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Looking for advice from other parents with ADHD and/or autism

Loz

Hi everyone,

I’ve recently been diagnosed with ADHD (ASD referral too) and it’s made me realise how much I’ve been trying to juggle. I’m also raising an autistic/ADHD child, and honestly… some days feel like a lot.

I’d love to hear from other parents experiencing similarly:

How do you manage day-to-day life when both you and your child are neurodivergent?

Do you have routines or little tricks that actually help?

How do you deal with the emotional and sensory overload of parenting?

And do you feel like your own ADHD/autism has affected your child?

I can see how mine has - especially with consistency, routines, and my emotions - and I’m trying hard not to beat myself up for it.

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  • My child is most probably NT like her daddy, but I'm suspected autistic (from my therapist) and it's very hard. A lot of a burden goes to my husbands shoulders,  he has to play with the little one, role-playing is too much for me and impossible,  I simply have no ideas what to play how to play, what to do or say etc. So my interaction with the child is much limited. I'm good at doing together some creative activities. I've heard from my daughter's nursery staff and her psychologist,  that my flat affect affects her emotional development and she needs support as well as me. I asked them to help my daughter so she grows up happy, but for me it's too late and nobody can help me in my thirties, especially I have a long history of being taken not seriously by mental health professionals and mistreated, but they promised they would help. It's all in process and we will see if they really can help me anyhow.  I'm late realised. I don't think I have ADHD, maybe some single traits but I have no issues completing long and monotonous tasks, in fact I enjoy them and with concentration and organising things also no major issues. With concentration only this I tend to be swallowed by some thing or topic or stimuli and don't notice anything other. For this reason I don't do driving licence.  I don't wanna hit anyone while staring into plates of a car in front of me.

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  • My child is most probably NT like her daddy, but I'm suspected autistic (from my therapist) and it's very hard. A lot of a burden goes to my husbands shoulders,  he has to play with the little one, role-playing is too much for me and impossible,  I simply have no ideas what to play how to play, what to do or say etc. So my interaction with the child is much limited. I'm good at doing together some creative activities. I've heard from my daughter's nursery staff and her psychologist,  that my flat affect affects her emotional development and she needs support as well as me. I asked them to help my daughter so she grows up happy, but for me it's too late and nobody can help me in my thirties, especially I have a long history of being taken not seriously by mental health professionals and mistreated, but they promised they would help. It's all in process and we will see if they really can help me anyhow.  I'm late realised. I don't think I have ADHD, maybe some single traits but I have no issues completing long and monotonous tasks, in fact I enjoy them and with concentration and organising things also no major issues. With concentration only this I tend to be swallowed by some thing or topic or stimuli and don't notice anything other. For this reason I don't do driving licence.  I don't wanna hit anyone while staring into plates of a car in front of me.

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