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I never talked to a professional about it and I don't intend to. I don't need to pay someone to confirm what I already know especially since I'm absolutely not going to medicate it.
What are your reasons for that, if you don't mind sharing? I think I'm in the same boat.
There's nothing to be gained from it. I'm not going to start taking medication to fix what I don't see as an issue so at best they're just going to confirm something I'm already relatively certain of. I just don't see why even bother. Having a documented proof about a condition isn't going to benefit me in my life.
It sounds like you have quite an unusual and cool relationship with your ADHD. I'd be interested to hear more about it. It seems like most people emphasise the difficulties of having it, and would like to have medication to alleviate those difficulties.
For myself, I do share those difficulties but I also don't want to tamper with my brain chemistry for fear of causing other problems, or even of it backfiring altogether. So I don't really see what benefit a diagnosis would be for me, unless there was some other material support.
I also wonder whether I could do more to change my life/surroundings to accommodate myself-with-ADHD, instead of trying change myself to accommodate my life. I've tried the latter and it hasn't really worked, and I no longer really expect it to. I've now started thinking about what it would mean to radically embrace it. Perhaps you have some perspective on that?
It's just radical acceptance really. Having been dealt a bad hand doesn't mean you can't win - it's all about how you play that hand. I'm not going to start demanding a leg up or complaining that the system is rigged against me. Maybe it's not fair but it's life. Everyone has their nerfs and this is mine. Some things just are harder for me than for others but I try to find workarounds. I like who I am and I wouldn't want to be otherwise. Most of it does no real harm to anyone else. It just makes me a quirky person who sometimes acts a bit weird and doesn't follow social norms and that's okay. The stereotype of a "normal person" is not attractive to me anyway. Weird people are my favourites.
Awesome. Yeah there's no point getting stuck on a downer about things you can't change.
Has that always been your attitude or is it a conscious decision?