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If you want to know, get an evaluation from an expert. If you don't want to know, don't bother. Personally, I wanted to know through decades of my life. Very difficult decades and I realized early on that something was very wrong with me. I just had no clue what it was. I finally developed some methods of copeing with whatever it was, but that wasn't enough. I was still discontent and struggled through all those years. I wasted a lot of time, because I never knew what ADHD was. Once I finally read about it, I knew I shared a lot of symptoms with the people who have it. Not hyperactivity...never had that, but there is a subgroup of people who lack that symptom and still have a type of ADHD. So I began my journey of discovering more about this condition and eventually getting treatment.
I grew up a son of immigrant parents.
English was not the main language spoken in the home until much much later.
The kids on the street poked fun of my poor command of the English language at the age of 5.
I ran crying to my father.
I told my father how I felt.
He proceeded to kick me in the ass, told me to stop bitching, and pushed me
back out there to play.
Find a therapist, express your concerns and maybe they'll give you skills to focus or some medication- BUT YOU DO NOT ALWAYS NEED MEDS.
I havr ADD and i never did good on meds. Made me too tired. Medication isn't the answer.
I have a hard time concentrating, remembering things and just a slow learner. I was diagnosed back in 1993. I'm 34 now. So yes you SHOULD'VE gotten an IEP and someone to help you eith this back when you were in school. Why didn't you???
lack of focus isn't ADHD, it's lack of discipline...
why ADHD is the catch all for not learning how to focus for the past 20 years is absurd
if you can focus on something you are interested in, say playing a game or a book, then you don't have ADHD, you are just uninterested in putting in the time into something you find boring.
You're dead wrong
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