Do you have both ADHD and AS/ASD ?

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Do you have both ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) and AS/ASD ? I think that I have both and was wondering if it was a common combination.

I have ADHD (see this list of symtoms), but with dominant hyperactivity. I had more attention-deficit as a child, but that went away around 16 years old. I am impatient, impulsive, anti-conformist, I have mood swings, get bored easily, seek novelty and stimulation, change fields of interests frequently and often have too many things in mind to concentrate on one easily (e.g. I always have many tabs open at the same time in my browser, and I switch often from one to another, starting a sentence in a forum, then starting a mail, only to come back to finish the forum post a bit later).

I have Asperger's for social interactions, eye contact and language (slightly repetitive, overly formal, overly literal, long sentences, although I try to make an effort). I display some sort of synesthesia (e.g. I have always associated colours to numbers and letters). I am also hypersensitive, although this tends to diminish with age. Thanks to ADHD, I do not have a restricted or stereotyped range of interests. On the contrary, I am very curious and dislike routine. I don't really have motor problems.

Although I've never been formally diagnosed, I definitely have them both. It sounds like my profile of symptoms is very similar to yours. It's a hellish combination of traits, when it comes to employment. I've only had any luck working in highly repetitive jobs where I could listen to a radio, or just let my mind wander. I'm currently working for myself, as a landlord and real estate investor which allows a varied schedule of simple tasks.

Have you found a job which you find fulfilling?

I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 10, and only found out I have AS this year, adolescence was hell for me.

since I seem to be the only one around the house that can sit through an entire movie...I must not have it...

It's possible to have combinations of things, I guess....

I am an ADDer with alot of AS symptoms. There are ways in which they seem to counteract each other maybe. I do have obssesions...but I really really have a hard time absorbing things to their fullest because I am so overwhealmed by perpetual mind-static-bombardment

I spent years in ADD forums, till somebody suggested to me that alot of issues i have had alot in common with the autistic spectrum, and that is how I wound up over here....There is alot of crossover...alot of folks in the ADD forums have alot of things in common with the folks in this forum...

My ADD traits are so obvious that I can't even begin to describe them. I have a very cluttered mind, but when I AM able to actually focus on something, then it is really difficult to divert me from it....I reluctantly grudge through my daily tasks..but the things I am interested are seldom out of mind...and difficult to escape from.
I am very right-brained (left handed)...I have piles of ideas...the way I have piles of stuff...most of my ideas revolve around my interests...am very non-mathematic...possibly ahve dyscalulea...(as well as mild dyslexia) ...trouble reading very fast..trouble telling left from right....Even though I am right brained...and a visual thinker...I seem to have some level of visual-spatial difficulty...which is very annoying

I am not really sure where the ADD ends and the AS stuff begins...it all seems interelated....

I can maybe sorta describe the way that I differ from the few "Classic" ADDers I have known..

They seem alot more socially "at ease"...and closer to being on par with thier age level...They drive and go to school and all that kind of stuff...though emotional immaturity is common among ADDers....Maybe it was because they were "caught" early..diagnosed and medicated since they were kids....it is hard to tell...as it is hard to tell what I would be like if I was "caught" early...but even though the fact that I had difficulties was acknowledged..I was never "treated" for anything. I was just given extra leeway, and at one point, sent back to 3rd grade. My parents were sorta prone to blaming the system rather than acknowledging that I had problems.. They are completely against conventional medicine and the psychiactric industry.

I am still emotionally more-or-less an adolescent...I don't drive...have a hard time holding 'normal jobs''...have very odd friendships with a small handfull of other odd people...walk on my toes...have serious trouble making eye contact....have motor akwardness...and something that might possibly be sensory integration issues.....stuff like that....

growing up I had alot of developmental problems....read early and alot.....but did many things late...struggled with lots of "normal" stuff like knowing how to dress myself and I wet the bed later than alot of kids...regularly drank out of a bottle till I was about 7...had a really really hard time in school...blah blah blah...

I have both as well. ADD not ADHD though. I wish I had hyperactivity one - that would make controlling the ASD better. It sounds kinda corny to say that ADD and ADHD are two different things, but believe me, I had a good friend back in my childhood that was bouncing off the walls, and I envied that. At times though I am glad of ADD though, seeing as I can apply that to my ASD and make it easier to think, but at the same time I lack that energy to be able to do a lot tasks or put my creativity into action.

As a child I was extremely hyper-active one moment and silent and withdrawn the next..
Still have problems with attention and short term memory as well as ASD.

Only AS here.