Wanting People but Needing Space in AuDHD
Wanting closeness but needing a lot of space afterward is one of the most confusing social patterns in AuDHD. You may miss people, crave intimacy,…
Wanting closeness but needing a lot of space afterward is one of the most confusing social patterns in AuDHD. You may miss people, crave intimacy,…
Some decisions look small from the outside but feel strangely heavy from the inside. You may stand in the kitchen unable to choose lunch. You…
You may be sitting quietly, answering normally, keeping your routine, and looking completely composed, while internally your brain feels crowded, tense, noisy, or close to…
Autism, ADHD, and AuDHD overlap enough to be confusing, but they are not interchangeable. Many people recognize themselves in more than one description and then…
An AuDHD self-assessment checklist can be useful when the overlap between autism and ADHD feels difficult to describe clearly. In many cases, the question is…
Current research does not support a single-cause explanation for AuDHD. AuDHD is best understood as a multifactorial neurodevelopmental overlap involving autism and ADHD, with the…
AuDHD can feel new because the language around it is newer, the overlap is discussed more openly, and many more people now recognize themselves in…
Maybe you recognize ADHD traits in yourself, but that does not fully explain the sensory overload, the need for predictability, the social exhaustion, or the…
Most AuDHD myths come from three things: simplified ideas about autism, simplified ideas about ADHD, and false assumptions about how the overlap should look. People…
AuDHD is not rare, but the exact numbers depend on what researchers are measuring. The strongest pooled evidence suggests that around two in five autistic…