How many of these do you recognise in yourself?

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This is nhs site for adhd symptoms, if you scroll down there’s a section for adhd in adults, how many do you have? If any of course
I’ve just counted and am surprised how many I have

www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd/symptoms/

Ive been reading a fair bit into this recently, I’m fairly certain I have it tbh.

The thing is those are simultaneously entirely subjective and also extraordinarily common traits for large numbers of the population.

E.g. mood swings. What does that mean? Peoples’ moods vary. What is a mood swing that indicates ADHD v PMT, depression or just the usual ebb and flow of emotions?

I’m absolutely certain I have ADHD (and several of my colleagues absolutely agree, as does my husband). I thought this for years but never pursued it. I remember being a young teenager and just not being able to understand how other people managed to be organised and tidy. I’d do home ec at school with a girl who was always utterly pristine and perfect. I just could not understand how she came out of everything still pristine and with beautiful biscuits, while me and my half of the bench looked like it had been flour bombed after about 10s and my biscuits were a mess.

I was palmed off by my GP on the basis that there’s a huge waiting list for adult adhd blah blah blah. So I’m going to get a private diagnosis when I can afford one.

Luckily, my boss is also neurodiverse and hugely supportive of me with or without a formal diagnosis. I started a new job a few months ago (in a different sector) and it’s just thrown all the coping skills I hadn’t recognised were coping skills totally off. When I raised it with my boss and said that I am pretty sure it’s ADHD, she laughed and said that she’d be totally shocked if I didn’t have ADHD.

I have several of those, and I attribute them directly to my menopause symptoms, to be honest.

I am diagnosed ADHD and have all of them except the risky behaviours, definitely had that as a young adult but I would say that abated as I got older/had more responsibility. I’ve never driven recklessly, it was more substances and being in unsafe situations as a result. I don’t even like being drunk much now and in terms of drug use not done anything stronger than weed in over 20 years. I can be a bit impulsive with money, especially if I have a new interest that I’m very enthused about!

As a kid I had a lot of these. Doctors told my Mum it was too much orange squash.

I’m post menopause with no ovaries and tbh before my op I would have put the symptoms down to the severe pmt I had for years.

but I’m pmt free now and It’s only in the last year watching stupid videos on TikTok that got me thinking about it and it would explain a lot of how I feel

None

None except sleep problems - my sleep is terrible.

For boring multi-tasks I sometimes do them all at once in a scattergun way, just to make them less very boring

Probably not as many as you'd expect for someone with a dx from childhood. It's just a very simplistic list of things that are noticeable to the outside, it's not a diagnostic tool, nor is it meant to be, it's a brief overview like any condition on the site.

So I keep getting lots of videos on Instagram reels along the lines of "symptoms you don't realise are ADHD in women". Now two separate friends are telling me they think they have it so I'm assuming they've been getting these videos too. Not to belittle ADHD or say it's not real but I can't help but wonder how many of us are being brainwashed by these videos. Feel like I can't mention this to the friends who are now looking for a diagnosis in case they are offended.

All except risky behaviours..although DS1 was diagnosed in his 20s as bipolar and ASD..I suspect ADHD too..so I think its a familial thing..

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