Whats adhd?

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Spokane Girl, I wasn't denying that AS is a form of autism. I was using autism to refer to the specific diagnosis of one particular pervasive developemental disorder (as they are called) that has that name, rather than the wider use, since the subject of my post was diagnostic labels.

Okay, because so many people are calling AS "autism." Every time I hear "autism" or "autistic," I am thinking of AS, PDD-NOS, and just plain old autism. It just makes it confusing I do not know if someone is talking about plain autism instead of the spectrum.

i was a member of ADD message boards for years before i discovered WP.
When I discovered what ADD was, I thought I had finally discovered the reason for all my lifelong dealngs with wonky neurological developments. This happened when i was a teenager, hiding out in the library, reading some medical books...
I was only formally diagnosed with ADD when I was maybe 30 or so. I actively sought my diagnosis, because the things I was having to deal with on a day to day basis, were far beyind my capacity to deal with them, and i had (not for the first time) reached the point where I was quite on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and thought that if I were on ADD medication, that would somehow give me the ability to cope with the overwhealming housework and my sock monkey business workload, and Super Happy Fun Land...and alll the other stuff....
But all the medication did was push me more towards a breakdown and focus more on my obsessions....
I still don't know what I "have" exactly...but I have alot of ADD traits....a big one that contrasts with the common AS stereotype (i guess) is a very multitrack mind, where all kinds of ideas just sorta clutter and pile on top of one another...it manifests in my inability to keep house......I have exective dysfunction out the wazoo....which apparently can manifest in both AS and ADD...um....
It might take having things explained to me many times before I will grasp them....like when being taught a new task...and the process of being told is excruciating.....I cannot block ut the constant bombardment of other thougts and ideas and impulses that perpetually clutter my mind.....I can get into ocd loops if over things if I am not able to act on particularly strong impulses....that is annyoing.....
My dad is very ADD/impulse-driven as well.....and HIS dad was very scientific and ASish...and his brother was very ASish as well to the extent where he did not function well at all in normal society and sorta lived as an eccentric hermit.

ON TOP of all of that ADD stuff, i have the AS traits.....mostly the dysfunctional stuff and not many of the "gifts" that some people seem to have.
I am a toe walker
I have auditory processing difficulties
mild dyslexia and more severe dyscalculea
mild face-blindness
am prone to all-consumung obsessions..
don't make eye contact
can't drive a car
have a hard time finding a job
(which are not nec..AS traits...just annoying traits that I have...perhaps they are self-imposed limitations that I keep reenforcing on myself...but who knows?


I often describe myself as an ADDer with alot of AS traits...but maybe I am PDD-NOS.....just dont' know....

maybe i should start getting treatments and stuff it could be i have adhd but i outgrow some symptoms also i dont seem to be gifted but i do know that things intrest me i can easly remember but thats must be things i realy want to know and not things like (whats 565x458xpi) pdd-nos=? i dont know that ether

PDD-NOS ----Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDD_not_ot ... _specified

sorry but still dont understand the word: pdd-nos (does it means you have any sort of disorder) or what does it means didn't realy know what they meanth at wikipedia :/