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I think you might be lost. And, just for clarity we all have moments but ADHD is about this happening constantly.
Why am I lost? And yes the particular scenario in this post is a regular occurrence. No matter how much time I have I will always put things off until the point where if I don't do it now I won't have time. Then I'll try and start it but the up doing something more interesting and thinking of excuses to get away with not finishing what I was supposed to. It's always something easy too and when I finally do it I tell myself that's next time I'll keep on top of it but never do.
Have you considered that you actually do have ADHD
No, I've just always thought that I am a bit lazy or self absorbed and only want to do the fun things. I do give through periods where I make an effort to correct it but it never sticks.
It sounds like trolling because it's so typical of those of us with late diagnoses. We also believed this about ourselves prior to getting evaluated.
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Definitely not trolling no. My comments are genuinely how I am but I don't think that because I put things off until the last minute that it's anything out of the ordinary. I am actually now a bit curious because more than one person is saying the same thing but I'm not going to self diagnose based on comments on the internet.
The thing that makes people with ADHD think they don’t have ADHD is the “hyperactive” part. Not everyone with adhd is actually hyperactive, but if you find be yourself unable to muster the motivation to do things you know you’re supposed to do, but the ability to hyper focus on things you want to do, that’s incredibly characteristic of ADHD.
Me not emailing my negative UDS and EKG results to my psych until the day of my diagnosis.
Instead for that week I was procrastinating, trying to unspaghetti my NixOS installation, installing a PS2 emulator to play a title that dankpods reminded me of.
I'd been beating myself up over this shit for years, people in my life too just thinking I'm lazy and disorganised. Only took me until 36 to get a diagnosis 🤘 Happy I did.
Many mental health issues have procrastination and/or executive dysfunction as a symptom.
If you're trolling right now then you're doing an A+ job.
I am genuinely not trolling although I have no way of proving it.
If you're not trolling you just perfectly described what it's like to be in denial about having ADHD
He sounds like one of those conservative men who talks about resisting 'temptation' and genuinely doesn't realise that straight men just aren't interested in boning other men in the first place. It's the same energy.
Sorry I don't mean to come across like that. I just always assumed these types of posts were like Horoscopes and designed to contain elements so the majority of people reading it would go 'oh wow that describes me'. Reading the responses I'm realising that this assumption may well be completely wrong and I should re-evaluate.
If you live somewhere with sane health insurance, consider a small conversation with your doctor to rule it out. You might consider yourself normal because it's all you've ever known.
In the UK so no insurance to worry about. I'm actually considering it based on the consistency of the responses from multiple people.