> this is a pretty common story for people with ADHD who weren't diagnosed as children This was an extremely meaningful datapoint for me in feeling "seen". One

> this is a pretty common story for people with ADHD who weren't diagnosed as children This was an extremely meaningful datapoint for me in feeling "seen". One of the steps was to ask my mother to fill in a survey recalling how she experienced me as a child. When I told my mother it was for ADHD diagnosis she laughed, and said, "You didn't have ADHD. You just liked to run around. In my experience 10% of kids are just wired that way." Cue the psychiatrist telling me that ADHD prevalence is now thought to be around around 10%. A good psychiatrist will not diagnose you with ADHD unless you have it, and they will not sit on the fence and say "maybe" if they believe you have it. Mine was emphatic with me. > Apparently people with ADHD usually drastically underestimate their own symptoms, which is why a third-party perspective is important Absolutely! The way people experienced me was totally different to the way I thought that they did.