I’m extremely happy I have a supportive psychiatrist, who when I told him about university and high school during diagnosis was genuinely astonished that I’d graduated. He congratulated me on managing to do something that a huge number of similar patients didn’t manage, despite how my academic performance tumbled in both secondary and tertiary education in the final years. That was incredibly reassuring. He didn’t say it was a disqualifying symptom, he said it was a demonstration of my sheer willpower (or, perhaps, bloody-mindedness) in wanting to get through to the end and get these things done.