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> 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.