Adhd in Adults: the Invisible Rhinoceros
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At a suspicion I later asked about adhd as there were some rather clear cycles and signals, "no you cant have adhd you're successful", successful to them meaning graduated and held a job even if I was at my wit's end. They were of the mindset that clearly if I had adhd my parents or the public school system would have caught it.
New psych and one the first things she wanted unprompted was adhd screening, go figure.