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is autism and ADD (attention deficit disorder) the same in a assesment?

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I know they're separate conditions but through doing my own researching since realising I may have autism I also suspect ADD but the conditions are very alike so say if I was to go to an assessment (which seems impossible atm) would I be diagnosed with both as I cannot wait and go through the stress of getting both diagnosed, so in a nutshell would it be a 2 in 1 assessment thanks 

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  • Both within the NHS and privately at the Tuke Centre, York we have been told that the assessments are completely separate.  This in spite of there being some overlap between these diagnoses.  

    The Tuke Centre also advised us against having both assessment processes concurrently because they felt it would be too much to go through psychologically.  What this meant was that our son chose to have the ADHD assessment first (still awaiting results) and he'll be going for the autism assessment in the new year.

    That said, I think that if we were sticking with NHS services, we'd probably get referred for both because there are generally long waits and the chances of them both coming in at the same time might be low.  My own wait for an autism assessment ended up being over a year and a half, from initial referral to final diagnosis.

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  • Both within the NHS and privately at the Tuke Centre, York we have been told that the assessments are completely separate.  This in spite of there being some overlap between these diagnoses.  

    The Tuke Centre also advised us against having both assessment processes concurrently because they felt it would be too much to go through psychologically.  What this meant was that our son chose to have the ADHD assessment first (still awaiting results) and he'll be going for the autism assessment in the new year.

    That said, I think that if we were sticking with NHS services, we'd probably get referred for both because there are generally long waits and the chances of them both coming in at the same time might be low.  My own wait for an autism assessment ended up being over a year and a half, from initial referral to final diagnosis.

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