AuDHD

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A place for those that got both Autism and ADHD, those confirmed as one and are suspecting they got the other as well, and also everyone who is neither and just genuinely curious.

Since the combo comes with its own set of challenges, this shall be a place to ask for advice, vent, infodump about special interests and/or just vibe and meme.

Please be respectful. General niceness guidelines apply - formal rules will be added later if necessary.

In regards to medication and medical advice: Please take under consideration that this is only an online support community. Offered advice is always an expression of individual opinions or experiences and shall never be taken as substitute for a professional in-person assessment!

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Also maximizes frustration.

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No correct answer (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Agamemnon to c/autisticandadhd
 
 

I also press F, but for grading the author, not as a sign of respect.

It doesn't exactly inspire confidence into the reliability of expert assessments, when this is the kind of textbook used to train them.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Agamemnon to c/autisticandadhd
 
 

The less stimulation there is, the worse this gets for me. a.k.a. I sleep best in a sea of LEDs and to the sounds of PC fans and rainfall.

๐Ÿง  ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿคช

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Is it too late to call in for a replacement?

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I don't think I like the new Decisions&Discourse expansion for Social: The Gathering.

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Meme-Therapy (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Agamemnon to c/autisticandadhd
 
 

Okay,

  1. Ouch. and
  2. why is that considered a bad source of dopamine?
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Green fox blue fox (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Agamemnon to c/autisticandadhd
 
 

This comic hits that ND relatability and validation spot so often, it became the only reason for the Twitter app to still exist on my phone.

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Ideal conversation (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Agamemnon to c/autisticandadhd
 
 

I have no idea, who these characters are. But they vibe.

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On me at least. ๐Ÿ˜ณ

On the other hand, flirting blindness is a thing I also have, so it would probably be even more effective to reverse pickpocket me a slip of paper with a gamertag on it.

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Listitems I have felt at least once before finding this: 7/8 Listitems I have known the name of before finding this: 0/8

How about you?

Also... what's the feeling called when reading something, thinking 'that sounds totally made up' - then doing a quick google and realizing its actually a thing?

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Regular memeposting will resume as soon as the situation improves.

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Especially on that one.

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Zoning out of conversations is the worst...

...and it doesn't even depend on the topic being interesting or not.

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I know it's hyperbole, but reading that was actually more inspiring than anything ever said to me by a neurotypical trying to motivate me.

I'll add another quip:

"Watch me swindle my way up an IT-career using nothing but my brain, a search engine and the power of spite."

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But for me it's accurate either way, so I don't care. ๐Ÿ˜‡

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My takeaway from witnessing a friends journey between imcompetent doctors, side effect heavy antidepressants and increasingly whacky other depression treatment methods:

When ADHD is the actual root cause, leaving it unacknowledged (and untreated) will achieve nothing and cause unnecessary harm.

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Me: Coming from the side of already confirmed autism, but still feeling to be missing a piece of the whole picture.

This site and corresponding YouTube channel with presentations and Q&A from current researchers: Very helpful.

They only have a small section about Au+ADHD together, but the video they did on the topic was eye-opening. I'll later link that directly in another post.

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I don't know what I did wrong in 6th grade to deserve writing a 20 page essay as punishment and decades later it still bugs me.

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0/10, would not achieve again. ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

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Same reason, too.

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Maybe someone with graphic design skills can redo this one?

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... , because it feels like sentiment clarification must be included and tone tags and emoji can't cover all possible ways a reader might find to still misinterpret a statement. (or the statement carries a hidden meaning that I never realize existed, or I have made a fool of myself for accidentally quoting something someone has said in a completely unrelated situation and somehow I still think providing more context would fix that)

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I can understand the confusion since I own mostly the same color and texture clothing.

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