# I was a bad girl

- URL: https://numo.ai/community/egrgnlq/i-was-a-bad-girl
- Language: en
- Author: @juhhhneen
- Posted: 2024-02-24T02:54:33.824Z
- Tag: story
- Comments: 2
- Likes: 3

My entire life, I was told and made to feel like I was a bad girl. That I wasn't worthy of my parents' affection and attention. When I was a teen, they had me diagnosed with depression, then with a mood disorder, then with oppositional defiance disorder, then with bipolar disorder. Well I now have a new doctor and she sat me down and really explained that I have ADHD and it was hard to diagnose females with it in the 90's-2000's. I'm not a bad girl. I'm an ADHD girl.

## Comments (2)

### @Aquaholic21 — 2024-02-26T06:02:49.382Z

Yep, welcome to the awfully-designed system of late diagnosis. Unless you go to a clinic that really specializes in adhd, a lot of these professionals will pick up on the comorbidites and run with it, despite all the other signs of adhd. A lot of times, the adhd causes the other diagnosis. For me, in college, I had intense anxiety over focusing on my schoolwork, as I’d forget things when tests came around (not because I was worried about the test, just because my working memory was overwhelmed). Even with 4 other people in my family having adhd, and my college psych diagnosing me, I saw a new psych to get stimulants. They said my brain processing speed was too quick—I guess I outsmarted the “game” they used to test for that. But it is also called “hyperactivity” 🤦🏽‍♀️. Anyways, I’ve seen countless stories like these pop up lately. Even my adhd friends all went down that path, some of which are AuDhd and got one or the other diagnosis later! 

### @LabRatX — 2024-02-25T18:29:01.687Z

Same, sort of. I went through years of various diagnosis's until I was finally diagnosed. This was at the time when it was very uncommon for adults to get a diagnosis because ADHD was considered almost exclusively as a childhood condition