I think you should allow yourself the kindness to recognize what you went through with not being able to get diagnosed as a traumatic event, because it was. I

I think you should allow yourself the kindness to recognize what you went through with not being able to get diagnosed as a traumatic event, because it was. I feel for ya. Even though I'm medicated for my pretty bad ADHD when the medication wears off at night I still have to set limits on myself to basically limit social media and other things in which I interact with other humans. Because otherwise I know I'll wake up the next morning regretting most of the interactions because I just say dumb stuff. But I recognize it and it's something that you could do even when you're not medicated. I know it's extremely hard to do without proper medication, having that external help with your executive functioning, but you can get yourself quite a bit ahead by implementing a whole lot of mindfulness. And I'm not talking about the tranquil internet kind of mindfulness I'm talking about the put your foot down on yourself kind of mindfulness. You have to be strict with yourself and you have to be honest with yourself in setting limits and in setting boundaries. Notes are good. Rabbit holes are good. Oversharing is good mattering on the setting and I still make mistakes with that and that's just the thing that you're going to have to learn that you do and recognize when you do it. Another thing I have to add here is that; only you are ever going to believe how bad you actually suffer from ADHD. Don't let anyone else in your life tell you that you're more capable than you know that you are. I know that sounds really backwards but people with ADHD are really insecure and they're constantly bombarded with normal people telling them that they have potential. There have been moments in my life where I've been set back because I listened to people who told me that I'm not as disabled as I actually am. I have to follow my gut so often with what I know I go through every day. But from the get-go we're at a deficit here and on those days that we have the energy in our tanks to be at 100%, we're still not even close to fully well-rounded enough to be at a normal person's 100%. The best way that I've been able to frame this in these modern times that we're now in is how people are reacting to getting long covid. How normal people in quotes react to getting long covid when the symptoms of it appear to be extremely similar to having ADHD with a bit of depression and how people are just like I can't work anymore I can't do this I can't do that and a part of me wants to go up to them and be like well there's your eye opening experience this is what it's like for someone with ADHD who is depressed...