I will often start lots of things but never finish any. I will often overwhelm myself and I have issues with executive function. For me my ADHD tends to hide and goes unseen but its still there waiting to strike. Also some things for me take a lot longer like a lot of school stuff for me takes me way to long. Your ADHD might hide a bit more like mine but look at memories from the past like things you did in school and you will be able to see it.
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Brain no work to do thing never no. Brain think do thing, but do thing never.
Couldn't have summarized it better.
My diagnosis. The psychologist talked to me for 5 minutes then she said, she was sure I'm autistic and she was reasonably confident that I had ADHD. "But just to dot all the i's and cross all the t's, let's just do the rest of the assessment. Seven more hours of tests and talking and a questioning of my mother later, both were confirmed.
For me it's the fact that I constantly pickup new "special interests" so I pickup hobbies like someone with ADHD but I keep up with them like someone with autism and a special interest.
absolutely zero drive, hyper fixate super easily
ADD was very obvious as every single school report i ever received had a variation of “doesn’t pay attention in class but otherwise no complaints”
Took me embarrassingly long to even understand that other kids chose not to pay attention because they didn’t want to instead of not being able to.
Autism had been mentioned a single time but besides two unfortunately shallow questions was never properly looked for.
Then after depression and some level of identity crisis during a year of psych war someone finnaly saw trough my unintentional masking and gave me a more modern explanation of what autism actually means.
Can you drink too much coffee then take a nap? That's a very common flag.
Coffee makes me jittery, so nope
The same applies to me. I have the purely inattentive variety of ADHD (sometimes called ADD).
Nothing better than a pot of coffee before bed. Chamomile has nothing on an entire pot of coffee.
I was always distracted by even the smallest things when in class and during other activities that require focus.
Struggles with working memmory and executive function especially when work was just leaving me burnt-out. Although I found my autism to be more evident initially.
I was formally diagnosed with PDD-NOS at a very young age, which was later re-diagnosed as Asperger's Syndrome due to technicalities during a reevaluation. I wasn't diagnosed with ADHD (without hyperactivity) until my fifth grade teacher was very concerned about severe issues with attention and excessive daydreaming that were likely previously dismissed as relating to my Asperger's syndrome.
You should ask a trained professional. There is far too much self diagnosis going on in today’s world.
My dx back in either 06 or 07
I knew somethings about it
What are the characteristics of both? I got ADHD and my sister got diagnosed with autism prior to transitioning. She seems much more on the ADHD spectrum then autism since transitioning.