When in your life we’re you diagnosed, who diagnosed you and what made you think you had it?
I have been looking into this for the last few weeks.
At 49 I am taken aback by how much this resonates with me. How much of my life, from young childhood until now has felt a battle and that a neurodiverse condition seems to make so much sense.
But I am scared which to take this.
I am sacred no one will take me seriously.
I have been told right from childhood that I am not ‘right’, that I am an air-head, lazy, messy and unorganised, unsociable, over excitable, quirky, too anxious, an over thinker etc. It’s left me with no confidence.
But I am so sure it’s been inattentive ADHD all this time.
But I have felt that it’s always been my fault and that I should have had control over it, even though I have felt like I’ve been wading through concrete all of my life whilst others have been gently and comfortably jogging along nicely.
So the next step I suppose is to try to convince my GP (as I can not afford to go private) and if I am lucky and he understands and refers me then I can sit on a 2 year+ waiting list and go slowly insane lol!