Does this sound like high functioning autism?

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Ok, I'm going to go against what everyone else is saying and I'm going to say you probably do have HFA, and who knows if you have ADHD, and this is why: we are a bunch of random people on the internet. We don't know you, we have never seen you. All we know about you is a left of symptoms you gave about yourself. Now, who ever diagnosed you could observe things we cannot observe. The only information we have is what you gave us, and what you consider important may not be what the professionals considered important. You may not even notice things about yourself that others do, you never know just how you look in other people's eyes, and that phrase is damn true whether you are autistic or not. As it happens there is a far amount of overlap between ADHD and Autism, and maybe you just seem to think executive function is largest problem, while professionals think you executive function is better than some one with ADHD and your social deficits are more severe than someone with ADHD, I don't know, I'm just a random person on the Internet.

Didnt say that.

I meant the general "you," not the personal second-person singular "you." Sorry, I shouldn't have written it that way. I meant that "sometimes change makes people uncomfortable," but I was being conversational. I think I picked it up from the NTs I tutor who cannot write in the third person. It's good it doesn't make you uncomfortable, then. For me, no matter how much I want it and even prepare for it, it stresses me out when something changes, and I have to take time to adapt.

OP, if your doctor was abusive you should find a new doctor as soon as possible. Then raise, with the new doctor, your concerns about the diagnosis you've been given.