It also went unnoticed with me for the longest time. I only noticed the issues when I had finished high school, because before then I could do pretty well just

It also went unnoticed with me for the longest time. I only noticed the issues when I had finished high school, because before then I could do pretty well just doing all my assignments the night before. It didn't occur to me I had an attention issue because it wasn't like I had a hard time paying attention exactly, I just couldn't be bothered to pay attention to the things I should have been paying attention to. If someone had suggested it to me at 18 I would have thought they were an idiot. I remember talking to the psychiatrist who diagnosed me the first time: "So did you fidget in class?" "Not really, I mostly just got the work done quickly so I could read or talk with friends" "Okay, so you still weren't actually focusing on the lesson" "Well no, but the lesson was pointless and boring" "Do you draw patterns on your teeth with your tongue?" (Me, currently doing that while he was talking to me) "Uh, yes - how could you tell?" "It is a common thing for patients with ADHD who don't fidget in obvious ways" It was around there I starting taking the idea a lot more seriously