For those of you who weren’t diagnosed until adulthood (I’m in my late 40s), what was the diagnosis process like? Are you just given a written test, or does someone evaluate you more thoroughly? Do they try to understand your symptoms, or is it more of a checklist? If anyone has personal stories they’d be willing to share, I’d love to hear them. I’m also just curious about what to expect during the appointment. Who do I make it with? A psychiatrist?
I also wonder if there are other related conditions or learning disabilities that I might have, such as dyslexia. Do I need to be proactive in asking for multiple diagnoses? Or will they be able to evaluate me for anything/everything?
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I got the questionnaire and an interview and the psychiatrists said, yeah that’s probably ADHD.
The real epiphany I had when I went into a group therapy setting and suddenly I was somewhere where everyone fucking understood me! That’s how I came to actually believe, yeah, it’s probably ADHD.
However the diagnosis turned out to be somewhat irrelevant, what’s relevant is to change yourself so that you can live with yourself.
Oh my GOD, the group setting thing is sooo huge.
Imagine my SHOCK seeing an ADHD meme that looked like it was from my very own head and life experience just apropos of nothing one day.
It’s like, imagine seeing a meme like,
and having no concept that people share your inability to see objects at five feet away from them, or that glasses exist as a solution to that problem.