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ADHD/Autism = same thing theory?
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So, it’s very broad, if you feel like it describes you then it does as far as we're concerned
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For me, the average ADHDer is way too different compared with me. I don't relate to most AuDHDers here either. I relate the most to "pure" autists. One defining thing that is very noticeable to me compared with NTs and ADHDers/some AuDHDers is that I'm very prone to ritualized behavior and show complete distress when I'm forced to not perform that ritualized behavior. A lot of classic experiences ADHDer place like forgetting where they put their car keys isn't particularly common with me because "placing car keys" would be part of some elaborate ritualized behavior for me:
This by itself isn't that strange. But the ritual has many prerequisites (functional right hand, right pants pocket, table, being able to walk three steps) and if those prerequisites were messed if, then the ritual can't be completed and I will feel distress. No, using my left hand doesn't count because the ritual demands that I use my right hand. No, I can't walk four steps. It has to be three steps, no more and no less. If someone were to saw off the car key corner^TM^ of the table, I would 100% short-circuit lol
It's not just having ritualized behavior, but rigid and elaborate ritualized behavior. I don't see this at all in ADHDers.
Yeah, as an audhder there’s a ton of stuff I have to do in a certain way, but I also am purely spontaneous in other situations, it’s weird.