Re: got my diagnosis the other day

[Scattybird]

g.laiya – great news you’re moving forward and have a diagnosis.

What you’re feeling is completely normal – anger, disbelief, doubt, anger again, relief – all quite usual.

One of the problems is that if you’re 48, then when you were a child, there was probably little understanding of AD/HD and if you developed coping mechanisms then you will (like so many of us around your age) have slipped through the net.

As Robbo said in a different post recently – look forward now…not back.

I always knew I was ‘odd’ and even my Mum told me I was, but eccentricity was accepted as OK in my childhood home so nobody thought anything about it really. Looking back we did everything differently – the whole family!

Only recently when one of my students (who is ADHD) told me I clearly was ADHD after he’d sat through an afternoon of me teaching him that I noticed a few similarities between us – found this web site – and got diagnosed.

I self-referred and paid privately and then got into trouble with my GP – but she said she’d never referred anyone with adult AD/HD and didn’t know anything about it. She finally admitted I’d done the right thing because she didn’t have a clue what to do! I like her honesty at least!

Good luck – I hope you get some meds sorted. They may help with your sleep issues too.

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