I’ve had ADHD my whole life. FINALLY, I have been officially diagnosed.
My dream is to create a community of people like me. Sharing our experience with the STRUGGLE we face living life.
I’ve spent most of my life hearing ‘stop being so lazy’, ‘just do it’, and ‘that sounds like an excuse’. Like you, I was frustrated, confused, and filled with self-doubt and depression.
Being a product of the 80s, with mental health, not a priority I was just weird, disorganized, lazy, and disrespectful. ADHD wasn’t on my mind until I got older and it became more widely discussed. The school of thought I fell under was it’s an excuse, I’ve been told it my whole life so why not. I’m now 44 and over the past year a few people close to me pointed out multiple times that I have ADHD. I scoffed until my therapist, with no knowledge of my history asked if I had been evaluated. I almost fell off her couch, I was floored.
So maybe I do have it. So I set out to find a psychiatrist and was evaluated. Lo and behold, I had it, and had no idea how much my life would change over the course of the next few months.
So here I am on a website starting a blog about my experience with ADHD in the hopes that my experience will help you find your solutions as you struggle with me to learn to live.
MamaJ
We are always becoming…
Rachel True