Comment by uberduper

Am I the only adult that just never got around to getting an official diagnosis for the condition I'd obviously had since a child and thought was dealing with just fine by self medicating with caffeine and nicotine?

I read things like this and it seems so absurd. Is anyone really surprised by the diagnosis?

>Getting diagnosed with ADHD as an adult is complicated—equally heartbreaking and liberating. You literally need to rewrite your whole life narrative in light of this new realization. The process currently is super confusing and expensive (medications, therapy, coaching, tools, apps, etc.)

The only surprise for me was finding out what, what I assume, "normal" is like once I started on real stimulants. Turns out I was wrong. I wasn't dealing with it just fine all along. I'd been living on hard mode and never knew it.