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05 Oct 2011, 10:31 am

Anyone else have ADD with Autism?

Had suspected ADD for a long time but didn't realise how it impacts on Aspergers until I was diagnosed recently.

It certainly makes life interesting.

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05 Oct 2011, 10:47 am

I have both ADD and AS. Medication helps the ADD. I'm disorganized as hell without it, and can make some attempt at being organized with it. I can also remember to do things when on the meds, and can't do it to save my life if I don't take them.

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05 Oct 2011, 11:16 am

I was tested for ADHD and autism at the same time so after the tests they told me i had ADD and that they wouldn't know about the autism test until a few weeks and when my parents went for the results i was officially diagnosed with aspergers and ADD

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05 Oct 2011, 12:59 pm

I was diagnosed with ADHD several years before I was diagnosed with autism. I do believe I have both, and am planning on starting a stimulant medication soon.

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05 Oct 2011, 1:04 pm

Me. I was diagnosed two years before my AS.

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05 Oct 2011, 1:14 pm

Meow101 wrote:

Smae here. Except for me, I'm really hyperactive without meds.

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05 Oct 2011, 2:12 pm

I may have ADD, but I'm not diagnosed with it. However, I have more than 6 symptoms of ADHD-PI described in DSM-IV.

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05 Oct 2011, 3:25 pm

I was diagnosed with ADD last year. I only wish I was diagnosed earlier so I could have gotten more help in school.

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05 Oct 2011, 4:36 pm

ADHD about a month ago, AS about 2 weeks ago. Never been medicated for either, but caffeine helps on days I can't concentrate or sit still for more than a few seconds.

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05 Oct 2011, 5:20 pm

I seem to be a hybrid

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05 Oct 2011, 6:04 pm

I have autism and ADHD.

It's interesting, like Jekyll and Hyde interesting. I have combined ADHD too so I have no idea what mood, how much or little energy or just how much damn focus I'll have.
At least on medication I know what will happen; focus, commitment, no mind wandering and extreme talkativeness.

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05 Oct 2011, 8:43 pm

I have ADD and AS and I have a hard time holding down a job or doing well at school. It seems to be getting worse as time progresses and it's gotten to a point where it's utterly intolerable.

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05 Oct 2011, 10:25 pm

Giant wrote:

I have ADD and AS and I have a hard time holding down a job or doing well at school. It seems to be getting worse as time progresses and it's gotten to a point where it's utterly intolerable.

Do you take meds to control your ADD symptoms?

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26 Dec 2012, 4:41 am

I call myself D-licious, because I'm ASD, ADD, OCD, and GAD. I don't believe I've ever had my ADD (could be ADHD, for all I know) officially diagnosed, unlike my ASD, but I'm definitely on the spectrum. I can't go for more than ten minutes of work without desperately craving to do something else, or something easier. But I have a wide variety of interests.

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26 Dec 2012, 5:52 am

ADD and ADHD are the same thing.

I'm diagnosed with both AS and ADHD. It's fairly common for autistic people to also be diagnosable with some form of ADHD.

On another forum, I encountered someone who insisted that it was impossible for anyone to have ADHD and autism at the same time because they are supposedly "complete opposites" and could not exist in the same person.

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26 Dec 2012, 8:11 am

I don't know about ADD, but I'm being tested for ADHD recently, and this psychiatrist, my mother and my father are convinced I hate it. Tomorrow I will know the exact result.

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