AuDHD Explained 🧠

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   Internal suppression when ADHD and autism co-occur

   1. SPSpeaker0:00

      When you have an ADHD brain and an, a brain that has autism, there's internal suppression. It is in part influenced by shame. There's no point in me asking for help because I'm not going to be understood. I'm going to be judged. People are going to tell me I'm too much. "What's wrong with you?" Like, "Why can't you figure that out?" All of that fear of communicating your needs and telling somebody, "Hey, this is what's going on for me," creates that internal suppression, where the person then pushes the words down. They become afraid to expose

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   Shame, fear of judgment, and why asking for help can feel pointless

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      themselves. You leave yourself in a really vulnerable place.

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   Host introduction: Dr. Mark Rackley as an AuDHD specialist

   1. APAlex Partridge0:34

      Dr. Mark Rackley is an AuDHD specialist.

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   Context: decades of experience with ADHD and autism

   1. APAlex Partridge0:36

      With more than two decades of experience helping people with ADHD and autism.

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   Return guest by popular demand

   1. APAlex Partridge0:40

      He's back by popular demand.

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   Episode aim: processing a late AuDHD diagnosis

   1. APAlex Partridge0:42

      To help you process your late AuDHD diagnosis.

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   AuDHD is dynamic across the day, not static

   1. SPSpeaker0:45

      Like ADHD and autism, it's never static. What your morning will look like, as opposed to mid-morning, afternoon, post-lunch, early evening, evening, nighttime, it'll all change.

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   Alex’s question: how people react when autism is added to an ADHD diagnosis

   1. APAlex Partridge0:55

      What reactions do you get from people? Uh, if you say, "Actually, look, there's more going on here. I know we said you have ADHD, but actually there's also autism," what reactions at that stage do you see?

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   Clinician caution: approaching the conversation carefully

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      I tread very carefully with this. Very, very carefully, because ...

Episode duration: 1:09