I was a bad girl

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!

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