AuDHD Expert: 5 Symptoms/Traits of AuDHD in Adults

ADHD Chatter

Alex Partridge

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Peter Wharmby is an international bestselling Author and AuDHD specialist. An award winning expert in the ADHD field, he’s here to raise awareness for the struggles experienced by those with ADHD & Autism. Chapters: 00:00 Is AuDHD a blessing or a curse 26:06 Tiimo advert 28:57 How AuDHD makes you unlikeable 32:36 Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria in AuDHD 42:08 Why AuDHD makes you feel broken 50:18 AuDHD in relationships 01:04:24 Does a diagnosis help? 01:07:51 Pete’s AuDHD item 01:15:31 Audience questions 01:20:31 A letter to my younger self Find Pete on Instagram 👉 https://www.instagram.com/pete_wharmby_books/?hl=en Visit Pete’s website 👉 https://petewharmby.com Get 30% off an annual Tiimo subscription 👉 https://www.tiimoapp.com/offers/adhdchatter Buy Alex's book entitled 'Now It All Makes Sense' 👉 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-All-Makes-Sense-Diagnosis/dp/1399817817 Pre-order Alex's new book entitled 'Why Does Everybody Hate Me - Living and Loving with Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria' 👉 https://linktr.ee/adhdchatter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=33633b3a-2b24-47fa-82dd-4f3a7d99e69e Producer: Timon Woodward Recorded by: Hamlin Studios Trailer Editor: Ryan Faber DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Or D.H.D., someone who has autism and ADHD.
0:03.1	Yeah.
0:03.5	Is that a blessing or a curse?
0:06.2	Personally or on society.
0:08.8	Let's start with personally first, perhaps.
0:10.9	Okay.
0:12.5	Oh, goodness me.
0:13.9	It's not a curse.
0:15.1	It's definitely not a curse.
0:16.2	I wouldn't go that far.
0:18.5	I've gone on record many times to make it very clear that I view my ADHD side as being
0:24.0	more debilitating, for sure. I think, you know, so long as I'm allowed to basically stay,
0:31.5	you know, by myself in my house with the things I love, my being autistic is relatively easy to manage. But my ADHD does
0:39.6	cause me significant issues, especially around organisation and planning and even making my way to
0:45.9	somewhere like this. You know, it's hard. But it's not hard enough that I would say it's a curse,
0:50.9	because, as I'm sure you've had many people on here say before,
0:57.5	there are pros that come along with it for me.
1:08.4	And for me, autism and ADHD interact together so usefully in so many ways that I actually view it as being, the, you know, if we imagine it as a sliding
1:11.6	scale, maybe a bit closer towards blessing, maybe just a little bit, because I find that
1:17.7	being autistic seems to take the edge off some of the more ADHD things.
1:23.5	So, for example, my autistic love of routine, need for routine, and need for lower stress,
1:29.7	tends to counter the ADHD issues with planning, organization, and kind of, you know,
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