How many people with a ASD think they have ADD/ADHD?

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09 Jul 2011, 1:37 pm

I am 17 with ASD and I also think I am ADD. I have a hard time focusing on people and I can't stay still.I have a active imagination and I am always daydreaming about something that happens in books movies or games. I can't think about anything else and my mind is always thinking about what I saw on tv. I have a lot of peers think I'm slow or stupid this year because I can't focus. I want a pill to take because I can't focus and I hope that may help. I can't do well and my concentration is going down lately. Anyone with this issue?

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09 Jul 2011, 1:58 pm

Most of the people with ASD have ADD or ADHD. You've to see you psychotherapist about it.

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09 Jul 2011, 2:09 pm

Quoting myself from another topic:

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If I'm interested in something, I can focus on it. If I'm not interested in it, it may as well be written in Chinese. I also can't focus on the same thing for too long even if it's something of interest. I have to get up and do something else and come back. I also have problems with listlessness, where I'll lose interest in everything, even things I'm normally interested in and can't focus at all. And then there's my problem with distracting sounds and racing thoughts. I'm surprised I manage to read more than a page a day, and sometimes I only manage that much.

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09 Jul 2011, 2:23 pm

I think I do but strangely it only really got in the way of things starting at age 18. But people started asking me then if I had it. And I definitely have the traits of it now at least.

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09 Jul 2011, 3:45 pm

I am fairly certain that I have ADD.

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09 Jul 2011, 10:23 pm

I started thinking about for the first time in the past few months. There is nothing about me that is physically hyperactive but I have a lot of attentional problems.

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14 Jul 2011, 8:50 pm

I was tested for it when I was 4 (the ADHD) but the doctor said I was fine. Bad oversight by the doc, IMO. Especially when in comparison with my AS friends I get far more antsy, irritable, and unable to concentrate.

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18 Jul 2011, 6:04 am

I was diagnosed with it last year.

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18 Jul 2011, 1:12 pm

I have ADD

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19 Jul 2011, 8:53 am

I don't have ADHD. I only meet about 3 or 4 of the 'inattentive' criteria (the ones about disorganization).

However, when I hear ADHDers talk about how they think, it's exactly like me. When I talk about how I think ADHD people identify with me. And when I read about all the difficulties in functioning that ADHD people (especially inattentive type ADHD) have, they have trouble in the exact same areas as me.

Which is why I think ADHD and autism are closely related conditions.

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19 Jul 2011, 6:38 pm

Ettina wrote:

If you have four of the inattentive symptoms you will meet the criteria for ADHD-PI under the DSM-V. I meet all nine of the inattentive symptoms and five of the H/I symptoms, so I am technically ADHD-PI under the DSM-IV but ADHD-C under the DSM-V.

I think that the idea that they're closely related is getting a lot of traction, however. It should be interesting to see how research shakes out in the near future.

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20 Jul 2011, 10:27 am

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Yeah, in the DSM-IV it's six or more, so I fall well short. I hadn't realized they lowered the number for teens/adults in DSM-V (I only know what they did to change autism diagnosis).

Oh, and they changed the distraction criteria so now it could extraneous stimuli or thoughts. So now I fit either 4 or 5 criteria. But I didn't meet any more criteria as a kid than I do now, so I grew into inattentive-ADHD? Gah, this is confusing.

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24 Jul 2011, 2:19 pm

me and my mother have Aspergers and ADD, My younger brother has classic autism, ADD and another learning difficulty. I also have suspected Bipolar and Dyspraxia.

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24 Jul 2011, 8:35 pm

I have ADHD, not quite sure about the ASD though.

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31 Jul 2011, 5:18 pm

I've been diagnosed with ADD (no H, I think that'd now be ADHD-PI) as a kid, I don't know if I really have it or if it was a misdiagnosis, as almost no psychologist/psychiatrist/any expert knew crap about AS here in Argentina, btw I still have a lot of the symptoms of ADHD-PI

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31 Jul 2011, 5:22 pm

It's highly likely

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