Do You Have ADHD and Autism? (5 Traits)
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- This is how you know if you have ADHD and Autism, 5 must see traits you need to know!
1. Irritability & Hyper-focus:
Autistic people will be set to focus on a specific top or activity for a large amount of time. However the ADHD brain kicks in and makes them stand up and walk about or get distracted.
2. Special Interest & Rapid Interest Switch:
People who are autistic will have a topic of special interest that they love to learn about etc, but the ADHD brain will make you switch from obsessive topic to a new obsessive topic often.
3. Fast Speech & Monotone Talking:
Autism usually comes with monotone talking, no inflection on speech. And the ADHD brain makes you talk super fast!
4. Want to Be Social & Social Anxiety:
Lots of ADHD people want to be social and make friends and have fun. The autism brain is also packed with social anxiety and can cause a conflict.
5. Wanting To Talk A Lot & Forgetting What You We’re Saying:
Autistic individuals love to talk about stuff the love for hours in end. How we the ADHD brain will cause a lot of forgetting of keeping on track with the conversation topic.
All input welcome I’d love to start a discussion.
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1. Irritability and hyperfocus
2. Special interest and rapid interest switching
3. Fast speech and monotone talking
4. Wanting to be social vs social anxiety
5. Wanting to talk a lot but forgetting what you want to say
For all y'all who, like me, searched the comments for the list because you lack the patience to watch the video at regular speed but 2x speed is overwhelming.
Thanks, that's kind of you to write.
Thank you 😂
Thank you!!
@@suewilkinson5855 I can't tell if this is sarcastic or being actually flustered
1 - ✅
2 - ✅
3 - ❓
4 - ✅ (im pretty overly social)
5 - ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
It's a chaotic mess to be paralyzingly frightened to walk out the front door into public to go to work followed by incessantly talking to coworker/boss followed by watching youtube, etc, for 8 hours plus on the same topic/genre etc while not getting any personal responsibilities done.... rinse and repeat.
Yes!!!
😂😂 yup!
Yes !
Lol my life all over
Holy sheet, I feel I have to absorb my interests every day if I don't I can get stressed but I need my down time.
My brain craves order but it can't deliver it 😬
DUDE, when I tell you that this is me 😅
same 😢
Same...
Same
Mine is that I need a routine to be productive but I hate when I have to follow the routine to be productive 😂
The nice thing about watching videos made by AuDHD/ADHD people whey you have AuDHD/ADHD yourself is you don't need to increase the playback speed in order to not get bored... 😅
So true! Most of the time I need to watch UA-cam videos on 2x speed to not get bored and zone out.
Omg this is why?? I thought it was because I grew up in NY for the 1st half of my life & 2nd half in OK.
Also explains why I go through mobile games so fast; hyperfocus to get good, then bored and delete it.
Mmm nah still on x2
Social anxiety is such a tough condition to experience when everyone around you is very social and extrovert. But 'tis really common.
I think part of it might be related to problems with ADHD like working memory issues, interrupting, talking too much etc which may have caused issues with socialising in the past which make you more anxious to speak.
What's helped me a bit is going to meetups for one of the things I'm interested in (special interest?), foreign languages. I use the Meetup app (also a website). So facing the anxiety by going for something you like and know about can help.
But yeah I do still get socially anxious in groups sometimes. Wish you all the best. Peace and love ❤
Lame
What u mean lame@@SunLee-um5wu
See all of these with my recently diagnosed son. Can always see why so many undiagnosed adults are mistaken as bipolar because the polar opposites of each always in a tug of war. Thanks, great video
Damn! Exactly! The bipolar diagnosis I got I believe is super wrong, I am also ADHD with Social Anxiety. So having ADS and ADHD together would explain the polar opposites of me and my ways of doing thing.I just took the Autism Spectrum Quotient test online which is the official way doctors can diagnose people with it. Anything over a 26 indicates you may have it. Scores less than 26 indicating that a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome can effectively be ruled out I scored a 36 on the test. I have suspected now for a few years I may actually have Autism and ADHD than being bipolar. I may have just figured myself out.
Saaaammme!!
I'll be honest i dont see any medical professional worth their salt misdiagnosing someone as bipolar, that would be quite a shocker to me, I know its common with adhd women to be misdiagnosed with BPD, but I havent heard much of that, Were you diagnosed with Bipolar 1 or 2? and are you on mood stabilizers? because Bipolar has nothing to do with your way of doing things, its a mood disorder where you swing between two extreme mood states over the course of weeks if not months/years. @@BFKAnthony817
Very helpful I am diagnosed as autistic, however I recently come to the thought I might be ADHD, some of the things you said, ring true with me.
This is low-key calling me out because it'd also painfully true. I constantly get told off for my...all of it...
