![]() ![]() Two terrine recipes later, the train has long passed and night has fallen. You discover cassowary eggs are bright green and in 2005, UK police found a leg of swan in the Queen’s Master of Music’s freezer. Curious, you pull out your phone, Google the bird and get stuck in a “pigeons of the world” vortex. On a bad, a bird might land in front of you. On a good day, it’s like watching a train whizz past you while you’re trying to read the text on the side and make out faces in the windows. Despite the name, ADHD doesn’t exactly result in a “deficit” of attention, but more an issue regulating it, making it harder to plan, prioritise, avoid impulses, remember things and focus. In Australia, it affects approximately 814,500 people and around five to 7.1% of the population globally. But it can also make little girls feel like they’ll never be good enoughĪttention deficit hyperactive disorder is a condition that presents at first in childhood but often goes undiagnosed. The assumption is that ADHD makes little boys disruptive. And like so many more, I had no clue what that meant. It turned out, like many women in their 30s, I had been masking severe ADHD my entire life. It would be another burnout, two more doctors, a blood test, a hormone test, a three-month wait to see a psychiatrist and another year-and-a-half before I had an answer. What is wrong with me? As soon as I got home, I collapsed on to the floor and tucked my limbs under myself into a ball – which I did often. But these were byproducts, not the cause. I left the psychologist’s office with zero helpful tools and as much hope. The session, I can say with full confidence, was a failure. ![]()
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