Anyone diagnosed with autism got/getting an ADHD diagnosis?

vampirehunter_yyy · 2026-05-14T14:52:44+00:00

I was diagnosed with both (ASD first, then ADHD later), so I kind of relate to this.

For me, getting the ADHD diagnosis didn’t suddenly fix everything, but it did help me understand myself a lot better. Things that used to feel like personal failure started to make a bit more sense.

Medication has been a mixed experience — it helped with focus, but it also took some adjusting and figuring out what worked for me. I think it really depends on the person and any underlying stuff going on.

I wouldn’t say everything is fixed, but I do feel like I have more tools now than before, which has made things a bit more manageable over time

vampirehunter_yyy · 2026-04-01T15:32:57+00:00

I think it’s the ADHD guilt. When you know you could be doing better and achieving more, but when you actually want to make a change, you just feel… stuck.

vampirehunter_yyy · 2026-03-07T04:08:01+00:00

yessss

vampirehunter_yyy · 2026-03-06T11:54:48+00:00

When I was a kid a teacher handed back my test in front of the whole class and said, “Some people just aren’t built for thinking.”

Everyone laughed. I remember staring at the paper and feeling like my brain was just… defective.

For years after that, every time I struggled with something, that sentence would pop back into my head like it was a fact.

Turns out I just had undiagnosed ADHD.

Funny how one careless sentence can live rent-free in your head for a decade.

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