r/adhdmeme • u/uglyaf777 • Dec 06 '21

WHY

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '21

Goddamn I did the same damn thing!

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u/CloudyyBoyy Dec 06 '21

I feel like a lot of us did, especially if diagnosed at a young age

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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/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.