I once said in a mental health forum "I've got two wolves inside me and they both hate eachother" and this solidifys it.
As an Autistic with ADHD this gave me all the feels. I’ve come to understand my Autism quite a bit since my late-life diagnosis (what up to my fellow “under the radar” Autistics out there!). I’ve really not gotten a hold on understanding the ADHD side of things. Since I don’t seem to have the ability to do a “surface level” study of anything, looking into anything becomes another full time job😅
I do have to say I wish my brain could “special interest” on social media marketing the way yours does. Instead, that stuff breaks my brain and soul. It’s been such a struggle for me as I do full time online activism. Pouring your heart and soul into you work only to have "the algorithm" turn on you one day for no reason you can determine is devastating. Trying to understand social media algorithms is like me trying to understand human social interaction (like when an exchange with someone goes south but you have NO IDEA why!) Just. Does. Not. Compute. I burnt myself out severely from the stress of trying to figure out how to "make it work" again with my content, and still battle with it profoundly.
It actually has been devastating for my mental and neurological health, to extremes that become dangerous. I’d love to hear something about this. I know some Autistics like yourself seem to be able to get into social media marketing as a special interest. But I would think that I can't be alone with it being an extreme challenge. Sorry for such a LOOOONG comment. I’ve never commented on your videos but greatly appreciate your work. Thank you!
Thank you so much for the comment! Also I’m a vegan ✌🏼✌🏼❤️
@@TheAspieWorld Oh wow! That's awesome :) I think there are many of us Autistic vegans out there. I've started to talk about it more in my content... Even made a whole video about how my Autism connects me with animals. Meant a lot to hear from my fellow Autistic vegans. I think they go hand-in-hand very well :) Means a lot you took the time to reply. Thank you for the work you are doing! It's so important and (at least speaking for myself) helps me feel far less alone in this world.
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@@TheAspieWorld Top man! I like your channel even more now!
Holy shit I relate to all 5 of these. Diagnosed as ADHD (in mid 30s) but recently have become quite sure that I'm also on the spectrum.
Same here. Diagnosed with ADHD but was also recommended to get autism diagnosis.
It's not unusual for them to co-occur...many say that one masks the other but in reality, it feels more like an internal tug-of-war
I'm the opposite - diagnosed Autistic but over the past few years, I realized I definitely have ADHD too. I'm going to ask for a formal diagnosis next week.
Thanks for posting this. I have a diagnosis of ADHD and am awaiting assessment for ASD. Watching this helps me to understand what my adhd specialist was saying. I most likely do have both and that would explain 2 of my kids have autism and one has adhd. Hubby doesn't have either. I have definately left my mark...... 😅😅 Sorry Kids!
My story is so much like yours! I feel better knowing I'm not alone cause I feel that way a lot. Here in America it's hard to get these diagnoses at my age of 44
Don’t be it’s genetic
“My brain has just exited the room..” I may or may not have uttered that exact sentence in the middle of a story 😂🤷♀️ #audhdlife
Could be a part where my brain exited the room, because I can't remember this sentence 😂
Lol I also have autism and adhd I’m so happy you finally made a video on this because. I feel like I can relate to both at times but sometimes I can’t relate to either. ❤
Same
This all makes sense to me now. It truly is like these two opposites inside of you. It can be so frustrating at times because when asked a simple question like, "what's your favorite color?" Our brain does this crazy thing, and where the answer should be simple, "blue". But instead of just saying blue, we say, "blue. Well not every shade of blue, I like sky blue but also the blue of the ocean which is not really just blue but a sort of greenish blue and royal blue is nice but sometimes it's too dark and then there's sapphire which is really a sort of purplish blue but it's so pretty but idk I kinda like purple too but not just any purple you know has to be a certain color purple so idk, I guess it really all depends." Meanwhile there is all this anxiety building up as we are trying to figure out if blue is truly our favorite or is it really green? Maybe red..omg it's the wrong answer...I'm going to be judged now....
Omg 😂 yes absolutely 💯
People often regret asking me questions lol
THIS. Feeling like you have to qualify everything for the sake of accuracy and/or accommodation
For example, I've already edited this comment 3 times
@@EllePole ikr. And it's crazy like...I ask all kinds of questions but stress out when I'm asked lol
@@nonamelegend_vapor lol I totally get that. I used to do online chatrooms and I would take forever reading what others wrote just to make sure I fully understand it. I also backspace a lot lol
Woah I relate so much to the videos I watch and many of the comments I read in videos but not sure if there's something else rn I can do to help myself my daily life better RN 🤔
Your taking speed is the speed many of us actually prefer to listen to, such as 1.25-1.5 on this platform ❤
This. 150%. 😁
I’ve got a friend with adhd, when she starts watching something, she always watches the whole series in one sitting. She becomes obsessed with it and doesn’t stop talking about it with me for ages, then the next day she’s obsessed with something completely different.
