My friend thinks she has ADHD – if so she should do nothing to change it

That would be my polymath friend, the one with three masters degrees who is studying for a PhD in archaeology, who has a string of other diplomas as well. My friend, the one who has never forgotten my birthday, who still sends handwritten Christmas cards, who will sit with me for hours simply chatting.No, I want to tell her, you’re don’t have ADHD, but maybe OCD. And, whisper it, a bit of hypochondria. Sorry about that – I know it’s not nearly as trendy.

And if she really has brilliantly masked ADHD then it’s served her very well, so she should do nothing to change it.ADHD is the new sexy neural divergence to have if you’re an adult over 40, particularly if you’re a woman, because little girls “present differently” so historically weren’t diagnosed as readily as little boys.

I went online to check, but the questionnaire was 66 questions long so I got bored. I presume if you get to the end it goes: “You got through this? Definitely not ADHD.” But the thing is surely all of us display symptoms of ADHD/ ADD/ OCD/ , because they’re also symptoms of being fabulously, fallibly human.

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