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That is such bullshit about “you’re too intelligent to need ADHD supports”! Intelligence has nothing to do with it. Most people with ADHD are highly intelligent, but are unable to use that intelligence to its fullest. My intelligence is in the 93rd percentile. So how come my brother (who has often said that I’m smarter than he is) is an MBA with a solid career as a business analyst, while I’ve gone from temp job to temp job and am now only working in a low-paying (but extremely satisfying) part-time job?
Maybe you should go for that academic coaching, because it would likely become very apparent to the coach that you need far more than their standard academic coaching in order to function properly.
As for the current requirement that symptoms manifest themselves prior to age 8, it appears that the next version of the “DSM” (the “bible” of mental illnesses) will extend that to age 12, because so many people have been misdiagnosed purely because their symptoms happened after age 7.
GRRRRR…
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