Anyone feel like they have ADHD?

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And in a corporate job. I just read a checklist and it’s starting to make sense. But I feel like there’s very few people successfully living with it in corporate jobs - perhaps I’m very wrong?

Me, but I was unable to maintain work. Curious to see the replies!

I have this thought on at least a weekly basis and a couple of people have suggested it to me in a joking way. I think it has a big impact on me socially sometimes.

But I have also managed to be quite successful in education & employment so I haven't bothered doing anything further about it - and a lot of what I've read suggests I'd be unlikely to have adhd given successfully completing higher education & holding down a high pressure job so I guess the odds are I don't have it all 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thanks! I think I have it but have successfully completed my degree etc (did v well at school and then quite well at uni) and just about coping with a demanding professional job so far (2/3 years in)... However, have had various setbacks along the way eg taking time out at university and work professional qualification not going perfectly smoothly.

I was investigated when my DC were diagnosed - I score quite high for AS as well.
For a long time I thought I was simply a deficient person - basically too little or too much of everything.
I learned to cope, even got a uni degree, work in admin and have never been out of a job. I survive using lists, schedules, reminders, fear and stress. I profited from the help my DC got with their diagnosis, but I am in my fifties now and I'd have needed the help when I was a child.
I still think I should not inflict myself on other people.

Yes. DD has it diagnosed, fairly convinced DM does too.

I've always been really flakey, flighty, but useful and clever enough to keep jobs. All my jobs have been risky (scary) or now I do 20 different things while being very bad at paperwork. I've emigrated twice.

The only thing that makes me think I don't is my reaction to stimulants. I can't drink coffee, which is unusual for someone with ADHD.

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This sounds like me, people say how organised I am. They don’t know it takes a lot of hard work to stay on top of things as my memory and concentration is so poor.

I think like some others have said I “get away with it” by being clever and skilled at areas which aren’t so usual; the pace and impatience I have fuels change which others wouldn’t make. I also work somewhere with people who are very very clever and for my numpty brain the pace of conversations is brilliant for me compared to “normal life”.

Despite being “clever” i.e. able to understand things quickly academically I didn’t do brilliantly, well enough, but I remember my Head I’d Department at uni perplexed by how I could form arguments orally which challenged him but my essays were shocking compared to others.

I suspect the various bouts of mental health issues I have had are down to how I am wired, ADHD seems the best fit from what I have seen.

I think my dd has ADD. We're going through the assessment process at the moment. The more I learn about it in females, the more I think I have it.

It would certainly make sense of a lot of the difficulties that I have faced and try to manage on a daily basis.

After a conversation with one of my parents, it seems like they might have it too. I do know that there is a strong family link, so it would figure.

Me. I often think so and my husband and mother agree. I need to move, I often just pace around the halls of my own house with no direction just because I can't really think early if I'm not moving.

In school I could sit through a single class fine but from the age of 12 or 13 I could not do an entire day because I was so absentminded and needed to move constantly. I was then went to boarding school because I couldn't stay in school all day which helped because it was structured in a unique way - it wasn't the normal class, sit in a school yard, class, class, lunch, class and without that I doubt I would have been able to graduate high school. University was easier because of the same reason - can sit through a class but can't sit all day. I have a lot of empathy greatly for kids who suffer like I did but don't have the same opportunity that I had with their education, it must be do hard.