Prediction: Someone who really is questioning themselves but stops when he feels like he's just following a crowd, especially with a comment like this.
Heh. I was always suspicious that I had ADHD but never checked because every time I mentioned it someone said things like "but everyone has those symptoms you describe" or indeed said I was just going with the crowd.
A couple months ago I found Dr. Barkley's video and decided to check for myself. I was meaning to ask for a recommendation from my uncle who is a neurologist, last month I ran into his wife, who has various graduations related to teaching and I felt might know someone to recommend. She looked at me and said "Oh, you're fine. I'm like that too, it's just that us intelligent people always have something on our minds", it baffled me to the point that I couldn't even give her a proper answer. Some time later I asked my uncle for a recommendation, said I wanted to get check for ADHD and he just gave me the phone number, told me that if I think I have something I should get it check out.
My appointment is tomorrow and I get the feeling this is a pivotal moment. Sometimes I feel like maybe I've been hiding behind this possible diagnosis for a long time and if it turns out I don't have it then I'll be out of excuses. If I do have it I'm going to find every single one of the fuckers that told me it was probably nothing and tell them how hard it has been this whole time, specially my aunt.
Will do! What is the EEG for? Is there a "hard way" to diagnose ADHD? This is part of the reason I never got checked, because I couldn't ever know for sure (and nowadays I've got a friend who is pretty sure he shouldn't have taken pills since childhood)
Hey, nice timing. I just got back from the appointment and she said that it's HIGHLY likely that I've got ADHD and a strong one at that but that she needs to run some tests to be sure, problem is the battery of tests is much more expensive than I'd expected, roughly about 1,2x my monthly income. But honestly, I can deal. I've tried not giving a shit about this but I very likely had to pay for it in quality of life so we'll see how it goes.
Right? Congrats on your diagnose! I'm so relieved that I wasn't imagining this whole thing and at the same time kind of pissed about those people that discouraged me to get checked over the years. I guess it's time to head over to /r/adhd :p
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