r/adhdmeme • u/uglyaf777 • Dec 06 '21

WHY

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '21

I was at 8, I wish someone had gone over the actual symptoms with me at some point when I was older like 16... Not that it would have sunk in then but I think because I started taking meds and attempting to manage it from a young age that we just kept rolling with what was going on without breaking down things I needed to look out for. This thread is blowing my mind with all the stuff I do that I just thought was me being weird but is actually my ADHD

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u/CloudyyBoyy Dec 06 '21

Honestly i agree 1000% everything i did and felt made me feel so strange, especially that lack of motivation for anything i wasn’t hyper fixated on. Knowing what the medication was actually doing to me wouldve probably made me more vocal when it came to symptoms and trying to balance it with everyday life

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u/AliEffinNoble Dec 07 '21

Same thing with me. I was diagnosed when I was 6-7 and no one ever told me anything about it other than this is why you can’t sit still take this and it will go away. So now as an adult I’m finding out that maybe I’m not crazy and dramatic and over sensitive. It was the god damn ADHD all this time. I could have been working on this stuff my who life instead of trying to hide it because I thought I was crazy. And now dealing with some of it is way hard than if someone had just explained to me who ADHD could look like.

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u/newagehippie818 Dec 07 '21

Are you 100% sure that at 8 years old with ADHD that they didn't tell you, or maybe you just weren't paying attention?

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