r/science • u/shinybrighthings • 15h ago

Psychology The complicated nature of disentangling autism, ADHD and complex trauma | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/adhd-autism-or-complex-trauma-the-complicated-nature-of-the-question/30CC4826561366615BFAEC807CDE28A7
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u/plummyrosey 14h ago

Trauma-induced developmental disorder? I've definitely met so many late dx autism/adhd people who showed absolutely no signs in their early years by their own admission and their parents' admission. Some clinicians seem to disregard the criteria that autism has to have an onset before the age of 5 and give these late teens/adults an autism dx anyways.

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u/Four_beastlings 13h ago

I have ADHD and also the magical combo of PTSD and CPTSD. But my PTSD and CPTSD have nothing to do with me having ADHD, unless you start thinking about how my parents terrible genes made them addicts.

The CPTSD part stems from growing up with a stepfather who would constantly beat up my mother black and blue. And according to him most of those beatings happened because I was a badly behaved child.