I'm 18, and I have been tentatively diagnosed with ADHD, and I'm close to finishing the official testing of that (only one appointment to go!).
The more I read, however, the more I believe it could be both ADHD and ASD. Some things just don't line up with just ADHD.
I am bad at keeping eye contact, I have trouble distinguishing between jokes and more serious comments, I can't communicate how I feel very well (sign language is easier for me, I started picking it up in 4th or 5th grade), I didn't start talking until I was nearly 3, to the point where I was taken to an audiologist and assumed Deaf. On top of this, sometimes I get frustrated. Like, if everything is too much, (as best I can describe it) there's this...bubble that forms in my chest and there's so much pressure and I have to scream or cry to make it go away, or pull my hair or hit myself in the head (which I know are bad habits to have). It feels, as I've described it in the past, "temper-tantrumy."
I want to bring it up to my psychologist but I don't want her to think I'm ploying for 2 diagnoses.
Thoughts?
