Reading and ADHD, repetitive behaviour or hyperfocus?

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Is this my ASD or my ADHD or...? Anybody like me maybe?

I read boring station plans, uninteresting flyers, useless descriptions of things I can't even keep in mind for a few seconds, huge captions and books and short-stories... but just interesting books and short-stories.

Why do I read? Yeah, wish I knew! I don't know, currently.

I don't particularly like reading. Seriously, no. I do not want to know about a station plan or a flyer and I can't willingly recall it usually.

But I'll read whatever is in my hands. Once... twice... more than 10x times until I'm stopped.

I am able to read something utterly nonsensical and boring for a few minutes and I am able to read books for hours despite that I can't pay attention for 10 minutes straight to really cool things. No hint at my over-activity when I read. I don't need to fight it, I just sit totally still.

Is this like hyperfocus...? I don't experience focus on anything except on, well, books 2/3 of the time.

Or is it a repetitive thing? Reading random things over and over again for the sake of reading?

I am hyperfocused when it comes to reading as well.

Do you read these uninteresting things when you are bored, or do you also read boring flyers when there is something more interesting to do? Like, if you are reading a good book, do you take a break to read a random flyer you have around? Or is it in a situation like you are waiting for the bu and are bored, so you read a nearby billboard over and over again? The first situation would seem unusual, but I think the second is pretty normal.

I usually do not out books aside unless I cannot concentrate on them to begin with. I never can put them down when I started, I'm not even growing tired at 4 a.m. in the morning.

But I'm definitely not bored when I read others things. I don't think - well, there's a flyer, I'll read it.

I just look around and when I look at such, automatically read CD titles that are in sight, descriptions on material, sentences on clothes. It's very mindless/no-effort activity for me.

And then I just read it over and over until I remember to do something else or because I am forced to stop. I don't grow tired of it, funny enough. Even if it's just one sentence, I'll go over it numerous times. And even if I know a text by heart, I'll read it again anyway. I hate to read books twice, I don't like such repetition. But if it's just uninteresting text I forget immediately the moment I read it, I'll read for forever.

I thought a bit about it and it's a bit like what I did in my early childhood. I lined up, destroyed, lined up, destroyed, lined up... for hours. I did it, it was like being drawn into something that's neither a smart nor fascinating activity, not interesting like a hobby, but I was on it for long periods. I wonder if the two are related.