Dr. Micaela

Ah, yes.

Um, so fun.

Um, this is one of those things where I'm just gonna be like, yeah, you have to do you, um, which is, I realized completely not a helpful response.

Um,

So people with autism often really love like systems or rules or structure.

And then people with ADHD alone often struggle slash maybe even like rebel against structure and organization because those are weaknesses.

And I will say that people with autism do have weaknesses in their brain areas of being able to create the structure.

They just...

are able to stick with the structure or feel more comforted by structure.

Now, for the people who are combo savings, ADHD, autism, it can feel really confusing and overwhelming because of these like push-pull experiences of what I want and what I need and what parts of me want and need, but then are directly contradicted by other parts of me.

And so this is where learning how to get creative with some of those systems or some of those responses is really important.

You have the input, you wanna be social, you wanna get out there and you wanna do things, but also, oh my God, that's overwhelming.

So can you be more selective with the social opportunities that you have?

And then sometimes you can't be.

And so thinking too about like,

So like, look at your calendar for the next week.

What does it look like?

Wow.

I have a presentation that I'm doing on Friday morning.

And then I have a late night at work on Tuesday afternoon.