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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2014 19:05:34 GMT
Just a heads up. Might be interesting to see how the BBC's Horizon program makers approach this and how it might be related to AD(H)D and future media coverage of.... Obviously it'll also be on iPlayer a few hours afterwards Interesting viewpoint from this Telegraph article I highlighted earlier on annie's Observer "ADHD is not a real disease" thread which the BBC program reminded me of: "As a mother of two kids with Autism and ADHD as a co-morbid condition, I wonder if it would be more worthwhile to investigate whether ADHD is in fact undiagnosed Asperger's because it is very hard to assess where one ends and the other begins. ADHD has always been the poor relation to Autism purely because of the naughty child myth that surrounds it. What people fail to see is the absolute drain on the parent who struggles to manage the extremities of a child whose inquiring mind knows no safe limits and boundaries . A teacher once said about one of mine that she couldn't understand how such a clever child could be so naughty."
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Post by purplepower on Apr 1, 2014 20:44:01 GMT
Watching this live. Yay for iplayer I'm not autistic but there's definitely some overlap of symptoms... I definitely "fell" for some of the tests.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2014 7:03:35 GMT
I'm a mixed bag on ASD tests, averaging out as borderline to high, but not picked up by my psyche re ADHD. Wondering if misinterpreting some of the questions in itself could be an ASD or ADHD issue? But also, and like ADHD symptoms, possibly a sign of other traits? There's an appraisal of a diagnostic conflation between autism and ADHD here at the www.autism.org.uk site
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