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Re getting diagnosed late with something like ADHD, was someone who went through something similar, I was grieving. I felt like i was simultaneously grieving the person i would have been if i were diagnosed earlier, and the person i was before my diagnosis and i was shirt and angry and moved through the stages but now I'm getting to the point where most of the reminders make me laugh fondly at how I was as a kid. Sometimes it still hurts, but I'm working through it. so I'm really sorry you're experiencing this, and it sucks so bad. Don't ever feel like your emotional response is overblown. Not to be dramatic, but you've lost a part of yourself, and you deserve to have people understand, if not why, that you are grieving, and have people support you. And most importantly, remember grief moves on its own timeline.
It’s just rough because I feel like I missed out on my early 20s because I was too busy being a failure and now I’m going back to college and really trying to get my shit together like I should have been able to do years ago if only I were properly medicated
And a big part of my addiction was to medicate a sick mind. Had I been properly medicated, who knows, maybe I would have never became an alcoholic.
