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   AuDHD as a distinct neurotype with overlapping traits

   1. SPSpeaker0:00

      AuDHD neurotype is different to pure ADHD and pure autism, but it overlaps with autistic girls' and women's social communication patterns. We are driven to connect. It can come across as looking quite innocent, having dissonance about how people feel, what they tell you, and what they really want. It's not that we do not sense it, it's that we sense so much.

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   Social dissonance: sensing mismatches in people’s signals

   1. APAlex Partridge0:21

      Dr. Samantha Hu is a highly specialized female ADHD and autism expert.

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   Guest introduction: Dr. Samantha Hu’s specialization

   1. SPSpeaker0:25

      With a PhD in medical science.

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   Credentials and scientific grounding

   1. APAlex Partridge0:27

      She's here to give you a detailed crash course in AuDHD...

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   Purpose: a crash course in AuDHD

   1. SPSpeaker0:30

      And help you spot it.

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   Spotting AuDHD: what to look for

   1. SPSpeaker0:31

      With AuDHD, there is that heightened cue detection, the salience network trying to pick up stimuli from your environment. But an AuDHDer who had been through trauma in their lives, that salience network then becomes a threat detection more than cue detection.

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   Cue detection and the salience network in AuDHD

   1. APAlex Partridge0:47

      How would you explain how it feels that might help somebody recognize it?

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   Trauma shift: from cue detection to threat detection + recognizing the feeling

   1. SPSpeaker0:51

      First of all, if someone's thinking that they might be AuDHD, I would...

Episode duration: 0:56