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Episode 2: The ADHD-Autism Overlap and the Misdiagnosis That Costs Families Years
If your teen or young adult has an ADHD diagnosis and an oppositional defiant diagnosis sitting beside it, this episode is worth twenty minutes of your time.
Dr. Ed Callahan and Amy J. open with a clinical point that changes what families do next: ADHD and autism travel together far more often than most assessments account for. If a young person has an autism diagnosis, some degree of attention difficulty is nearly always present. Going the other way, ADHD is the more familiar diagnosis and the more confidently given — and when autism traits are also in the room, they are frequently passed…
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