aspie + ADHD?

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recently i'm thinking more and more about how i may have adhd (inattentive rather than hyperactive. i wish i was hyperactive!) - have done a few online tests and am feeling the same way about being an aspie prior to my formal diagnosis.

anyhoo, some/a fair amount of the symptoms seem interchangeable, and i'm wondering how possible it is i was misdiagnosed, or maybe i just have both...


an online test or three hold sod all water(?), but they would surely still be a half-decent indication?


there are a lot of things that i have difficulty paying attention or that my mind wanders - even for a split second is enough (when im at guitar class which i must admit im nowhere near interested as i used to be; or my part time job as an FS op where i have to concentrate on a singer's movement around stage - which I AM interested in, but my mind does occasionally wander...), - but then again, that could just be a special interest/lack thereof or sensory overload preventing me from concentrating thing...... couldn't it?


the simple answer would probably be go back to my gp/shrink etc, but between the aspieness/moods/depression/anxiety as well as all the usual health stuff, i think i bother them too much as it is, plus i'd probably have to wait for months....

Well, I have AS and ADHD and I often find my mind wandering and lose interest in something quickly.
I can't really learn a musical instrument to save myself. And when I get there I might spend a few days/weeks away doing something else, then come back and realise I've forgotten everything.

So, you could have ADHD as well.

The diagnosis aside (and I do encourage you to get the right diagnosis ), the simple answer is that you find a lot of the things you do boring.
Paying attention is a cognitive skill and it can be trained. There are websites that train these skills,

Another thing to consider is that your information filters may be lacking and you can become mentally exhausted trying to concentrate and process in a lot of background noise.

Following a singer on stage means filtering out all of the movement and noise in that environment which is considerable, just so you can focus on one tiny thing.

It's like trying to find Wally in the Where's Wally books, but an animated Wally who just slips right into the background.

You see, our ears hear everything that's going on, but it's our auditory processing skills which allow you to focus on a person's speech in the middle of a crowded restaurant. Same for vision. Sorting out what you need to hear and see from the rest of the noise takes a lot of energy and you may find it difficult to for long periods.

Imagine the job of an air traffic controller. Nobody can focus on that for long periods without special training. And you can train your brain as well.

ADHD is a very common co-morbid disorder with ASD. I think of ADHD as a common symptom of autism that is often seem by itself in people without autism. The same can go for any particular symptom in non-autistics as well.

A psychiatrist told me that if you have a lot of Asperger traits, you have a lot of ADHD traits, and the other way around. He thought that in the future both diagnosis would be part of the same spectrum, maybe even along with bipolar disease.

ADHD is common for anyone on a non-neurotypical level. I am extremely comorbid because I have Asperger's, Tourettes, ADHD, OCD, and dyscalculia.

I'm honestly convinced now that I have some sort of depression linked to my condition, along with ADHD.

I also suffer from high anxiety.