adhd

The fear of being called "scattered" has buried more creative genius than failure ever will. Your 99 interests aren't a bug, they're a feature. You're not supposed to niche down. You're supposed to weaponise your chaos.

Many late-diagnosed ADHDers spent years assuming we were bad or broken. So by the time the diagnosis arrives, we've already built an entire identity around compensating for what we thought were character flaws. We became perfectionists to cover up how much we struggle, and people-pleasers to make up for being... See more