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Haha, yeah happens to me too a lot. But getting into details there is a lot to say!
Yes indeed our symptoms overlap like 80-90%.however in some cases adhd can be treated with medicine somewhat (without judgement either way).
Yeah the doctor game. I mean I mask all my life and for them I have to do it even more. Wtf that's not helpful (not directed at you). I had doctors I overexplained as it seems and got treated worse for it (either they were annoyed or thought I was exaggerating). And then I had doctor's who asked why I didn't tell something sooner (well, because of the former experience?) and also the pain scale is way off.
Like Spock, I tell them when it hurts like hell and they just don't believe me until worse things happen.
Where was I going? I don't know ๐
Ah yes one thing. I gave up getting diagnosed because I even unsuccessfully put some money in. You don't get more than 'severely disabled' anyhow so nothing to win by this anyhow. It's not like the world is suddenly more accommodating.