A licensed doctor/psychiatrist is the only one that can actually diagnose you. There's many differential diagnoses for something like ADHD. My advice is to talk to a doctor and they can give you an official assessment and your options.

Hey. ADHD diagnosed person here. Only diagnosed this year after a lifetime of feeling like a lazy former gifted kid. This looks a lot like my over-analysis spiral from a few years ago. My psychiatrist broke it down like this:

ADHD, like most things, is a spectrum. If your brain and body have trouble regulating norepinephrine then you're probably on that spectrum. There's no stolen valor here... Only treatment options based on diagnostics (educated guesswork). You meet the diagnostic criteria and I am confident that treatment is your best path forward to mitigate and control the reasons you scheduled time here in the first place.

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Some days my symptoms do not get in the way and I could easily pass for neurotypical. On "bad brain" days I feel like I'm losing my mind. Neuro-divergence is complex and life is weird. A diagnosis isn't about having direct answers: it's about narrowing down which mitigations, meditations, and medications we want to trial to increase our control over and quality of our lives.

If you accept that ADHD diagnosis, start treating it, and the treatment improves your life, that's a huge win. If it doesn't? Also a win. You've eliminated an option via experimentation and you know more about yourself. Time to try the next option. The important bit is being receptive to the attempt at making your life better.

The spectrum part is the key idea here. You can be fat while not being as fat as others. The existence of the people on 600lb life doesn't make you skinny or athletic. The existence of older people than me doesn't make me not old. Wether or not there exists someone older than me doesn't change how much I want you to stay the fuck off my lawn.

Everything in your bulleted list sounds like ADHD to me. The fact that you wrote out a post of your thoughts which included a bulleted list sounds like ADHD to me.

I'm not a professional of course. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child, so I've lived with this for a long time. The quote in your post could have applied to me as a hyperactive child on some days but does not apply to me now; not just from maturing and aging, but also a lifetime of developing coping skills and self-restraint.

But regardless, everyone is different. I wouldn't put too much in stock with one quote.

But also, I have no idea what a creyos ADHD assessment is either. If it's just some free online test I wouldn't necessarily put too much in stock with its results either...

But yeah, it sounds like ADHD to me

Theres a list of things that they ask to figure out if you have ADHD. If you have like 8 out of thirteen things you have ADHD. Pay attention to the qualifiers though. To the extent that your life is negatively impacted, and in comparison to your peers. Everyone loses their car keys and wallet sometimes, people with ADHD lose everything all the time, and it's a hindrance to their everyday life. People who know you comment on your propensity to lose things. Everyone hates the tedious parts of their jobs, people with ADHD lose their job because they can't do tedious things.

It may also be helpful to think about the things we can do. People with ADHD can access the expensive creative part of their brain and the detail oriented task focused part at the same time. This gives us the ability to think creatively while doing a task. There's also hyper-focus, the ability to focus on just one thing for extended periods. When the two abilities combine, you can slip into a flow state that can be very productive.

I've got diagnosed at age 26, now 16 years ago. This was after a whole set of tests, spread over days with observation included. You need a professional because there is so much involved.

Everybody's different so even though articles and YouTube videos on the subject may seem recognisable, sometimes they also describe stuff that I don't experience.

There is no hyperactivity on the surface but that doesn't mean there is no hyperactivity at all. I for an instance became very well at hiding and suppressing the 'H' in ADHD. So much that even to me it seems like there's nothing there.

So, get tested by a professional. When' you get diagnosed, see how that can work for you. I for an instance had poor results in high school but graduated magna cum laude in law school four years ago.

Being diagnosed made me look for alternative ways of organising my life and made me more successful. At least it made me understand myself.

Hey friend,

Honestly I don't understand what the difference would be for you.

There's no badge or membership. Personally I had three benefits of my diagnosis (which is two decades back by now and was as an adult):

I had an easier time understanding my own brain and... Well world perception.

I was able to easier look for help and talk about it.

I was able to test medication (didn't work our for me back then she took side effects but that's a different story).

To get a strangers "judgment": If you just want an excuse for your low energy and failing here and there you don't have it. If you want guidance and new approaches to improve your life for yourself and then here's your diagnosis: one of us!

Either way I wish you the best :)

You sound like me. You ever nod off when you really don't want to just because you're bored?

I would go from full of energy to 0 in minutes during a boring lecture, reading bedtime stories or driving. (Yeah. Scary)

Nobody ever complains about the inattentive type. We just get labeled lazy, but we aren't disruptive, so we don't get the attention that leads to diagnosis.

I totally feel this. I have not tested for it and im good with my sleep schedule by and large. Granted it annoys me. I would love to live much more naturally and sleep when I feel its time to sleep and wake when I wake. Im in my 50's and I don't see much of a point to looking into it to much myself as I don't think anything in my life is bad outside of the way society is run in the us. to much plutocracy/corptocracy and not enough social democracy. As a kid I was definitely seen as introverted which was a fine word to use back then.