bijou3owl replied to your post “malafight replied to your post “I recognize that I’m preaching to...”
I went to the University psyc center. They did a full-blown evaluation on me. They then said I couldn't have ADHD because I was in grad school. I then went to a private psychiatrist who specializes in ADHD and he diagnosed me almost immediately. The school center cost me a year of treatment and likely fucked over grad school for me.
Someone needs to bonk them over the head with a book about 2e aka “twice exceptional” folks; those of us with “gifted” intelligence and a learning disability (which includes ADHD). Smart can hide ADHD in a lot of situations but it doesn’t cancel it out.
The dumbass thing is, I bet your neuro-psych eval absolutely had the hallmarks for ADHD, because even though 2e people sometimes test really well (I do, in most subjects I find it easy to hyperfocus during an exam), one of the tell-tales of ADHD is having wildly varying results on psychological exam stuff--like, our intelligence will test really well, but our short-term/working memory will be much, much lower than expected in comparison.
Either their evaluation wasn’t as comprehensive as they told you, or they’re too goddamn ignorant to read the results.
Because, like.....I would have pegged you as “probably ADHD” when I met you! I don’t mean that in any kind of negative way, there’s just weird little stuff I find hard to explain, that I notice with other ADHD people when I talk to them in social situations??
