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17 May 2007, 6:56 pm
17 May 2007, 7:52 pm
Wolfpup wrote:
Yes, people with AS don't have to have ADD/ADHD. And what's confusing to me many of the symptoms seem contradictory between the two...yet supposedly there's a high rate of comorbidity (I'm not sure if that's the word 
).
Here's just one example of the seeming contradiction. People with AS tend to have trouble switching tasks, and switching back. Takes longer to get switched. Yet ADD people apparently flit from one thing to another...which seems like the exact opposite thing.
). Here's just one example of the seeming contradiction. People with AS tend to have trouble switching tasks, and switching back. Takes longer to get switched. Yet ADD people apparently flit from one thing to another...which seems like the exact opposite thing.
I think the symptoms are the same for both, apparently with ADD there is also the problem of multitasking and switching task as well as AS
Wolfpup wrote:
So then...is it like someone with both AS and ADD would be able to hyper concentrate on something they're interested in, like someone with just AS, but then for other things can't pay attention because of ADD?
Actually for ADD only the hyperfocusing in one thing and unable to concentrate in everything else, is one of the symptoms.
And that is where my confusion lies.
If ADD have some similar traits as AS, wouldn't be incorrect to say AS with ADD if they are similar?
It would be correct to say ADD is AS without the autistic traits?
And about people with AS that don't have ADD, that would mean that an aspie can do multitasking and is able to concentrate in other things because he doesn't have ADD, wouldn't it?
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17 May 2007, 8:31 pm
AAARRRRGH!! ! 
I guess that would make me AS with ADD then and not ADD with AS traits....as I so often describe myself.
18 May 2007, 9:47 am
