I have a son who will be 3 in August, and I have to separate myself sometimes so I don't yell at him. The problem was that all of that masking was (and still is) making me feel like I was dying inside. were perceived as character flaws (and still are by my husband). Being late to everything, time blindness, lack of motivation to do boring tasks like cleaning, etc. I did well in school and wasn't fidgety, so nobody ever thought I could have ADHD.

I, like so many other women, was misdiagnosed my entire life because I masked so well. It's amazing how things change with the right diagnosis. And they’ve been some shitty, stressful, months due to things entirely unrelated to the diagnosis and I’ve handled them better than I have any stressful period in my adult lifeįorgive my ignorance, but what does ASD stand for? I turned 38 last week and was diagnosed with ADHD around a year ago. There’s still a big question mark over whether I’m ASD as well or if it’s just trauma but being diagnosed and medicated has changed my life in the space of months. I’m not forgetting things, I’m not losing things, my sleep has improved and I’m coming off my anti-anxiety meds as we thing it was the ADHD causing the problems. When I do hyper focus I don’t explode when I’m interrupted which means I can do things I enjoy again because I won’t explode at my 4 year old for needing me (I literally had just stopped doing anything in order to avoid that explosion). Medication is in the titration stage so a bit complex BUT for the first time in my life I can sit still and concentrate for extended periods on things without being in a hyper focus state.

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