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[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 14 points 11 months ago

Have you considered that you actually do have ADHD

[-] PurplebeanZ@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago

No, I've just always thought that I am a bit lazy or self absorbed and only want to do the fun things. I do give through periods where I make an effort to correct it but it never sticks.

[-] frogfruit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

It sounds like trolling because it's so typical of those of us with late diagnoses. We also believed this about ourselves prior to getting evaluated.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

🍿

[-] PurplebeanZ@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Definitely not trolling no. My comments are genuinely how I am but I don't think that because I put things off until the last minute that it's anything out of the ordinary. I am actually now a bit curious because more than one person is saying the same thing but I'm not going to self diagnose based on comments on the internet.

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The thing that makes people with ADHD think they don’t have ADHD is the “hyperactive” part. Not everyone with adhd is actually hyperactive, but if you find be yourself unable to muster the motivation to do things you know you’re supposed to do, but the ability to hyper focus on things you want to do, that’s incredibly characteristic of ADHD.

[-] dai@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Me not emailing my negative UDS and EKG results to my psych until the day of my diagnosis.

Instead for that week I was procrastinating, trying to unspaghetti my NixOS installation, installing a PS2 emulator to play a title that dankpods reminded me of.

I'd been beating myself up over this shit for years, people in my life too just thinking I'm lazy and disorganised. Only took me until 36 to get a diagnosis 🤘 Happy I did.

[-] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

Many mental health issues have procrastination and/or executive dysfunction as a symptom.

[-] the_artic_one@programming.dev 11 points 11 months ago

If you're trolling right now then you're doing an A+ job.

[-] PurplebeanZ@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago

I am genuinely not trolling although I have no way of proving it.

[-] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

If you're not trolling you just perfectly described what it's like to be in denial about having ADHD

[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 14 points 11 months ago

He sounds like one of those conservative men who talks about resisting 'temptation' and genuinely doesn't realise that straight men just aren't interested in boning other men in the first place. It's the same energy.

[-] PurplebeanZ@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Sorry I don't mean to come across like that. I just always assumed these types of posts were like Horoscopes and designed to contain elements so the majority of people reading it would go 'oh wow that describes me'. Reading the responses I'm realising that this assumption may well be completely wrong and I should re-evaluate.

[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

If you live somewhere with sane health insurance, consider a small conversation with your doctor to rule it out. You might consider yourself normal because it's all you've ever known.