Explaining AuDHD

The expert-led guide to Autism and ADHD Co-concurrence

De: Khurram Sadiq

Narrado por: Matt Fletcher-MacDonald

What is it like to experience both Autism and ADHD?

You’ve probably heard of Autism or ADHD by now. Often thought of as contradictory conditions, much of the discourse around both focuses on their neurological differences. But what about those diagnosed with both? Where do the two conditions intersect and overlap?

Explaining AuDHD is a straight-talking guide for those trying to understand Autism and ADHD as a combined diagnosis. Using real-life stories of people living with AuDHD, this book offers advice for those grappling with a diagnosis, and provides a framework for listeners to advocate for themselves and discuss it with loved ones.

Written in accessible prose by Autism and ADHD expert Dr Khurram Sadiq, Explaining AuDHD is a vital resource for anyone questioning their own neurodiversity, undergoing assessment, or making sense of their recent diagnosis..
Praise for Explaining AuDHD:

'This is going to be a game changer for so many people in the best way' - Ruth Liptrot, Channel Five News

‘A masterpiece. On behalf of everyone grappling to understand their unique brains, thank you! Truly life changing' - Alex Partridge, host of ADHD Chatter and bestselling author of Now It All Makes Sense

© 2025 Dr Khurram Sadiq (P) 2025 DK Audio

Matt Fletcher-MacDonald is a voice and TV actor who has appeared in Suits and The Strain. He brings his steady American voice to his first audiobook narration of Explaining AuDHD.

Dr Khurram Sadiq is a Consultant Psychiatrist in South East London at Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. He is a neurodevelopmental psychiatrist specialising in ASD and ADHD working with adults and children. He is regularly a public speaker on the topic of ADHD and AuDHD including most recently a TEDx at Kings College London. He also has AuDHD.

Clear and concise with context!

This helped tremendously in understanding the duality at play when both conditions are present and the difficulty with the fact that you may clearly recognize the internal presence of the basic underlying challenges of both conditions but are trying to figure out why so many of the stereotypes don’t quite fit.

Same sentence was rephrased 100000 times

The same information is repeating in a book many times. The author could have written a 10 pages article instead of a book.

OMG, who says it like that?

I read a lot of books on neurodivergence. I'm not quite finished with this one, but it is not going to be among my favorites.

The narration is okay, except for the way the narrator says OW-dhd instead of Aud-dhd. I've never heard anyone say it that way, it doesn't make sense, and it's really hard for some neurodivergent people to sit with something like that over and over.

There is a lot of repetition in the book. It's very much written like a textbook, so each time there's a new heading, information is presented as though we've not heard it before. So yes, things like a dual-diagnosis not being allowed before 2013 is mentioned many times. If you can keep in mind that you're basically listening to a textbook, it might help you let go of the irritation from all that redundancy.

It's very clear and precise. The author discusses various points by talking about what it looks like in autism alone, what it looks like in ADHD alone, and then what it looks like in the overlap.

Part of what I don't like about it is that those discrete diagnosis sections feel like they lack nuance and are based on dated understandings of these conditions. That's probably unfair. Especially because this author absolutely knows what he's talking about, and I think comes across better in talks and interviews than in this book.

This is a clinical perspective, a clinician describing presentations through that lens. What I perceive as lack of nuance is probably the lack of the lived experience component I'm used to from the -by the neurospicy for the neurospicy- books I prefer. And while the author does have the dual diagnosis, the lived experience, and the family history, the book feels like it's written more for fellow clinicians (who I wish would choose to read more of those -by the neurospicy for the neurospicy- books as well.)

If you need clarity on these as separate conditions, as well as description of what the overlap looks like and how it affects people, this book does that very clearly. If you're looking for lived experience in which to see parts of yourself, this may not be the best choice.

Seriously, listen to the sample and decide if you can sit with that OWDHD thing, because I think its going to be a deal-breaker for some listeners.