Being a successful professional with ADHD sucks. Everyone assumes that just because you've gotten this far in life, then ADHD can't be that bad or disruptive to day-to-day life. In reality, I spend every waking moment of my day balancing the expectation to think linearly (ie "normally") with the expectation that I'll contribute unique insights that are made possible by the non-linear thinking that is a hallmark of ADHD.

It's exhausting.

#ADHD

@DataDrivenMD imagine finding out at 47 that you have ADHD, then at 50 that you're autistic. am still going through the process of recalibrating my expectation of myself, forget about even other people's expectation of me, LOL
@blogdiva @DataDrivenMD Hmmm, just a year or two earlier for me but hard relate.