So, I'm diagnosed with ADHD and was convinced I had ASD as well, only to be told that no, I just had super ADHD. Now, I plan to get a second opinion when it's feasible. I resonate with all five of these, but some of them seem like they would apply to just having ADHD in general? Rapidly switching special interests is something I've heard of with people who have ADHD only. Personally, I have some lifelong special interests and others that switch.
ye I have something similar, I'm generally very interested in programming, physics, math and history but I seem to switch around between them every few weeks or so, quite odd
This is interesting because I just got officially diagnosed with adhd about 4 months ago or so and I definitely do a lot of these things lol also the reasoning behind my social anxiety, fidgeting, etc align more with ASD from what I’m understanding. Definitely possible I have both. Especially since I can tell the difference when taking my adhd medication. It’s like my adhd is being helped but there’s still more. Just have to get screened for ASD now.
That's me!
Oh my, I can sooo relate to these 5 traits. Most of the time, I feel like I'm a huge contradiction. I've not been diagnosed yet. My referral for assessment has only just begun. Watching your videos has helped me feel like I'm not going crazy. Thank you.
I relate myself to your comment so much
Me too. I am really glad I've just found this channel.
Me too! Awaiting an appointment slot.
@@bdjerram4275 I'm waiting on a slot as well
@@mejusthot Me as well XD
I have Autistim and ADHD. Yesterday my ADHD brain was very social, Mr. Chatty forgetting what I was talking about etc. Today I am shattered, so tired. That's my Autism brain. Missed out having coffee and a chat with friends and Bingo today, due to being so tired.
At least I was able to go with my guider to leave my bicycle in for repair. She commented on how well I did the talking myself, in Dutch. She said I was very social. I replied that I do love meeting and talking with people, the downside being my Autistic brain leaves me very tired, requiring sleep to recover.
Very relatable! I switch between very chatty about things I'm interested in, questions I have, analysing my own thoughts and sentences, followed by brain freeze and exhaustion. I'm an introvert naturally and whilst I like socialising to a degree I find socialising with more than one or two people exhausts me. 😴 But I can get bored really easily and yet sometimes find it hard to switch from one thing to the next before I've soaked up all I need to on that subject.
Thank a lot for sharing ! Such a synchronicity, before I see the psychologist tomorrow. I hope to have the Asperger diagnose results and begin the ADHD diagnose.
I love learn about the overlaps, I consider myself as a paradox. 🤣
Gifted, Asperger & surely ADHD (I call it the pack integral!). The overlap of theses 3 conditions is totally me.
_ Irritability & hyperfocus ✔ My ex boyfriend was angry I didn't focus on the movie sometimes, he had to stop the video. (I think strongly he have Asperger)
_ Specific interest & rapid interest switching ✔ (Exactly what happened to me recently painting and write many video)
_ Fast speech & monotone talking. Monotone maybe but fast speech I don't think.
_ Wanting to be social & social anxiety ✔ Very possible, Social situations are not my thing
_ Wanting to talk a lot & forget what to say ✔ Totally, I have a lot of ideas in mind and want to say a lot of things. It's all or nothing when I speak.
1: yep
2: absolutely
3: that's scary accurate
4: Again yep. Want it so much I overcommit and crash land
5: My conversations lives on the bunny trails
Ayo you think having over 70 unfinished books, three+ unfinished animated series, and even more unfinished projects counts as ADHD? 😅
I am 40, I was diagnosed with adhd 2 years ago, which made sense at the time cause I was thought there was something wrong with me. Every single thing you said resonates with me, I have been like this my whole life and stimulants made things easier, but still there is something that didn't feel ok.
related to everything mostly. i don’t know how monotone my voice is. i think it used to be pretty monotone but maybe that’s a part i masked enough or just got less monotone as life went on. but the special interest thing I relate too so much. I have had the same obsession for years. But at the same time, I will also be obsessed with anything, like weather, a tv show or even neurodivergence things at the same time as my other major obsession. they normally last around 2 weeks ish. also, the social vs social anxiety part called me out. And I feel the brain turning off at the worst times 💀 I have been diagnosed with ADHD and a sensory disorder and I’m pursuing an autistic diagnosis soon 💝
"It's kind of funny... Not really funny... You know what I mean" - this phrase brilliantly encapsulates what it's like to have ASD + ADHD :D Very relatable video for me, I even assigned fictional characters to those two confronting sides of me, which helps to take it with less frustration, but more understanding, compassion and irony, when I get stuck in this contradiction.
Now I am really curious, what theese characters are?
