I hated myself before my #adhd diagnosis 🧵

Before then, I spent 26 years of my life feeling not only wrong, but broken, as well.

As if I were somehow just functionally inept, compared to my siblings, my peers… Anyone.

Then I got the answer, I knew all along: I AM & that’s ok.

The thing I thought that made me different than everyone else was true, but it had a name!

Not only that, it has treatment options, through therapy, medications, or both!

If I knew what it was, I knew who *I* am