The comorbitity rate between adhd and autism is so high some say adhd is autism level .5.
My son is autistic, and many would swear my daughter is. But the doctors say she only has adhd, and that adhd can have a lot of symptoms that most people associate with autism only.
TBF most of the DSM labeling kinda sucks in general because its labeling is primarily symptom based rather than being derived from the actual mechanisms that result in the symptoms (which are currently beyond medical grasp.) Imagine conflating a virus and a bacterium because they both lead to a runny nose.
Yeah, modern medicine is really still in the dark ages. If we spent even a quarter of what we spent on military budgets… we would all be feeling a lot better.
Clearly the people posting in this community don’t want to post in those. Noone forces you to read a post. If you want to tailor what gets posted, volunteer to be a mod.
Look, you can’t please all of the people all of the time.
If you want a tailored experience, you either have to pay for it, or make it yourself (be the mod). That’s just life. Is it shitty. Yes. But shouting at the rain isn’t going to change anything.
I guess we won’t count you as “some”.
But that is kinda what I said. They share some symptoms. Medical science doesn’t know the cause of either, so symptoms is about all they have to go on. The reality is most likely that adhd as it is defined is probably multiple different causes that very well may be unrelated. Autism is almost definitely so. Repackaging them under one spectrum is just as good as two. And no more meaningful either way. In the end, both are just labels for things that aren’t understood.
The comorbitity rate between adhd and autism is so high some say adhd is autism level .5.
My son is autistic, and many would swear my daughter is. But the doctors say she only has adhd, and that adhd can have a lot of symptoms that most people associate with autism only.
TBF most of the DSM labeling kinda sucks in general because its labeling is primarily symptom based rather than being derived from the actual mechanisms that result in the symptoms (which are currently beyond medical grasp.) Imagine conflating a virus and a bacterium because they both lead to a runny nose.
Yeah, modern medicine is really still in the dark ages. If we spent even a quarter of what we spent on military budgets… we would all be feeling a lot better.
But theres an ADHD and an auDHD comm, and maybe the other .5 would like to see posts they can relate to
Clearly the people posting in this community don’t want to post in those. Noone forces you to read a post. If you want to tailor what gets posted, volunteer to be a mod.
That is a very unempathetic stance to take. A little upsetting to see this here.
Look, you can’t please all of the people all of the time. If you want a tailored experience, you either have to pay for it, or make it yourself (be the mod). That’s just life. Is it shitty. Yes. But shouting at the rain isn’t going to change anything.
Nope, different thing. There’s also multiple variants of both, so some might look similiar.
I guess we won’t count you as “some”. But that is kinda what I said. They share some symptoms. Medical science doesn’t know the cause of either, so symptoms is about all they have to go on. The reality is most likely that adhd as it is defined is probably multiple different causes that very well may be unrelated. Autism is almost definitely so. Repackaging them under one spectrum is just as good as two. And no more meaningful either way. In the end, both are just labels for things that aren’t understood.