“People keep trying to reassure me by saying, ‘You don’t have ADHD, you just have young kids,’ or ‘Don’t we all have ADHD these days?’”
As for the perfectionism, low self-esteem, feelings of failure and emotional outbursts that have accompanied me pretty much every step of my life? Professor Kirby’s given them a name for me: rejection sensitivity dysphoria, another common feature of ADHD, and one that plagues females., including neurodiversity and ADHD. TikTok is a particularly popular destination . Casually “self-diagnosing” ADHD via TikTok vids has also become commonplace .
Late-in-life diagnosis is becoming more common: I can think of three people I know , who have discovered that they’re neurodiverse this past year. Supermodel Erin O’Connor also recently revealed she’d been diagnosed with ADHD aged 43 – armed with this information, she’s decided to re-sit her maths GCSE.
I’m so excited about my new lease on life that I want to shout my diagnosis from the rooftops: “Neurodiversity is a superpower!” Except… I’m not sure everyone agrees with me, let alone believes me. People keep trying to reassure me by saying, “You don’t have ADHD, you just have young kids,” or “Don’t we all have ADHD these days?”
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