Apparently I have ADD too

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I think any professional that slaps a label on someone in a few minutes I find skeptical. I wouldn't take it seriously at all.

Yeah, not doing the OTC benadryl. Really did make things weird in my legs...not numb, but strange and spastic. Would make them jerk at night when laying down to sleep.

Yeah.....and that's the person who was not listening when I explained about the drunk feeling.

I get that I'm a recovering addict. No worries there. But, if the recovering addict is telling you it's too much, then you should listen. LOL

If I was chasing the high, I would have told them that it wasn't enough and asked for a bump up LOL

And, I also know they have to get used to the Aspie telling them things and not the recovering addict.

Oh, to boot, I had the same problems about 17 years ago when I was in intense therapy for years. So, they never picked up on it either. Although, they did pretty much frame everything within the parameters of addiction. But, the ADD or ADHD never cropped up then, even though they were putting together the Asperger's at the time. Lack of social clues, inability to recognize certain things, etc, etc....

According to two sources I've seen, about half of the people on the autism spectrum have ADD or ADHD too.

I suspect this has much to do with my own struggle with RTS games as well. Interesting to see the same observation from someone else.

I'm relatively certain I have the symptoms of ADHD. Even the lady assessing me agrees, but she's never assessed someone with ASD and ADHD before and seems to think it's more likely that ASD causes my symptoms.

So now I'm waiting for psychometric testing.

It's frustrating because I feel like if I was in the USA they would let me trial ADHD meds as someone who has the symptoms and then see if it works. Not the the UK, here the lady will only prescribe them if I'm diagnosed.