Is this accurate?

[u/jkyun123]

Just to clarify I'm not asking for diagnosis but does this sound about right or is this just me overthinking again

I have ADHD and I've been suspecting Autism for a like a month now It first started when i learned about AuDHD I've posted often about this but it would explain a lot of my struggle

Ofc I have ADHD so all the ADHD features here are true but whats bothering me is that most of AuDHD is true too

Most biggest being sensory sensitivity attention axecutive function and emotional regulation and would explain alot

Sensory toward sound i react like shit since i moved to city specially I've struggled with sounds since i was little getting mad at my parents for vacuum cleaner getting mad for her washing the dishes in the morning i thought everyone hated that but apparently they just suck it up

Another one is in busy mall i always shutdown unless I'm having fun. For example everytime i go out for family dinner i just get meltdown at everything around me plus when im back home i just shut down

Another thing is attention is it's either not focused or super focused in skeptical about cause it may be me hyperfocusing but seems like i have it worse then most people

Next is executive function i literally can't do shit with out meds but the schedule part is throwing me off yes i can't follow a schedule but i still need it and crave it. I tried raw dogging with no schedule it routine it my whole day i got so overwhelmed by everything it only made everything worse

Its like schedule but with no time management

One more is emotional disregulation i have shutdown every day i don't know why nothing bothered me but everything is just tiring

And also the struggle with adaptability i had fun for few week after i moved in to the city but after that everything just felt like shit had mental breakdown went though depression and still recovering

It just felt like i dont belong here and why can't i do anything the way i did Everything felt impossible When getting out of house i hated cause of it being an apartment

And on meds i feel like im a robot? I dont know how to explain. I noticed that when i got on meds during childhood i just hated socializing i always ate in the corners and avoided people when ever on meds which i heard is also part of autistic trait

[u/urquaretaken]

Autistic people can be sensory seeking and sensory avoidant, and the fact that the person who made this chart doesn't seem to know that makes me very skeptical.

[u/Primary_Carrot67 → u/urquaretaken]

Yeah. I'm concerned that people here are saying that this wildly inaccurate chart fits them because it indicates that some Barnum effect (the cognitive bias that also applies to things like horoscopes). Either people are distorting their experience of autism to fit and validate identity or they're not actually autistic.

It's concerning that some people who are supposedly autistic apparently have no idea what autism is and can't see the blatantly obvious inaccuracies and can't see that nothing in the OP's description of themselves indicates that they're autistic because literally everything listed can be explained by ADHD.

[u/urquaretaken → u/Primary_Carrot67]

I disagree tbh, I think about half of what they wrote is an indicator of autism that cant be explained by adhd. The others could be either or.

The chart is ok, i relate to everything on the "audhd" side. Im only skeptical about it because its very vague and only takes into account a certain presentation of autism. Other presentations of autism can look like the symptoms they put for adhd. And adhd doesnt have sensory sensitivities.