Published on 12, July, 2020
I feel like an outsider here, my experiences seem very diferent, my interests different, the things I do or don't do are different. The books I find helpful or not are different. Most of you seem like lovely people, so I'm not having a go at any of you, but I just feel like I don't really belong here with the rest of you, I don't feel like it's imposter syndrome, more like I stick out like a sore thumb because of some of the above. I feel like I'm irritating people because of my differences, here I feel almost as much of an outsider as I do in NT company.
Curious if you've experienced the same on an ADHD forum? There's a lot of overlap, but there's also some polarities of differences. And there's also a great deal of misunderstanding about the differences between the two.
IMHO, I have encountered many who self diagnose as Autistic who appear actually ADHD. It could be good to trial a group if you haven't yet and see if you feel any different? x
I don't have ADHD, I don't show any of the symptoms of it whereas I do for autism and did when I was diagnosed.