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

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the ASPY world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism Ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  The wild connection between autism and ADHD and girls Let's
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  get into it right now guys. Welcome back to the aspy world.
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  What is going on? My name is Dan.
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  I have bought them in 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
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  autism community and drivers forward into creating an amazing
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  future. So if you want to be part of
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  don't miss an upload or a video and you can follow me on all my
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  social media platforms because I do 4 videos a day on those
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  platforms. Guys, what's going on?
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  So both of them ADHD. It's a crazy combination.
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  It's probably one of the most interesting combinations.
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  I have autism on ADHD and it and it crosses over so much now.
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  Girls are no exception to this. A long time ago the autism
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  diagnosis criteria was only available for men not all males.
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  Right. Which is really stupid.
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  But now since people have stopped being so ridiculously,
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  females are also on the opposite of the spectrum and most females
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  with autism will also have ADHD. Now the interesting thing about
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  this is that most females who have an autism diagnosis would
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  have probably had an ADHD diagnosis first because 8 HD is
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  very similar to autism. Now the crossover and
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  connections between autism and girls and ADHD in girls is the
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  fact that you will have a high attention for hyper focus.
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  You want to hyper focus on something.
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  You'll find an interest in something and you want to do
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  that and you'll want to do that a lot.
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  A lot. A lot now like you know could be
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  like read about ancient 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 on to swimming, then we Olympic
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  athlete swimming. And then you'll go on something
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  else. So the autism helps give you the
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  hyper focus and the ability to really focus and like just
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  Nestle down and do that one thing and work hard and graft
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  hard. And then you have the ADHD,
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  which is basically saying like hey, switch tasks all the time,
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  stop being on one task. It's just, it's just absolute
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  kind of nightmare when you're trying to focus on one task.
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  But your mind's kind of saying, hey, do this, do this, do this,
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  do this most 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 a DHDI.
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  Don't believe that these things come disconnected, although the
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  diagnostic criteria may say differently.
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  So something may just be diagnosed.
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  ADD something 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 this is my personal opinion, right?
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  But I think that the connection is so strong there between the
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  two because of that, that that reason that they're quite fluid.
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  Now if you want to download my free Autism Life Hacks PDF book,
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  you can do autismhacks.net right now and completely free.
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  So do it right now. Share this video if you think it
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  was interesting. I'll see you guys in the next
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  one piece. Hey guys, thank you so much for
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  Make sure you subscribe. OK guys, See you in the next
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  one. Peace.