[throwing_away]

Yes, I have such a diagnosis and can confirm this, but it was many years ago. I assume it's still the same.

I got a short quiz to see what symptoms I was complaining about and then I got asked about my drug usage and why I was seeing them.

I told them that I tried a friend's adderall once and I felt so much better immediately.

They told me drinking 2 pots of coffee a day, doing tasks out of order, "just in time laundry", and being "excitable" is actually ADHD and that I'd be better off if I took these pills every day and cut way back on the caffeine.

It took about 15 minutes.

What other questions would you have? Do you think you'd need to give me the long-form test? Lol.

I followed the advice btw. It's going well many years later and I hope RFK doesn't take the stimulants away.

[hansonkd]

In california (and i would have guessed nationally) at least you do need a long form test in order to get control prescription like adderall. But the test is more of a "video game" style that tests your attention

[throwing_away]

This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqoMrCLl14E

Feels kind of reductive.

If I played too many video games so now I don't get to have my meds, I'm going to be pretty sad.

[hinkley]

> drinking two pots of coffee a day

Adult diagnosis is weird. I’m assuming you were not a child drinking that much coffee. Adults have decades of coping mechanisms obscuring the signal, and yet just talking to an adult with ADHD for an hour will tell you whether the person has ADHD instead of being a stimulant junkie that read the DSM to present manufactured symptoms. It’s exhausting to talk to someone with ADHD for hours if you don’t have exactly the right disposition (like being a polymath or having it too).

They will still often want you to do a sleep study, because chronic lack of quality sleep or chronic stress looks a hell of a lot like ADHD. It’s also why you want the person with ADHD to write or at least copy edit your emergency procedures because they haven’t just adopted chaos, they were born in it, molded by it. They were adults before they ever saw order and to them it was just blinding. They will absolutely write a procedure that won’t skip steps or overly rely on the actors to be calm and present of mind to pull it off.