I wrote my thesis the night before it was due. It was due by 12pm on a friday. I finished it around 9 or 10am and then had to get it bound... lol I just figured I'm a glutton for punishment lol

I have a plaque that says, “If it weren’t for the last minute nothing would ever get done.”

This makes so much more sense to me now. I think that's why Adderall doesn't work for me. Maybe Strattera is the right medicine for me.

​@abav811 your not alone

Could also be auditory processing disorder or both

All my report cards said “very intelligent but does not do work to her potential! Needs to put more effort in to it! (I spent all my evenings and weekends just sitting at the kitchen table until I got my homework done, and I never did…) Diagnosed at 44.

Yes bro. This shit be pissing me off the most. People feed on our self doubt. Its terrible and infuriating.

I’m 63 and am just realizing that I am adhd. I think I’ve been misdiagnosed since the 80’s with depression and anxiety. The more I learn about this, I relate to everything. I think it’s become more pronounced the older I get. Starting Ayurvedic herbs to help, maybe they’ll help why you wait?

NHS has lost the plot

I'm in the uk and going through the process of getting an assessment at the moment. The waiting list on the NHS in Devon is 4 years BUT I've gone the right to choose pathway which has an 8-12 week waiting list. The right to choose pathway allows for people to go through private companies that are partnered with the NHS and the assessment is paid for by the NHS. Make sure you do your research are there are still some downfalls if your doctors surgery decides not to play ball. But they cannot refuse you to take the right to choose pathway.

I'm sorry about that, it was the same for me when i was in school. Cut to now and i recieved my diagnosis at 28😅 Honestly what would have helped me back then would have been working with myself instead of against me. Things that help other people will not work for you So try to make things as easy as possible for yourself And dont be to hard on yourself Take care ❤

That's not what I got out of this.

Keep researching. Even UKposts has hacks and explanations that are so helpful. Personally these weaknesses pushed me toward Christ, whom came to seek and save the lost .

I always try to think about hacking the hacks to work for me. So often it feels like the strategies people suggest require ME to change to fit the strategy, and that never works. So instead I try to think about my natural tendencies and natural blocks. For instance, I tend to leave things lying around because putting them away is a hassle. I'd see all these strategies from doing it straight away to having a tidying routine before bed and none of them did anything except make me feel like I'd failed yet again. Then I started to reorganised everything in my environment so that everything has a super simple and easy place. What that means is that putting things away is just a matter of plonking them down somewhere just like I've always done, but that somewhere is its "spot," a spot that is just as easy as wherever I used to dump everything and let it pile up. As much as possible, I'm trying to give everything its own easy spot. This also applies to when I do things and how I do things. I'm trying to notice when I FEEL like doing certain things, what times of day, what circumstances, even how I'm dressed, and not trying to plan to do certain things at other times, even if they are more conventional times. Similarly I'm trying to notice my blocks and not plan my tasks at times when I know I'll hit those blocks. (Sometimes these are super simple things, such as I feel more like doing things when I'm wearing my runners rather than my slippers, even if I'm not leaving the house. Big or small things, whatever works for the way I roll.) It takes time to figure out, especially as life is always changing and sometimes what used to work (e.g. getting up early in the morning and doing things when nobody else is around) might not work anymore (now I have health issues, so mornings are hard, but instead after everyone else is asleep is my best time). And, of course, there are restrictions to how much we can adapt things. But I find starting small and trying to observe myself, reflecting on when I'm productive or fail to be, and learning from that has been the most effective. Making everything else go with my flow rather than constantly failing to change my flow to fit conventional ways.

@@AurinneA wow, my friend, thank you so much for taking the time to write all of this out. I love the idea of putting things away where you naturally want to put them, and following your own natural rhythms. I have two young children, 2&3, and a husband with hypomania, so I think I struggle with sometimes getting wrapped up and overwhelmed in their chaos, so I think paying better attention to myself and my own flow is extremely important. I think the next big goal/phase for me will be watching myself more closely with a non-judgemental eye, and finding ways to work with myself instead of forcing, exhausting, and shaming myself, and also honouring that to an extent, this is just a crazier period of life that will simmer down eventually. Thank you so much for your time and your insights! 💜

@@riellycardy9899 💜 So glad if it was a bit of help! Good luck!

@@AurinneA❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Hi Crissy, I really identified with what you have written. I haven’t been diagnosed, as I was doubting whether I am ADHD, but I’m realising that I’m more along the lines of the Inattentive ADHD (Or just ADD). Thank you for sharing! Kim xx

Same❤

After working 30 jobs total and being diagnosed with ADHD at uni at the age of 46. I finally decided to stay on the sick, claim P.I.P and do volunteer work in my community instead of putting myself through the continual torture of changing jobs, burn out and financial crisis. Volunteer work doesn`t make so many demands and is more freeing and rewarding for me.

If you are in the US the ADA law requires that your employer makes reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. They can get an incentive grant from DOR to make the accommodations and to source Assistive Technology that could help you do your job. Hope this helps. If you need more info I'll try my best :)

You will hang in there baby steps!

You are describing me

Be honest speak from the heart & use common sense❤

So you still have it

I’m 38 and going for assessment soon, are you getting medication now?

@@callumm9049 yes i started talking meds about 6 months ago. It helps but im exhausted a lot.

I'm 50 and I just got diagnosed this week

Just received diagnosis for combined type ADHD last week

58! here

Go visit our website which is all about inattentive ADHD in both children and adults. Look at this questionnaire aimed at adults with inattentive ADHD www.iadhd.org/adult/#info

@@inattentiveadhdcoalition887 This doesn't help me start the diagnosis process as an adult though. I can take all of the online questionnaires I want, but there is no path to diagnosis for adults as far as I can tell--at least everything I have investigaed locally is children only, or will do a very expensive "evaluation" but will not provide a diagnosis (they specifically state this in their website/materials).

​@@ElizabethRBain What do you think this YT channel is going to do about that? Do you think they can snap their fingers and create hundreds of professionals capable of diagnosing it in adults, and then build and staff clinics around the country? Unfortunately that's just where we are, few people can actually help, the few that can, it's on you to reach out to them.

@@adrianalicea6704 No need to be snarky. I dont expect "this YT channel" to do anything. Since the underlying organization addresses adults and this video is about adults, I'd expected the link on the website about diagnosis to lead to resources for adults and not 100% children only. Surely there are resources out there to diagnose adults and an organization devoted to IADHD woud be where most of us would expect to be able to find some information--even if it isn't comprehensive. It's odd to put out a whole video abotu adults and mention diagnosis, but provide no information about how to go about it. It's like a produce association putting out a video about rambutans but not telling you where you might get one.

​@@ElizabethRBain The website literally provides a step by step guide for adults to get diagnosed. Most of the site is geared towards early detection in children, but there is a full section for adults.

It is true--some people with ADHD have co-occurring conditions while others don't. I am sure the co-occurring conditions makes life more difficult.

You paid attention to them?? Why weren’t you drawing or drumming on your desk with a pen???