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

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    25 days ago

    I know that feeling.

    I’m still on a wait list for some specific tests that my biological parents never bothered to even consider, and sometimes I ask myself “am I pretending?” or something unhelpful like that, while my neurodivergent friends keep assuring me that I definitely am neurodivergent and the adult testing is just a formality.