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I still find it very difficult to believe you did so well in school AND struggled with severe ADHD, Pete-Puma. A lot of ADHD sufferers report erratic marks, only doing well when motivated, continual lateness, which impede school performance. I was an A student in science classes in high school until I got to University and had to deal with huge labs that lasted 4+ hours, hour long lectures in halls filled with 1,200 people for a class, Calculus classes with no interaction between the student and teacher in a large lecture hall, etc. I am not saying you are not ADHD, I just have never seen someone succeed as you describe who was ADHD.
A friend of mine in university also likely had ADHD. It took him over 6 years to finish his undergrad. He kept switching majors. He was incredibly bright and is working on his law degree and forensics degrees simultaneously now, but he just never stayed focused and performance was only there if personally motivated. Papers were chronically late, etc. An acquaintance of mine with ADHD never finished her Masters and went off to do other things. My mother defaulted on her Masters twice due to the paper requirements. These are the experiences I have seen of those suffering ADHD.
Personally, I never had an issue with lateness, but had to switch to a subject that supported small class sizes, my personal interests, etc. When I hit a course that I was only partially interested in, marks dived. It was not that I wasn’t interested in Science at a University level, I just couldn’t cope in that environment at all. Didn’t matter who I was disappointing or that I had an interest in the field, just too much to overcome.
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