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A casual community for people with ADHD

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Anyone else feel like their ADHD was always there but got progressively worse as an adult? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just wonder if it actually did get worse or it just seems like that because as an adult you have a lot more on your plate than you did when you were a kid/teen

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

My ADHD is so severe that I flunked out of high school even though I was placed in all college prep and AP classes. My parents were both born in the 1930's, so their solution was ground me. For four years. I had no idea what was wrong with me, and by the 10th grade I was convinced I was stupid. Then after high school I found the joys of self-medicating with alcohol and cocaine. I literally wasted 20+ years drifting from manual labor job to manual labor job, and staying trashed on the weekends. I used to be angry about it, now I'm just sad. Things could have been different. Now I'm too old, too tired, and too unemployable to care anymore. Thank Fat Baby Jeebus I never had children.