Well, it has finally become truth and not just myth. I have just been diagnosed with ADHD at 35 years old. It isn't like the possibility of the idea never came up before. My husband's side of our family have been joking about it for years! Even way before the movie Up came out, our running joke was SQUIRREL whenever I would lose my train of thought. If you know me for more than a week, it is apparent that I have about 20 things running through my brain at any given moment, and who knows which of those ideas or thoughts will actually make it down to my mouth.
I've been wondering if it could be true, actually true, for years. I start projects around the house constantly, but maybe 10% get finished. Of course, it is more difficult these days to finish a project with a 4 year old running around. Regardless, I didn't get much done before he came around either. My sister has been telling me since at least age 8 that I need a hearing aid. Obviously, that selective hearing thing has been happening my whole life. Hyper focus = I can't hear you. Now that a doctor has informed me that yes, I have it and have always had it, it's unreal to look back on my life and see how this has affected me in so many different ways, without me even knowing. I'm not going to go all the way back and list each and every little thing that might have been different if I'd been diagnosed as a child. That's not really interesting to anyone but me, probably. Let's just say that it will take some time to process, to think over the years and wonder about good and bad situations, and to come to terms with this realization. I have already been drudging up some pretty bad memories and rehashing them, as I tend to do anyway, all the time, with life in general. It's just now, they come with a little different spin on them.
All in all, it is a relief to find out something so major (to me it's major) about myself. I received a very detailed report from the Neuropsychologist that did my testing, and reading over that beast is eye-opening, to say the least. (haha I rhymed!--Squirrel!) It's nuts (pun) to see all these true things about me all written down in one place. I've recently been trying to find myself anyway, trying to read my own soul, as dumb as that sounds and looks written down. I feel as though before now, I've just been going along and getting through. I have always felt like I am here to serve some major purpose, but with absolutely no direction to find it. I am hoping that this will be the beginning of my life as me. Yep, super cheesy, I know. But hey, I'm doing this all for me anyway. So if you don't like the cheese, it's cool.
Later Taters!
(I love food, if you couldn't tell.)
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