For years I struggled with everyday mundane tasks. I couldn't perform well in school, keep up with daily life tasks, and constantly disappoint in achieving what I wanted. It led to an incredibly low self-esteem, a tendency for depression, a dysfunctional relationship with food, and a crippling fear of failure. All my life I believed I wasn't good enough. I simply didn't try hard enough. But then, at age 30 my ADHD diagnosis helped me realise I wasn't broken, just different. I want to avoid other people with ADHD going undiagnosed for too long. And for the stigma around ADHD to disappear.

ADHD isn't a lack of attention, it's the chemical inability to regulate it where necessary. Which in our society doesn't work.

I resonate a lot with what motivational speaker Ellie Middleton said:

"... As far as you’re aware, you’re just the same as everybody else. But in reality, deep down, you know that you’re not. You’re not the same. You can’t do things in the same way as everybody else around you can, you can’t achieve things in the same way that everybody else does, and you just don’t seem to be able to exist quite as easily as they can, either. [...] You were never damaged – you just weren’t able to process the coding that you were expected to. You were never a bad person – you just didn’t have the right information to build up an accurate picture of yourself." 

Adults, especially women, with ADHD, have gone unrecognised for too long. Donating to ADHD UK can help solve this problem.