I'm 34, and just finished a year-long diagnosis in the UK - which I am now told I have combined ADHD. It explains so much about how I was as a kid, to how I think and behave as an adult. I feel like a weight is lifted off my shoulders, and it is helping me kinder to myself. The best advice I can give is to be kinder to yourself!

It's so weird while actually making so much sense that we, people that self diagnose with ADHD, have very similar "realization moment". I self diagnosed a few years ago and almost two weeks ago I have gotten a formal diagnosis and it was so liberating. Going in to do the test I was worried that, as you, I have developed so many coping mechanisms that I was thinking that they will say that I'm lying. But, to my surprise, the tests accounts for the coping mechanisms and it was just so emotional to be validated in this struggle that I have had my whole life. Thanks for making this video and wishing you the best with your journey of discovering and understanding yourself!

I went from self diagnosis at 44 to doctor diagnosis at 49, and I know EXACTLY how you feel. Breaking into tears often, after I started connecting the dots of my life. Also, I was diagnosed ASD as well, so the feelings hit all over again.

Here I am, diagnosed at 34… also obsessed about learning more.

Thanks for sharing. I'm in a similar place. 35 years old and over the past few weeks I've discovered that ADHD isn't really what I'd assumed it was, and that it actually sounds like a lot of the issues i've been experiencing fit into that bucket quite nicely. These symptoms got noticeably worse following a fairly minor head injury about 7 years ago. I'm going to get tested. Wish you all the best and hope you can get some help with it

I feel like we are like 99% the same. I'm 40 years old now. 20 years ago a friend first said that I might have adhd. But I always had exactly the same doubts as you. I got diagnosed just this week. The psychologist said that I am very ADHD. And quite smart with an IQ of 123. Thats probably the reason I did very well in school. Until I had to really study and organize myself. I started going to med school, quit after like 6 years of under achieving. (I'm from Austria, so fortunately it didn't cost me a single Euro). My son has severe ADHD too, and my daughter is like my clone. Gonna get her tested, just to be sure. At least one of my sisters has severe ADHD too, and I suspect my other two sisters to have it too. I feel you very much from afar. LLAP 🙃

Hello Jenelle Carter hello anyway this is indeed very heartwarming and very wonderful and very beautiful and this brings back such great memories of when I use to be a 90s kid and an early 2000s kid and I am a new subscriber as well:).

Self diagnosis can be a very good first step ( i never thought i'd have it until watching "tell me You Have ADHD Without Telling Me You Have ADHD" from "How to ADHD" here on yt 2 years ago ) but i highly recommend seeking out professional help aswell. I got my diagnosis for a bit over a year, got meds shortly after diagnosis and honestly, they changed my life drastically. All The tips, therapy, coping mechanisms are only about 20 of the effect, 80% is the meds (that is sadly also the clinical reality of it, seeing as it is a neurodivergence, we process dopamine very differently then neurotypicals). One thing tho: You (we) are not flawed! It's just different obstacles then a neurotypical person. edit: i'm 39 yrs old now

I always thought i may have it but never gave it much thought until about 2 weeks ago i watched a Jaiden Animations video on her experience through life and getting diagnosed and everything and since then I've started noticing more and more behaviors in my life that fit adhd very closely but I'd just seen as normal or "just me procrastinating/being lazy" up until now and it's been brining me so much stress that i decided to get diagnosed. Unfortunately, ADHD is not diagnosed with adults in my country. I'll keep trying and may even go to another country to get diagnosed but when i found out there may be a chance I can't get diagnosed it was absolutely devastating and i felt so let down by all the systems around me. Im really thankful for my friends and partner being so supportive, but yeah. It's a really difficult thing, i hope you manage to get diagnosed and get help or medication, sure wish i could

Hi. I always wondered about ADHD especially when I listened to Mel Robbins pod cast about her experience of getting diagnosed in her 40s. I started seeing my phycologist 7 months ago due to me getting really overwhelmed with parenting (I have 4 yo and 6 yo) and my emotional up and down. During one of the consultation, I asked my phycologist about the possibility of ADHD. From there everything went really fast and lots of things made sense. I can totally relate hyper focusing researching about ADHD, cleaning is my thing… I need my house clean and everything in designated spot and my husband thinks I am over the top…. I always try to give myself more than enough time to get to place. Lot of the time people can have both ADHD and ASD. I am due to have another assessment at the end of this month as a preparation to see psychiatrist. I am excited but very nervous about it. Somewhere in my head I feel like I don’t have ADHD due to me being highly organised.

You have some angst and you cope with multiple interests. Some emotions or some sensations you don’t want to feel are there, waiting.

sounds more like OCD than ADHD

You don't sound like ADHD to me. I had a girlfriend years ago that was ADHD and she was reasonably organized, a high school teacher, but she made spur of the moment decisions without regard for consequences. She could not save a dime, it drove her father crazy. She had a casual disregard for being on time, and combine that with spur of the moment bad decision making and she blows through a police barrier at graduation for her high school and winds up in hand cuffs frantically yelling that she is a teacher. She took very little accountability and deflected quite a bit of her actions as someone else's fault. She was a nice person and usually postitive, but I had to break it off because she conned me into thinking we were going to pick some things up at her ex-boyfriend's house. It turned out that she knew where he kept a key and we were breaking in while he was on a trip so she could rifle around and pick things up she believed were hers. Just listening to you for a few minutes, you don't seem like this type of person at all.

OK, here is my point. Maybe you have ADHD or maybe not. But, I am sure the signs you've described can be applied to 50% of the world's population and almost all of us experience something like that more or less throughout our lives. Does this mean we all have ADHD? In your case, you rule out half of the issue right there, which is HD! Now, can you live and function through your life the way you are now? I guess the answer is "Yes". So, the next step for you would be to see the professional to get diagnosed. Right? I can give you 100% you will get prescribed a drug, containing, amphetamine, and in one year you will become a drug addict sitting on the maximum daily dose and still experiencing the same symptoms. Is ADHD a life-threatening condition? NO! But the side effects of those drugs are 100% life-threatening! I am telling you this as I watch my 30-year-old son, who was first self-diagnosed with ADHD and then went to see a professional and now he is a drug addict having way more issues than he had prior!!! If you think the quality of your life will change for good with the drugs, you are wrong! It may seem like they work at first, but over time you will realize what you've done to yourself but it will be too late. You will just become another money supplier for the drug companies having a very questionable ADHD diagnosis. I wish you all the best, but, please, think not even twice but ten times before making decisions here...

Why would you bother self diagnosing ? Just get yourself assessed by professional

I'm sharing a similar experience. At 28 years old, I find myself to be extremely calm during a very responsible emergency. Over the past decade or so, I've always felt a similarity to ADHD, but due to the (well-intentioned) discouragement from those around me, I didn't pursue it straightforwardly. I'm also confident in my self-diagnosis, but I might seek professional examination.

A 45 min video ... who is this for? Ehh nvm.