Chapter 31 My AuDHD Story Part 2: My Teens

Chapter 31 recapping my unexpected Autism and ADHD year: this week I'm looking back at my teens and the two opposing stories of those years, both of which were equally true - the happy smiling privileged version, and the increasingly unhappy struggle that having undiagnosed AuDHD was starting to have on me.

As I tried to negotiate the world socially and academically, I had two what I now recognise to be major autism burnouts, but at the time just affirmed the narrative I had started to firmly believe about myself that I was somehow incapable or lazy or wrong in some way, and had to present an increasingly contorted view of myself to convince the world around me I was 'coping' when I clearly wasn't.

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Some useful links:
“Twice Exceptional Is a Cruel Double-Edged Sword”: https://www.additudemag.com/2e-adhd-a...

AQ Autism Self-Test:
I'm going to keep posting the link to the AQ Self Test for autism every Sunday in case this is the first video in the series people come across. Take the self test (remember it's JUST a self-test) and see how you score. You may have been on the autism spectrum all along and just had no idea, like I was:
https://psychology-tools.com/test/aut...

Cat-Q Test (Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire):
https://embrace-autism.com/cat-q

ADHD Self-Test:
(with all the same caveats as above) an ADHD self-test. ADHD is even MORE common than autism (and many of us will have both); the vast majority of ADHDers just struggle through from childhood through adulthood having no idea that they even HAVE ADHD, let alone working out strategies to cope and deal with it all better to be happier and less frustrated with ourselves and others.
https://psychology-tools.com/test/adu...