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  • I feel much more comfortable in dark rooms, with dark mode screens and quiet.

    I am ADHD and ASD though, and it’s ASD that leads to sensory overload conditions that make the dark, quite rooms help me a ton.

    My pediatrician has told me that boys with ASD have a 90% chance of having ADHD, and its fairly common for girls as well, though not near 90%.

    I suppose, since ASD diagnosis is difficult in more subtle cases and it costs a fair amount of time and money that there are a ton of folks diagnosed with ADHD that are also ASD and don’t realize it.


  • Routhinator@startrek.websitetoADHD@lemmy.worldHappens Too Frequently
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    1 year ago

    I identify with this because of my ADHD.

    But also, because ADHD, I spent about 15 minutes in a “does not compute” loop because bats can see perfectly well in the dark, so using them as an analogy involving something being lost and helping them by turning the lights on is just not making sense to me.

    I’ve broken out of the loop, but I still am not sure why “bats”