Asperger's and ADD???

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Can the two coincide with one another as with Asperger's and OCD? I felt pretty sure that I had OCD and I'm suspecting ADD too because I have a short attention span a lot of times and I'm in my head a LOT. I zone out during conversations (mostly two other people talking but not to me) and sometimes when we watch movies I zone out at certain points. Even when my Mom talks to me I go inside my head (and she picks up on this too and it annoys her. )

But when it's something that interests me I focus on it to the point where that's all I want to do (Like posting here. LOL )

Yes, except that neither Asperger's nor ADD officially exist any-more as of last week when the DSM V came out. They are now Autism Spectrum Disorder and ADHD (inattentive subtype)-the latter change was before last week. They used to be officially mutually exclusive diagnoses but the new DSM acknowledges that they can and do exist together.

They say that AS and ADHD are often co-morbid.

I was diagnosed with AS and ADHD (mostly inattentive and impulsive, with few hyperactivity symptoms, mostly verbal hyperactivity).

So I guess that they actually can be co-morbid.

I have ADD and AS.

comorbids of ASCs:

DCD/dyspraxia
ADHD
ADD
Dyslexia
pain amplification syndrome
OCD
Bipolar
depression
anxiety disorders
irritable bowel
gender dysphoria
dyscalculia
prospagnosia
agnosia
synaesthesia

and many others

basically if you are on the spectrum you are more likely to also have another neurological condition running alongside the ASC

Not 100% sure on ADHD, but recent statistics suggest that 15-25% of people with Aspergers have co-occurring OCD.

same here

Prosopagnosia is suspected to be as high as 50% in the ASC population (it is at around 2% in the general population). Semantic pragmatic language disorder is comorbid in so many that it is considered not worth diagnosing if other traits of ASCs are present but used instead as an indicator of an ASC, the same goes for anything but severe DCD/dyspraxia unless you are female where the DCD diagnosis tends to override the ASC diagnosis because the other traits are missed in girls.

I thought it was the other way around... ADHD not existing anymore in DSM, with it being called ADD-H, and ADD being referred to as ADD-I.
Anyway, I misdiagnosed myself with ADD for a long time.
As far as I know many people with autism have symptoms that can be misread as ADD. Because of the major difficulty with filtering impulses, we can't always choose which things are brain decides to pay attention to.

ADHD is a made up disease.
It's the world that demands too much attention from us in a seemingly infinite number of directions.

Nope, it's ADHD with sub types. Yes, symptoms of ADHD can be accounted for by ASD but they can also occur together. I've been diagnose with both of them.

@unmonkdm- I strongly disagree with you about it being a made-up disorder (any more than any other disorder in the DSM-someone names them and "makes them up").