When/ how did you find out you were Neurodiverse?

posted 4 years ago

I was diagnosed with ADHD and started on medication at 12, but not really told anything about what it meant for me or how to deal with it, and when I was 18 -literally when my parents dropped me off at college- was told I was autistic

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Olredeye [she/her]@hexbear.net

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4 years ago

I think I first realized I had ADHD in high school. I asked my general practitioner and he dismissed me immediately because i did relatively well on the SATs. A part of me knew he was wrong and that that is not how to diagnose ADHD, but getting dismissed out of hand like that really sucked and i didnt want to go to a doctor again. It wasnt until a year after college, when I was probably another bad week away from losing my job, that I went to a specialist and finally got a diagnosis. Up until the moment my psychiatrist gave the diagnosis a part of me was convinced they would tell me I was just lazy. Every time I had failed up until that point I blamed myself, and the diagnosis felt like I had finally been given permission to forgive myself.

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What is Neurodivergence?

It’s ADHD, Autism, OCD, schizophrenia, anxiety, depression, bi-polar, aspd, etc etc etc etc

“neurologically atypical patterns of thought or behavior”

So, it’s very broad, if you feel like it describes you then it does as far as we’re concerned

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