• li10@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    “Parents take you to a psychologist”

    Can’t relate to that bit, my mother refused to even take me to the opticians because she insisted there was nothing wrong with me.

    These days she thinks I’m making the ADHD stuff up, and occasionally asks me why I don’t just take off my glasses for a while…

    • Guilvareux@feddit.ukOP
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      1 year ago

      Sorry dude that sounds rough.

      I was thankfully provided transport, but I was also subjected to a long lecture on why I “don’t want to be on medication”.

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      1 year ago

      But why would my parents take me to a doctor when my mom does all the same stuff?

      “It’s normal.” …uh, no. Mom had undisagnosed ADHD.

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    1 year ago

    Just started meds at 29. I can’t actually get my work done, I can see how little I could accomplish before. It’s crazy.

    • Guilvareux@feddit.ukOP
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      1 year ago

      Similar story, started at 24, bout a year ago. Only just managed to find the best dose.

      Oh how small the world seemed before.

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    Everythinga checks out except the last about the parents. My mom said she was sorry and told me that schools and parents were not taught about those things and she didn’t knew better. She was really sad. Poor mom did her best

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    1 year ago

    Diagnosed at 47. It’s been a helluva ride. I’ve been addicted to more substances than you can shake a stick at. Car crashes. Destroyed relationships. Academic disasters. Depression. Criminal justice. Happy now though, trying not to look back but it wasn’t all bad. Every day I do a bit of work on rebuilding my self esteem.