I can’t speak for the ASD side, particularly, but the relevant question for ADHD is whether it’s impacting your quality of life.
Are your studies suffering because you just can’t make yourself hit the books? Are you constantly fucking up at work and putting your career at risk? Is sensory overload a major impediment to coping with existence? Are you concerningly unreliable with parenting stuff? Does grocery shopping take three hours because you need a handful of separate trips for all the things you forgot each time?
If it’s crossing over into disability territory, if life is just not supposed to be this hard, definitely get evaluated.
If not, if it’s just quirky and occasionally frustrating - ehh. It can be affirming and a definite relief to have a label to put on things, but it probably won’t make a huge difference day-to-day. If you’re in the US where medical bills are a major thing, take that into account.
I can’t speak for the ASD side, particularly, but the relevant question for ADHD is whether it’s impacting your quality of life.
Are your studies suffering because you just can’t make yourself hit the books? Are you constantly fucking up at work and putting your career at risk? Is sensory overload a major impediment to coping with existence? Are you concerningly unreliable with parenting stuff? Does grocery shopping take three hours because you need a handful of separate trips for all the things you forgot each time?
If it’s crossing over into disability territory, if life is just not supposed to be this hard, definitely get evaluated.
If not, if it’s just quirky and occasionally frustrating - ehh. It can be affirming and a definite relief to have a label to put on things, but it probably won’t make a huge difference day-to-day. If you’re in the US where medical bills are a major thing, take that into account.
Yeah, some/most are daily struggles. I took the two tests recommended by another user in the comments here and I scored pretty high.