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There are varying degrees of how ADHD affects people. Certainly when I was growing up, ADHD did not exist as a diagnosis. I only know that it was very hard for me to focus on what needed to be done, it was very easy to do ANYTHING else and eveyrone around me just assumed I lacked discipline.
What I do remember from my childhood is how easy it was for me to get so anxious in my school work that I couldn’t even focus on work that I would ordinarily have no trouble with. The stress and the desire to be doing anything else had me inventing other tasks that filled my head instead of what truly needed to be done. So that’s how I knew I had it, even though I didn’t realize it much, much later.
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