Mom thinks ADD?

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My mother thinks I have ADD as well as Asperger's. I keep telling her it's Asperger's I have and not ADD since I can pay attention as well as any person but she is still insisting on what that stupid phsycologist told her.(the phsycologist also told her you can desensitize people if you catch it early enough) I don't think you can have Asperger's and ADD at the same time can you?

Yes. It's pretty common. But these are just diagnostic categories based on what they can measure. They don't relate directly to what's going on in your brain.

From what I read, a lot of aspies get diagnosed with ADD first, and the therapy is wrong, because the ADD is really just an artifact of AS.

I don't know what desensitize means, but you can learn how to deal with NTs, and how to understand your own brain and personality, at the same time. You don't have to give up one for the other.

I have both a dx of AS and a dx of ADHD. It's not supposed to be because usually the two are hard to tell apart, but it's perfectly possible if the two can be told apart as well as can be and a diagnosis of AD(H)D can be necessary if the AD(H)D is impairing enough for one to need treatment.

When I was 7 years old I was diagnosed with ADD, but now, my parents are thinking it is AS.

ADD doesn't exist... it's called ADHD even though it's not hyperactive... dunno why.

Clinically, you can't have ADHD and Aspergers together. It's in the DSM.

Realistically though, people are diagnosed with them together all the time - and they're apparently changing it for DSM V.

Sometimes AS masquerades as ADHD and sometimes it's a real and complete condition. In any case, if you've got aspergers, it follows that you will show some ADHD traits regardless of whether or not you actually have ADHD.

Confused?