Introduction: ADHD Through My Eyes

I’ve been wanting to start a blog dedicated to sharing my thoughts and musings about ADHD since before I was diagnosed, back when I had a suspicion and was nearly certain I had ADHD.

Being diagnosed so late in life (in my 30s) likely made me want to research and delve deep into ADHD, far more than I likely would have if I were to have been diagnosed in my childhood or youth.

There’s a lot you assume about disorders, diseases, psychological conditions, and just about everything under the scope of medicine and psychology.

A lot we assume in general in terms of things we know about the world.

But science is changeable and there are many things we never knew about many of the things we thought we had a handle on that we are just now discovering.

I think a lot of people believe they know all there is to about a topic without realizing that we’re learning new things every day, and so maybe the fact that I was late to the party in terms of being diagnosed helped set the newly discovered information about ADHD in front of me at a point in my life where I both had time to research it and could try to implement it in my life.

That being said, you never know how things would have turned out were your life to have gone a different way.

I’m going to say it, likely, over and over again throughout the posts of this blog, but I am in no way any kind of professional – medical, psychological, neurological, nothing of the sort.

That being said, I did a double degree (English major & philosophy specialist) back in uni (without reading more than 2 books in my entire uni career – I should’ve taken a hint…) and I daresay writing and philosophizing are still some of my two favourite things to do in life.

So the thoughts and experiences I share on this blog will likely be from the emotional and theoretical perspective. Deep diving into what I consider interesting or impactful.

I hope you enjoy the ride. And crossing fingers this is a hyperfixation topic I can keep coming back to over the years, even if I burn out and stop posting every so often.