I feel like it would help me.
@@WinicjuszPilarski Tolkien's Manwe and Melkor
@@neant2046 Thank you! :D
this video made me realize that it's like i'm living three different types of existence: Autistic, ADHD and Masking. unfortunately, most of the time I'm living a Masking existence. But when I'm alone and feel safe, I'll toggle between an Autistic existence and ADHD existence. i guess the reason I use the word "existence" is because each of the three is like a distinct world of its own, like parallel worlds that I slip into. At times, these "worlds" can bleed into each other. i guess this all sounds a bit sci-fi/metaphysical 🤔
I think I used to talk about my special interests a lot but then I realized nobody cared and so I would trybto talk about it but be super unable to NOT be monotone and boring and that made it seem like I didn't really care about what I was talking about so then they really didnt care and just diverted their attention elsewhere. I don't talk about my special interests that much anymore and am not even sure what all of them are but I definitely have several. Actually most of the time I can't even think of _anything_ to talk about anymore. Also sometimes my adhd meds would cause me to be completely monotone and absolutely unable to communicate right, causing me to go mostly nonverbal. And it really sucked because I wanted to talk to people but just couldn't communicate effectivly AT ALL. This wasn't every time I took them but it happened quite a few times over the years and a few times it was so frustrating I cried. I don't take any meds anymore, I don't want them.
I wander if I have autism that is mostly masked by adhd, but yeah.
Oh hey, I have a terrible time with mumbling sometimes too and I don't realize it unless I see or hear a recording of myself doing it and then I cringe at myself so hard. Also I was recently told at work that I was talking too fast, lol.
I find it difficult for myself to focus on marketing and social media. I wander off on Instagram so to speak and I forget my purpose of connecting with music individuals. Also it's difficult to promote my music because of the social anxiety. I think a video discussing promotion and or social media marketing strategies for people with adhd and autism would be super helpful!
I also would like to see a video on this subject as well please! I’m in the middle of setting up a marketing system for my tattoo studio in High Level, and would love to have some neurodivergent input.
You just described me 100 percent! I overtalk but am quite passionate about it. I hyper focus, I get frustrated when I get pulled away and can't wait to get back into the research zone. I always want to socialize but often hate the idea of going where lots of people are haha. I figured I was just am enigma.
I wonder, like a few others, do people find that their autistic and ADHD traits can reinforce and/or complement each other, besides how in the video ADHD social ability can help with autistic social anxiety. Or are we destined to be almost always sabotaged by one or the other?
I have an ADHD diagnosis and I relate to quite a few of these but there’s also other autistic traits that don’t fit me but it’s also a large spectrum so I’m very confused, any advice?
My brother's autistic and he has ADHD; what's interesting is that he's been working on getting himself together, thanks to having a worker with him.
After my child being diagnosed with both autism and adhd, I’ve been thinking for a good while that I probably have both too (hopefully getting assessments in feb) I’m struggling so much at work that I don’t know what to do, I changed jobs in October and things were fine, but suddenly I’ve been left to to lots of things just don’t know what I’m doing and I kind of have stopped talking at work and get asked why aren’t you talking it’s like I can’t, everyone thinks I’m bad tempered and rude but I’m so so overwhelmed by it all and can’t tell anyone, any ideas how to help would be amazing. Thanks.
Diagnosed ADHD person here who just stumbled into the idea that I might have autistic traits as well.
I just wanted to drop two things here:
1. Thank u for that very informative video. It really gave me some interesting insights about how those two things interact with each other.
2. I just laughed way too hard about this “you know like something is really funny….but not funny…more like funny in an interesting way.” I don’t know if you just said it because we think alike or if this is a trait of adhd and asd as well, because I relate 1000% to this. Even using the word funny for things which are really not funny, but they are somehow funny because they are interesting and this is funny, u know? Because they are actually not funny but this makes them somewhat funny in an interesting way 😂😂
Please don’t tell me I’m crazy 😅
Just got diagnosed with auDHD this month (finally...I'm nearly 49) (there are like two minions in my brain constantly squabbling...till they agree on something...& then they are squabbling again & I'm left seriously drained of energy...)
Never diagnosed, but resonate. Very spot on. I never knew I was different in my thought process, pattern and behavior till my sister, after her brain aneurysm and then a mini stroke, she was going through rehabilitation and she said to me...."Kendra, now I know how you think and how your brain works...I told my counselor that this is how my sisters mind/brain must work, I cant follow thru with a single task and get anything done and my house is
dirty". Yah ,that made me start questioning and knowing that I am different, that was back in the mid 90's.
