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Woot woot! Fellow Uke here (well…1/2…mom’s side is typical WASP).
This is something that I really wish teachers, and my parents, had paid more attention to when I was in elementary school (the “having no friends” thing) – I feel like they minimized the significance of my only having 1 or 2 friends, and they really weren’t helpful with bullying (“Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names will never hurt me?” Yeah, actually, the names were worse, thanks). I wish that I hadn’t been 28 when I was diagnosed, and I understand that girls/women with ADHD is still an under-knowledged area, but I can’t help but think that if someone had picked up on the problematic social relations, and had put that together with my insanely messy desk/backpack/bedroom/locker/etc. that it might have been diagnosed sooner.
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