I am self diagnosed female living in Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹. I have both and meet a lot of the traits. I’m 33 and the rocking, meltdowns and lack of eye contact should have been a dead giveaway. As well as being easily distracted, executive disfunction and emotional disregulation.
I have a psychiatric autism diagnosis and a suspected ADHD diagnosis. I think there's a big overlap. Especially the detail focus of autism can lead to a shifting focus that makes it difficult to hold attention and stuff. So autism can just work like having addtional ADHD.
Sorry I know I already commented on a few videos tonight and don't know if you'll ever get these messages but I get what you're trying to say and found a book a few weeks ago that might make a lot of sense to you. It's called Misdiagnosis and dual diagnosis of gifted children and adults. It is a manual for doctors to figure out how giftedness plays into conditions like autism, adhd, anxiety ect and from what I've read in the book it sounds like you are gifted but it's going unrecognized because it's not in factual type of thinking. You put concepts together the way I see other high iq people do in your reasoning. Having that overlooked can make it impossible for the doctors to distinguish between things like if it's adhd and autism or just autism and apparently it's helping a lot of people who are getting the same kinds of frustrations as us when trying to get checked out by professionals. I'm finding that I am gifted intellectually and in other areas but have what would be described as autism and adhd but after reading this book I questioned a lot because it said that having giftedness relates to sensory overexcitability because the area you are gifted in intensifies the connections in the nervous system. I am observing in my own body that the sensory effects are what are imparing my communication and as I get older it's gotten worse because I didn't know what to do or fully understand because no one had ever validated me. You actually sound gifted in language to me, and may come off with adhd symptoms due to treated sensory effects. I found a medicinal mushroom extract called lions mane that support the nervous system and when I take it every day my speech improves a lot and also suddenly don't struggle with everything as much. But then I'd run out of money, get off it and the burnout came back so hard I'd usually lose my job and have to start over. And months later after navigating all that while in severe burnout I'd finally get paychecks and afford the Lions mane again and same thing, something just balanced out and I was a lot better at executive function, memory, and talking. I struggle with talking so much it makes me dizzy to focus while I'm talking when there's any background noise or smells or bad lights but in the right environment I can express myself fine in my own beautiful autistic way and apparently that is a sign that it could be sensory issues interfering with the autism speech issues more than an adhd diagnosis but whatever they decide to call it doesn't matter as much as just recognizing how our own body is. The more we know the better we're gonna adapt and feel better. So happy to hear you got engaged and have been feeling better as of some videos you posted. I don't know if you still use your channel but just wanted to leave some comments to have a chance to connect and also give your videos a boost in the algorithm because out of a lot of autistic people I've been hearing I relate to the way you express yourself very much even though I am very fast pace now. I used to be very slow paced but the further I get into burn out I've been getting wild bursts of hyper speech where I can say so much but it comes out like a tornado and people are disturbed. It's just the intensity of what I'm thinking is finally able to come out when I hit a certain speed that I didn't used to be able to be at. I'm really not sure about a lot of things but I'm a bit disturbed at how misunderstood I'm seeing us autistic people are and I'm only just now finding out at 30 and getting diagnosed. If you get my comments please check out that book if you are interested and no worries if you see this and can't respond but it's been helpful for me writing out all these comments to organize my thoughts and I hope some of it could be helpful to anyone else out there struggling.
I am self diagnosed female living in Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹. I have both and meet a lot of the traits. I’m 33 and the rocking, meltdowns and lack of eye contact should have been a dead giveaway. As well as being easily distracted, executive disfunction and emotional disregulation.
I have a psychiatric autism diagnosis and a suspected ADHD diagnosis. I think there's a big overlap. Especially the detail focus of autism can lead to a shifting focus that makes it difficult to hold attention and stuff. So autism can just work like having addtional ADHD.
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Sorry I know I already commented on a few videos tonight and don't know if you'll ever get these messages but I get what you're trying to say and found a book a few weeks ago that might make a lot of sense to you. It's called Misdiagnosis and dual diagnosis of gifted children and adults. It is a manual for doctors to figure out how giftedness plays into conditions like autism, adhd, anxiety ect and from what I've read in the book it sounds like you are gifted but it's going unrecognized because it's not in factual type of thinking. You put concepts together the way I see other high iq people do in your reasoning. Having that overlooked can make it impossible for the doctors to distinguish between things like if it's adhd and autism or just autism and apparently it's helping a lot of people who are getting the same kinds of frustrations as us when trying to get checked out by professionals. I'm finding that I am gifted intellectually and in other areas but have what would be described as autism and adhd but after reading this book I questioned a lot because it said that having giftedness relates to sensory overexcitability because the area you are gifted in intensifies the connections in the nervous system. I am observing in my own body that the sensory effects are what are imparing my communication and as I get older it's gotten worse because I didn't know what to do or fully understand because no one had ever validated me. You actually sound gifted in language to me, and may come off with adhd symptoms due to treated sensory effects. I found a medicinal mushroom extract called lions mane that support the nervous system and when I take it every day my speech improves a lot and also suddenly don't struggle with everything as much. But then I'd run out of money, get off it and the burnout came back so hard I'd usually lose my job and have to start over. And months later after navigating all that while in severe burnout I'd finally get paychecks and afford the Lions mane again and same thing, something just balanced out and I was a lot better at executive function, memory, and talking. I struggle with talking so much it makes me dizzy to focus while I'm talking when there's any background noise or smells or bad lights but in the right environment I can express myself fine in my own beautiful autistic way and apparently that is a sign that it could be sensory issues interfering with the autism speech issues more than an adhd diagnosis but whatever they decide to call it doesn't matter as much as just recognizing how our own body is. The more we know the better we're gonna adapt and feel better. So happy to hear you got engaged and have been feeling better as of some videos you posted. I don't know if you still use your channel but just wanted to leave some comments to have a chance to connect and also give your videos a boost in the algorithm because out of a lot of autistic people I've been hearing I relate to the way you express yourself very much even though I am very fast pace now. I used to be very slow paced but the further I get into burn out I've been getting wild bursts of hyper speech where I can say so much but it comes out like a tornado and people are disturbed. It's just the intensity of what I'm thinking is finally able to come out when I hit a certain speed that I didn't used to be able to be at. I'm really not sure about a lot of things but I'm a bit disturbed at how misunderstood I'm seeing us autistic people are and I'm only just now finding out at 30 and getting diagnosed. If you get my comments please check out that book if you are interested and no worries if you see this and can't respond but it's been helpful for me writing out all these comments to organize my thoughts and I hope some of it could be helpful to anyone else out there struggling.
Again, highly informative
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