Yuuuup. Didn’t get diagnosed until I was 32 because I was a “gifted child” and I was always held to insanely high standards. Transitioning to adulthood, those standards ingrained into me came with me. But here I am now burnt out and wondering where it all went wrong. Boom, ADHD. Everything makes so much more sense now. And being medicated helps a ton.
I had excellent grades in elementary school, then in high school it became excellent grades in subjects that interested me. It’s when I got to college and university that it became more like “struggling to get anything done at all cause I forgot about or pushed back every assignment”. A lifetime of winging it didn’t prepare me at all for courses where I couldn’t review the material 15 minutes before the exam and hope for decent grades lol
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Depends on the person. It’s more debilitating for some than others. I was medicated for a time in middle/high school, but voluntarily stopped because of the side-effects and was fine without it. Now, in my mid-20s, I’m considering getting back on medication because it’s becoming a nightmare to deal with.
I relate to this a lot, but am now 30 and did get re-medicated in my mid-20s. Can confidently say that it helped a lot and I highly recommend pursuing it if you’re considering it.
Diagnosed at 30, I graduated below my potential according to my therapist.
I have a master’s degree, but I discovered I also have dyscalculia which explains a lot when it comes to my terrible understanding of mathematics.
Now I think about it, I probably would have pursued a degree in geology or astrophysics if I got diagnosed when I was a kid. Oh well…
I became a geologist because it required the least mathematics of all the sciences offered at my school.
