is adhd related to autism?

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I think all neurodivergent conditions are related to each other.
Some, like autism and ad(h)d, are related very obviously.
Others, like autism and bipolar, are related less obviously, but are still related.
After all, all neurodivergent conditions are integral parts of the Neurodiversity Spectrum.

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I have read that some believe that AD(H)D falls on the autism spectrum, possibly below AS?

My son has been diagnosed with ASD and ADD.

They are very obviously related (although not necessarily causally) because they entail (as other posters have pointed out) dysregulation of attention. So they are related at least in the way that a common cold and hay fever are related to each other (can cause similar or over-lapping observable indicators/symptoms).

well growing up my brother had severe adhd... was extremely immature, had problems making friends, was always on the go, had terrible tantrums, took off a lot, sometimes stuttering because he just would talk to fast, never could stop moving, had weird things like he loved sniffing his socks, always had something in his hand, or something he had to be doing, was very accident prone always getting into trouble or getting hurt, very easily distracted, could concentrate on anything, etc... Some would say just what i stated there is defintely related to autism. He still doesnt stop moving, still got a temper, problems concentrating, focusing, still sniffs his socks lol(but dont tell him i told u that), but has lots of friends, talks fine, and works in NYC, going to get his masters, etc. A lot of families that have autisitc children also have children with adhd, idk if thats normal or not, but heard that a lot, and individuals wiht autism has adhd as well. So yes i think its related but not autism itself but def related.

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Am I the only one who was told that a person cannot have both autism and add..and that if they are diagnosed with autism, the add traits are just concidered part of their autism?
(this is what I was told by the professional who assessed me)...I have been confused ever since.

This was supposed to be according to the DSM-V...not just the particular professional's opinion on the matter...

For the record, it seems to me that some people with ASD's seem to have ADD/ADHD issues and some don't, and I see no reason why this couldn't be differentiated by there being separate diagnoses....But i was told that this was not the case....and that according to the official manual, a diagnosis of an ASD rules out the ADD diagnosis.
I have also read this...I am pretty sure...though the wording is a wee tad confusing...

But over and over again there are people who say that they are diagnosed with both...and I brought this up when I was assessed because I had gone for so many years thinking that I was an ADDer, and the AS specialist...i am pretty sure...said that it had to do with a common misunderstanding on the part of the doctors who do the diagnosing and their incomplete comprehension of the diagnostic criteria...and/or failure to read the DSM-V description all the way through.....or something like that...I am paraphrasing something I was told over a year ago....

i have known a lot of socially "NT" for all practical purposes ADHDers...but they are still plenty quirky. They usually happen to be sorta hyper-social....juggle lots of social interactions with ease...Don't seem to have trouble with eye contact and stuff like that...
Sometimes they can have obsessive interests that would easily rival any of mine...They seem to move at their own speed, which can seem dizzyingly fast and overwhelming or intense but they can be cool once one gets used to them(flighty female acquaintance who used to come around)...or extremely annoying(old roommate I had)..not trying to lump all ADDers together, but this is my experience based upon having known a handful of them.

I believe the two are very similar that I've coined the phrase 'brain 2 syndrome'. Long before there was any diagnosis of autism or ADHD there were people there were people that had these conditions. Doctors just came up with the conditions and I really think that all these so called brain disorders should be merged together. I mean I could have ADHD-I, dyspraxia, dyslexia/Irlen's, OCD, Asperger's, etc. No way I've got enough money to actually look into getting a diagnosis.

Thus concludes my poorly explained theory.

Ok, so I'm like the OG of ADHD lol. The doctors my parents went to all agreed except for one that with this new-fangled, understudied condition it would be best to send me to a school for mentally handicapped children. Thank the dieties of my fallible human brain structures that this did not happen because my 'rents refused to believe their daughter was incapable of being adequate in school. One doc saw in me an intelligent human being with an atypical way of interacting within her world and the world around her. He did not prescribe me any drugs like Ritalin (I'm not even sure it was availible back then, must research). My brother was next to be diagnosed, only years later when making kids conform in the zombie nation of the classroom by means of medico-hyperbole was the norm in his era of diagnosis of the week. Anyway...what was the topic again? JUST KIDDING!! I honestly just stumbled onto this discussion board one dark and stormy evening whislt researching some topic that i can't remember right now but will when I'm thinking about how i hate it when i don't feel like washing the dishes and that i'm disappointed with myself for not just getting up from the million books i'm reading at once and doing them and all the biofilm that must be gathering on them and what types of bacteria are on them that i'm eating because you can never really wash them all away but who cares because i'm really doing myself a favour (no i will not stand for this! spellchecker is American and i am a proud, nationalistic woman who knows that FAVOUR is spelled FAVOUR in my country!) and strengthening my immunity, so i'm okay with rationalizing how i'm not doing the dishes. Dishes suck and my boyfriend will do them anyway. So i was looking up whatever topic and stumbled upon this nifty site! So tell me then Dear Reader, from your accidental foray into the workings of my mind, does ADHD have any resemblance to AS or is it a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT set of letters?

My personal theory is that there are two types of ADHD, one related to ASD's and the other a product of diets high in processed garbage and lifestyles devoid of outdoor activities (see Francis Kuo for studies on the latter type).

I have known several people with dx'ed ADHD, who had siblings on the spectrum (they tended to carry a good number of spectrum traits) and I have met others who were not particularly spectrumy and had unhealthy lifestyles.