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When “ditzy” is finally diagnosed as ADHD (Jen’s story)

ADHD Aha!

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How Does Your ADHD Symptoms Affect You?

According to my psychiatrist I have pretty severe ADHD which is interesting to me because it's astounding that I haven't known this for 39 years. My biggest symptoms are either being kind of out of it or lost a little bit. The more I have going on the more likely I am to sort of mess up but then at the same time I'm incredibly impulsive and impulsivity for me looks again different to what I thought impulsivity could look like. It was always a bit of a hit or miss situation as a child whenever I had to do anything independently so I'd become obsessed by things. When people come on especially adults who are talking about their own later in life diagnosis I find that they

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