Thank you for explaining my Struggles in Life. Amazing to see I‘m not the only one.😊
I knew there was something wrong with me
I definitely have both forsure. I was diagnosed with Autism when I was 10, but looking back at it now, I exhibited major signs of ADHD, traits such as forgetting things, being late to things, not paying attention in class, would interrupt at times, and blurt out answers, and I was very disorganized and called lazy.
I was actually diagnosed with ADHD 8 years ago. Also suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 4 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here. and mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on this planet i wish people would all realize. they could solve a lot of problems, more than just mental treatments, environmental clean up; the possibilities are endless with fungus.
Can you help with the reliable source I would really appreciate it. Many people talk about mushrooms and psychedelics but nobody talks about where to get them. Very hard to get a reliable source here in Germany. Really need!
YES very sure of Dr.benfungi. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
Yes he's Dr.benfungi.Lsd and psilocybin are amazing teachers along its dmt mah dudes have safe trips all. Shrooms are blessings from nature.
Microdosing helped me get out of the pit of my worst depressive episode, a three year long episode, enough to start working on my mental health.
Something that drives me crazy.... contradictory feelings toward novelty & change vs familiarity and predictability. Does anyone else feel jerked back and forth between these?
Bored and seeking the novel and new? Yes. Distressed by disruption to what should be expected and automatic in my surroundings? Also Yes.
I experience this phenomenon often and I'm Autistic, but I genuinely believe I have ADHD as well.
I've got both adhd and autism lol can totally relate 🤣 also have dsylexia too. It's unreal how many coping mechanisms I have in order to balance out my day to day tasks lol
Wow this was eye opening. You basically described me perfectly 😂. I have been diagnosed as autistic but always wondered if I could have ADHD as well. I have scheduled an assessment and am just waiting for it. I wondered, do you also struggle with impulsivity? It's one of the things I struggle most with. I have rapidly changing interests and will impulsively buy everything associated with that interest but then after a few months or weeks I will lose interest and never use the stuff. This also happened to me in all my past relationships - I'd been almost obsessive and want to talk and spend all my time with someone for like a few months to maybe 6 months then it would be like I suddenly lost interest and became obsessed with something else or someone else. Very annoying.
Some of my friends think that I am adhd my mum thinks I have ocd or autism.
Man I was diagnosed with ADHD in my early 20s, but I was always question about possibly being autistic too. What she said this video is like the spitting image of what I go through every day.😂.
I probably have ADD too. Sign 2, 3 and 4 i totally recognize! But number 1 i don't. I don't have hyperactivity, or the feeling of wanting to get up and walk around. But i definately get distracted by my own thoughts when reading something, so much i need to force myself back to reality and concentrate again.
I can absolutely relate. I called it Jekyll and Hyde.
Seems there is no help in oregon...for anything 😕..OR SOMEONE to talk to and assist..Oregon is BIG on denying vital help to vulnerable people..and just plain denying people HELP period..thanks dhs-oha!😡
I have a good friend who has both ADHD and Autism/Asperger so it’s a good thing to talking about..
How the f☠️k did they miss the autism part of my AuDHD for 30 damn years?! I learned it recently after having had an extensive drug career and struggeling for all my life while usually hearing stuff like "But you are so intelligent - have to be lazyness then!".
I got out there on my own 7 years ago after having failed therapies 10 years earlier where my remark of "I believe I have some autistic tendencies" didn't raise any questions whatsoever.
I learned I was right only recently and suddenly my whole messed up life gets completly recontextualized - and fleetingly Iget told that teachers in primary school suggested to have me skip three classes which my parents declined without ever telling me.
I'm incredibly, incredibly pissed because the hell I had to crawl through on my nipples appearently would have been avoidable if they had added one and one.
This video is as if it would describe me personally and anybody I know and trust was utterly baffled how well it fit me.
I'm 37, had been a homeless drug addict who served four years just for good measure and still made it out on my own just to learn now that this achievement is bordering the superhuman in light of the baggage I'm dragging around.
So… me 😍 I was like what you talked about in this video since I was young and my parents even knew. But after 30 years passed, they finally decided to be open to me having adhd and autism. But I’m not ashamed, ❤️
Wow, you explained this very well.I wish I could articulate as you do.I have never heard anyone, explain it like this.This is me 💯.Thank you for your videos.Pattern recognition, is a topic I wish you could talk about? Thank you ❤
Ok. So I went to the bedroom to make a phone call, cca 5 minutes. Now I'm watching videos, it's been 40 minutes. My wife probably angry downstairs. Me going downstairs. Oh yeah, both ADHD and ASD diagnosed. I won't skip my meds tomorrow. Let me make a Google reminder about that and stay upstairs for another 5 minutes..
Do you feel that many people with ADHD and Autism are drawn to alcohol (and other substances) to try to balance and regulate their thoughts and feelings?
yay tamagochi, do they actually still exist? lol apparently they do.
