I’m not really sure if I have adhd or not at the moment and I just realised this. I’m not sure if this is related to adhd at all but I just find it weird looking into peoples eyes, when I listen to people I usually look out a window or something and sometimes people ask me weather I am listening and I didn’t even realise I was looking out a window I kind of just assumed they knew I was listening.
Also as a side note, I have a lot of symptoms of adhd but I’m not sure if to enough of an extent, since I see a lot that everyone has the symptoms of adhd just not to the extent of someone that actually has adhd has.
Do you also have that one comment in the bottom of your lemmy inbox that you’ve been meaning to respond to for the last several weeks or months but you keep putting it off?
Do you also sit on your couch or bed and just stair out the window for like 30 minutes or longer at a time?
I also have struggle focusing on school work, this hasn’t always been the case but it’s a lot more now. Once the coffee from the morning wears off I can’t focus for long enough to finish a small portion of a single Maths question before I’m staring out the window thinking about something completely unrelated, then about 5-10 minutes later I realised I’m distracted.
You’ve probably also noticed a pattern at this point, I love staring out windows!
To me this sounds like AuDHD, but this is obviously far from a diagnosis and I’m not a professional, I merely have read so much that I sometimes know better (lol)
Jokes aside, try this: https://rdos.net/eng/Aspie-quiz.php
It’s so far the only online test that gets somewhat close to what a diagnosis would probably say and I’ve asked diagnosticians and they said it’s useful to get a first idea whether to seek a diagnosis, as this mostly looks the same as their questionnaires. Don’t forget to save the PDF with the full results at the end or you will have to do it again.
Yeah ok thanks. I am currently looking into getting profesionally tested.
Depending on your country it can sometimes take years to get an appointment, so you might have to ask several places and be patient. That’s why many people educate themselves and self-diagnose before they finally get an official diagnosis. Which makes sense, as it is mostly about understanding yourself better and not much else, so there’s little risk something could go wrong there, lol.