AuDHD describes people who are both autistic and ADHD, with patterns that are not simply “autism plus ADHD” but a blended neurotype. It often includes fast, layered thinking, sensory intensity, emotional depth and executive function that swings between sharp focus and shutdown.
This AuDHD Learning Hub brings together specialised articles, courses, research references and lived‑experience resources about the overlap.
🏗️ AuDHD Courses are in development
Launch: Early 2026
The AuDHD theme will follow the full Sensory Overload structure:
Basics, Personal Deep Dive, Coping Strategies, Science & Research, and Support.
We are already publishing articles on AuDHD, and you can explore them here.
AuDHD Courses
🧭 AuDHD Basics
Short, clear lessons explaining what AuDHD is, how masking and burnout often appear in mixed profiles, why sensory overload and emotional intensity can feel doubled, and how AuDHD shows up across different ages.
🪞 Your AuDHD: A Personal Deep Dive
A reflective course for understanding your personal mix of autistic and ADHD traits, recognizing your everyday patterns, and finding clear language to explain your AuDHD profile to others.
🛠️ AuDHD Coping Strategies
Practical tools designed for both sides of the overlap: sensory support for overstimulation and understimulation, flexible structure aligned with your energy, pacing and rest, and help navigating overwhelm and task-switching.
🔬 AuDHD Science & Research
Accessible exploration of research on overlapping traits, sensory processing, attention differences, predictive processing ideas, and what science currently understands about combined profiles.
🤝 Supporting Someone With AuDHD
Guidance for partners, parents, friends, and professionals on communication, stability, routines, emotional safety, and supporting someone with AuDHD while also caring for yourself.
✨ Early Access & Membership
When you join the Full Access Membership, you get unlimited access to all current themes. AuDHD courses will be added to your account automatically as soon as they launch, and your membership price will remain the same for as long as your subscription stays active.
🧠 Understanding AuDHD
📘 What Is AuDHD Understanding the Combined Neurotype
A clear introduction to how autism and ADHD traits interact within one person.
📗 AuDHD Symptoms in Adults
A detailed look at everyday patterns in sensory processing, focus, emotional pacing, communication and routines.
🌟 Strengths & Thinking Patterns
💡 AuDHD Strengths
How AuDHD cognition supports insight, creativity, empathy and rapid learning.
⚙️ AuDHD Executive Function & Attention
🧭 AuDHD and Executive Function Why Planning and Starting Tasks Feel So Hard
Explains attention, task initiation, switching and planning differences.
⏱️ AuDHD Time Blindness and Task Switching Practical Tools That Help
How time perception works in AuDHD and supports for attention flow.
⚡ AuDHD: Constant Contradictions in Energy & Focus
Describes the push-pull pattern where energy, motivation and focus swing between extremes.
Emotional Regulation
🔥 AuDHD Emotional Regulation: Guide for Fast, Intense and Complex Emotions
Explores why AuDHD emotions move quickly, escalate suddenly and feel layered due to autistic and ADHD processing styles.
🌬️ AuDHD Sensory Processing
🎧 Understanding Sensory Processing and Overload in AuDHD
Why sensory input feels intense, how overload builds and what shapes sensory comfort.
🌬️ Sensory Seeking vs Sensory Avoidance in AuDHD
How the sensory system switches between craving and avoiding input.
🌱 How AuDHD Nervous Systems Recover from Overload
The phases of sensory–emotional recovery and how to support them.
📚 AuDHD Study, Work & Careers
🧭 AuDHD Jobs and Career Guide
How to evaluate work environments and choose roles that match your processing style.
❤️ AuDHD Social & Relationships
🎭 AuDHD Masking: Cognitive, Sensory and Emotional
AuDHD masking blends cognitive, sensory and emotional adjustments to meet expectations.
💬 AuDHD in Relationships Communication Differences and Connection Needs
Communication pacing, emotional rhythms, sensory factors and connection patterns in relationships.
🍼 AuDHD Parenting
🧠 Parenting With AuDHD The Daily Executive Load
How sensory processing, transitions and executive function shape everyday parenting demands.
🔬 AuDHD Science & Research
🧬 What Research Says About AuDHD A Scientific Overview
A collection of research-backed explanations on neurology, sensory processing, executive function and emotional regulation.
🌛 AuDHD Lived Experience & Identity
🌛 Growing Up AuDHD Shared Childhood Experiences
A detailed look at sensory, emotional and social experiences across early development.
