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The whole sentence pretty much describes me perfectly but it was never picked up on. I'm 43 now and have only recently realised.
I was diagnosed as neurodiverse in later life so I can really relate
What does that diagnosis entail? Can you get prescribed anything (not jost meds but measures) for being neurodiverse?
I would assume they were handed a more specific diagnosis that they just summarized here under the label neurodivergent.
I just turned 42 and was only just diagnosed with ADHD inattentive type and ASD type 1 last year. The only way I got the idea to get diagnosed was because of my youtube algorithm ending up on videos that talked about neurodivergence, so one could say it was kind of by random chance. And because I might have slightly above average IQ or whatever, I was one of those that could do their homework 1 hour before bedtime the day before it needed handing in. Or when it came to math I'd just do it in the break as soon as we had gotten the homework in the breaks to avoid doing it at home.
I was diagnosed with with ADD in 1992 at 12 years old, and again by a different doctor at 16, but it was the 90s and "we all had ADD!", at least that's what I told myself for the following two and a half decades. I basically gaslit myself into completely dismissing the diagnosis from two separate doctors several years apart. Of course, I also struggled with basically every aspect of what I would have considered "normal life" all the while. I mean, barely able to exist in the Normal World ™ and always wondering why the hell I couldn't just "get my shit together".
Well, spoiler, it was the ADHD. The incredible thing is, I know about a dozen other people my age who all have the same story as mine. We made a joke of it all and ended up really screwing ourselves over as the punchline.