Hey Carabiner, that’s my story too!
The descriptions fit me like a glove! The minute me and my therapist started talking about the possibility of ADD, things started to make sense to me! What amazed me even more: My signs of depression disappeared like snow to the sun!
I celebrated from that moment until long after the diagnose was confirmed! I’m still happier than ever! (almost as if I have the complementary H in ADHD now!)
A very important ADD side effect for me: I had real difficulty describing myself to others. Even in the simplest of terms!
Good luck on your journey! I hope you’ll learn to enjoy it like I have. It’s been the roughest and toughest ride of my life (that I can remember…. get it? 
) but I can finally say my life has started!!
(I’d never thought I’d say all this, being the misanthrope that I thought I was… or still am)
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