I got the diagnose of autism but I don’t know if I’m ADHD. But now I’m kind of worried because I see this relation pretty often, it feels like you must have ADHD if you have autism.
How do you know you have ADHD (except consulting a doctor)?
I got the diagnose of autism but I don’t know if I’m ADHD. But now I’m kind of worried because I see this relation pretty often, it feels like you must have ADHD if you have autism.
How do you know you have ADHD (except consulting a doctor)?
You’ll know you are ADHD (in addition to autism) if you consult a doctor and get diagnosed (or not).
If you’re seeing that one condition dictates you must have the other, I’d assume you’re dealing with cognitive bias. There are plenty of people in the world who have one without the other and clearly no indication of the other.
No sense in being “worried about ADHD” just for the sake of it. If you have ADHD symptoms that are hindering you in life, get professional help. If you are not hindered by ADHD symptoms, stop worrying about it? I understand that might be hard if you are obsessing over it, just saying there is no point to it if you don’t actually have the symptoms.
I’m worried of it being affecting my life and I don’t know about it. Just like autism, after I got the diagnosis a lot of my behaviors started making sense.
There was a struggle before it because I was trying to fit in groups and it never worked, then autism diagnosis made it clear to me and know I understand myself better.
A huge weight was removed from me, I stopped blaming myself for not fitting in.
The same applies to ADHD, I’m worried I might have it and not knowing about it.
In that case I’d recommend just reading up on ADHD and the various coping strategies and techniques that one can use. If those seem to help, or you identify with people describing their experience of ADHD, then it may be worthwhile pursuing a diagnosis.
Agreed.
In addition, be sure to take a wide sample of ADHD symptoms from what you research.
It is such a broad condition that manifests quite differently in many people.
It might help narrow it down a little by looking at AuDHD specifically. The Autism + ADHD mix.