AuDHD

You read the autism book and nodded for a hundred pages. Then it described someone who was not quite you. So you read the ADHD book. Same thing. You are not failing at either diagnosis. You are both. Roughly half of all autistic adults also meet the diagnostic criteria for ADHD. Roughly a third of all adults with ADHD also meet the criteria for autism. The combined neurotype  -  AuDHD  -  has its own profile, its own pattern of strengths and crashes, and its own specific needs that neither single-diagnosis book describes.
You have been failing at being autistic. You have been failing at being ADHD. The truth is simpler. You are something else, and that something else has been almost invisible to the clinical world until the last few years. This is the field guide that finally names the seam. Written for late-diagnosed adults, undiagnosed self-recognizers, and anyone who has been told they were too sensitive AND too distracted in the same week, AuDHD is a working manual for a dual-wired nervous system.
Three parts. Twelve chapters. Twelve protocols. Part One  -  Recognition. Why you never quite fit either picture. The internal civil war between routine-seeking autism and novelty-hungry ADHD. The hidden costs of running two operating systems at once. Why the standard assessments missed you, and how to self-screen with validated tools. Part Two  -  Untangling. Your specific autism profile. Your specific ADHD profile.
The compounded mask you wear without knowing it. The AuDHD burnout cycle that gets misdiagnosed as depression. A protocol-driven recovery sequence designed for the nervous system you actually have. Part Three  -  Building. Structured spontaneity, the operating system that finally fits. Your home as a regulation tool. Disclosure: who to tell, how, when. The unmasking risk and what comes after. A closing audit that points you, for the first time, toward an honest life  -  not a normal one.
What you will get: - A vocabulary for the seam between autism and ADHD that the single-diagnosis books never named - Twelve concrete protocols  -  from the trait inventory to the AuDHD operating system to the disclosure decision tree  -  between fifteen minutes and two weeks long - Validated self-screening tools (RAADS-14, ASRS-v1.1, CAT-Q) walked through inside Chapter Four - A recovery protocol designed for AuDHD burnout, not generic rest - A working glossary, a curated reading list across the modern canon, and an index of every protocol in the bookWritten in the voice of someone who has lived inside the seam and unraveled it slowly.
Citing Devon Price, Hannah Belcher, Sarah Hendrickx, Russell Barkley, Dora Raymaker, Damian Milton, and the emerging AuDHD literature without leaning on any of them. Warm. Direct. Unsentimental. You were never broken. You were wired for both. Now you know.