Sometimes I wonder how much this is a symptom of AuDHD specifically. ADHD people cannot hold “The Thought” but often just go with the flow anyway and it’s not as important. ASD peeps can hold “The thought” and feel the pressure to express it. AuDHD people simultaneously cannot hold it and feel the pressure to express it.
I will perseverate on a topic going back to it because I need to info dump, but most people just don’t care about things to the same level of detail. =(
Exactly. I feel at home when I’m talking with friends and jumping around topics and going back to conversations that were started 5 topics ago after having derailed into a sub topic. We all are just like “oh yeah, we were talking about that”.
The list of symptoms is really long for both autism and adhd and there’s significant overlap. The same goes for identified genetic risk factors (if there wasn’t I would definitely assume the genetics work was wrong). Trying to separate the two into clearly distinct categories is a good game in my view.
Sometimes I wonder how much this is a symptom of AuDHD specifically. ADHD people cannot hold “The Thought” but often just go with the flow anyway and it’s not as important. ASD peeps can hold “The thought” and feel the pressure to express it. AuDHD people simultaneously cannot hold it and feel the pressure to express it.
What about Ultra HD
They hold the thought in sharp, high-res focus and loop it in their head over and over, never forgetting.
I will perseverate on a topic going back to it because I need to info dump, but most people just don’t care about things to the same level of detail. =(
You need autistic friends
Yeah, but that is a task made more difficult by my reluctance to be social.
Exactly. I feel at home when I’m talking with friends and jumping around topics and going back to conversations that were started 5 topics ago after having derailed into a sub topic. We all are just like “oh yeah, we were talking about that”.
The list of symptoms is really long for both autism and adhd and there’s significant overlap. The same goes for identified genetic risk factors (if there wasn’t I would definitely assume the genetics work was wrong). Trying to separate the two into clearly distinct categories is a good game in my view.