"'The Bright Underachiever:' Cruelties I Heard Growing Up with Undiagnosed ADHD"

“The clinic’s problematic ‘assessment’ and cruel words still haunt me years later. I didn’t read their words until I was in my 40s, and I finally understood why I had a decades-long habit of telling people I have no special talents. The specialists stated in scientific terms that I, a child, was a talentless loser.”