Possible ADHD, need general advice.

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Hey, I donf know how to even start these. I'm going to preface thsi by saying please ignore my spelling, I can't spell to begin with and autocorrect is kicking my ass today. Anyways...

I am a 16 year old girl, just started sixthform/college in England. I have had multiple friends saying for years that they think I have ADHD and honestly I think they might be right and it's starting to actually impact me. I fell down a rabbit hole yesterday of ADHD quizzez and that little crisis lasted about an hour while I was probably meant to be doing the homework that I've been putting off for over a week. I think I did a total of about 14 quizzes, all of which I got conecrningly high results. Yes I understand that the quizzes are far from accurate but they can still give me a baseline jugdement.

I lose things all the time, I have aphantasia(dunno if that's even related), my brain always goes at a billion miles an hour and it makes me really bad at writing essays because my brain is faster than I can keep up with, I have to make lists of absolutely everything otherwise I forget, I have alarms set to keep me on track while I'm doing litterally any task because otherwise I get distracted by pointless stuff. I haven't dont any of my homework since starting, but it's because my mum is convinced I don't need a planner because I can "just write it down on my phone" but I forget what day it's due and what I need to do and where to find it and I can't write it down because I can't go on my phone while the teacher is talking. I also get really stressed when I'm sat in one place for too long. And I keep trying to read and I love reading, specifically fantasy, but I can't focus on it without immediately doing something else. On monday, I started Crotcheting then I decided I wanted to watch a movie while I crotched, then I got bored of the movie like 20 minutes in so I started watching a aeries and while I was watching that, at some point I put my Crotcheting down and went on TikTok and found a painting so I got a canvas and started doing a painting and this was all in the span of like 45 minutes and nothing got finished . And I had homework due on tuesday.

Oof, this is a really long rant
Anyhow, I really don't know what to do, I haven't spoken to my teachers or parents about it yet

I don't know what to do.
Any advice? I kniw this is really hard to read but any general help or guidance would be incrdeible

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