Been good to hear from any adult ASD diagnosed women in this forum... or does anyone know any good sites for ASD women?
Hello out there......anyone????
Been good to hear from any adult ASD diagnosed women in this forum... or does anyone know any good sites for ASD women?
Hello out there......anyone????
Morning Everyone My sister is back up for the school holidays so she's just taking me out for a walk but will be back later. I definitely had a rough time with hormones at puberty (10!) and earlish menopause and all the way between. I haven't read too much on the asd side of this but definitely quite a bit about it in adult women's adhd. There is quite an argument about whether you can have asd and adhd at the same time and how much they are connected. Then again overlapping with the other neurdiverse conditions but as with anything there are overlaps and opposites. Again the information on adult women is fairly new so you have to look for it. Got to go be back later.
DSM-5 finally acknowledged there could be dual ASD/ADHD. We are fairly certain SD16 is dual, but with her mother opposing medication it's been easier to get the ASD diagnosed and hopefully get the ADHD done when she's older. Her sister SD20 has ADHD and her response to meds has been amazing.
My SO has ADHD and his psychologist screened him for ASD but he didn't meet threshold by quite a margin. She thinks (and I agree) his quirks are a lot to do with a pretty grim childhood and 18 years marriage to an abusive partner. Early when we got together we had to deal with lots of things like him going into "freeze" in intimacy if he was triggered, but with use of safe words and heavy duty respect of boundaries he's come a long way.
It's complicated, and I'm observing both girls for hormonal patterns too. Now my GP and I gave levelled my hormones out using the Pill continuously, it makes me realize my DCD had a major blip around the "shark week". I did a Pill break for the first time in 2.5 years a couple of months ago and it was so bad I'm not trying that again until it's a fair to reasonable chance I'm menopausal!!!!
Good to hear from you....
my gosh...you do live a full-on existence....my view is that you are never given in life more than you can cope with..but someone out there certainly likes to push it! - lol
From reading there seems to be spikes of age of diagnosis at teenage years and middle age.....could be those pesky hormones elevating and making more pronounced the austism....and these also seem peaks of time in self reflection (though self reflection and self criticism seem an everyday affair with ASD) - so might have just completely contradicted myself......maybe we are just in more distress at these times...
i am certainly more stressed by noise, need more personal space and take longer to enforce relaxation when it's "shark week"....my husband would have his own phraseology!!!
how are you?
Good to hear from you....
my gosh...you do live a full-on existence....my view is that you are never given in life more than you can cope with..but someone out there certainly likes to push it! - lol
From reading there seems to be spikes of age of diagnosis at teenage years and middle age.....could be those pesky hormones elevating and making more pronounced the austism....and these also seem peaks of time in self reflection (though self reflection and self criticism seem an everyday affair with ASD) - so might have just completely contradicted myself......maybe we are just in more distress at these times...
i am certainly more stressed by noise, need more personal space and take longer to enforce relaxation when it's "shark week"....my husband would have his own phraseology!!!
how are you?
I'm good thanks, just found this one from earlier. I discovered this time last year that although my periods were light and regular I didn't seem to be ovulating! Tried for one last baby....nothing happening! Moved into new home, got married, first time we all lived together, chaotic, lots of change, felt like I was having a breakdown. Also had a period when I thought I was depressed. Some of the behaviours I was expressing were extreme, like stuff I experienced during puberty, I've been on the pill for years so not had much hormonal experience....now taking my pill all the time, no periods, feel more stabilised. I haven't read much on the subject, but will feedback on anything I do find. One of the books I have reserved is pretty recent and the blurb looks good!