Autism and ADHD

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 was informmally diagnosed wth ADHD in my forties off the back of my kids diagnosis by her trickcylist.

    After my formal Autism Diagnosis I requested ADD meds, and was told I needed a formal diagnosis which I then asked for, and received no reply.

    My doctor was quite unhelpful & dismissive when I went for the Autism diagnosis and I had to PUSH for the test.. 

    It seems I can either PUSH for the formal ADD test, and when eventually I get a formal diagnosis after many months pay full prescription charges for a drug someone else who isn't me guesses will aleviate my symptoms and will argue black is blue if I get any poor reaction (AS ALWAYS HAPPENS) or go my own way...

    I now have been given some samples of both ritalin and amfexa, and will determne the medication that works best for me by myself, adn referrring to teh peopel who know me to report what they see, and the minimum dose I need to achieve the result that I am looking for.

    With the amfexa of course, by means of a mortar and pestle and subsequent insufflation (wonderful word that is!) rather than oral administration, I can titrate the dose carefully, so I'll do that first, as the prescribing guidelines are ridiiculusly wide (1-8 5mg tablets per-day). I've tried amphetamine twice before in my life in a recreational setting and found that it seemed to make me much more clear headed and productive,using (compared to others) tiny amounts of the stuff. But I was put off further experimentation out of an abundance of caution, and believing the anti-drugs propaganda which is of course pushed by the very people who hand out fluoxetine like smarties and refuse to believe that for some of us that stuff is VERY BAD INDEED.

    My experience of "medicine" and "Doctors" over the years has been very inconsistent, in terms of obtainig a prompt and accurate diagnosis followed by effective treatments, which made me start to ask questions and look at how effectvely other people get treated for their maladies. 

    I've found that sometiimes modern medicine is really efficacious if you get a doctor who's in it for the "sucess" but more and more it seems like man are more interested in making the payments on the mercedes, actually helping the patients, which process leads to shorter consulting times and a "take two of these daily, NEXT PATIENT PLEASE!!" quality of service in the NHS and the resultant four tier structre of health care. (you thought there were only two? There is NHS, then BUPA style private, then harley street style private, and finally D.I.Y. / alternative medicine)  

    I remember Dr McCoy in Star Trek shuddering as he described "20th century medicine" and I've come to agree with that poimt fo view based on my own adn family and friends experience of it... 

    Modern medicine "treast illness" rather than focussing on curing it.

    One shining example being the problems I had with fungal infections in my feet  Ive asked many doctros about it over the tried many anfungal creams which seemed to be almost competely ineffective at best winning me a brief pause before the rot resumed, THEN I went alternative, and discovered an off label use for a readily available substance in our medicine cabinet that has finally eradicated the problem and given me back healthy looking pink feet with clean looking nails after nearly FIFTY YEARS of the medical approach wasting my tiem and considerable sums of money on the over priced "prescribed" rubbish that didn't ever really work.  

    As for Cancer, the thing that pre 2011 one in three of us (according to the cancer research people, back then) were likely to suffer from (then  post 2011 it suddenly morphed into 1 in 2 of us will get it) one has to wonder how despiet everyon who dies of it seemingly mking  big donation adn them having a shop in every shopping centre cancer ressearch hasn't advanced very far has it? 

    They tell us that cancer is 100 different diseases with a 1000 different causes, but only seemed to have idenfied tobacco and fried bacon as a cause so far... (O.K. I'm allowig my cycnicism a bit too much rein, they did also identify a few household chemicals, "pollution" and radioactivity as causes, so at least tehy know fiev out of their "thousands of causes".. 

    Sure they can "treat" your cancer and do most enthusiastically, but cure it? Not so much. Worse, treatments like B17, RSO, RIFE, which are used in some places sucessfully across the world are rubbished out of hand, and in defiance of the evidence presented. RSO I KNOW works, but there are no clinical trials.

    Not that I trust cliical trials so much anymore after the lancet hydrocloquine clinical trial fiasco, where it was shown so clearly and unequivocably that the trial had been configured to achieve a political rather than medical objective, that they eventually had to publically retract it...   

    I notice that the MRNA jabs are fianlly being discreditted to the extent that some countires and states are banning them, now. Not that it makes the MSM news of course...

    Doctors have their place but I'd prefer that they were my servant rather than my master. 

    My I.T.career taught me very well that "qualifications" are ten a penny, finding people that can actually DO THE JOB WELL, was much, much, harder than finding someone with a "qualification".

    Curenlty we seem to be stuck in a pradim that suggest that what you say is more important than what you do.

    Virtue signalling gets much more traction than actually living a virtuous life.

    Failure is only punished at the level most of us live at, and never at the level where the people who seek to direct and micro-manage  our lives live...

    I note this week that far from learning from the Covid-19 experience the Chines bio labs recently made a new verison of ebola that is "super-killy"! Mmmm.

    Yet our western society squashed people who promoted Ivermectin a (viable cure for covid) whilst contrinuing to fund the "gain of function" experiments that gave it to us in the first place!!