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You know exactly why this is a stupid, impractical idea. Yes, that's "better". The question in the OP is being filtered not only through what others actively say to you but also the extent to which you weigh those remarks. I understand that. Everyone here understands that.
No neuropsychologist is going to be anonymously polling a representative sample of people you interact with. At best they'll get a couple family members/caretakers (sometimes a teacher if the person is still in e.g. elementary school) to describe how you present to them. The purpose of questions like this isn't to hinge your entire diagnosis upon them; it's to get a bunch of data points and see how they cluster. It doesn't, therefore, have to be nearly as ridiculously strict as you're suggesting.
Here's the autism-spectrum quotient if you're curious what a real self-response questionnaire looks like. As an example of this style of question: "Other people frequently tell me that what I’ve said is impolite, even though I think it is polite."
My point isn't that an anonymous poll is a good idea, but that expecting autists to accurately report on the (potentially secret) feelings of other people isn't practical either. It's like how they make you jump through a bunch of beurocratic hoops to get ADHD assessments. The test itself is filtering against positive identification in a number of cases.
is there a test like this for adhd ?
Just to clarify: the AQ isn't a test for determining on its own that someone is or isn't autistic. It's (potentially) one part of a larger assessment.
For ADHD, the ADHD-RS-5 is the most popular structured questionnaire I know of, but much of ADHD screening is less about questionnaires and more about cognitive testing and interviews like DIVA-5.