I haven't been diagnosed yet, but I could have given myself a headache by nodding vigorously along with the thread. I have so much pity for my younger self, who dealt with all of those things with no support, and loads of shame. I don't think I was ever diagnosed because, as a kid, I was not disruptive and generally performed well academically, when it mattered.
Learning about ADHD and other forms of neurodivergence as an adult has been absolutely revelatory. So much of my life makes more sense, in retrospect.
Incidentally, it's funny to see a thread like that on Twitter. I think Twitter is impeccably tuned for ADHD. A constant stream of bite-sized novelty. It sometimes seems like everyone on Twitter thinks they have ADHD. Maybe that's not a coincidence.
I'm being a little hyperbolic. As far as the algorithm, I rarely see anything from anybody I don't follow, or that isn't retweet by them. I'll maybe make my statement more explicitly subjective: in my experience, heavily following people from Tech Twitter, there is a much greater representation of ADHD than is visible to me elsewhere in the world.
Learning about ADHD and other forms of neurodivergence as an adult has been absolutely revelatory. So much of my life makes more sense, in retrospect.
Incidentally, it's funny to see a thread like that on Twitter. I think Twitter is impeccably tuned for ADHD. A constant stream of bite-sized novelty. It sometimes seems like everyone on Twitter thinks they have ADHD. Maybe that's not a coincidence.