I’m a couple years older and didn’t even get to start trying medications until my 40s.
And sure enough, gifted student and high scores on standardized tests and IQ and stuff, right here. Looking back it can be pretty frustrating to see how much of my childhood was shaped by it, but it’s harder to blame the adults in my life the further back I go.
What really frustrates me is that I went to a psych practice as an adult looking for some kind of help with my extremely stressful issues that I noticed exactly matched every description of ADHD I could find. There were questionnaires and a small battery of neuropsych type questions to evaluate things like short term memory and processing speed. I did well. It did not lead to a diagnosis.
So yeah, when I am sitting in a room 1:1 with somebody and I am in performance anxiety hyperfocus mode, I can do good on some fucking word problems. And that meant I DON’T have ADHD? Thanks, fuckers.
I’m a couple years older and didn’t even get to start trying medications until my 40s.
And sure enough, gifted student and high scores on standardized tests and IQ and stuff, right here. Looking back it can be pretty frustrating to see how much of my childhood was shaped by it, but it’s harder to blame the adults in my life the further back I go.
What really frustrates me is that I went to a psych practice as an adult looking for some kind of help with my extremely stressful issues that I noticed exactly matched every description of ADHD I could find. There were questionnaires and a small battery of neuropsych type questions to evaluate things like short term memory and processing speed. I did well. It did not lead to a diagnosis.
So yeah, when I am sitting in a room 1:1 with somebody and I am in performance anxiety hyperfocus mode, I can do good on some fucking word problems. And that meant I DON’T have ADHD? Thanks, fuckers.