Changes
Becoming Someone New After a Lifetime of Being Someone I Wasn’t As a woman in her late 50s who was diagnosed with combination-type ADHD in midlife, I often find myself reflecting on the choices I made along the way. I wonder how different my life could’ve been if I had known—and understood—what I was working with all along. The signs were always there. But back then, ADHD wasn’t something anyone considered in girls, let alone adult women. So… la-di-da , here we are. Trying to Fit In Where I Didn’t Belong Looking back, I see how much of my life was shaped by one desire: to fit in. With someone , anyone . I was never part of a solid friend group. I floated between cliques, friendly with many, but never truly belonging anywhere. Even within my family, I often felt like the odd one out. So I became a people pleaser. I made choices I knew were wrong, just to stay close to someone. If all my friends were jumping off a bridge? I was second in line. Don’t get me wrong—I m...
