I might have ADHD as well

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my therapist suggested adhd and i match quite a bit of the symptoms, especially with organization. it's so odd because i need routine as far as doing the same things daily but it's a very chaotic unorganized life. and i miss appointments and lose focus very easily unless it's something i love or a crush. I have so many thoughts in my head that i want to just dump while i have a chance but no i'm not gonna do that. have a great night guys.

ADHD is really a very common thing, with lots of co-morbidities.

can't believe i'm learning so much about myself and seeing so many people relate. i'm seeing how silly it was to think only i had these unique querks (i now embrace).

Some studies have suggested that 30%-80% of Autistic people may also have ADHD.

I can believe this, but I also find it quite astonishing. It's also worth noting that until around the year 2000 and after DSM4 the so called experts deemed it impossible for anyone to have both conditions.

It angers me that "they" didn't seem to have a ******** clue about what they were doing or talking about. They are just seemingly making it up as they go along. Thankfully things have come on a long way in the last 10 years or so, but there is still a very long way to go in terms of correct research and understanding.

It's all it it's infancy, it seems to me.

I think I have ADHD as well as Autism. Some of the traits cancel each other out - like an intense focus and also an inattentiveness. The need for order but an inability to implement it. There's loads more examples, but I can't think of them right now. I've recently put in for a referral for an assessment for ADHD. I was formally diagnosed with Autism about a year ago at age 51.

I was diagnosed with ADHD in 2018. It's super common actually.

I didn't realize that I also have ADHD until my wife was diagnosed with it and I was like

Hmmmmmm........

I wonder if I have only ADHD (and OCD), but not ASD. I do not like "classic" sameness, I do not have rigid routines, I like pleasant surprises. I do not like doing the same things daily, because my "nature" wants to be free and not suffer from compulsions or boredom. I like collecting and statistics. I get six different psychotropic drugs daily (sertraline at large dose, 200 mg) and I am more "lazy", apathetic and having problems with concentration than before getting so much psychiatrical medications (especially such a large doses of SSRI medications), but I have less fears and OCD symptoms - I read that such a phenomenon may be present in people with ADHD. I often had problems with writing posts in Internet about things that are really interesting for me. I have social pension and care allowance and ruling of disability because of pervasive developmental disorder (Asperger's syndrome) and mental illness. I have professional AS diagnosis (F84.5 in ICD-10 classification) since about 14,5 years. I had diagnoses like schizotypal disorder or mixed episode of bipolar disorder due to ideas of reference, grandiosity, messengership, "solipsism-like" thoughts (it is extremely "psychotic" in some way). I have never had any true problem with hallucinations, I experienced them sporadically, very rarely. I do not have a job and I haven't ever been in a romantic relationship, I am wifeless. Since childhood I had bizarre sexuality and I had quite many talks with sexuologists in some last years (maybe about 16). I am very poor in the terms of job skills. Religion is especially hard area for me. In childhood and adolescence, before reading a lot about mental disorders since being about 16 years old, I rather just does not think about being emotionally loved (for example by parents), getting engaged in non-erotic or non-romantic relationships (I did not bother with them) and for making eye contact - I just did not think about it for many years. I have and had "manic" interests and I have no interest in "normal" life. Maybe I have antisocial personality disorder or pathological demand avoidance? I had stims, sometimes "ugly" ones (which I still have). I very poorly tolerate physical discomfort. I have fear of suffering and infection (since few years I markedly fear the more serious infection).

Dx ASD-2 in 2018 and ADHD-C in 2020.

The ASD assessment didn't screen for it, or I assume they would have found it.

The ADHD assessment did screen for ASD, though. I was reconfirmed.

I'm def ADHD, most likely AuDHD (ADHD and autism together), and I have mild OCD. I was as young as 11 with full blown OCD episodes and symptoms, but because I could control the stereotypical ones (cleanliness OCD) to some degree and my other symptoms were all non-stereotypical (having a lot of trouble getting rid of gross thoughts, etc) and internal, my parents never recognized me as having a disorder.

I haven't had an OCD episode in like a year, but it is a recurring thing for me. For me it's mostly getting stuck on a topic that makes me anxious (such as a fear of misdiagnosis, that's been the theme the past few years) and ruminating to the point of being unable to function or near to that. Meds help, and using ERP helps.