🌙 Late Diagnosis and Self-Understanding in AuDHD
How adults recognise their neurotype later in life and how diagnosis reframes identity.
🌟 Explore More
This hub will continue expanding with new articles, tools and science-based resources. New AuDHD courses will be added to Sensory Overload in 2026, including modules on emotional pacing, sensory design, executive function supports and identity integration.
AuDHD External Resources
🧠 ADHD & Autism Self Advocacy Network (ASAN + ADDA Collaboration)
Projects, guides, and advocacy work addressing the lived experiences of people who are both autistic and ADHD, with resources on accessibility, identity, and support.
📘 AuDHD Research Overview – ADHD Evidence Project
Summaries of scientific studies on ADHD and autism overlap, co-occurrence rates, diagnostic clarity, and combined support needs.
🔬 Simons Foundation – Spectrum: Autism & ADHD Co-occurrence
Independent science journalism covering the interaction between autism traits and ADHD traits, brain mechanisms, genetics, and clinical implications.
🌍 CHADD – ADHD & Autism Resources
Articles and evidence-based guidance explaining dual diagnoses, overlapping features, and how ADHD–autism combinations affect daily functioning.
🇬🇧 National Autistic Society – Autism & ADHD Section
Clear explanations of combined autism–ADHD presentations, practical support guidance, workplace information, and lived-experience insights.
📗 NICE Guidelines – ADHD & Autism
Clinical guideline pages outlining assessment standards, co-occurring conditions, and treatment recommendations for adults with both ADHD and autism.
🌏 Autism CRC – Autism + ADHD Research
Australian national research collaboration providing evidence reviews and reports on co-occurring neurodevelopmental conditions such as AuDHD.
📘 ICD-11 – Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Official WHO classification system describing how autism and ADHD can co-occur within neurodevelopmental profiles.
📚 AuDHD Research Reference Library
Scientific studies on the overlap between Autism and ADHD
🧬 Autism + ADHD Co-Occurrence and Prevalence
Antshel, K. M., Zhang-James, Y., Wagner, K., Ledesma, A., & Faraone, S. V. (2016).
An update on the comorbidity of ADHD and ASD: A focus on clinical management.
Polderman, T. J. C., et al. (2014).
The co-occurrence of autistic and ADHD dimensions in adults: A population-based study.
Hours, C., Recasens, C., et al. (2022).
ASD and ADHD Comorbidity: What Are We Talking About?
Pinto, R., et al. (2015).
The genetic overlap of ADHD and ASD.
Riglin, L., et al. (2021).
Investigating ADHD and ASD traits in adulthood: Associations with childhood cognitive and communication problems.
🧠 Executive Function, Cognition & Development
Craig, F., et al. (2016).
Executive functions in ASD+ADHD compared to single conditions.
Townes, A., et al. (2023).
Executive function in ADHD and ASD: A scoping review.
Martinez, G., et al. (2024).
Overlap, distinctions, and nuances of ADHD and ASD in children: A meta-analysis.
Hendry, A., et al. (2025).
Simple executive function as an endophenotype of autism and ADHD.
Yerys, B., et al. (2009).
Cognitive profiles in children with ASD+ADHD.
🎧 Sensory Processing Differences
Huang, S., et al. (2024).
Sensory processing and executive functions in ASD+ADHD vs single disorder groups.
Ghanizadeh, A. (2019).
Sensory over-responsivity as an added dimension in ADHD.
Robertson, C., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2017).
Sensory perception in autism.
🔬 Neurology, Genetics & Brain Mechanisms
Volkow, N., et al. (2009).
Dopamine system dysfunction in ADHD.
Lawson, R., et al. (2018).
Brain mechanisms for sensory prediction error in autism.
Ronald, A., et al. (2008).
Genetic correlations between autistic traits and ADHD symptoms in twins.
🌊 Emotional Processing & Regulation
Samson, A., et al. (2012).
Emotional processing in autism spectrum disorders.
Shaw, P., et al. (2014).
Emotion dysregulation in ADHD: A meta-analysis.
Hollocks, M., et al. (2014).
Anxiety and emotion regulation in autism with ADHD.
🧭 Clinical Assessment & Diagnostic Complexity
Antshel, K. M., & Russo, N. (2019).
Clinical challenges in diagnosing autism and ADHD.
Grzadzinski, R., et al. (2011).
Diagnostic confusion between ADHD and ASD symptoms.
Learning Hubs
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🧠 Neurotype | Autism
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