Why Is It Still So Hard To Diagnose Adult ADHD? …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
Growing up, Jia Sung struggled in class. Her reports card contained notes like “intelligent but doesn’t apply herself” or “has a really hard time focusing,” she said. Those early signs of ADHD were dismissed as laziness or lack of motivation.
Then, when Sung was in her late 20s, her friend was diagnosed with ADHD and suggested she be screened, too.
“Part of me was a little resistant to it. The things that I was told were associated with ADHD, I had associated with character flaws,” Sung said. “It took me a couple years of sitting with this possibility to act on it…
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