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Autism and ADHD

Deleted User

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 just watched this from The Neurocuriosity Club, which gives some good insight into AuDHD. But in particular near the end they discuss masking and I thought it was one of the most insightful things I've heard:

    "Masking is not really the right word because if you take the mask off there you are the real you is still there. But in reality masking is more like the building blocks you’re using to become the person you are. You’re starting to use other people’s blocks instead of your own. So the masterpiece of your personhood doesn’t really reflect you. So unmasking isn’t about just taking the mask off, you have to tear yourself apart and rebuild."

  • in reply to Deleted User

    I tend to tread carefully receiving advice from kids! :) 

    There's a lot here which is just so slightly misinformed. "The Mask" Is a concept already taken in psychoanalysis for The Neurotic Self (Typical). No one can just unmask as there is no real self behind it, just the Collective Unconscious. And this is what makes Autism REALLY unique, as we haven't tapped into that.

    Black and White thinking in Autistics is simply immature thinking, maturing slower due to communication differences, we grow out of it. ADHD can have an appearance of B&W due to brain wiring in out of control auto-mode "firing off" for no reason. Both can appear intense with response, and context is key when working out nuance.

    Also, the Left brain perceives linear time and Right brain perceives the moment-eternal time. In physics, Light is outside of / not subject to Time. 

  • in reply to JuniperFromGallifrey

    I get the same comforting feeling from your posts that I get when visiting my favourite purveyor of the "devils Lettuce" you do seem to know your stuff, and have the stuff I like...

    In this case you actually seem to have the stuff I NEED also AND am providing it free of charge, just by (presumably) being yourself. 

    Now I try to do that on my better days, but you seem to be much further along a road I hope I am travelling...

    Thank you for being in the world. 

  • in reply to JuniperFromGallifrey
    JuniperFromGallifrey said:
    Now there's something I need to look up!

    I think that people "spark up" rather than "look up" Devil's Lettuce.

  • in reply to I Sperg

    Thanks!! I just happen to like philosophy and physics and pretty much anything that helps me understand seemingly invisible systems. :) 

    Devils Lettuce!! Now there's something I need to look up!

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