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Just as there’s a difference between a case of the “blues” and acute depression, there are varying degrees of ADHD. To make matters more complicated, there are six areas of executive functions that are impaired and so it is likely that each individual will have their own varying levels of each of those areas.
Add to that the impact on the person’s psyche as they grow up and accumulate 30-odd years’ worth of complications due to not being able to do things as easily as everyone tells them they should be able to do so and never understanding why.
So yeah, everyone’s different, even more so as we finally realize why we never could keep up in the “one-size fits all” world we were growing up in.
But at the root is the failure of the executive functions of the brain. How it manifests itself and how we eventually find a means to adapt to it unfortunately depends on who we are. What works for one doesn’t necessarily work for another.
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