Can ADHD explain struggle with eye contact?

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Hello, I am late diagnosed dyslexic. I have been considering the possibility that I am autistic and/or inattentive ADHD. I feel like I resonate with inattentive ADHD but I also struggle with eye contact. I find it very draining to make eye contact. I can listen and make eye contact but I can't talk and make eye contact...it's just too much for me to do at once. Can this be explained by ADHD?

Any insights or links to info would be really appreciated

Thank you

I can struggle with eye contact at times and have both ADHD and autism.

I struggle with eye contact, especially with people I don’t know well, and I have ADHD (combined type) and not autism. I’m ok with people I know well but would rather be looking somewhere else.

I have no problems with eye contact at all and I'm formally diagnosed with ADHD (combined but with a VERY high score in inattentive)

Eye contact for me has been OK, I have not been diagnosed with ADHD but so many of the traits are 100% me... eye contact is to see how they read me and look down and judge me.... I am 54 feeling that I am the only strange one in the world just circling in life, in the morning afternoon then shattered..... I realise there is something wrong with every aspect of my continuing life, just want a break or help, a diagnosed would be massively important to me to understand myself more.

What I’m seeing is that there’s now a better understanding that ADHD and autism don’t rule each other out like it was thought before, but in fact it’s more common to have both than it either or. And they can both sort of balance each other out so autism is masked by the ADHD and the ADHD is masked by the autism.

It's more likely to be associated with autism than ADHD. As others have said, you can have both.

I have been formally assessed for both. I do not like eye contact unless it’s with people I know. I do not have autism but I do have combined ADHD.

There definitely is a crossover, with extremely close relationships within the spectrum.

Well thank you for pointing all of this out, very comprehensive analysis of ADHD and possibly the spectrum! I would very much enjoy you working in a prison to give your verdict of 'grow up' ...... GROW UP oh dear oh dear.

@Nelfif nonsense

Again thank you kindly for your view and reply!