Oh, I didn't have a specific one in mind :o
For me the adult symptoms are mainly disorganisation, messiness, always losing things, always late for everything, rushing around at the last minute. I can't make myself do anything so I procrastinate for hours/weeks/years sometimes until a deadline comes up and then I can usually squeeze it in at the last minute and kick myself a lot.
Often felt that I was unable to cope with the demands of a normal adult life (cooking, cleaning, working, admin, bills, socialising, appearance upkeep, keeping up to date with news, social events, etc) and bemused by this as other people seem to manage fine - I offend people because I do things like forget birthdays, totally ignore/put my foot in social customs, ask inappropriate questions without realising they are inappropriate, don't offer the appropriate thing because I don't pick up on hints. Don't bother to contact people for months or years at a time and then try to pick up our friendship like it's been only yesterday (my very very best and closest friends in the world take this in their stride, and confess to me that they do the same and they also value their friends who can do this).
The postal service is my nemesis because it involves too many steps. I have letters sitting on top of a shelf I bought online postage for on 16/01 which are thank you letters from Christmas. I will post them today (if I don't forget to take them, which is fairly likely).
Despite being bright - top marks until year 10 when I stagnated but nobody really noticed, because going from 100% to 98% isn't a big enough jump. Since then my education totally fell off a cliff because I couldn't cope with the extra independence expected at post-16. I have attempted A Level equivalent twice, I attended university as a mature student but even though I could do the work I have failed at the organisational side and ended up dropping out. I would like to try again now I understand myself better, but now living outside of the UK and not having any standard University entrance qualifications I am stuck.
Can't do routines, can't form habits. People say that if you do things enough times they will stick and become automatic, I have never found this. Or I will get into a routine and then one thing will disrupt it (e.g. a cold, a school holiday, a week away - nothing massive) and I won't pick it up again. This happens constantly throughout my life. I have now (somewhat) learned to factor it in - it used to massively upset me and send me into meltdown when I realised I'd done it again.
Stuff medication has helped with - time loss - before medication, if I had an unstructured day I would look at the clock and suddenly it's 4pm and I have been sat on the computer all day. Now time seems to pass normally, which is really weird and makes me feel like I have gained time. And anticipating things - before I would never automatically think ahead. So for example we do swimming classes on a Friday morning. With medication, I'll do things like put our swimming stuff into the wash at some point between Friday afternoon and Wednesday so that it will be clean and dry by the time we need it. Sensible - but absolutely wouldn't have occurred to me until maybe Thursday evening before. And I'd be running around on Friday morning trying to pack a bag, and wondering which bag I left my purse in, and thinking whether it's OK to take DS2 in his pyjamas, and frantically hoping we wouldn't miss the bus, etc.
