ArtemisSo shit like this is why autism goes undiagnosed & unrecognized so often.
These will be true of *some* autistic people, but it really has nothing to do with anything.
And that's not even mentioning the fact that a lot of questions ignore the possibility that an autistic person may also have ADHD.
Like "It’s important to me to carefully plan any activities I am going to do". Ummm. I have ADHD, motherfuckers. Of course I don't carefully plan all my activities! How tf would I manage that when I'm fucking impulsive as all hell?
NaomiElizabeth@artemis They were mutually exclusive according to the DSM for a long while, and Dr's aren't the kind of people to put any effort into learning anything new, after the amount they had to do for med school.
Really inspires confidence when you go to see them, and they only have a DSM-III on their shelf, when IV has been current for ages, and V is nearly ready for release.
Then you hear someone like Dr. Russell Barkley saying '60-70% of people with ADHD also have autism'.
If that's the case then surely the reverse is also true, and if it's that common then why isn't one automatically being tested for, after diagnosis with the other?
Janus@NaomiElizabeth @artemis I was also wondering about the reverse. The proportion is really about how common ADHD is compared to autism. And we don't really have reliable data on that. Like: we have data of diagnosed children saying that boys are twice as likely to be diagnosed which essentially means that girls are still massively underdiagnosed. Data on races (which is often just a proxy for poverty) indicates the same thing. Overall it seems that ADHD is more common than autism. But that would mean that these "60-70%" become almost 100% for the reverse. Which is strange: ADHD is definitely very common within the autistic population but it isn't universally present.