• Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    1 year ago

    “You have ADHD. Do something about it, or it will sabotage you for years, without you knowing why you can’t do the things everyone else seems able to do”

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      1 year ago

      I’m iny 40s and finally got help from a doctor about it after getting the runaround for decades.

      Oh my God I am so retroactively angry.

      • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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        1 year ago

        Yep. I got diagnosed after my kiddo did, and it’s hard not to be angry at all of the missed opportunities and losses that it has caused me, because I simply wasn’t equipped to understand or work around the executive function deficits