Neurodivergent on Yik Yak | for people who were late diagnosed, what signs were missed or neglected in your youth that you feel were “obvious” looking back?

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Neurodivergent 1w

for people who were late diagnosed, what signs were missed or neglected in your youth that you feel were “obvious” looking back?

Anonymous 1w

I would space out/daydream a lot, teachers said I talked too much, caffeine made me tired, I wanted to learn abt literally anything & everything no matter how distracting, would wait till the last minute to do things. Didn’t catch it bc things always worked out well for me academically in hs (nat merit finalist, skipped a grade, top of my class; reading 5 pgs a min w comprehension & friends who’d send hw carried me ngl). The hs strats did not work in college tho and I ended up needing help to

Anonymous 1w

I put all of my stuffed animals in a pillowcase so I can hug all of them at once and not have to choose.

Anonymous 1w

daydreaming/zoning out, making a lot of careless mistakes on tasks, caffeine made me tired, extremely messy area/very disorganized

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benjamin.rush 1w

Figure out what was happening. Turns out a lot of my friends also had it & ended up convincing me to get diagnosed bc there were a lot of similarities lmao. Literally learned how to actually study in college. Now I’m thriving alhamdulillah so it’s chill, but def had a wall hit me when I got to college the first year since I wanted to jump into upper level classes without developing any of the study skills needed or awareness of how my brain actually worked

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benjamin.rush 1w

u could just be gifted and not have adhd not trying i invalidate you! just heard a podcast

Anonymous

#2 1w

awe

Anonymous

#3 1w

As much as I wish I didn’t at times, I’ve been diagnosed twice & the treatment approaches have genuinely changed my life. You can be “gifted” and also have adhd

Anonymous

#4 1w

executive dysfunction also made me a habitual procrastinator but bc I still managed to get good grades, no one questioned it. it just aggravated my mom