Yuuuup. Didn’t get diagnosed until I was 32 because I was a “gifted child” and I was always held to insanely high standards. Transitioning to adulthood, those standards ingrained into me came with me. But here I am now burnt out and wondering where it all went wrong. Boom, ADHD. Everything makes so much more sense now. And being medicated helps a ton.
I had excellent grades in elementary school, then in high school it became excellent grades in subjects that interested me. It’s when I got to college and university that it became more like “struggling to get anything done at all cause I forgot about or pushed back every assignment”. A lifetime of winging it didn’t prepare me at all for courses where I couldn’t review the material 15 minutes before the exam and hope for decent grades lol
Yuuuup. Didn’t get diagnosed until I was 32 because I was a “gifted child” and I was always held to insanely high standards. Transitioning to adulthood, those standards ingrained into me came with me. But here I am now burnt out and wondering where it all went wrong. Boom, ADHD. Everything makes so much more sense now. And being medicated helps a ton.
I had excellent grades in elementary school, then in high school it became excellent grades in subjects that interested me. It’s when I got to college and university that it became more like “struggling to get anything done at all cause I forgot about or pushed back every assignment”. A lifetime of winging it didn’t prepare me at all for courses where I couldn’t review the material 15 minutes before the exam and hope for decent grades lol