Recent late life ADHD diagnosis (soon to start medication) prompted by my 18 year old daughter being diagnosed
Not sure yet how I feel about it. Quite shocked as I'd considered myself to be fairly self aware.
But I had a lot of childhood trauma that I've been using as the explanation for my perceived deficits and problems with life. Though at 51 I have pretty done with my healing from that - and the same problems still existed!
I've been holding everything together but in recent years we was feeling very burnt out and just done with it all. Especially hard has been having to be hyper routine based and organised for my autistic son - which has literally felt the hardest thing for me - like I have been squeezing myself and my brain into places it was struggling to go. Retrospectivelly I'm not sure how I have managed it - but it might explain my utter exhaustion at the end of each day when he was younger.
I'm just hoping this means I can be kinder to myself now while I try and absorb this new chapter of my life.
Don't really want anything from this thread really - just wanted to write it down somewhere.