Disclaimer: This diagram represents common patterns or trends associated with autism and ADHD. However, these are generalizations & will not resonate with everyone’s individual experiences. There is a lot of diversity among Autistic and ADHD people & each person’s journey is different. For more information and full write up please see www.neurodivergentinsights.com
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I’m not an expert, but can you not be both?
Yes you can… It’s not fun (ಥ ͜ʖಥ)
Sounds about right.
Here!
It’s a really good match for “complex creative” careers. Like (high end) software development, maths, startups, skunkworks etc.
New and scary problem: Raaah!
ADHD: Ooh, new! enter manic mode
ASD: I’m gonna repeatedly smash my brain into this problem and see who breaks first. I will read about it, watch videos, try to solve smaller versions, try to solve it stupidly and see if that works and why not, talk everyone’s ear off about it… special interest activate
Take twice as long on the project as anyone else, but it’s done right, and then spend several days in burnout recovering from the manic session?
At worst yeah. :)
But for complex tasks it’s sometimes “being able to do the project at all”, or “faster than a team of non-autistics”.
Burnout management is a field by itself…
Yes, there’s a massive co-morbidity between the two. Something like 50% chance to have ASD if you have ADHD iirc
its the reverse; about half of people with ASD have ADHD.
In the US at least the diagnosis rate of ASD is 2.7% and the rate of ADHD is 9.8%, if I recall the odds of having ASD if you have ADHD is approx 20%
I’ve heard at least one expert confidently claim that about 50% of people with autism have ADHD.