A Completed DIVA-5

A real, worked example — the site owner's own answers mapped to each criterion. It shows what a quick score can't: the texture of how ADHD-type traits actually show up across a life. This is one person's account, shared as an illustration of the instrument's depth.

One person's example, not a template for diagnosis.

Self-check summary

The 18 responses

How I filled in each item on the overall self-check questions with adhdprep.com (more specific questions in the following section).

The full completed interview

Every DIVA-5 criterion — the example boxes I ticked across adulthood and childhood, my written notes, and the Part 3 impairment domains. This is the depth a quick score never reaches.

ticked = recognised / present · A adulthood · C childhood

Want to write your own answers? Download the blank DIVA-5, or interpret your own online self-check score first.