mate, you absolutely nailed it! ive not had a diagnosis for either yet but im 99.9% sure I have one or the other/both aswell, just dont know where to start with getting a diagnosis...
If you are in the UK you can set the ball rolling by talking to your doctor. You will be give a questionnaire to fill in, two if you are going for both ADHD and ASd. You will then wait several years apparently.... My son and I recently started the process. My daughter was diagnosed with ASD as a child- 16, which was a similar process but with a paediatrician. You can go privately but apart from initial costs, if you are prescribed meds you need to pay privately as the NHS might not be prepared to prescribe for you. This happened to a friend. Good luck.
Thanks for watching man, like Zoe said below you can ask for a self-referral form from your doctor in the uk and then join the waiting list. I did some online tests first, then asked my therapist for some more 'official' tests, then self-refered but ended up going private and paying for my autism diagnosis as I felt i needed to know 'who i was'. Just about to self refer again for an adhd diagnosis now so i'll make some vids on that documenting the process to hopefully help people. if you need any advice on this stuff message me on instagram @tarpsandtents . Tom
Thanks for sharing! I saw your post on Instagram and had to come take a look. We're also an autism family, along with with combination of ADHD for Joe (undiagnosed for others), so we can relate. I just subscribed as well. Supporting small channels 👍
I can heavily relate to this. Going through the process of getting an ADHD diagnosis (with all signs pointing to a definite strong case), and then I also deal with the 'swing to a mindset that is nigh on completely opposite' to the ADHD frame-of-mind. It's interesting because I long suspected I also have an autistic spectrum disorder... but, there's actually a chance that I have PTSD, and the symptoms/mechanisms of that have been resembling an ASD. If only mental health was even one shade simpler to figure out! lol
Sorry for the late reply dude been offline for a bit! I'm just about to try and get an adhd diagnosis now, did you go private or through the nhs? Theres such an overlap between asd, ptsd and adhd its hard to know which one or if you have all...I have all haha Apparently though living undiagnosed into adulthood with adhd or/and asd can cause complex ptsd in itself as you're managing a world that doesnt necessarily make sense to your brain. I always thought of ptsd as a warzone thing but it was explained to me as 'anything your brain isn't capable of processing at the time' which if i think back has been a lot of things due to the delay in processing autism causes. Thanks for commenting man, def keep me updated on your adhd diagnosis! Tom
Chanced on your videos and I’m so glad I did!I love your self awareness and how you’re using it to help others. A good therapist who understands being neuro divergent can help you to learn healthy strategies to deal with our conditions or just be someone to talk to to take the pressure down. Mindfulness has been helpful to me but as someone with trauma, things like meditating don’t always work.
Thankyou! Yeah I was really lucky to have a therapist with adhd and autism that understood how I felt and taught me about self care and how to manage things better! I found meditating really helpful in the past but my brains a bit busy for it recently, trauma's a hard one isnt it? Have you found a way to deal with it that isnt regressive and triggering? ive struggled with processing trauma by regression therapy as it gives me flashbacks and makes me jumpy
I've recently been diagnosed with both, plus schizoid personality disorder and hepenphric schizophrenia; it has made my life so much clearer. Now I coup with it; I love mixing chaos and order; I have an absolute fixed routine, but I "gameify" it; this time beat the clock, this time use other hand, this time constantly switch hands, this time go only clockwise, this time go only counterclockwise, this time alternate directions, etc
Ah thats a cool idea, I have the same where I do similar things each day but mix them up as much as i can. Its hard cuz my adhd gets bored then my autism craves routine haha Good to get names for how your brain works though isnt it? Thankyou for watching
@@tarpstents811 I need to be a bit more careful about mixing it up, with hepenphric, or disorganized schizophrenia, I'm at risk of; doing, saying, or even thinking, things out of step with reality. So even my changes must be fairly structured (trust me the pull of psychosis is terrifyingly alluring). Imagine this; you think you were just daydreaming, and instead you find yourself doing something, somewhere else, and have no idea why (you know the rest but not the why).
I am really greatful when I find people like yourself talking about having both. Cuz mostly i only find one or the other and it makes it difficult to understand how you can have both. I have two brothers and both have autism. But since I never could fully relate to their symptoms i never thought I could have it and I just thought life is supposed to be this hard.. but one year ago I got really burned out and I finally got help, but they never took me serious about autisme. Before last summer. I have really been reading alot about both autisme and adhd but I cant fully relate to just one of them. But listening to what you and others say about having both it all makes sense to me and most likely I am getting both diagnosis very soon + some more since I been living with this for so long with lots of trauma experiences. But I finally believe life is worth living. And thanks to you its easier for me to understand myself and its okey to be me.
Found out at 49-50 yoa (6 years ago) that I'm autistic/ADHD. Always felt easier out in the wilds than in towns/civilisation, especially by my self. Love heading out into the hills with the house on my back.
