I'll be honest, sometimes I have a hard time telling how much actually similarity between #autism and #ADHD there is and how much of it is simply that we share similar traumas (people imputing motives to us, being unable to discern neurotypical social rules that you're supposed to just "know", being forced to adopt a "normal" persona, etc).
There are similarities, and it's not uncommon for someone to be both, but also...I think a large reason I've always found it easy to relate to autistic people (and a lot of autistic people seem to gravitate to me) is that it's great to connect with another person who doesn't decide for me what I mean, doesn't assume malice or carelessness when I didn't meet their expectations, and doesn't react with hostility or disdain to deviation from social norms.
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