eh, kind of hit or miss with autistic people, afaik.
hyperfocus is a big thing for autists, which is a problem with attention, since it keeps you from choosing what you want to focus on.
so if you’ve got an assignment due, and your brain decides we’re gonna focus on [different thing] right now, possibly for days on end, that can be a serious problem.
it can also look basically identical to ADHD for outside observers, since the result is often the same “they didn’t to [the thing]!”…
and that then gets mistaken for a lack of motivation, which it isn’t really:
it’s a lack of ability to choose what to be motivated about.
it’s one of the reasons that there’s so much overlap in diagnosis of ADHD and ASD: symptoms can present very similarly to outside observers
I’ve also got both, kinda; no hyperactivity just the attention deficit…
and yeah, i agree: that’s why I said it can look the same to an outside observer, not that it feels or works the same.
the term I’ve heard for the task switching problem you describe is “autistic inertia”; basically just means that it’s more difficult to start a task, and end a task (or switching to a new task), but once a task is underway there isn’t an issue. it’s just the starting/stopping part that’s hard…