Autism with ADHD: What is audhd? Understanding the Traits and Experiences of Autism and ADHD

AuDHD is the unofficial term for autism and ADHD. Why the increase in usage? Science and more modern research! The dual diagnosis only became possible in 2013. Approximately 80% of people with autism are also found to have ADHD. Explore common traits such as hyperfocus, hypertension, special interests, and sensory sensitivities. Learn how these traits manifest in daily life, especially in work environments. Discover the challenges and strengths unique to AuDHD individuals, and how routines, structure, and flexibility interplay in their lives. For more detailed information and resources, visit the Embrace Autism website. #adhdproblems #adhdbrain #asdawareness #asd #adhd #audhd #neurodiversityatwork

Chapters:
00:00 What is AuDHD?
00:30 What are some AuDHD traits?

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[Q]

This is what it is like all the freaking time! I have watched a couple of videos now on the subject and I can relate to them all. People with ADHD have called me "aspie" or autistic to my face and "normal" people have eluded to it in nicer words. Myself I can see how people see me as autistic, I have alot of the autistic traits but I am way to impulsive and rekless. Its like this constant inner fight between the dog that goes "Oh, that looks fun, lets do! NOW!" and the one holding the leesh "All I want to do is the same thing I did yesterday, and the day before... alone.. preferably in the dark.. with noice-cancelation" and sometimes you have to (or is forced to) give in to the dog even thoe you will be covered in tics and exhausted because the dog will not stop nagging you for novel experiences and the longer you hold of the louder the bark and the stronger the thugg on the leesh. Other times it is the exact reverse. Whoever holds the leesh, the other gets absolutly drained and annoyed. I though this was the normal state of beeing a human and that I had some mild autism or mild ADHD. If I look at myself from this combined lense it makes so much sense, so many times I have had abnormal reactions to events or overanalysed myself into a impulsive decision. Ofcorse I sound like a maniac when I combine eight different niche topics into an absolutly (to me) obvious idea, all while infodumping at the speed of a runaway lokomotiv while doing three other things requiring it's own concentration becous I, god forbid, would have to look them in the eyes and concentrate on the intensity of their blinking and pondering why, when they obviously fix their eyebrows, let that one hair be, just so I dont actually have to look them in the eyes becouse that kinda hurts. I am greatfull for the company thoe, even thoe the chances are slim that I will tune out whatever they say when it's their time to speak, having a radio on in the background is kind of nice.

TLDR: Thank you for the video, I need to go talk to a profesional and now I finaly can put my finger on why!

ps. I think it's one of thoes 1+1=2 for normal function and 1+X*Z/deltaA-7.98^g=2.1 makes it seem like normal function, but it's not.

pps. I have rewritten this around four times within the space of 45 minutes so it might not be to coherent.

[miravlix]

This is the first time, where I haven't looked at someone and not felt alien, because if someone tells me "I don't look autistic", they are right and even the people making "I don't look autistic videos", triggers uncanny valley reaction in me, so I've never really understood why everyone claims they get told "you don't look autistic", because clearly they have massive tells to me.

I don't stim, I don't hold my arms in strange position, I don't start visible indicating if sensory inputs annoy me. Suffering in silence seems to be my go to solution to anything bothering me. Broken arm.. Lets go to the meeting first and get that done then head to the hospital, but I'm still alien on the inside and an alien to the neurodivergent community. I'm not even sure it is some type of masking. I might turn on the noise cancelation on my headphones, I might read a newspaper in public (Too bad newspapers is kinda dead) to reduce what I can see and give something to focus on to limit sensory input, but I'm not really different from the "normal" person next to me doing the same.

I wonder how many of us is too "normal" to be easily diagnosed. I think level 1 2 3 isn't really cutting it, we should have level 0 too "You don't seem autistic, but you are". Not that I claim to be level 0, I have my moments of not quite being able to be an adult without support, but my parents had neurodivergent tells, I'm seeing myself in older family members as I age into their tells and all of them died undiagnosed and we seem to see every famous good or bad person having some neurodivergent tells and still seemed able to live and die just fine without modern understanding. (That does not mean they couldn't have been better. I mostly think people succeed DESPITE adversity, not because, because as far as I can tell most people get to be losers like me due to adversity, so abusing your kid is the road to hell paved with good intentions. That unfortunately seems to be a common thinking among some people, that I actually have to point out harming people don't make great minds.)