Do you have Autism and feel like you have ADHD as well?

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I do and I need help. I get distracted from my homework a lot and I can't take this anymore. Please post if you have a similar problem and please also post on the best way to solve it.




Thanks!

plushtrap04

I've been diagnosed twice with Asperger's and never with ADHD but feel like I'm somehow in the middle of the two. As for solutions, I have none other than simplify and organize. Easy to say but hard to do. Right now I have hot pink post-its all over my kitchen and all it has gotten me so far is a clean microwave. It seems like most of my time is spent trying to organize but I'm too unorganized to do that.

Negative on the ADHD.

I have ADHD, probably.

I haven't done homework in years LOL.

But I would advise you to give yourself a "reward system." If you do your homework quick enough, you could spend more time screwing around on the computer.

I haven't exactly been diagnosed with ADHD, but I've been told that I have traits of it, enough to warrant putting me on medication. I'd say I probably have it, though I don't entirely know for sure.

I was diagnosed with AS in 1998, but not ADHD, even though I did display symptoms. But because back then ADHD was stereotyped as "extroverted hyperactive class clown", my shyness seemed to be the main behaviour they observed in me so they just left it at ASD. I did have issues with paying attention in class, but because I often sat still, it looked like I was attentive. Nowadays, ADHD is looked into more, and is not just looked upon as "hyperactive kid" syndrome. I have been recently diagnosed with ADHD in 2016, but I have ASD as well.
But I was brought up to be polite and passive, so sometimes upbringing can mask some symptoms of some neurological conditions. But at home I was hyperactive, loud, always climbing on things and running about.

As an adult my ADHD symptoms include:-

-Inattentiveness
-Racing thoughts/mind in "fast forward" mode a lot (causing tasks to be rushed)
-Hyper behaviour (sometimes I act like a drunk person, though I don't drink)
-Frustration and sometimes angry thoughts
-Impatience
-Daydreaming/wandering thoughts
-Multitasking (from being easily distracted)
-Not very good short-term memory
-Easily amused, like to fiddle or even play with things
-Sometimes think outside the box, for example if people are talking about solar panels on roofs, I'd say something like "what if it snows heavily and is there for days and it blocks the sunlight?"

I've always had the "inattentive" type of ADHD.

I was never the kind of kid with a constant "motor." But, to this day, I don't like sitting in on long lectures. I get antsy.

I was diagnosed with ADHD-pi in 2012 before I received my Asperger's diagnosis in 2015 and my recent ASD diagnosis in 2016. I think my ADHD just like my social anxiety are components of my autism.

I have pretty much the same set of symptoms that Joe describes only my racing thoughts are triggered when I am stressed and I only am ever hyper when I am overly excited. I even have had that EXACT same tangent thought and comment about snow on solar panels lol. Sorry to use your list but I have trouble organizing and articulating my thoughts and seeing someone else's post that I identify with makes it a lot easier for me.

I'm diagnosed with ADD, but it feels more like chronic fatigue syndrome. I can focus very well if the task is something that I'm interested in. I almost never get hyper, except when I'm very excited about something, unless you call stimming a hyperactive behavior. I hate working on more than one thing at a time. I'm almost constantly tired, though, and that's what causes me to lose focus a lot.

I was misdiagnosed as "hyperactive" in the 1970s, long before they even knew what Asperger's was. I don't think I have ADHD. I have good focus and executive function and am not "hyper."

I was diagnosed with ASD and ADHD, inattentive type. I'd often daydream to the point that I couldn't focus on other things. I've found ways to concentrate and remain on task as an adult.

In college, I wrote all of my assignments in a day planner. I always sat in the front of the class, and I would make frequent notes and highlight important passages as I was doing assigned reading to enable me to focus.

I suspect I do have some form of ADHD or ADD. I have several traits.

My "hyperness" caused me to be unable to take notes in class, unless I felt compelled to.

I did well in classes because I read the books later on---on my way to, and back from, work. And I followed the syllabus in college.

I was also pretty good at getting to the "essence" of things, and to make up things which reflected that "essence," rather than make use of much input from lectures.

It's almost like I "Cliff-noted," without making use of the Cliff Notes.

Come to think of it....it was a combination of a restless feeling and daydreaming.

Peripheral associations related to the lecture would float in my head. Sometimes, I would even raise my hand, be called, and express these associations, much to the irritation of those who were purely deductive professors, rather than inductive ones.