I was diagnosed as a young child. I don’t remember an assessment and was never medicated. The coping mechanisms I was taught growing up were not contextualized as “for ADHD” they were just “the way things had to be done to get things done” As I grew into adulthood, I chocked up the behavioral differences to just the way different folks from different families learn to do things differently. Living as an normie, I started to question/forget my diagnosis.

So there I am, rediscovering that I might have ADHD as an adult from memes on the internet. When I mentioned it to my folks my mum emphatically reminded me that I absolutely had an official diagnosis X0 some years ago.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

My mom was an esl and special education teacher, who raised my audhd siblings and me similarly. My oldest sister is kind of a bad speller, and it turns out she’s straight up dyslexic and my mom taught her how to read and write so that it didn’t matter. Unfortunately she’s dead and nobody in my family knows how she did it.