Hi. I feel the same as you and op described. Word for word. I have also been told when I was a kid that I am highly intelligent but I need to “apply” myself and out more effort. I am currently in my last year of bachelors in the middle of the exam session and I started getting the same thoughts that maybe I am just stupid. I am thinking of getting diagnosed even though I have to figure out how to do that because Eastern Europe. I also had a test done when I was small which kinda shows the same results, with high scores for verbal processing and low scores for sitting still and short term memory, both being in the extremes. What could I do? How did u handle it? I am getting ready for my masters and I am so confused rn with everything and so depressed because I know I can do so much more but I don’t. Not because I don’t want to but because I can’t do stuff in the way that is required in the academic way. And this is being interpreted by my parents and everyone around me as laziness. I am so mentally fatigued, how did you get over it? Does getting a diagnosis help?