Shall I get checked for ADHD because friends suggest that I might be on the spectrum, although I'm feeling pretty ok?
Hey Reddit,
I'm new to reddit (listen to Smosh reads Reddit occasionally), trying to figure out how everything around here works.
Anyway, I like this subreddit, yet I'm not sure whether I'm right here.
I'm 32 (M) and I have a lot of friends who have diagnoses for either autism or ADHD (interestingly, they are all women). In the last 3 years, there were more and more situations in which I was told that I might be on the ADHD spectrum (intense hyperfocusing, lack of impulse control with higher ups when they behave (according to me) incompetent and slow, constant switching between activities and focus, struggling to "hold a though" etc.)). So it goes into the direction of "not diagnoseed but everyone"some are quite sure.
Anyway, I actuall see many of these things more as something positive than negative (especially in a fast paced world like today, where switching focus and being more of a generalist, connecting ideas and concepts easily appears to me more useful than being a specialist for a single task.
Although I am currently unemployed (delibaretly, since I did not believe in my old company would not surivive for more than 2 more years and got frustrated with management being incompetent and managin and starting micromanaging) and preparing for becoming a free developer and inventor (I have a PhD in biophysics), I feel actually good about my current situation. Way better than when I was in my previous job and felt trapped due to not being able to be working in ways that I thought were more productive for the company and at the same time more fun to me.
So, long story short. Do you guys think I should get tested in order to have clarity (I mean, maybe I'm just a dude with a short attention span) or would I thereby only take ressources and focus away from people who actually struggle? This is what I'm most concernd about.