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Are Autism and ADHD Secretly the Same (Here’s My Take) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  So autism and ADHD secretly the same thing.
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  Well, you know, here's my take on it and it may not be the best
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  take. For a long time I always thought
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  to myself like done, you know. So the people who have ADHD will
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  say I only have a diagnosis of AHD, but the people with autism
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  about 90% of the time will say, hey, I have a diagnosis of
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  autism and ADHD and I'm like done.
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  So do I and so does this do and it's the more people I know a
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  lot of people I know all have ADHD who also have autism.
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  Now it's really interesting because my take is this, right?
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  My this is my theory and it's only a theory so don't like
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  don't gun me down, but it's just a theory.
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  My theory is that everybody who has an autism spectrum diagnosis
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  actually has ADHD. Also, I believe ADHD is part of
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  the autism spectrum, but we don't always diagnose it because
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  we don't always have to have a hyperactivity presenting as a
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  physical manifestation. Because you get basically the
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  old days where you'd, the old days we had two types.
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  We had ADD, attention deficit disorder and an attention
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  deficit hyperactivity disorder. And so both of those were kind
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  of like, well, this guy's hyperactive, so he's got ADHD
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  and this guy isn't hyperactive, but his brain still works in
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  that way. So he's got ADD.
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  And it was so interesting because what we did see was that
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  the amalgamation of just ADHD, so the hyperactive part is
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  actually in the mind rather than in the physical body, which made
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  way more sense because you're able to just say ADHD rather
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  than, Oh yeah, it's ADD because it's just splitting it off or,
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  or factioning as, as it would be is just a more difficult way for
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  complex terms to kind of be understood.
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  So that being said, a lot of people who are diagnosed with
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  autism would have been diagnosed also with ADD, but now they
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  don't have that. So now they're just saying it's
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  autism without the ADHD, but I think that ADHD comes along with
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  it. And the reason I say that is
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  because it's very rare for me to find someone who's on the autism
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  spectrum that doesn't have ADHD traits and try it, right?
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  This is you right. If you're saying like I'm an
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  autistic adult, but I don't have ADHD, think again, right,
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  because like, think about it, right, impulsivity, the like
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  this of of hyper focus, the inertia swapping of, of tasks.
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  Like I want to do this for a little bit, then I'm going to do
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  that for a little bit. Like a lot of people say this is
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  autistic because autistic people sometimes, you know, affected by
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  sugar and and caffeine and all this kind of hyperactivity.
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  But when we think about it, this is just ADHD traits, right?
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  And I think they come comorbidly, meaning they Co
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  occur with autism. Now this is just my take on it.
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  I don't know if there is a study done yet.
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  I mean, I've, I've been looking, but I can't find a study that
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  says like, you know, ADHD and autism the same thing.
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  But like, this is just my take on it.
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  But what I would suggest is that if you are autistic and you have
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  ADHD traits, I mean, it's, it's kind of more likely and one of
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  the most interesting things I find, especially in females,
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  this happens especially in females who are autistic.
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  So, and it's normally like a mum who like has taken the kid in,
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  the kid gets diagnosed and then the clinicians like because also
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  in hereditary right, it will come through the genes and so
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  it's passed down from your parents.
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  So and how it works really quickly is this is how the
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  current picture was when I was diagnosed by my update diagnosis
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  of ASD level 2 versus Asperger's syndrome.
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  The clinician says to me, it's kind of like this mum has some
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  traits, dad has some traits like neurodivision kind of brain
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  types. And then it comes together and
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  they have babies and you're born and you have all of their
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  neurodiversion traits together. And I was like, oh, great.
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  And so I was born, you know, I'm autistic, dyslexic, ADHDOCD and
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  Alexa, thymia, dysproxic. Like there's a lot of things,
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  right? And so because of that, we know
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  that parents carry the genes and sometimes more than they even
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  know about. So this is what happens.
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  You go down, you know, to the clinic, you get your kid
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  diagnosed and then the clinician looks at you and was like, Hey,
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  do you seems to collect Pokémon cards too.
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  And then you're like, yeah, so and they're like, he was the
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  same class and don't look at me in the eyes.
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  And like, yeah. And then so then the the parent
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  gets diagnosed. But what usually happens is
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  this. The parent gets diagnosed ADHD.
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  Usually females like a diagnosed ADHD and they're like, OK, ADHD,
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  blah, blah, blah. And then after a bit of time,
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  I've seen the ADHD clinician, the Christian's like, actually
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  these are more neuro diversion traits associated with autism
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  spectrum disorder and you're more likely autistic.
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  And that just blows my mind. I'm like, holy cow, like that is
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  so interesting. And that's my take.
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  Like I, I feel like that is kind of like, oh, by the way, guys,
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  my name is Dan. I have autism and if you're new
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  around here, click that subscribe button because I'm
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  trying to grow this family, trying to make it to I want to
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  get like a 500,000 subscribers. We're we're just under 300,000
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  subscribers. So if you can help me get closer
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  to my 500,000 subscribers go Actually, I have it on the wall
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  here. I have a little piece of paper.
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  You can't say it, but there are a piece of paper on the wall
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  there like a goal like to get 500,000 subscribers because it's
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  kind of like my dream, right? I love YouTube anyway, but most
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  it's just so interesting. Most people will start off with
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  an ADHD diagnosis and that will turn this to actually an autism
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  and ADHD comorbid diagnosis. Whereas guys on the other hand
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  will have diagnosis of autism and ADHD comorbidly or they will
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  just have a diagnosis of ADHD and I don't know where that
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  fits. Can ADHD be diagnosed on its
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  own? If what I'm saying is true, you
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  know, is ADHD and autism like kind of like packed together?
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  And if that, if it is true, then how come we can have an
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  independent ADHD diagnosis? And I don't really have to ask
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  that question because I haven't got a fire yet in my research.
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  But if you know, if you have, I want to, what are your inklings?
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  I read every single comment. By the way, what are your
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  inclinsing inclin inkling inclination?
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  What are your ideas on this? Right?
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