ONE POINT
FOR AUTISM
Relating to one trait earns you exactly one point. One point is a single item picked up in a dark room: mildly interesting, and almost meaningless on its own. Gather a few more and the shape of the place starts to come through!
I HAVE A CODESeriously. There is no ending where a screen tells you what you are. This thing will never diagnose you with autism or ADHD, because it can't and shouldn't. What it can do is get you ready for PLAYER 2 — a qualified human being, who you go and find, and who plays the rest of this with you.
HOW TO PLAY
Not a rating out of five. An actual thing that happened to you, in your own words. Awkward ones count double. (They don't, but tell them anyway.)
Autism and ADHD score side by side, neither with a head start, and it never tells you which one you just scored. If it told you, you'd start playing for points instead of telling the truth.
Take everything you've collected to someone qualified. This was always a two-player game — you just start it on your own.
YOUR SCORE
— and what each amount is actually worthYou hate the tag in your shirt. So does most of the planet. Bank it and keep going — one point is not a diagnosis.
Several things pointing the same way. That's an invitation to learn more about yourself, which is the actual reason anyone plays this.
Enough that it's worth someone qualified looking at properly. You don't finish this one alone — you hand them the second controller and keep going together.
Also a result, and not a short game. Plenty of people describe everything honestly and find it simply doesn't add up to much — that's an answer too, and ruling something out is worth knowing. This scores nothing by default, on purpose.
PLAYER DATA
You never give me your name, your email, or your resume code. You are PLAYER 1 and that is all you ever have to be. What reaches me, and what reaches Anthropic, is a conversation rather than a person.
You get a resume code the first time. Guard it like a password on a Mega Drive cartridge, because it is the only way back to your own save.
That's me. There's an admin page and it shows me sessions. No jokes on this one: if that isn't something you're comfortable with, far better to know now than to find out later.
No ads, no analytics, no tracking, nothing sold, and no third party gets a copy of anything. Even the two fonts this is set in are served from here rather than fetched from Google, so visiting doesn't hand your address to anyone but me.
Not a label, and not a score. The prize is understanding yourself better — knowing why some things have always been harder than they look, and what actually helps. That is a genuinely good thing to walk toward, and an answer either way is worth having.
The coin is an email. Every game costs me real money to run and I'd rather know who's playing something this personal, so codes go out one at a time.