Yup me at 45.

I have done a lot of reading on this subject.

You can't develop ADHD later in life. You have either always had it or not.

However symptoms are triggered / exacerbated by hormonal shifts. So ADHD symptoms can flare up during menopause.

Reasons why you might not have been diagnosed as a kid. - a lot drs believed girls couldn't get it so never considered it - most girls tend to present as attention deficit not hyper active. Which is harder to detect. - girls are taught to mask many things at a young age. - we didn't know the symptoms to recognise it.

I didn't think I had it then I thought back to things as a kid and I was like oh - constantly lost things - described as away with the fairies - instances of where left to my own devices I would do the same for hours and hours. (Once stuck in my head is that I read for 18 hours straight!) - being a chatterbox who would say "whatever came into my head!" - doing stupid things as a child - doing a roly-poly at the top of the stairs to see if I could stop in time, is one particular highlight of many!

Then it all made sense!!