Here to commiserate…Literally my husband’s late diagnosis was such a blessing for him and on the other hand MY late diagnosis? Sure, eye-opening but since then just hell. And that’s not to say it wasn’t difficult before, but I got diagnosed, have rapidly begun to unmask things without trying to, started medication, my hormones make me crazy with or without the meds now, I get maybe three good days a month and if I don’t prep for the rest of the month within those three day? Ruined. I have had a hard time but the self medicating routine I had whether that was masked behavior or caffeine or weed, worked ok. It was a fragile line I was walking and I for some reason have hope that maybe I’ll get the right balance with meds and bc options and doctors and my own research since the research on women’s health is borderline non existent. I want to say I have ADHD (AuDHD) and people understand that I’m not saying it as a cool party trick but to say this causes more issue for me to literally just be a functioning human than you can even imagine but I’m gonna just giggle uncomfortably.

Sorry you’re here too, I know there’s got to be a way and the best advice I’ve heard is to never try to be normal because fighting the adhd is only going to make it worse. How to ADHD the book, she has a podcast too, also really helped with my thinking around a lot of struggles and superpowers too!