I knew im autistic, but now I'm wondering if I have adhd too
But with ADHD memory is an issue so yeah my interests change all the time, I hyperfocus, etc but I can't remember anything including mistakes made before. Professionally diagnosed with both. The memory issues and mixing words in sentences up or word retrieval are the hardest for me.
I believe that we, autists, may develop ADHD as a "cure" of our autistic symptoms, like it forces us to do the opposite of what we want, like I want to focus on one thing but then I realize; I need to focus on something else now, and then these 10 other things as well, but I focus on all of them with the same intensity so there's eventually not enough space for all the activities/topics
My facial expressions don’t match my feelings. I have adhd but I don’t know what that is all about.
I have asperger, hypersensitivity and adhd.
My life is a nightmare.
Plus, depression since 2016
I’m sorry but you speak way too fast. I’m trying to follow you but damn not everyone has English as fist language!!! Please slow down if you want more people to follow you!!
Lol, people make fun of me all the time for maintaining interests in rocket science, quantum physics, philosophy, economics, statistics, and politics... while I do pest control for a living. Lol, yeah... because the way I think about those topics is entirely incompatible with the way that those industries work in reality.
My daughter has autism and the school are saying she might have adhd as well this video has helped a lot thank you
I was diagnosed with ADHD in a clinic and my neurologe said I have autistic traits, too. But thats so unsatisfit, because the autism is not on paper...😮💨😖
This video hit so hard! I was just supposed to go to a networking event but it was at a bar. Once I saw how many people were there and how loud it was, I just drove away. I knew I would have sensory overload. It bothered me that I couldn’t even attempt to go in. So I decided to get on UA-cam and look up sensory overload. Which brought me to videos on adhd and autism. While I’ve had suspicions of having one or the other, I’ve never been diagnosed (because the American healthcare system sucks and I don’t have access to mental healthcare). I definitely relate to all these traits though!
I got diagnosed with ADHD 18 years ago as a teenage. Spent my whole life fighting ADHD. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Congrats on your recovery. Most persons never realizes psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives. Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here.
YES very sure of Dr.benfungi. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addiction and Mushrooms definitely made a huge huge difference to why am clean today.
How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta
Yes he's Dr.benfungi.Shrooms to me is a natrual healer. I know a guy who has used mushrooms in the same way and they have really helped him. mah dudes have safe trips all.
I would like to know from those who have solved PTSD and anxiety, if they have solved it definitively and how to understand what quantity of psilocybin to take and when, for how long. And can you really heal without having an addiction?
Thanks to everyone for helping me understand, I want to understand if it's
something that can help me solve the problem (I have c-ptsd)
I feel if someone with a degree told me what I think I know, I might feel better about my oddities. I’ve always wondered since I was little if I was different.
I just failed the Nclex exam. 😔🥺 I cannot begin to articulate the level of embarrassment and heartache I'm feeling. I'm confident that I will be a good nurse. I just need to get past this, move on and persevere
Just say "I haven't passed yet." Don't take it as a failure but see it as a learning opportunity. There is a lot of power in "Yet", you are telling yourself that you will get there and that your eyes and heart are still fixed on your goal.
Well I've taken the exams for the second time now and still didn't succeed, i wonder how those who succeeded did it
You will pass Every one has their own season,just keep going pray and believe you will receive
I failed 3 times, i lost money to reviews that never helped but the major thing is that I've not lost hope
After using Uworld twice and failing, I never knew I could ever pass the NCLEX but today I am very happy, I just passed my NCLEX on my third attempt with a great help for Miss Olivia
Growing up, my family suspected I had autism, as I got into my teens I began to suspect adhd. I don’t have an official diagnosis for either, but a medical condition I have (hydrocephalus) has frequent comorbidity of some flavor of neurospicy.
The special interests with quick switching is my whole life. Also talking about interests but forgetting what topic/interest I’m on.
Hi!
I just found your channel. I’m happy to have found it! I have a 7 year old high functioning son with ASD. We just received the diagnosis a few months ago and are trying to wrap our heads around it all. We always knew he was different but we always chalked it up to. That’s just who he is. That’s our special boy but we do also have challenges that we are learning to navigate the day we were delivered his diagnosis I was surprised it wasn’t ADHD, his psychologist told us that it wasn’t off the table, we would come back in a couple of years when he’s a bit older, and if he is still as active then then it would be a probability. We just came back from a birthday party, where I brought my other little boy with us as well. I watched your video on birthday parties for autistic kids, and it really spoke to me. I knew that he would get overstimulated. Unfortunately, the child’s party was not autistic, friendly. It was quite loud with a ton of people and I watched my son get so overstimulated. I had never been at this home before. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a quiet space available to take him to help calm him down and we had just had a snow storm the night before, and it was quite cold outside so I couldn’t even take him outside to calm down when I decided it was time to leave my son got upset because he lost one of the suckers from his loot bag and then sent him into a spiral. He said, and did things that were embarrassing to me, as his parent, I felt at such a loss of what to do and I just wanted to get out of there. I also had my other boy to keep an eye on. That party was like an inside view of what his day must look like at school with 19 other kids in his class-the noise, the lights all of the overstimulation. School is a struggle for us. It was so hard to bring him down afterwards and that sucker just was the straw on the camels back. I worry about future gatherings. He always wants to go and I don’t want him to miss out but I feel like I’m going to have to keep them in constant check give him quiet breaks every so often etc. is there any advice you could give me?
