It’s hard to find community that’s understanding and accepting. Now that I know why just existing in this world has been such a challenge, hope to do something about it.
What were the symptoms you experienced that led to your eventual diagnosis?
For me it was many things, the biggest one by far was always feeling like an alien. I have broad knowledge of many different subjects, which is unusual apparently. I also used to have terrible social skills (not being able to read the room, monopolizing conversations and so on), my emotions are basically 0 or 100, with little in between.
Those were the main things that led me to seek answers to the famous question “why am I like this ?”
Afterwards, everything clicked together, and I discovered how deep my ADHD and ASD actually were. It explained pretty much every single aspect of my life, and layer by layer, I discovered hidden things that I could now explain (constantly feeling tired, hating the world when overstimulated, dopamine spikes and crashes, etc).
It obviously takes an enormous amount of time (especially with late diagnosis, like mine) to understand yourself completely and undo everything, but it’s so worth it.
How late? I was diagnosed 6 months ago at 52
My wife and I were diagnosed with ADHD around age 30 (20 years ago). This past year she informally got her autism diagnosis (from therapy, but they’re pretty sure but didn’t bother to pursue too much because while ADHD has meds, autism doesn’t, so less important). It’s helped us both understand some things and we’ve found some things helpful - explains some things like food texture issues, so it’s helped a bit, but also hasn’t been too revolutionary.
Which is to say… yay, glad you got a diagnosis! I hope you find this a friendly place. :)
Autism Deficit Hyperactive Disorder? (Serious question)
AuDHD refers to someone who has been diagnosed both with ADHD and autism. :)
Is you are asking what AuDHD stands for it’s a shortened form of Autism + ADHD
