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@farah The "official" symptom list is not actually the real symptoms of ADHD which is a problem. It's just the things about ADHD that annoy neurotypical people.

Here's the real symptom list (or rather the "female-typical" one)

You can't accomplish your goals BECAUSE they're your goals.

You will spend your entire day doing nothing, poorly. You will resolve to do better tomorrow. You will mean it. You will not do better tomorrow.

You think that you annoy everyone and everything that you say is stupid and yet you say it anyway and can't understand why you do that.

Everyone secretly hates you. Including you. You secretly hate you. This is an immovable fact of the universe and no evidence to the contrary will convince you otherwise.

You will EITHER have temper tantrums that seemingly come out of nowhere, but are actually the straw that broken the camel's back, except you've been swallowing them for ages, and then you just fucking SNAP, and you say horrible things that you don't mean and you are in there yelling at yourself to STOP but you do not.

OR you will turn that rage on yourself, never allowing yourself to get angry with another human being ever.

You have impostor syndrome about literally EVERYTHING.

Nothing you are good at counts as an accomplishment. Only things you can't do.

You CANNOT take a compliment. One of the nastiest things anyone can ask of you is to say something nice about yourself.

You would rather have a barbed wire colonoscopy than take those clothes out of the washing machine. You know, the ones that have been there 2 days.

WHY WON'T THE MUSIC IN MY HEAD STOP?

You rehearse all your conversations. You dictate your thoughts before you have them. Your thoughts race and when you speak, your speech has actual sodding PARENTHESES in it where you go off on digressions and probably forget what the fuck you were talking about half way through the sentence.

"Why am I always 30 seconds late or 2 hours early for everything?"

"Why can't I sleep?"

Leg go bounce

LEAVE THE INSIDE OF YOUR CHEEK ALONE

And your nails, unless you pick your nose, or pull skin off your feel instead. Or all three. Probably all three (weirdly I never bit my nails)

You likely has several of the following comorbidities: POTS, hEDS, autism, migraines, IBS, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Tourettes Syndrome, some sort of autoimmune disease, gender dysphoria (really). Nobody knows why.

I could go on. I will stop now.

When I first came across a list like that, I freaked the fuck out.