An 8 year old friend (with ast) of my daughter brings noise counselling headphones, it helps him.
I have ADHD and I'm pretty certain I have autism because the other day me and my boyfriend went to the gym the other day and I went as his guest. I almost had a panic attack because the amount of people around in that same area gave me extreme social anxiety. I wanted to run out of there and never go back, however I stayed there and worked out because my boyfriend really wanted to work out together and I basically forced myself to deal with it and just try and not focus on all the people around me. It was scary af. What should I do? My boyfriend wants me to go back with him on a regular basis and I'm terrified of what might happen if I'm put in that situation again.
Lord have mercy .. i knew I had ADHD but now certain things makes more sense
I'm going for a job interview next week for a job that I think I have a good chance of getting due to my experience in the field, should I let them know I'm an Aspie?
I'm worried I'll get asked what my strengths and weaknesses are and I know a lot of my strengths and weaknesses are due to being on the spectrum. For me, I'd find it hard to not disclose this, especially if I get the job and people start to realize that I'm a bit different, but I also have concerns that the interviewers might see me being an Aspie as a risk for them.
I experience pretty much all this except for monotone inflection. I get monotone when I'm tired, overwhelmed, or have a shutdown, but otherwise I've always had absolutely no control over my inflection and it goes everywhere all the time to an inappropriate extent 😭 Within a single sentence that contains no real importance, I'm out here talking like a bird call like ⬇️⤵️⬅️⬆️↙️↕️⤴️↗️↘️↪️🔃↪️🔀
I suspect I have ASD, but if I do, the ADHD is definitely much more noticeable within me. I think it's really kind of cool how much of a spectrum neurodivergence truly is!
I'm like that, I'm sure I'm aspie, but not so sure about ADHD... I think it's very complex. But not all aspies speak of a monochord tone...
If you have both autism and ADHD, what's the best way to cope?
That these traits often appear to balance each other out makes it so hard for people to take dual dx'ers seriously! Not the old "you don't look autistic" but a more assertive "i really don't think you're autistic." Even from other autistic people!! My autistic brain and my adhd brain are constantly battling one another. Living in a city is a nightmare because I never know when I go out how many people I'm going to have to interact with - and feel I've failed at interacting with... when I lived in a more rural area I often had more options to get away from stimuli and people. Going for a drive away from the massive population centers is one of the best ways to appease both aspects. I get the novelty/movement to appease the adhd brain, and the autistic brain is comforted by the controlled space of my own car, my own solitude...I usually don't have to interact with people...When I do activities like this in which I can comfort both sides of me I feel really recharged and strong and confident and at peace...for a few hours until something ostensibly inconsequential dysregulates me.
Do you find that sometimes your ADHD traits are more dominant and other times your autism traits are more dominant?
I see this in myself, particularly in whether I’m singularly focused on one special interest or rapidly switching between many.
The internal conflict is exhausting some days.
My teenage twins have adhd and asd. Is there anything you wish your parents would have done for you when you were a teenager?
I’m a socially anxious extrovert, omg I’m not alone 😂😂
Hi ! ADHD here, likely autistic, this kind of video really helps in my research about autism, thanks for providing it. :]
Im starting to see the paradoxical issues in myself a lot more. i think all of these traits stood out to me as well as others stories.
I would like to learn about social media and marketing. ❤
Great video and I would say bulls eye. This description of the ongoing struggle between adhd and asd is brilliant (I feel it even as I am writing this comment). Having thought a lot about it I do come to the conclusion that I prefer the struggle rather than having just one or the other. The ongoing conflict has created a more balanced life for me, even if it can be exhausting. Thank you for the video.
Yes! I have both ADHD and autism and all 5 of these traits are very relatable to me.
