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Autism and ADHD

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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?

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  • I heard, that ADHD people often experience racing thoughts. I experience repetitive deep thoughts, that sometimes even torture my brain. It may be some scenario (not necessarily bad one) and it plays over and over and over again and it makes me angry, I don’t want it anymore but it stays there in my head. And I have no issues with executive actions- I plan everything step by step and follow the plan. But I have sometimes restless legs especially if stressed or deeply concentrated and I can’t  control it. I was told many times at school to stop shaking my legs. So it seems to not be normal for NTs but I’m not sure if it was just a stem or some ADHD trait. 

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  • I heard, that ADHD people often experience racing thoughts. I experience repetitive deep thoughts, that sometimes even torture my brain. It may be some scenario (not necessarily bad one) and it plays over and over and over again and it makes me angry, I don’t want it anymore but it stays there in my head. And I have no issues with executive actions- I plan everything step by step and follow the plan. But I have sometimes restless legs especially if stressed or deeply concentrated and I can’t  control it. I was told many times at school to stop shaking my legs. So it seems to not be normal for NTs but I’m not sure if it was just a stem or some ADHD trait. 

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