Dr. Alex George

And eventually, whenever I'm in my room, I just put the hairdryer on.

And I do that now.

I have a hairdryer in the lounge.

I have a hairdryer in the bedrooms.

There's a specific hairdryer that I like that I take everywhere.

And, you know, that's...

People often use white noise for concentration, and ADHD is often described as using it to help focus.

But for me, it's not focus, it's soothing, which tends to be more of an autistic spectrum trait.

I've also felt that the masking has been to a level of...

often trying to deal with like social situations and really present like a version of myself, not just in terms of like, I need to like manage the ADHD symptoms, but I need to be a certain role and be a certain person.

And I've often wondered like, is there more going on here than ADHD?

And specifically also the kind of social, I have challenges sometimes reading what people want.

I find it hard to trust people.

And sometimes I trust people when I shouldn't.

And other times I don't trust people and

very untrusting of people when I should trust them more.

And so I just really wanted to understand, you know, like, is there more going on here than meets the eye?

We know that ASD and ADHD coexist quite commonly.

I suspect as research becomes further and understanding the brain becomes further, perhaps there are many people that have a neurodivergent, that have some sort of structural physiological difference in the brain that presents with varying amounts of neurodivergence.

traits of ocd and adhd and autism like i often wonder i mean because they affect similar parts of the brain with some of these conditions is this that there is a more common theme going on here that envelops all of these things and actually each person presents slightly differently with it because