Beautiful tattoos ;) I have 3 wanting 3 more
Having little sense of order at home, yet at work I am excellent at organising and creating systems with super efficiency. 😬
I learn lots with my autism but my adhd makes it hard to remember. So I go between topics all the time like a ping pong ball game. I talk a lot sometimes and fast but get in trouble for my tone of voice. Also, if I’m interrupted I have no idea what I was talking about or just forget. I was told I was tone deaf as well. Late diagnosis for adhd but even later diagnosed ASD with aspects of OCD. After 3 of my girls were diagnosed with the same combo plus their stuff.
I resonate with both adhd and autism combined and its confusing ..I'm 52 and just getting to grips with this after my whole life up to now has been so messed up..being told that I have both conditions is a lot to take all at once it feels like I dropped my mask and can't do the stuff on one hand but it's freeing and stress reeleif on the other hand..at the moment I'm hiding away a lot trying to come to terms with all this and finding it difficult to cope in the neurotypical world 🌎 unable to express my emotions due to autism but having emotions happen in a crazy mixed up way because of the adhd is oh its raining and I forgot what I was saying..oh yeah it's really difficult to comprehend the messy nature of my brain 🧠...but having a diagnosis gives me 2 separate directions to go in and I have adhd paralysis because I can't chose where to go first..it's treated as 2 separate conditions that don't combine but I'm sitting in the middle with both really confused and unable to move in either way to top it off I also have functional neurological disorder and the stress of all this is dumping morre fnd symptoms on me too ...thanks for talking about the combined adhd and autism it's very helpful in getting started with finding a new way to function (the old method was making everything worse)
I just reconnected with a female friend after 7 years. She has both and I was diagnosed with ADHD...
I have never communicated with a human more fluidly than her and vice versa. I just found this and I need to dig deeper. This would make a lot of sense and it can be highly beneficial to feel as though you have a somewhat tangible framework to examine certain aspects within oneself; and, that goes for an array of other systems - and not necessarily Western structured.
Much appreciated, dude!
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I got diagnosed with ADHD a long time ago, I have been looking into Autism for a while, but I only found the world of content specifically for and about people with both a few days ago. Understanding the symptoms of both individually didn’t really feel quite right because my brain wasn’t placing each of them side by side and considering how each of them contradict, and I kept looking for some other option because I had all this inner conflict and turmoil that I felt wasn’t being described well enough by either. Now that I have realized there are people talking about having both and how it affects them, everything makes sense.
Does autism and adhd get worse with age?
Undiagnosed guy here. I was always sure I probably had ADHD. I only recently began to realize I'm also autistic but had doubts because there were traits of ADHD I had that completely contradicted that. (Ex: "I can't be autistic because I want to be social. But then why does the idea of actually being social freak me out?" or "I can't be autistic because I have a ton of things that interest me. But then why did I spend a week obsessing over one of those things before moving to the next? That's strange.") Now, I realize I have all of these symptoms you mentioned together. All ten. Now I'm 99% sure I have ADHD and am autistic.
AuDHD here too, in the USA when I was initially diagnosed in 2009, the DSM didn't allow both diagnoses at the same time, so while I was suspected as "high functioning autistic" I had no treatment plan or understanding of what that meant until I was much older and did my research. It's a gloriously terrible conflict of a mind. If you've ever seen that venn diagram of "Gifted, ADHD, Autistic"...that's me.
In the last 12 months I had interests in ...
- App development
- Electronics
- Robotics
- Keyboards
- Programming
-Networking
- Linux
-Arabic
- Servers
- Cable sleeving
- Tools for electronics
- Vim
- Emacs
- AI
- Machine learnign
- Physics
- ADHD
- ADHD medication
- Routers
- OpenWRT
and much more - i have hard time deciding what i want to do and if my environment is messy i can't do anything and it's always messy and i never feel well resten when i wake up and nobody seems to understand me
Very grateful that I found this channel 🤗 Been diagnosed as ADHD only recently. Must've slipped past the system & family by being smart ("high above average" IQ)
Now I'm starting to wonder if it's some degree of ADHD-tism...
It's easy to self-diagnose from broad descriptions, BUT everything you say feels like you're describing me as well 😩 So nice to have people to relate to. Are we like 0.01% of the population?
Oh my gosh this is 100% me! Everytime I talk my brain freezes up in the middle of a sentence and I will start all over again and stutter while getting exhausted and have trouble breathing just trying to talk and communicate with someone else and the other person will look at me like what is wrong with me, and I sound very irritating to others like my mom and my brother when I talk. I've also been criticized for both talking to much and sounding obnoxious and criticized for being way too quiet and being called a serial killer and others would avoid me. All this lead to anger problems and anxiety disorders that l ended up losing my job at Walmart back in 2018 and I'm currently on disability. I'm currently 34
Thanks, Dan. 👊 i got a late autism diagnosis in my early 30s. That was 17 years ago now, but only just realized I'm adhd in the last couple years.
Lemme know if I can help with anything.