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Anonymous
I felt relieved with the diagnosis. I’ve always been really insecure about my intelligence! I have always gotten really good grades, everything takes me 2x as long to complete and my brain processes at the speed of sludge unless it decides to skip thinking completely. my memory is sluggish.. always the last person to figure out a joke or react to situations. I thought that I was actually intellectually inferior in hiding, compensating by working much harder and longer. It is comforting to think that I am not actually an air head. I was also thinking I was completely incompetent to be in the work world related to being inefficient. ADHD is a nicer answer to the question of whether I am intellectually inferior, slow thinking, and inefficient.
and structure is good in balance. I feel trapped and miserable in a micromanaged situation. however, I feel like I am free floating and lost without any direction and too much unstructured time.
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