“I was diagnosed with ADHD a year ago (I’m 24 now) and I guess I went through a bit of a denial stage at the beginning where I just pretended I was neurotypical and I didn’t talk about it at all. I think this was down the fact my family laughed at me and told me ADHD didn’t exist when I mentioned I was going to get a diagnosis. I never actually told them that I got the diagnosis in the end because of their initial reaction.
Luckily not everyone in my family has been like this, there was one person (my mother’s ex husband) who I lived with since I was 4 who helped get me diagnosed because he saw me struggle, he saw how hard I worked in school. I had no social life because I was working 10x harder than everyone else to achieve average grades, I just didn’t understand why. As you said, it was like everyone got to manual apart from me. I thought at one point maybe I was working too hard and if I worked less hard then maybe that would solve it lol. So I tried that and ended up failing most of my school exams…if only I’d known I had ADHD at the time…
But anyway, listening to this podcast has really helped me understand ADHD better and when I feel alone and like I’m the only one in the world struggling with ADHD-like issues, I turn this on and it brightens up my day to listen to people who ACTUALLY get it. Thank you for this podcast Katy, I usually never listen to podcasts but I am thoroughly enjoying this one, I listen to it everyday when walking my dog!”
disishsis via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
12/01/21