I am a person, 31, I have at times had the thought that ‘I must be Autistic’ and other times I have had the complete opposite thought. Currently, after taking a few online batteries and reading a bit more Im quite sure I am not.

Reasons I think I am not revolve around 3 symptoms/ criteria - repetitive gestures and routines.

I do; however, highly suspect I have ADHD.

I suppose my question ‘boils down’ to this, probably naaive idea thst autism is the exact opposite of ADHD, where I struggle entirely with keeping my apartment clean, getting taxes done, and enjoying my hobbies (increasing knowledge of topics I like, collecting thinks revolving around the topics, engaging in regularl, habitual activities with structure-structured engagement). It seems that Autism would he a silver bullet if I could somehow catch it.

I know this is ignorant, naaive and maybe even disrespectful or hurtful. I also am aware that there is a significant percentage of people who have both. I’d like to say that I do not mean to hurtful in this today’s impulsive quest.

Questions for real this time–

*If you are Autism/ADHD, which did your doctor notice/diagnose first?

Which did you notice might be apparent first, if you weren’t diagnosed by guidance of parents?

Do you feel a constant friction between these two sorts of things? *

I suppose I really have quite a number of questions if you (individuals whom are AuDHD or either or and are also reading this post on this phenomenon)feel like fielding them.

Apologies for the poor structure. And I hope to hear your inputs.

  • TerdFerguson@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I do not like the term AuDHD.

    I don’t mind if that’s how you want to refer to yourself or anything, but I think it adds noise when you try to socialize the concepts of autism or ADHD to the layperson.

    It’s an example where we’ve oversubscribed to labelling, to have a category for both when the word ‘both’ will do just as well. And you could say that it’s just because of the high comorbidity of the conditions and, for sure, that’s what it is… but regular folks still trying to adjust their idea of autism a bit to just include Asperger’s and having a hard time figuring that out.

    And so I think it undermines efforts to advance cultural acceptance.

    • Zebrafive@lemmy.myserv.oneOP
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      1 day ago

      An understandable sentiment.

      Should we rename all conditions that have high comorbidity? Deprexiety is some letters that would produce some sounds when spoken [rhetorical].