It wasn\u2019t until our oldest child was diagnosed with ADHD about 2 or 3 years ago that I realized I might have it. I anticipate that I will use this space to talk about living with ADHD, so today I wanted to give you some background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

As part of the diagnosis process for our oldest child, we had to fill out a questionnaire as the parent. As I was starting to fill out the questionnaire, I realized that several of the questions seemed to describe me. When our child received the diagnosis, I asked the psychiatrist if ADHD was hereditary, and when he said yes, something clicked inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started researching ADHD, and as I did so, I became sure that I had it. I visited my family doctor and received a referral to a psychiatrist for a formal diagnosis. I met with a psychiatrist a little over a year ago, but because I couldn\u2019t provide any evidence that I had symptoms as a child and because I was using tools to manage what seemed to be symptoms to me (such as email, to-do lists, reminders, etc), he said he couldn\u2019t diagnose me and wasn\u2019t even confident I had it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I gave up. I stopped pursuing it and just resigned myself to being bored and forgetful. But then, for some reason, a few months ago, I started doing more research into it\u2014much more comprehensive research\u2014and I started to realize how many symptoms I actually had. I even started to recognize behaviour from when I was a child that seemed to be ADHD symptoms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my favourite resources during my research was the YouTube channel \u201cHow to ADHD<\/a>\u201d. I was turned onto Jessica\u2019s channel through a TED Talk she did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n