Reed

So. I've been participating in a weekly group discussion centered around self-discovery and healing, and I'm slowly realizing I may be AuDHD. I never considered it before, because trauma has a lot of symptoms that overlap.

Are there others out there who have come to these realizations late in life? How have you thought about it or reconciled it with the past?

#AuDHD #autism #adhd

Mar 17 at 4:50pmWeb
Show threadBarefoot Rambling5d ago

@reed

There are more than a few of us out there, and here on the fedi. I was 47 when I started this journey.

Welcome!

Adding some tags and a group for reach:

@autistics

#ActuallyAutistic #ActuallyADHD

Show threadReed5d ago
@barefootrambling @autistics thanks for the extra tags, and new things to follow. I'm 47, and this all feels a bit surprising, but also not.
Show threadBarefoot Rambling5d ago

@reed @autistics

Yeah, sounds about right.
It's been one hell of a tumultuous journey for me thus far, an eye-opener for damn sure.

Show threadKevin Davy5d ago
@reed
For whatever reason there seems to be more than a few of us late-realisers here on Fedi. So, welcome to the club and the journey of discovery that comes with it.
53, when I realised. 9 years ago now.
Show threadReed5d ago
@pathfinder thank you! The realization has been interesting, thinking about a bunch of things that seem to make sense now.
Show threadwil5d ago
@reed Oh yeah. I was diagnosed in my 40s, after my child was.
Show threadReed5d ago
@wil someone else in my group mentioned that as well, they didn't suspect anything about themselves until their child was diagnosed.
Show threadwil5d ago
@reed It's a fairly common pipeline these days! My kid was such a mini-me.
Show threadAudhdDespiteNoisyAbleism 🇨🇦5d ago
@reed We are so many! But most of it welcome! If you have any questions, please feel to ask using the # given in addition to those you already used. 😊