Asperger's and AD(H)D?

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From what I've read here some Aspies seem to have AD(H)D. I never knew of any connection between the two before. Today I read about the symptoms and now that I think about it, it is probably very likely that I have it too.

I find it very hard to concentrate. In school I'll listen if the subject is interesting, but if not I won't listen at all and instead daydream or scribble in my notebook. I haven't done any homework for years and I barely ever learn for school because my thoughts will just drift away from the topic in seconds. I always found it incredibly exhausting to work on longer, complex projects. I also forget a lot of stuff and can't sit still.

Does that sound like ADD to you? Maybe someone with an official diagnosis can say something about that?

I'm officially diagnosed with asperger and add. Asperger, ad(h)d, tourette and ocd are comorbid, which means if you have one you'll probably at least have symptoms of the others. This is, in my experience, especially true if asperger is your primary diagnosis. What you described sounds very much like me in school. I was always daydreaming in class, at least if the subject didn't interrest me. I had average grades, but I had to work twice as much as everyone else. If you're worried about it, you might want to check with the doctr who diagnosed your asperger's to rule out add.

I am not 100% certain I have AS (though I have many of the traits), but I am pretty sure that I have ADD (ADHD-I). I have a hard time with time management and keeping track of projects. My mind wanders a lot in conversation, in meetings, and so forth. I procrastinate a lot too--I sometimes simply don't know where to start with projects.

Also, I am really readily distracted, and it can sometimes take me a while to get back to what I was initially doing. For example, I might start on task A, but then something interrupts my concentration and I switch to task B, then I get distracted by incoming email, then go to task C...and before I know it, I've lost all ability to focus and I find myself posting on Wrong Planet.

Eventually, I'll be able to get back to Task A, but it can take a while. I prefer doing task A, then task B, then task C--I feel so much more productive when I can focus on one thing at one time. I feel overloaded and like I get nothing done when I'm forced to jump from one task to another, and I tend to forget to do stuff along the way.

The thought that i might also have add has crossed my mind too. My gradeschool teachers thought i had add but my mom didn't agree... so i was never tested for it.

That sounds like me. I read that ADD can show up in girls as daydreaming, doodling, etc, so perhaps it's easily overlooked by teachers for that reason. I had my AS overlooked, and my psychologist who diagnosed me with AS told me that my attention problems are part of AS. For those who have both diagnoses, is this true?

I'm AS and ADHD. I'm prescribed enough Adderall to get me through 12+ hours a day, but lately I just started taking it when I feel I really need to get something important done.

Both of my kids are somewhere on the spectrum and both of them have attention issues. One is diagnosed with ADHD (but has AS traits) and one is diagnosed with ASD (but has ADD traits).

I may be completely off, but there is something very subtly different about them and here is what I think I have noticed: My son is mostly distracted by external things (primary dx ADHD). My daughter is mostly distracted by internal things (primary dx ASD). However, it is hard for me to sometimes tell where one thing ends and the other begins.

I agree that ASD, ADHD, OCD, and TS are probably all related. I think they are all part of an even larger spectrum.

I don't have ADHD, but I'm pretty sure that my sister has undiagnosed ADHD.

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child, years before Asperger's became an official diagnosis. I have come to believe I really have Asperger's though as too many of the pieces outside of attention deficit seem to fit me.

I think the two conditions battle each other inside of me in some ways and reinforce each other in other ways. For instance, My Aspergers compels me to hide in my room and write a novel only stopping to eat or go to the toilet while my ADHD compels me to start analyzing something completely unrelated as soon as I open word. So my Aspergers will compel me to sit and produce a piece of music but my ADHD will cause me to be half distracted and I will not put the effort and concentration that I need and will soon make me give up what I have started. My Aspergers will cause me to sit and watch 12 long episodes of the sopranos back to back. ADHD will cause me to get fed up halfway through this post and want to do something else. Aspergers will make me not want to go to work and ADHD will make me unable to concentrate while I am there.

I am obsessed with psychoanalysis and metaphysics. I have talked to some professionals and am booked to go and see a psychiatrist who specialises in Autism and Spectrum conditions. I have done all the online tests and thoroughly researched and read up and I have diagnosed myself with ADHD and Aspergers in the interim while I wait for my session(s).