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I got diagnosed with laziness in school.
Many years later, another doctor looked at the diagnosis and said that the first doctor had written down textbook symptoms then missed the diagnosis.
The word lazy still hurts today.
The word lazy still hurts today.
I know that feeling bro.
I was called "useless" and "dumb". Damn, those words trigger me.
I feel that. I was also diagnosed as lazy and unable to live up to potential. Then in my 20s i was diagnosed with narcolepsy....
It does hurt.
Lol, I was told that I don't have ADHD because I am not hyperactive - except for the phases when I am, then I am getting on everyones nerves. Last month I was diagnosed. Im 36...
I have the feeling only others with ADHD can relate to the countless evenings I sat crying over my homework, my daily tasks, bills I just forgot and the constant struggle to get my shit together. I mean: Thinking back I can smile, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't come with some kond of bitterness.
Next month will get medication for the first time. I'm interested if I really only needed to try harder or if I actually fought agaibst an invisible wall.
When I was hyperactive, I was annoying, disruptive, and poorly disciplined.
When I wasn't hyperactive, I was a lazy slacker.
The boys that shared my symptoms got treatment. I got punished.