If I dont have social permission to doomscroll, you don’t have social permission to interact with me.
AKA if you start making comments/complain/try to take away my phone or other fidgety thing, I just won’t deal with you going forward. I am getting way too old to care about Karen’s opinion on my attention span.
It’ll be interesting if over time these diagnosis merge.
Currently, the diagnostic criteria for ADHD isn’t based on social or sensory clues so one can have ADHD and autism.
The currents stats are: many people initially diagnosed with autism also meet the definition of ADHD while people initially diagnosed with ADHD rarely have autism.
But that really does mean it’s not the same spectrum because it’s based on a diagnosis manually that only recently acknowledged one could have both.
I’m autistic with quite a few ADHD friends. What I’ve gathered from sharing our experiences is that we all encounter similar problems with everyday life, but our internal experiences (and thus probably also the underlying causes) differ so much. For example, I may go to the kitchen because it’s lunch time, but since that lunch time is interrupting my work, all of my mental energy is going towards trying to not forget the things I’m working on, which will often push out the reason I went to the kitchen in the first place. The experience I hear from all my ADHD friends is that they have new trains of thought entering and leaving their heads at all times, and those new thoughts are what make them forget their reason for being in the kitchen. Holding multiple thoughts is hard for me, while it seems to be the natural state of things for ADHD.
Wait. I thought this was an ADHD thing.
the overlap is staggering
i have become practically incapable of doing nothing. i will start fiddling with things in the room if not given social permission to doomscroll phone
If I dont have social permission to doomscroll, you don’t have social permission to interact with me.
AKA if you start making comments/complain/try to take away my phone or other fidgety thing, I just won’t deal with you going forward. I am getting way too old to care about Karen’s opinion on my attention span.
It’s just a human being thing. Be careful with mental health communities on the internet, they can be quite toxically exclusive sometimes.
Something something spectrum
It’ll be interesting if over time these diagnosis merge.
Currently, the diagnostic criteria for ADHD isn’t based on social or sensory clues so one can have ADHD and autism.
The currents stats are: many people initially diagnosed with autism also meet the definition of ADHD while people initially diagnosed with ADHD rarely have autism.
But that really does mean it’s not the same spectrum because it’s based on a diagnosis manually that only recently acknowledged one could have both.
I’m autistic with quite a few ADHD friends. What I’ve gathered from sharing our experiences is that we all encounter similar problems with everyday life, but our internal experiences (and thus probably also the underlying causes) differ so much. For example, I may go to the kitchen because it’s lunch time, but since that lunch time is interrupting my work, all of my mental energy is going towards trying to not forget the things I’m working on, which will often push out the reason I went to the kitchen in the first place. The experience I hear from all my ADHD friends is that they have new trains of thought entering and leaving their heads at all times, and those new thoughts are what make them forget their reason for being in the kitchen. Holding multiple thoughts is hard for me, while it seems to be the natural state of things for ADHD.
C-PTSD here, I know this situation also all too well: I just want to be prepared and do my best!