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AuDHD Life: Anyone else?

AuDHD Life: Anyone else?

Hi Forumites!

Today is World AuDHD Day!

Wait, what is AuDHD? Have you just spelt ADHD wrong? Actually, no.

AuDHD isn’t currently a formal diagnosis. It's a term that is starting to be used to describe the “neurotype” of people with both Autism AND ADHD. I’ve seen a bunch of people on the Forums who have both, just like myself!

Autism and ADHD have their own challenges, but the combination can be super difficult too. Some of the traits of Autism and ADHD can overlap. A LOT of the time they clash or oppose each other. I know this has really confused me and sent me spiraling a bit. Like, what do you mean I want predictability and sameness, and ALSO novelty and spontaneity?!

Check out the AuDHD Day website if you’re interested.

I’d love to use this thread as a way to share resources and memes, to connect and to share our experiences as AuDHDer’s!

Do you have Autism and ADHD? Do you identify with AuDHD? What have been some of your experiences?

Please tag anyone who you think might relate to this!

@Jynx @AuntGlow @tyme @rav3n @Ru-bee @Captain24 @Aegis

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Hat thread incoming @Jynx
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Not right now but soon lol

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Teehee most excellent @ArraDreaming I say hats off to that idea!! 😋

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@Jynx. This made me think of us!

 

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Love it @Captain24 sooooo accurate!! 💜

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2 years is SOLID, @Captain24. I'd love to see them one day!

I don't know that I have an exact number of hobbies that I got into but didn't finish. I guess I like to think of them as never being finished, because I could go back to them. If we reframed the question to be "How many hobbies do I have that I don't' do consistently?" the answer would probably be "All of them" 🤣 ADHD brains generally like novelty and get bored easily, so I try to remember that and just go with whatever brain wants to do, instead of fighting it. It's kind of like deciding to swim with the current, rather than against it.

Some memes for your Monday!

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That’s a much better way to put it @0ddsidian. Hopefully I will get back to the ones I started.

Love the memes they are so true

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 this one made my laugh @0ddsidian @Jynx

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 Me as I sit in the lounge scrolling instead of getting up and driving to work. @0ddsidian

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OMG I'm being so called out on this @Captain24. I'll sit in my towel for so long that I get cold and there have been times where I'd had to have a second shower just to warm up 😂

I am very much someone who ends up in "functional freeze" at the end of the day. I also become non-verbal some days, and when it's been a particularly challenging or overwhelming day I often find it hard to communicate via writing either. I know this about myself though, which helps 😊

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That’s funny. @0ddsidian. That’s something I don’t do. But I do sit in the car in the garage trying to find the energy to get out. Yet I sit in a truck all day at work!

After reading that I definitely go into ‘functional freeze’ I don’t talk in the phone or get back to anyone especially after a day at work. I’m worse after nightshifts. I have to remember to do it in my days off but forget and don’t want to.

I didn’t realise that I go non-verbal as well. But right now I’m not even talking to my dogs. I do live alone though so it’s not as though anyone would notice.

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