"Existential OCD" is defined as obsessive thoughts about philosophical questions like, what's the point of all this, and why does everything have to die. I'm on the fence about calling this autism, but whatever it is, I do seem to have it.
As for ADHD, it turns out to have so much overlap, they're throwing it all on the same spectrum. It's all just labels for clusterings of symptoms. What are we talking about neurologically? What causes it? Without these pieces, I don't understand what words mean.
Is anyone "really" autistic? Some people think self-identification is the bottom line. Others put too much stock in professional diagnoses. Even a diagnosis is just an arbitrary label. Words only mean as much as they represent to the people hearing them. When language is too vague, interpretations will be all over the place.
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