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How does a typical AS-person with ADD appear?
I meen, things like does the impulsy of a ADDer break with the the rutine of the stereotypical ASer?

Hi Emmy,

My name is Joy and I am married to an ADD guy. Both my sons (from first marriage) have Asperger. both his children from his first marriage have ADD aswell. I am the only true nutcase without an official diagnosis in our family....

As far as I can tell it's two different things. My sons both have ADHD too. So they are impulsive and hyperactive and get rit of a lot of energy that way.

My husband is the complete oposite of that. he seems passive, quiet and lacks initiative. He is tired a lot and is only very hyperactive in his brain. He tells me his mind keeps racing along and he is unable to get a grip on things: unorganized, forgetfull that sort of thing.

So I think people with ADHD can vent their energy in their being active physically and people with ADD can't.
Both have the same chaotic mind which can never be stopped.

All I can say is we see the string points in every family member and have so much fun together! dinner time in our house is very very interesting.

I recently started a blog about my experiences with my great Asperger kids. I think it is time for some positive sounds in the world of autism!
Hope to meet you there! Joy

http://www.Asperger-blog.com

Joy Wrote:

Hi Emmy,

My name is Joy and I am married to an ADD guy. Both my sons (from first marriage) have Asperger. both his children from his first marriage have ADD aswell. I am the only true nutcase without an official diagnosis in our family....

As far as I can tell it's two different things. My sons both have ADHD too. So they are impulsive and hyperactive and get rit of a lot of energy that way.

My husband is the complete oposite of that. he seems passive, quiet and lacks initiative. He is tired a lot and is only very hyperactive in his brain. He tells me his mind keeps racing along and he is unable to get a grip on things: unorganized, forgetfull that sort of thing. my experience is ADD people do not have that many impulses...

So I think people with ADHD can vent their energy in their being active physically and people with ADD can't.
Both have the same chaotic mind which can never be stopped.

All I can say is we see the strong points in every family member and have so much fun together! dinner time in our house is very very interesting.

I recently started a blog about my experiences with my great Asperger kids. I think it is time for some positive sounds in the world of autism!
Hope to meet you there! Joy

http://www.Asperger-blog.com

Thank you so much for your answer!I look forward to look in your blog Smile

Joy Wrote:

Hi Emmy,

My name is Joy and I am married to an ADD guy. Both my sons (from first marriage) have Asperger. both his children from his first marriage have ADD aswell. I am the only true nutcase without an official diagnosis in our family....

As far as I can tell it's two different things. My sons both have ADHD too. So they are impulsive and hyperactive and get rit of a lot of energy that way.

My husband is the complete oposite of that. he seems passive, quiet and lacks initiative. He is tired a lot and is only very hyperactive in his brain. He tells me his mind keeps racing along and he is unable to get a grip on things: unorganized, forgetfull that sort of thing.

So I think people with ADHD can vent their energy in their being active physically and people with ADD can't.
Both have the same chaotic mind which can never be stopped.

All I can say is we see the string points in every family member and have so much fun together! dinner time in our house is very very interesting.

I recently started a blog about my experiences with my great Asperger kids. I think it is time for some positive sounds in the world of autism!
Hope to meet you there! Joy

http://www.Asperger-blog.com

Does your husband also have AS? Some folks have both ADD and AS, you know.

I have been diagnosed with ADD recently (although I'm officially not an aspie) and there's a big difference between ADD and ADHD. Some psychologists are even starting to doubt if the two disorders are one and the same, because there's much more difference than just the hyperactivity. People with ADD are generally hypoactive instead of hyperactive, and aren't impulsive. It's exactly how Joy described her husband. I feel like there's a hurricane going on inside my head all the time, but from the outside you can't tell. Also, people with ADD tend to have more Aspie-ish traits, I think.

Another difference is that people with ADHD usually get distracted by external stimuli like noise, and people with ADD get distracted by their own constant stream of thoughts.

Emmy Wrote:

How does a typical AS-person with ADD appear?
I meen, things like does the impulsy of a ADDer break with the the rutine of the stereotypical ASer?

For me, yes. The routines I have in fact are centered around very stimulating activities, and even then I like to have caffeine to get "entrenched" in them. Anything too procedural or anything that requires a lot of attention span (programming, Math, complex reading material) is not in my routines, whatsoever. I can't focus on that kind of stuff for a long enough time, before getting frustrated and choosing a more stimulating activity (movies, video games, writing on forums, drawing pictures spontaneously.)

Basically anything that doesn't require planning is what my routines consist of, in this way my routines are more impulsive than functional. But--they are not "self-stimulatory" ADD routines. They are Aspergian in nature, despite the constant need for stimulation. It's the AS/ADD effect.

Droog Wrote:

Another difference is that people with ADHD usually get distracted by external stimuli like noise, and people with ADD get distracted by their own constant stream of thoughts.

Hmm, it is definitely both for me. I think I am part of the combined type of ADHD because I was very hyperactive in my early years, then that switched to passivity around 5th grade or so. But pieces of behavioral hyperactivity--and undeniable, problematic impulsivity--still remain. I also explode verbally, and sometimes physically, when angered--and quite frequently. More ADHD than ADD, I guess.

Droog Wrote:

Another difference is that people with ADHD usually get distracted by external stimuli like noise, and people with ADD get distracted by their own constant stream of thoughts.

I get distracted by both!

Droog Wrote:

I have been diagnosed with ADD recently (although I'm officially not an aspie) and there's a big difference between ADD and ADHD. Some psychologists are even starting to doubt if the two disorders are one and the same, because there's much more difference than just the hyperactivity.

I do not have ADHD myself, but I have a family member who has been diagnosed with it. Well, actually, she has been diagnosed with ADHD-I, which is basically ADD (the ADHD minus the "H"yperactivity), though the term "ADD" is no longer used in the DSM. Anecdotally, I see little resemblance between her behavior and the behaviors of those I have known with "standard" ADHD.

I have both AS and ADD and the ADD in me shows up mainly in my attention problems (I "space out" a lot) and from stuttering and stammering that result from me thinking things faster then I can verbalize those thoughts.

google *executive functions* to get a current take on add/adhd.

I saw that bumper sticker a few days ago!

I have a friend with a dual diagnosis of AS/ADHD. He is constantly fidgety and very distractible. He of course also has the various "hallmarks" of Asperger's such as taking comments very literally, not "getting" jokes, perseverating on various subjects, wanting friends but being very socially inept in some ways and being bullied and excluded at school for acting "differently". I'm also told it is very common to have such dual diagnoses, and in some ways the traits of each condition intensify the others.

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