Hyper focus is an explicit trait of adhd where they have very intense focus on one single topic.
Also consider
Being overly stimulated
being socially clueless/akward
having niche special interests
more often have an interest in computers and gaming
can be very good at theatre/pretend from a lifetime of masking
gets shunned for being weird (becoming the class clown is an adhd strategy to avoid this)
Combination of both diagnosis is not uncommon and there is even a pattern where high level at functional masking autistic people get an adhd diagnosis in school long before autism is “discovered” in adulthood.
It has heen proposed that adhd, just like some other neurodivergences (ocd, dyslexia,…) should technically all belong on the autism spectrum, they are all about “the brains network of neurons being build in a non typical way”, which is also why everyone is still unique, but doing so would make it harder to medically label the specific needs of the more challenging forms of autism that need that label to get appropriate help.
Yup. I know I have ADHD. I suspect I have some autism as well. I specifically told my therapist I don’t want to test for autism, and she agreed with rfks attacks. If I have some autism, it’s very light. But my ADHD is rather heavy. Like, it’s hard for me to make myself do much, but my proclivity to not want to touch canvas isn’t that big of a deal.
One has people hyper fixated on things, the other makes people easily distracted by shiny things?
Hyper focus is an explicit trait of adhd where they have very intense focus on one single topic.
Also consider
Combination of both diagnosis is not uncommon and there is even a pattern where high level at functional masking autistic people get an adhd diagnosis in school long before autism is “discovered” in adulthood.
It has heen proposed that adhd, just like some other neurodivergences (ocd, dyslexia,…) should technically all belong on the autism spectrum, they are all about “the brains network of neurons being build in a non typical way”, which is also why everyone is still unique, but doing so would make it harder to medically label the specific needs of the more challenging forms of autism that need that label to get appropriate help.
Yup. I know I have ADHD. I suspect I have some autism as well. I specifically told my therapist I don’t want to test for autism, and she agreed with rfks attacks. If I have some autism, it’s very light. But my ADHD is rather heavy. Like, it’s hard for me to make myself do much, but my proclivity to not want to touch canvas isn’t that big of a deal.