Woo woo sage and crystals psychotherapist butted in to say they were definitely separate, because ADHD was genetic while autism was generally caused by outside influences like vaccines.
God I hate him so much. He bragged about spending 9 days in Peru on a Ayahuasca vision quest so I’ve been rephrasing it to everyone as shitting and puking until he saw god.
Jesus, I’m lucky enough to not have encountered those types of peeps. I’ve only really divulged my AuADHD to certain coworkers I’ve known for a while. For me what’s tiring is the “omg I didn’t know!” and I have to explain masking (my work face) and how working in a high stress environment like healthcare helps to hyper focus my ADHD because all the tasks are short term interventions and the scripts I use to talk to people negate me saying something stupid.