At 55 I realized my entire life had been learning to cope with something I didn’t realize I even had

I was 55 and apparently the last one in my circle to know that I had ADHD. No one could believe that I didn’t see it myself until then, and when I did start going down the rabbit hole of discovery, I felt like I was being punked on a daily basis because everything I was learning was exactly me right down to the internal lies I had been telling myself all of my life. Things like procrastinating because I excel under pressure and living life to the extremes with not much in between. It all started to make sense. I wish I had understood my wiring 30 years ago, and now that I do, I’m excited to see where it can really take me.

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