Uneven, blockwise attention: Aspergers or ADHD?
I am still a "new" aspie and trying to tell what is what.
The psychologist, who is evaluating me, saw some ADHD in me at the first meeting because of my speed-talking and -thinking.
Nerves, I said, but now I am wondering a bit. Stress can make anything sound unintelligible, and I am VERY prone to become stressed out. I have always had trouble concentrating on a whole instruction. I always miss something. There could be different reasons.
At school, I was told: "Concentrate! Focus!, and I concentrated on focusing
(Ididn´t have trouble learning and understanding, though). (AS?)
When a question was thrown at the class, I took it from every possible angle, and once I was ready to roll out a brilliant answer, the class had moved on.(AS?)
Today I always seem to miss part of the instruction (at work trial), which adds to my nervousness.
I have difficulty telling the trail of a whole movie, because I tend to remember scenes and forget quite large parts between the scenes that caught me. More or less the same with books and courses. I have difficulty explaining to others what went on afterwards. (ADHD?)
I did all right at the University, but that was about my special interest.
Would this inattentiveness, selective attentiveness, or what, be part of AS or a streak of ADHD?
Do anyone know som links about attention training?
(My mother was an aspie with ADHD. That is for sure).
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Femaline
Special Interest: Beethoven
Last edited by Jensen on 15 Jul 2013, 1:11 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Asperger's and A.D.H.D. are common comorids; somewhere between 60% and 70% of people with AS also meet the diagnostic criteria for A.D.H.D.
As for attention training, CogniFit appears to have an attention training program.
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I am not a textbook case of any particular disorder; I am an abstract, poetic portrayal of neurovariance with which much artistic license was taken.
I was diagnosed ADHD at 19 years old, and now im getting a ASD diagnosis. I also have dyscalculia and NLD( non verbal learning disability)
I might be "More" ASD than ADHD, but my psychiatrist is keeping the ADHD diagnosis on me.
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ADHD and dyscalculia diagnosis at 19
Your Aspie score: 145 of 200
Your NT- score: 62 of 200
(In the process of getting a ASD diagnosis)
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