Anna Brandberg

I do this all the time. When I say I don't have a properly functioning memory, everyone reacts with concern & care - until I say it's because of ADHD, at which point everyone relaxes & laughs. Why? The symptom hasn't changed? But people don't take ADHD seriously for some reason?https://twitter.com/elisekumar/status/1274491646718013440 …

Likely the idea that it's not something that gets worse, since similar symptoms could be the onset of something like dementia.

I already have the working memory of an 80 year old (no I'm not exaggerating, I have the graphs to prove it). There's not much to deteriorate here... I don't understand why it's not taken as seriously NOW already, as it is.

It is a big problem, it's why it also go undiagnosed so often. I had to grow up thinking everyone had to deal with those things, can't properly process time in my head, having to build my life around not ever remembering where I put things and triple checking everything.

Yeah same. It was such a huge aha-moment for me: learning what the symptoms were, speaking to my friends about their own experiences, and realising that they didn't actually struggle with all those things that I thought were "normal" and that everyone struggled with...

It's mind-opening! It cost me my entire non-adult life not knowing how to deal with it. Anyway, keep tweeting and retweeting about the subject, I've been learning a ton this year!