"Muuuummmmm. Can I show you a video? I think I have ADHD"
This was my second thingy with ADHD, the first being a documentary about 8 year old boys on Ritalin years earlier.
"Yeah. In a minute"
TWO MONTHS LATER
I watched the video on YouTube. It was Markiplier (who I have a lot of time for) talking about his ADHD.
Oh shit. That's me...
My daughter Zoe was diagnosed with ADHD last year when she was 21, six years after we watched the video.
It was weird seeing all the stuff I do in a YouTube video! So after recognising my whole life, I decided to research adult ADHD.
I felt like my whole life made sense. It was an incredible feeling. I realised I wasn't lazy, useless, a failure etc [add any other unhelpful adjectives]. It was my brain.
It was amazing. 90% of me was over the moon. The rest was starting to get angry.
What if this had been picked up earlier, imagine what I could've done with my life. Imagine how many things I would've finished!
I'm not so angry now. I believe that it happened as it was meant to. I do still wonder now and again how it could've been different. But then I wouldn't be here now doing this. So...
When did you realise you were an ADHDer?
Let me know in the comments...
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