I scored 99 percent on an ADHD test

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I never thought I had ADHD, since I am quiet. I know you shouldn't take online tests as a diagnosis, but a lot of the questions on the test described me exactly. I think fitting ADHD and Social Phobia together will typically describe me, more than what AS and Dyspraxia does (even though those were what I was diagnosed with).

I am starting to wonder what I really have, since I seem to have a bit of everything, making up for one hell of a personality disorder, with extreme emotions. Is it quite normal for those on the spectrum to clasify themselves of having ADHD, or vice versa? ADHD affects different people in different ways aswell, so maybe I might have adult ADHD.

I read that it's pretty normal for people with AS to have many ADHD symptoms, too, but it varies in some things like the cause of distraction or the function of fidgeting (stimming in AS). Also, AS has several addictional symptoms.
I also read that many people with ADHD have social problems because they lose concentration in conversations and appear generally awkward, which might lead to social anxiety.
If you think that ADHD + social anxiety describes you better (if you lack the additional AS symptoms) maybe you've been misdiagnosed, but I'm not a reliable source enough to be taken under serious consideration

This probably gives better information than me
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt180998.html

Since I came to WP to explore my AS like symptoms, I have discovered that ADHD more accurately describe my difficulties.

It can look like a Dead Ringer, as the saying goes.

A sure fire way to tell is a response via a stimulant.

But you do know that there is a form of ADHD without the loud, all-over-the-place experience of hyperactivity? The predominately inattentive type of ADHD.

People with that form of ADHD (and girls especially) tend to be described with words such as "dreamy" and "very quiet" by a lot of people. Although from my experience they can be lively and as motivated as everyone else if there's something that truly attracts their interest.

That's me. I can get hyper if I'm really enthusiastic about something but most of the time I'm really quiet and sluggish. I definitely fit the "sluggish cognitive tempo" profile.

ADHD, AS, same thing. There is definite genetic relations between the two conditions, and I've heard that more than half of autistic people can be diagnosed with ADHD.

You don't have to be ADHD to respond well to a stimulant but if your life is a mess because of ADHD symptoms stimulants are required.

People with AS can have ADHD too and some could just have similar symptoms.
Fidgeting isn't really like stimming. Fidgeting is due to impatience or over excitement, not usually as an aid for stressful environments.
I knew I had ADHD when I realised my both my short term and long term memory was poor. Then some interests would barely last a week. usually one day I'll be obsessed with one thing and the next not even remember it and get obsessed with a new thing. Like I wrote a thread today and it's only been a few hours and I'm already over it.
ADHD has to do with regulation of focus, motivation, energy and emotions too. I just feel like I either don't have them or they come too quickly and I don't always choose to use them productively. It's like crossing a busy road, you have a small window when you can walk across to the other side and if you miss you've got to wait until that opportunity arises again. I'm draining the last of my mental energy right now. I've got no choice. I should maybe rest but stopping doing what I'm doing is so damn hard.

I think my sensory issues are ADHD related too. I cannot focus on the world in front of me for more than 2 seconds, if even that. And when on medication I can actually look straight forward and not have to look all around me.

Ooh look, a squirrel! And chocolate cake!

I worked around a guy who lived on speed, as it gave him enough to do what he had to do, to get through the day. Not legal- but hey, sometimes you have to do what you have to do to get by. Maybe here of the inattentive type?

And yep, some folks can cognitively benefit from "speed" though not "impaired."

*But, if you are misdiagnosed with AS and you are ADHD, maybe along with dysthymia and social anxiety, once medicated, there is a clarity of thought, and you are aware more. In other words there is a ToM present in fuller fashion, with less confusion .

*From I understand about AS from this sight, (as AS alone without ADHD), is that the use of ADHD drugs can be disastrous in this scenario. It is not neutral in affect, but detrimental.

I believe that one can ascertain their position from these two points.

/Awaiting and Looking over shoulder to be corrected by Verdandi.

Not the same thing. A majority of autistic people have social anxiety, that doesn't make social anxiety and AS the same thing.

ADHD is related to AS in some manner. There are similar traits, and its a very common co-morbid. That does not mean that either ADHD is the same as AS, that all people with ADHD also have AS, or that all people that have AS also have ADHD.

Yeah, I know they aren't literally the same thing, but they are a lot closer then most people think, and I also believe that at least in some cases AS is closer to "NT" ADHD than it is LFA.

I don't think this is really the case. Aside from ADHD not really being "neurotypical", I think the only point at which they can appear similar is from the outside. And one of the reasons they appear so similar is because 60-70% of all autistic people meet the criteria for ADHD already. Which is to say that until the past decade or two, autistic people with ADHD were seen as having purely autistic traits, rather than autism and ADHD.

I spent a lot of time from June-November 2010 trying to convince myself that all of my cognitive problems were ADHD, but I kept running into problems that I couldn't explain as ADHD, as much as I wanted to. From September to December, it was becoming increasingly obvious (as I learned more about ADHD) that ADHD simply didn't describe my difficulties as completely as I thought they did over the summer. I mean, it was definitely there, but it wasn't everything that was there.

I also wonder if you're trying to frame AS as mild and thus connecting it to a condition that is perceived as mild vs. something that is perceived as anything but mild, although both AS and ADHD are severe conditions (so mild either would not be technically "mild" when compared to other neurological and psychological disorders). Or if perhaps ADHD has less of that negative association than severe autism. I mean, movie stars and corporate CEOs and prominent doctors have ADHD and are open about it. No one visualizes severe ADHD as "sitting in the corner banging your head" even though it can be pretty unintentionally self-destructive (I don't think people tend to realize that part).

A friend of mine who has severe ADHD, has managed to get herself into auto accidents and nearly burned down her own home while not on medication. When I was in grade school, we had a boy fostered who was in the same class I was, who had ADHD. During the time he lived with us he managed to give himself a concussion and a broken wrist while jumping down a flight of stairs. He was very injury prone, and very impulsive, and the latter definitely caused the former.

Last edited by Verdandi on 12 Jan 2012, 5:06 am, edited 1 time in total.

Exactly.

By the way, when you speak about ADHD, do you only mean the hyperactive version or ADD as well? Because some of the things that are described under ADHD in this thread actually sounds more like ADD

ADHD has three subtypes: Predominantly hyperactive (very rarely diagnosed, and only in very young children), predominantly inattentive (often referred to under the misnomer "ADD" as if it were a different category, often diagnosed in adults, even those who should be diagnosed combined type), and combined type, who has both inattentive and hyperactive/impulsive symptoms. The majority of people diagnosed with ADHD have combined type, which means that symptoms from both categories are present.

You are more likely to win a lottery jackpot than you are to meet someone with ADHD who has hyperactive/impulsive symptoms but no inattentive symptoms.