I have diagnosed adhd and I’m always struck by how much overlap there is between the way autistic and adhd symptoms are described. I definitely identify with a lot of the traits of person 1.

For me, a lot of my issues stem from my being unable to direct my attention towards anything that my brain designates as boring, and away from anything I feel to be exciting. I also naturally drop out of the real world into my own head where there’s a constant movie reel going on of memories, songs, hypothetical situations, whatever. I’ve sometimes been zoning out in my own world and suddenly realized that one of my friends was standing in front of me, waving their arms to get my attention. My eyes were open but I didn’t see them. I tend to miss pieces of conversations and lose touch with people and forget to do things because of these issues. So, I dunno, anyways there’s a lot of overlap.

But I’m a pretty good coder because I visualize the data and the relationships between the data, and figure out how it needs to be transformed. And the only reason I have a career is that I became obsessed with programming as a teenager. So, the neurodiversity giveth and it taketh away.