Learning About Inattentive ADHD in Adults the Hard Way

A mood disorder is a weird thing. One moment someone can tell a joke and you will be laughing, then shortly afterwards you can withdraw into yourself and everything is grey again. You do your best to hide it from everyone but sometimes, like in this piece I am writing, it simply spills out.” writes the GP on her notepad as she makes a referral for me to see a specialist. The thing is, the referral is not for the mood disorder.

Also with inattentive ADHD you often can have a crappy executive function, i.e., your brain is really bad at directing you through a series of sub-tasks to get the main task complete. It can do each sub-task fine, but there doesn’t seem to be anyone in charge in there to lead you through the steps.I came to this diagnosis the same way most people come to it: way too late and not through the lack of trying to work out what is going on.

And what makes it worse is than when you find a topic or task engaging you really can perform. Like exceptionally so. Everyone sees this and uses that as your benchmark and then assumes that when you fail at a boring task it is because you are weak-willed.

🤦🏻‍♀️ I was so intrigued upon reading the title and I went to retweet to read the article later only to find I had already done so. Surely I must remember

... the damage has been done. I know I am good at my job. I know my daughters love me. I know I have wonderful friends around me. But these thoughts are often far too fleeting, as the internal thought processes of a person with zero self-esteem continually reassert themselves.

This kind of shit traumatized me for life: Tim shows glimpses of potential, but he really needs to work harder.

Diagnosed 18 months ago. Not been able to work with chronic depression for last 2 yrs. Life just wore me down, everythign was too hard and always a drama

I was diagnosed last September when I was 33. My mom was diagnosed a month later at 62. It has been interesting.

This is so me. I was just diagnosed last summer at age 28.

I could have written this exact article, and for many of the ADHD stories I have come across, the same thing could be said. It’s a bit eerie how similar everyone’s experiences are. Eerily reassuring.

This hits home.

ADHDandAutism I was diagnosed with ADHDinattentive at 38. Familiar struggles..

Thank you, Tim Beshara

I almost believed them until an internal voice reminded me who I truly am. Since that time, I have always been at peace with my nuerodiverse self.

H_Mc92 Definitely true...my daughter became stronger because of this. She would now be diagnosed with Inattentive ADHD with emotional flooding. She was never diagnosed as a child. The resources were just not there 35 years ago. Fortunately, I raised her with love.

Then again perhaps you were just bored, like I was at school

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