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mate, you absolutely nailed it! ive not had a diagnosis for either yet but im 99.9% sure I have one or the other/both aswell, just dont know where to start with getting a diagnosis...
If you are in the UK you can set the ball rolling by talking to your doctor. You will be give a questionnaire to fill in, two if you are going for both ADHD and ASd. You will then wait several years apparently.... My son and I recently started the process. My daughter was diagnosed with ASD as a child- 16, which was a similar process but with a paediatrician. You can go privately but apart from initial costs, if you are prescribed meds you need to pay privately as the NHS might not be prepared to prescribe for you. This happened to a friend. Good luck.
Thanks for watching man, like Zoe said below you can ask for a self-referral form from your doctor in the uk and then join the waiting list. I did some online tests first, then asked my therapist for some more 'official' tests, then self-refered but ended up going private and paying for my autism diagnosis as I felt i needed to know 'who i was'. Just about to self refer again for an adhd diagnosis now so i'll make some vids on that documenting the process to hopefully help people. if you need any advice on this stuff message me on instagram @tarpsandtents . Tom
Thanks for sharing! I saw your post on Instagram and had to come take a look. We're also an autism family, along with with combination of ADHD for Joe (undiagnosed for others), so we can relate. I just subscribed as well. Supporting small channels 👍
Thanks for watching Rich! So good to meet other neurodivergent people online, im glad I put this out there
I can heavily relate to this.
Going through the process of getting an ADHD diagnosis (with all signs pointing to a definite strong case), and then I also deal with the 'swing to a mindset that is nigh on completely opposite' to the ADHD frame-of-mind.
It's interesting because I long suspected I also have an autistic spectrum disorder... but, there's actually a chance that I have PTSD, and the symptoms/mechanisms of that have been resembling an ASD.
If only mental health was even one shade simpler to figure out! lol
Sorry for the late reply dude been offline for a bit! I'm just about to try and get an adhd diagnosis now, did you go private or through the nhs? Theres such an overlap between asd, ptsd and adhd its hard to know which one or if you have all...I have all haha
Apparently though living undiagnosed into adulthood with adhd or/and asd can cause complex ptsd in itself as you're managing a world that doesnt necessarily make sense to your brain. I always thought of ptsd as a warzone thing but it was explained to me as 'anything your brain isn't capable of processing at the time' which if i think back has been a lot of things due to the delay in processing autism causes. Thanks for commenting man, def keep me updated on your adhd diagnosis! Tom
Chanced on your videos and I’m so glad I did!I love your self awareness and how you’re using it to help others. A good therapist who understands being neuro divergent can help you to learn healthy strategies to deal with our conditions or just be someone to talk to to take the pressure down. Mindfulness has been helpful to me but as someone with trauma, things like meditating don’t always work.
Thankyou! Yeah I was really lucky to have a therapist with adhd and autism that understood how I felt and taught me about self care and how to manage things better! I found meditating really helpful in the past but my brains a bit busy for it recently, trauma's a hard one isnt it? Have you found a way to deal with it that isnt regressive and triggering? ive struggled with processing trauma by regression therapy as it gives me flashbacks and makes me jumpy
I've recently been diagnosed with both, plus schizoid personality disorder and hepenphric schizophrenia; it has made my life so much clearer.
Now I coup with it; I love mixing chaos and order; I have an absolute fixed routine, but I "gameify" it; this time beat the clock, this time use other hand, this time constantly switch hands, this time go only clockwise, this time go only counterclockwise, this time alternate directions, etc
Ah thats a cool idea, I have the same where I do similar things each day but mix them up as much as i can. Its hard cuz my adhd gets bored then my autism craves routine haha Good to get names for how your brain works though isnt it? Thankyou for watching
@@tarpstents811 I need to be a bit more careful about mixing it up, with hepenphric, or disorganized schizophrenia, I'm at risk of; doing, saying, or even thinking, things out of step with reality. So even my changes must be fairly structured (trust me the pull of psychosis is terrifyingly alluring). Imagine this; you think you were just daydreaming, and instead you find yourself doing something, somewhere else, and have no idea why (you know the rest but not the why).
I am really greatful when I find people like yourself talking about having both. Cuz mostly i only find one or the other and it makes it difficult to understand how you can have both. I have two brothers and both have autism. But since I never could fully relate to their symptoms i never thought I could have it and I just thought life is supposed to be this hard.. but one year ago I got really burned out and I finally got help, but they never took me serious about autisme. Before last summer. I have really been reading alot about both autisme and adhd but I cant fully relate to just one of them. But listening to what you and others say about having both it all makes sense to me and most likely I am getting both diagnosis very soon + some more since I been living with this for so long with lots of trauma experiences. But I finally believe life is worth living. And thanks to you its easier for me to understand myself and its okey to be me.
Found out at 49-50 yoa (6 years ago) that I'm autistic/ADHD. Always felt easier out in the wilds than in towns/civilisation, especially by my self. Love heading out into the hills with the house on my back.