Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi everyone
I’ve been off my meds for nearly a month now, for the first time since I had my autism diagnosis, and am in the process of getting to know myself again.
Part of that has been to revisit the possibility that I have ADHD, or more specifically ADD, as well. There are many symptoms common to both ADHD and autism though so it’s difficult to tease them apart.
I know there are quite a few AuDHD people on this forum though. So can any of you describe the difference in experience, symptoms and behaviours between “vanilla” autism and AuDHD?
Amerantin said: There are many symptoms common to both ADHD and autism though so it’s difficult to tease them apart
Funnily enough I was having a heated discussion with my niece about this this afternoon (rather one sided actually, on her part).
She was a social worker dealing with 'autistic' children and she thinks that a lot of misdiagnoses of autism are being made instead of the correct ones eg. AD(H)D or trauma.
I don't have the two combined but I've read from some members who do that the 2 sort of work against each other which can make life particularly difficult.
I think there was previously a thread on this actually.
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Hibernating said:ps. The cat emojis come under the 'people' emoji banner
This makes sense, because cats are people.
I have worried at times that maybe I could have been misdiagnosed but each time I’ve gone back and checked all the criteria for autism and I really am a very stereotypical fit for them.
But I do also match most of what I’ve read of ADD and my score on the ASRS test is high.
One of my massive challenges in life, that causes a lot of stress, is that I cannot focus on demand so most of my work week I underperform then massively overperform for a few hours. If this was something ADHD meds could mitigate I would definitely consider them.
My alternative theory is that I am a cat trapped in a human body