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.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    For me, the average ADHDer is way too different compared with me. I don't relate to most AuDHDers here either. I relate the most to "pure" autists. One defining thing that is very noticeable to me compared with NTs and ADHDers/some AuDHDers is that I'm very prone to ritualized behavior and show complete distress when I'm forced to not perform that ritualized behavior. A lot of classic experiences ADHDer place like forgetting where they put their car keys isn't particularly common with me because "placing car keys" would be part of some elaborate ritualized behavior for me:

    On the return home, Assortedbiscuits shall walk three steps, starting with their left foot first, and they shall reach their right pants pocket with their right hand, and they shall hold the car keys with their right thumb, right index finger, and right middle finger, and they shall remove said car keys from their right pants pocket, and they shall place the car keys in the designated car keys cornerTM of the table, and with the placing of said car keys on said car key cornerTM of the table, Assortedbiscuits shall verbally make a declaration of the placement of the car keys in the car key cornerTM of the table to conclude the placement of the car keys in the car key cornerTM of the table.

    This by itself isn't that strange. But the ritual has many prerequisites (functional right hand, right pants pocket, table, being able to walk three steps) and if those prerequisites were messed if, then the ritual can't be completed and I will feel distress. No, using my left hand doesn't count because the ritual demands that I use my right hand. No, I can't walk four steps. It has to be three steps, no more and no less. If someone were to saw off the car key cornerTM of the table, I would 100% short-circuit lol

    It's not just having ritualized behavior, but rigid and elaborate ritualized behavior. I don't see this at all in ADHDers.

    • QueerCommie [she/her, fae/faer]
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, as an audhder there’s a ton of stuff I have to do in a certain way, but I also am purely spontaneous in other situations, it’s weird.