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If you’ve been told “it’s just ADHD,” there may be autistic traits hiding in plain sight under AuDHD. In this video, I walk through 6 specific ways ADHD can overshadow autism in AuDHD adults, and what that actually feels like in everyday life.

Whether you’re a neurodivergent adult or a clinician, you’ll see how diagnostic overshadowing works in practice — and why so many AuDHD adults, especially women and marginalized folks, don’t get the full autistic picture until later in life.

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Time Stamps:

0:00 Missed for years: AuDHD adults
1:20 Autism + ADHD overlap and misdiagnosis
2:30 What diagnostic overshadowing is
2:45 Research on delayed autism diagnosis
5:20 Six ways ADHD hides autism (overview)
6:00 Social and communication differences
6:45 Sensory differences and “hyperactivity”
7:35 Executive functioning and bottom up processing
8:50 Emotional regulation, predictability, and change
10:15 Special interests vs “hyperfocus”
11:10 Masking, unmasking, and self‑understanding
12:10 AuDHD and diagnostic overshadowing
13:05 Why this matters for support and care

We cover:
→ Why social struggles get read as “just impulsive” or “ADHD social skills issues” instead of autistic communication differences
→ How sensory seeking and sensory overload get filed under ADHD “hyperactivity” instead of autistic sensory processing
→ Executive function differences that go deeper than ADHD alone, especially in AuDHD adults juggling multiple roles
→ Emotional responses to change being misread as “poor frustration tolerance” instead of autistic need for predictability and transition support
→ Special interests being collapsed into “ADHD hyperfocus,” hiding autistic passion, depth, and pattern‑seeking
→ How masking uses ADHD traits to cover autistic traits, and what unmasking can look like for AuDHD

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Dr. Megan Anna Neff | Neurodivergent Insights
Clinical Psychologist | AuDHD Researcher & Educator

This video is not medical advice and is not to be considered therapy.

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Dr. Megan Anna Neff (she/they) is an Autistic-ADHD clinical psychologist who blends research, clinical insight, and lived experience to make sense of adult neurodivergence. She creates clear, compassionate, neurodivergent-affirming education for autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD adults, and for the clinicians who support them.

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