Heh, flunked out of college twice at a relatively prestigious university and just decided I actually am lazy and not as smart as I thought. Just got diagnosed and things at least make some sense now.
Yeah, I was always "the gifted kid" and ended up graduating at the very top of my high school class without ever studying.
Initially college wasn't bad for me, but when classes started requiring me to actually study, I had a crisis. I managed to pull out of it and actually learn how to study, but my study habits are obsessive. I tend to hyper-focus for hours when I'm working on it to the point where I actually hurt my back from being hunched over while studying at one point.
After college though, yeah. Hardcore burn out. Going from job to job, bouts of depression from lack of job, etc. Things have looked up for me in the past year or so, but it was a long road to get here. My hobbies are still suffering though.
How did you get a diagnosis as an adult? I relate a lot to the meme and now I'm worried.
If they ask me a bunch of stuff I don't have typical answers for, then I feel like I'd just be brushed off.
I'm not sure either way, maybe I'm lazy and depressed because of it and it'd be an excuse, or maybe I really do have something and I've actually been overperforming. Idk. Fuck.
Oh I've never been diagnosed. I'm in the same boat as you.
My Mom and my brother have been diagnosed though only the former is on medication for it. I was a good kid that did well in school so there was never any reason to diagnose me. Also, I grew up poor as fuck in a deindustrialized rural town in Appalachia so it wasn't like my parents were keen to spend the money unless they had to.
"Gifted" kids usually have it the worst out of everyone, which is why we tended to burn out in the first year or so of college/uni.
oh you fell through the cracks? get fucked.
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Heh, flunked out of college twice at a relatively prestigious university and just decided I actually am lazy and not as smart as I thought. Just got diagnosed and things at least make some sense now.
Yeah, I was always "the gifted kid" and ended up graduating at the very top of my high school class without ever studying.
Initially college wasn't bad for me, but when classes started requiring me to actually study, I had a crisis. I managed to pull out of it and actually learn how to study, but my study habits are obsessive. I tend to hyper-focus for hours when I'm working on it to the point where I actually hurt my back from being hunched over while studying at one point.
After college though, yeah. Hardcore burn out. Going from job to job, bouts of depression from lack of job, etc. Things have looked up for me in the past year or so, but it was a long road to get here. My hobbies are still suffering though.
How did you get a diagnosis as an adult? I relate a lot to the meme and now I'm worried.
If they ask me a bunch of stuff I don't have typical answers for, then I feel like I'd just be brushed off.
I'm not sure either way, maybe I'm lazy and depressed because of it and it'd be an excuse, or maybe I really do have something and I've actually been overperforming. Idk. Fuck.
Oh I've never been diagnosed. I'm in the same boat as you.
My Mom and my brother have been diagnosed though only the former is on medication for it. I was a good kid that did well in school so there was never any reason to diagnose me. Also, I grew up poor as fuck in a deindustrialized rural town in Appalachia so it wasn't like my parents were keen to spend the money unless they had to.
But if you find out, let me know.