your hardware, software, and mentalware through 47 clinically-backed questions, CENSES maps the energetic states of ADHD and ASD. Gain deep insight into the comorbidities and internal systems that shape your unique selfhood.
Live Bio-Actuarial Distribution
Real-time CENSES v2.2 prevalence based on 0 scans.
Demographic Information
The CENSES Test
Rate the following frequency/severity: 1 (Never) to 5 (Always).
Clinical Likelihood Indicators
Identified Comorbidities (High Threshold)
You scored above the clinical threshold (4+) on these physical hardware markers. These items should be discussed with a medical professional for physical evaluation.
THE CENSES CLASSIFICATIONS (LAYMAN’S GUIDE)
In the CENSES model, your “Type” is not who you are (a personality); it is the current state of your energy battery and the mechanical cost of running your system.
Type N (Compensated):
The State: “Breaking Even.”
Explanation: You are Neuroatypical (Sentinel), but your energy income matches your expenses. You effectively “mask” the high cost of your operating system, appearing functional to the outside world, though you likely pay a hidden tax in fatigue at the end of the day.
Type A (The Active Sentinel):
The State: “High RPM / High Cost.”
Explanation: You are in active Watcher mode—constantly scanning, processing, and reacting. Your system is running hot and burning energy fast, but you currently have the reserves to sustain it. You feel “tired but wired.”
Type A+ (The Seeker / Unmasked):
The State: “Running on Adrenaline.”
Explanation: You are using novelty, risk, and intensity (dopamine) to force your system to run. Like a car using nitro instead of gas, this provides high performance but incurs Seeker Debt—a crash is inevitable if you stop moving.
Type D (The Latent Watcher):
The State: “The Duck Syndrome.”
Explanation: On the surface, you appear calm or stuck (gliding), but underwater (internally), your mind is paddling furiously. You are expending massive amounts of energy just to hold still and contain the internal noise. This often looks like “paralysis” or “freeze.”
Type B (Metabolic Insolvency):
The State: “Overdraft.”
Explanation: This is not “burnout” (a psychological feeling); it is a thermodynamic fact. Your energy expenses have exceeded your income for too long. Your battery is empty, and your body is refusing to perform tasks because it cannot afford the fuel.
Type B-F (Systemic Collapse):
The State: “Hibernation / Feral Mode.
Explanation: A deep protective shutdown. The system has cut power to all non-essential functions (socializing, hygiene, complex thought) to preserve vital biology.
Type U (The High-Tax Phenotype):
The State: “Expensive Hardware.”
Explanation: You have the Hardware Tax—physical conditions like loose joints (Hypermobility), dizzy spells (POTS), or allergies (MCAS). Just existing in gravity or eating food costs you more energy than it does for others.
CENSES GLOSSARY (LAYMAN’S EDITION)
Core Concept: Your body is a machine (The Hardware) running complex software (The Mind). In the Sentinel Phenotype, the software is too demanding for the battery.
A. THE HARDWARE AUDIT (Body Mechanics)
Aprosodia (Tone Deafness): The inability to automatically control the volume or tone of your voice. You might sound angry or bored when you actually feel fine, forcing you to manually “act” out emotions so people understand you. (Source: H4)
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD): Your ears work fine, but the brain cannot filter the data. Hearing multiple voices at once doesn’t just sound loud; it feels like physical pressure or pain inside your head. (Source: H6)
Delayed Sleep Phase (Permanent Jetlag): A genetic setting where your internal clock runs longer than 24 hours. You aren’t “insomniac”; you are living in a timezone ~3 hours behind everyone else. (Source: DSPS)
Dermatographia (Skin Writing): Your skin is hyper-reactive. Light scratches turn into red welts. This is a visible sign that your immune system is on high alert. (Source: H20)
Dyspraxia (Manual Mode): The automatic system for moving your limbs is laggy. You have to “consciously” tell your hand where to go to avoid knocking over a cup. This manual steering drains mental energy rapidly. (Source: H9)
Echolalia (Looping): Repeating words or phrases (out loud or in your head) not to communicate, but to “feel” the sound. It is a way to discharge nervous energy or test the audio processing circuit. (Source: H3)
Heat Anger (Thermal Dysregulation): Your body’s thermostat is broken. When you get slightly too hot, your brain panics and triggers sudden rage or confusion because it cannot cool you down fast enough. (Source: H16)
Hyperlexia (Fast Decoding): The ability to read words aloud perfectly before you understand what they mean. Your brain prioritizes recognizing patterns over processing meaning. (Source: H1)
Hypermobility / hEDS (Loose Chassis): Your connective tissue (the glue holding you together) is too stretchy. Standing up requires you to “lock” your knees or lean on walls because your muscles have to work overtime just to hold your skeleton together. (Source: H11)
Mast Cell Activation (Biochemical Tax): Your immune cells are trigger-happy. They release chemicals (histamine) in response to random triggers like stress, heat, or specific foods, causing “brain fog” or flushing. (Source: H19)
Post-Prandial Somnolence (Food Coma): Feeling poisoned or drugged after a meal. Digestion takes so much blood and energy that your brain effectively shuts down. (Source: H17)
Proprioceptive Dependence (Visual Balance): Your body doesn’t automatically know where it is in space. You rely on your eyes to balance. If you close your eyes in the shower, you might fall over. (Source: H14)
Sensory Gating Failure (The Broken Filter): A normative brain filters out the hum of a fridge or the flicker of a light. The Sentinel brain processes everything as “High Importance,” leading to rapid data overload. (Source: H7)
THEORETICAL MECHANICS (The System)
Aberrant Precision (High Importance Noise): A software glitch where the brain tags irrelevant background noise (like a ticking clock) as “Critical Data,” forcing you to pay attention to it.
Bio-Actuarial: Viewing mental health as an accounting problem. We don’t ask “how do you feel?”; we ask “how much energy does it cost you to exist?”
Genetic Phase Delay: The hardware cause of your sleep issues. It is a literal variation in your DNA (Clock Genes) that dictates your wake/sleep cycle.
High-Cost Homeostasis (HCH): The “Tax.” It is the extra energy a Sentinel must burn just to appear calm and sit still, compared to a normative person.
Masking Load: The energy bill for manually operating your social signals (smiling, nodding, making eye contact) because they don’t happen automatically.
Metabolic Insolvency: The correct term for “Burnout.” It means your energy expenses have exceeded your biological savings account. You are bankrupt.
Sentinel Phenotype: You are not “disordered”; you are a specialized biological variant evolved for Threat Detection (The Watcher). Your system is optimized to see danger, not to save energy.
Somatic Transduction: When a thought or stressor instantly becomes a physical symptom (e.g., your stomach drops or skin flushes) before you even realize you are stressed. The body reacts before the mind.
Supraception (The CEO): The top-down control center (Prefrontal Cortex). In the Sentinel, the CEO often goes offline because the phone lines from the body are jammed with noise.