Why the hell does this keep happening? I still hear horror stories of how people struggle for half of their lives and nobody stops to think “this isn’t normal, we should see a doctor” and it just infuriates me.

Please, if it is negatively effecting your life or you get into arguments about it and it’s effecting your social or home life, see a doctor.

  • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I didn’t get diagnosed until just last year, and I’m in my early 40s. While this new knowledge has certainly had a significant impact on my life, I can’t help but wonder how different my life would have been had I been diagnosed in the 3rd grade when I came home and point blank asked my Mom if I had ADHD… spoiler: she told me no.

    • hydrospanner@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Almost the same age as you and I’m fairly confident I’m undiagnosed and have been since about 3rd grade as well.

      My mom had such a diagnosis suggested to her multiple times but felt the stigma of a diagnosis and a medication to treat it was worse than just doing nothing. In her mind, I’d get diagnosed, given a label that would prevent me from ever getting a job or having a normal life, and drugs I’d take for the rest of my life that would make me act like I’d received a lobotomy.