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5 Signs You Have AuDHD (ADHD and Autism)

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Is it autism, ADHD...or both? Here are 5 signs it could be AuDHD - the (often chaotic) combination for autistic-ADHD brains that's frequently misunderstood - and some ideas that work.

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⏰ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:41 Sign #1 - Overwhelmed by your own plan
2:52 Sign #2 - Craving routines, then fighting them
4:39 Sign #3 - You want to be around people...until you are
6:52 Sign #4 - Want to be out...and get overwhelmed
8:53 Sign #5 - The hardest to explain
10:30 What can you do?

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20 Comments

@Auticate Creator 1 year ago Pinned

Which of these resonated with you? What would you add to this list? What challenges of AuDHD do you wish more people understood? Drop your thoughts ⤵
And if you've found something that's helped you with your autistic-ADHD brain... add your experiences, ideas, and struggles so we can all learn and support each other ❤

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@Lesuniace 1 year ago

The ADHD part of my brain yelling GO GO GO vs the autistic part wanting to rest is so, so real.
My energy levels are always a rollercoaster every day of the week

@lockhartrise9638 1 year ago

Thank you for not including annoying music in the background

@Thorinbur 1 year ago

The worst state to be in is to be understimulated and bored when you ADHD seeks stimulation, while simultanously completely drained and burnedout when your Autistic brain seeks quiet. I want to do something, something cool and ambitious, the idea excites me, but the idea of actually doing any of those things is immediately overwhelming. Adn you sit there for hours doing nothing just tired from all the things that you thought of doing but didn't even start. Now try to explain to neurotypical person that you are just too tired from thinking about doing something.

@cuteandjunky 1 year ago

My biggest problem is with food.
I find a bunch of safe foods and I eat them every day for months and suddenly IM SICK OF ALL OF THEM AT ONCE. then I have nothing to eat

@Red-sm1cl 1 year ago

A funny sign my doc and I discovered: in lightly stressful environments my anxiety is really bad, but in extremely stressful (emergencies) I am very calm. Doc thinks the adrenaline acts like a stimulant which in the case of my brain slows it down. This was a crazy epiphany for me.

@jasonkatknapp 1 year ago

Before I knew I had either, I used to call myself a walking contradiction. And doctors thought I was faking things because I would have different answers or feelings depending on whether autism or ADHD was in charge at the moment

@LordOfCake 1 year ago

ADHD: Bouncing around like a ping-pong ball.
ASD: Running into a wall repeatedly, until it gives in.
AUDHD: Bouncing around like a ping-pong ball trapped inside a concrete box.

@Nino-xp5df 1 year ago

Basically all of them. And the saddest part is: for the most part of my life I thought it was just my fault, I wasn't trying hard enough and if I just could change that one thing. Still think so sometimes today. I'm in my fourties and without an official diagnosis and only recently have I allowed myself to think that maybe AuDHD might be the explanation.

@AndaraBledin 1 year ago

The internet is a godsend for us AuDHDers for socializing. We can get a whole lot of social stimulation, but we can step away at a moment's notice without having to go anywhere and there's no facial expressions to manage or observe, and we can do all the awkward stimming we want with no judgement so long as it's not loud enough to be picked up by a mic.

@GreatCommissionStudios 8 months ago

The one that got me the most, was being super productive one day and then the next day needing to be in bed for hours or even days. Wow, that’s me.

@Sabine-q8v 1 year ago

I watched live, but had to watch again, because my attention was 80% with the comments, 20% on watching...

@katherinerosner4483 8 months ago

Very specific sign of AuDHD is when psychiatrists keep trying to diagnose you with bipolar disorder, and you know that doesn’t seem right on a logical or emotional level, and you keep explaining that you have “energy swings” and no mood swings, but they don’t understand what that means and keep trying to give you mood stabilizers that do nothing for you lol
Another thing that I’ve noticed is that rather than getting “distracted” by external stimuli, we tend to “go internal” and have complex inner worlds. I can have whole conversations and monologues in my head with little to no perception of the outside world during a sermon or lecture or even while listening to an audiobook or talking to someone. I don’t exactly “zone out” in the same way as people with just ADHD. Realized that while talking to a psychologist during my second ADHD evaluation (when I had to be re-diagnosed as an adult).

@starnavigator73 1 year ago

I've got a million things to do, and here I am watching YouTube while the vaccum is sitting next to me plugged in and waiting for me to use it... And I also had to sleep for 11 hours last night after a short work week around noise and people. Yep. This resonates. (Also, it's a really helpful video.)

I think for me (though I'm not officially diagnosed yet) the autism is stronger when it comes to socializing. I plan to stay at home and not go out and do things because I'm already tired or I know how tired it'll make me. But then get lonely and wish I had people to talk with about our common special interests.

@Kajetanv22 1 year ago

I did as you mentioned: instead „clean home” I wrote „clean kitchen”. I ended up cleaning kitchen tiles for 3-4 hours instead of taking care of dishes and cleaning oven etc.

@arianap71 1 year ago (edited)

When you feel uncomfortably dirty for some reason and you have the need to take a shower BUT at the same time find the act of taking a shower overwhelming

@chachadodds5860 1 year ago

YEEEEESSSSS!!!!!

My autistic side is the introvert. The adhd side of me is the extrovert.
The adhd me carries a whip, and bullies the autistic me into submission. That is, until the asd me and my physical being finally collapse in sheer exhaustion just trying to keep up with the adhd me and deny8ng my autistic needs.
It's a vicious, brutal, never-ending cycle.

@yoku_UwU 1 year ago

the list. the list omg the list. the fundamental problem of my life.

@leahd7269 1 year ago

My whole existence summed up perfectly in an 11:45 video

@juliegolick 1 year ago

As someone who's autistic but not adhd, I really appreciate videos like this. Because sometimes I worry that despite nodding along to an entire "are you autistic" video, I still feel great imposter syndrome, like, "well, isn't everyone like that?" And then I watch a video like this that doesn't speak to me at all, and in a weird way it gives me reassurance for the pure-autism ones that DO speak to me