I’ve seen it referenced on TikTok but I’m curious about the evidence. It seems pretty plausible. The same gene is involved apparently. There’s very high “comorbidity.” Even in non “AuDHDers” many of the symptoms of one (that an individual “doesn’t have”) are present. Autists can be very different from eachother and it seems like they may sometimes have more in common with some ADHDers than eachother. Dividing things into specific labels like this is kinda lib and undialectical anyway. People already realizing Aspergers and other things were just autism. “Pathological Defiant Disorder” (allegedly) seems to basically just be a common presentation of AuDHD. There’s also the monotropism theory that both tend to be high in.
This is just my uneducated opinion on something I’ve been fixated on and pondering for a little while. I’m curious if anyone has any serious evidence or more interesting thoughts. There’s probably also connections to other neurodivergences.
Same thing with ADD and ADHD being combined into one with just different subtypes. Just lumping autism and ADHD together and being aware of the diversity is fine imo.
Sib, I thought the same thing multiple times. I have no clue why it didn’t end up in the post, Ty. Dialectically we cannot cleanly cut ourselves up and decide this characteristic goes in one box and this goes in another. My neurodivergences don’t start one place and end another. I am a specific presentation of humanity and there is no one the same as me and I am not the same as myself. “Pure” inattentive vs “pure” impulsive it’s not clear it should be one box “ADHD.” But there are a lot of people with combined type. What if ADHD and Autism are like that, a binary of types, while a large fraction are “combined type.”