ADHD is being intelligent and hard working but completely unable to decide a career path, so drifting through life into your 40s when you finally realise you have ADHD and have wasted the past 25 years.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 19 hours ago

Hey! We're not all hard working!

[–] kureta@lemmy.ml 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

dude...

edit: I studied physics, quit, became a bass player, then a street musician playing percussion, then software developer, then translator, then studied classical music composition, then quit, then became conference interpreter, then learned neural networks and gave a seminar on using neural networks in contemporary music at Ircam Paris in 2018, then went back to studying composition at the university. This year I will finally graduate at 41. Hope to do my masters and become a college professor.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago

Hey nuh uh, I did all that having been diagnosed at 5, thank you.