Erin Caldwell

Who Erin is

Erin Caldwell is a content contributor with a long-standing interest in personality typology. She is also a self-identified autistic and ADHD adult, and reviews our neurodivergence content from a lived-experience perspective.

She has spent years reading, writing, and talking about personality types, neurodivergence, and the ways people describe their own experiences. She has written explanatory content, participated in peer and community groups for neurodivergent adults, and moderated online communities.

She also reviews content for our sister site, Neurodiverge, where she has been contributing since August 2026.

Personality typology has no professional licensing system, so we do not present Erin’s experience as a formal qualification. Her role is based on long-term familiarity with the subject, editorial experience, and direct exposure to the people these pages are written for.

We also use the term “self-identified” deliberately. Adult autism and ADHD assessments can be expensive, difficult to access, and subject to long waiting times. We prefer to describe Erin’s background accurately rather than imply credentials she does not claim to have.

What Erin reviews

Erin’s work covers two areas.

Personality guides and tests

Across our personality content, she reviews whether a page is clear, specific, and genuinely useful to the person reading it.

A result can be technically consistent and still not be very helpful. It may be too vague, too certain about limited information, or simply harder to read than it needs to be.

Her review looks at questions such as:

• Would a reader actually recognise themselves in this description?
• Does the page claim more than the available information supports?
• Are its limitations clear?
• Is the language easy to understand?
• Does it describe differences without unnecessarily treating them as defects?

Neurodivergence pages

On our neurodivergence content, Erin also reviews how well the wording reflects lived experience. That includes questions such as:

• Would a masking adult understand and answer the question as intended?
• Does the page clearly explain what a self-screen can and cannot tell you?
• Does the wording reflect how autistic and ADHD adults commonly describe their experiences?
• Is there anything that sounds technically plausible but feels disconnected from real life?

This is different from clinical review. A screening question may be based on valid research while still being phrased in a way that some people misunderstand or interpret differently. Erin’s role is to help us catch those problems.

What Erin does not review

Erin is not a doctor, psychologist, or therapist, and her review should not be treated as clinical validation.

She does not review the clinical validity or scoring thresholds of validated screening instruments such as the PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL-5, ITQ, MDQ, ACE-10, OCI-R, or EAT-26. Those questions require appropriate clinical expertise.

Mindshape does not currently have a licensed clinical reviewer. We state this clearly in our methodology and are working to add a separate clinical-review layer.

Nothing on Mindshape should be considered a diagnosis or medical advice.

Editorial standards

We name reviewers only for work they are qualified or appropriately experienced to assess.

Lived-experience review is not presented as clinical review. We do not invent qualifications, turn personal experience into a credential, or attach a reviewer’s name to material they have not actually reviewed.

Pages in Erin’s review remit

These are the areas Erin is responsible for reviewing. Her name and review date appear on a page only after she has read it in full.

Personality guides and tests

• The 60-question personality test
• The full test catalogue
• Know your type
• Compatibility guides
• The 16×16 compatibility chart
• Cognitive functions
• Enneagram test & type guides
• Big Five test
• Attachment style test
• Love languages

Neurodivergence pages

• High-Functioning Autism
• High-Functioning Autism in Women
• High-Functioning ADHD
• High-Functioning Anxiety
• The High-Functioning Series
• Autism Test (AQ-10 adaptation)
• ADHD Test (ASRS adaptation)

Pages reviewed by Erin

Erin completed her first review of this set on 7 September 2026. Because individual page review dates were not recorded during that first review cycle, all pages from that set show the completion date rather than an estimated date.

• The 60-question personality test — reviewed 2026-09-07
• The full test catalogue — reviewed 2026-09-07
• Know your type — reviewed 2026-09-07
• Compatibility guides — reviewed 2026-09-07
• The 16×16 compatibility chart — reviewed 2026-09-07
• Cognitive functions — reviewed 2026-09-07
• Enneagram test & type guides — reviewed 2026-09-07
• Big Five test — reviewed 2026-09-07
• Attachment style test — reviewed 2026-09-07
• Love languages — reviewed 2026-09-07
• The High-Functioning Series — reviewed 2026-09-07
• High-Functioning Autism — reviewed 2026-09-07
• High-Functioning Autism in Women — reviewed 2026-09-07
• High-Functioning ADHD — reviewed 2026-09-07
• High-Functioning Anxiety — reviewed 2026-09-07
• Autism Test (AQ-10 adaptation) — reviewed 2026-09-07
• ADHD Test (ASRS adaptation) — reviewed 2026-09-07

Contact

If you have a question about one of Erin’s reviews, or think something in a guide does not reflect your experience accurately, please get in touch. Reader feedback helps us improve the site.