“Lazy.” “Scatterbrained.” “Weird.” What Labels Preceded Your ADHD Diagnosis?
If you spent years berating yourself for being late, or loud, or distracted, or messy, or any number of so-called “shortcomings,” you are not alone. Here, ADDitude readers share the toxic labels they gave themselves before understanding these quirks were actually signs of ADHD in women.
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I love how whenever I find an article that I can relate to, ADDitude makes sure to include some identity group that this “happens to” ensuring that people like me continue to be excluded. People keep saying, “you are not made wrong,” but I clearly am because, even though I thought I found a place to explore the reality of what happened to me for 47 years, I find that my experience is not welcome here, either.