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For many years in Australia it was impossible to get diagnosed with Autism and ADHD because they were considered mutually exclusive. Recently they've been discovered to be frequently comorbid.
It's a little frustrating how slow medical knowledge progresses.
I'm not certain if it used to be the same in my country (CH), but I was diagnosed with ADHD at 30 years old and ASD at 44.
I can relate to your frustration.
Diagnosis isn't everything, but if it's incomplete, it simply doesn't help me understand myself as it should.
I don’t want to minimize the struggle to understand these diagnoses but you should try having a random immune disorder. The number of shrugs, and “get used to it” store responses is maddening.
Neurology and immunology are the "there be dragons" of medicine. So many things are really immune disorders when you look below the surface. Our immune systme is both the thing that keeps us alive, and the thing that will likely kill us eventually at the same time. Certainly it is what causes us the most discomfort throughout our lives.
I don't know about Australia specifically but another example historically has been Autism and Schizoid Personality Disorder being misdiagnosed as each other. Which is especially frustrating as they're quite different under the hood and medical professionals should know better.