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The Connection Between Autism and ADHD in Girls · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  While connection between autism and ADHD in girls.
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  Let's get into it right now guys, welcome back to the ASP
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  World War is going on. My name is Dan.
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  I have autism and ADHD and I make weekly videos all about
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  this stuff because I believe in helping change the world for the
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  better to create more potential for the autism community and
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  Guys, what's going on? So autism, ADHD, it's a crazy
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  combination. It's probably one of the most
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  interesting combinations. I have autism on ADHD and it and
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  it crosses over so much. Now girls are no exception to
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  this. A long time ago, the autism
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  diagnosis criteria was only available for men, not all
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  males, right? Which is really stupid.
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  But now since people have stopped being so ridiculous,
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  they realize females are also on the opposite of the spectrum and
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  most females with autism will also have ADHD.
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  Now the interesting thing about this is that most females who
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  have an autism diagnosis would have probably had an ADHD
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  diagnosis first because ADHD is very similar to autism.
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  Now the crossover and connections between autism in
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  girls and ADHD in girls is the fact that you will have a high
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  attention for hyper focus. You want a hyper focus on
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  something. You'll find an interest in
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  something and you want to do that and you'll want to do that
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  a lot, a lot a lot. Like, you know, it could be like
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  read about ancient in Egypt and you'll obsess over it.
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  That's like a hyper focus on it. Or you want to write a book and
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  you'll hyper focus and get the book done.
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  But then you'll also have a difference of a topic changing.
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  So you might write the book as soon as the book's written,
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  you'll be like, right, I'm onto swimming.
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  They'll be an Olympic athlete swimming.
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  And then you'll go off something else.
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  So the autism helps give you the hyper focus and the ability to
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  really focus and like just Nestle down and do that one
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  thing and work hard and graft hard.
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  And then you have the ADHD, which is basically saying like,
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  hey, switch tasks all the time. Stop being on one task.
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  It's just, it's just an absolute kind of nightmare when you're
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  trying to focus on one task, but your mind's kind of saying, hey,
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  do this, do this, do this, do this.
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  Now this does happen all the time.
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  It is manageable. There is a massive connection
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  with it because I honestly believe that most people who
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  have autism will also have ADHD. I don't believe that these
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  things come disconnected, although the diagnostic criteria
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  may say differently. So somebody may just be
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  diagnosed at ADD, somebody may just be diagnosed with autism.
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  I think that they are fluid and I think that they come in
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  together. But that's just my personal
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  opinion, right? And I think that the connection
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  is so strong there between the two because of the, that, that
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  reason that they're quite fluid. Now, if you want to download my
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  I'll see you guys in the next wonder piece.