What I mean is that I have ADHD, I got diagnosed this summer, but sometimes I feel like I don’t have ADHD in the right way. I struggl with ADHD a lot, and it really affects me, but for some reason I feel like I’m using it as an excuse or faking my symptoms. Even though I know I’m not?
ADHD affects me very negatively and it makes being in college way, way harder for me than other people. But hyperactivity is less of a symptom for me than other ADHDers (but still a thing), so i feel like im faking my condition.
Like, I have an official, medical diagnosis. Nobody thinks I’m playing up or faking my symptoms. So then why the hell do I get like this?
Also I very likely have autism but diagnosis is very expensive so that’s another issue
I used to, a lot. I thought that I wasn’t disabled enough, or neurodivergent enough, to justify telling people and getting the help I need. I’m kind of at the point now where I realize that’s bullshit, and I can usually tell when I’m hindered my my AuDHD and anxiety. Probably helps that I’ve always had a diagnosis for the AuDHD, and my anxiety is so clear to everybody around me.