#if i ever speak over autistic people btw please tell me
“adhd and autism are cousins, of course there’s a lot of overlap, and we can come together to bond over shared experiences” and “for the love of GOD just because you have adhd doesn’t mean you can speak on the autistic experience” and “not all neurodivergent people are autistic or have adhd and it’s important to remember and avoid implying that places where adhd and autism overlap are universal nd experiences” MUST coexist
Actually no I’m putting this in a reblog instead of in the tags, absolutely yes to all of the above but I’m also going to add “ADHD isn’t just autism lite and is its own disorder with its own issues and symptoms” and “people with ADHD get enough of everyone around them not taking them seriously and minimizing their experiences and refusing to make accommodations bc ‘well ADHD isn’t a REAL problem that’s just that thing annoying kids have’ and being neurodivergent in a different way doesn’t fuckin mean you’re exempt from that”
^ absolutely. this post was spurred specifically by a couple of instances of ppl with adhd speaking over autistic people (thanks tiktok very cool /s) but that doesn’t mean adhd isn’t a “real neurodivergence”, that people with adhd don’t have legitimate struggles, or that they have it better than autistic people. treating adhd as “basically autism but Easier” is incredibly harmful
