AS SOMEONE WHO has recently received a later-in-life ADHD diagnosis, it feels like every day I’m learning about things that could be related to my neurodiversity, and honestly some of them have been really eye-opening!

And so, here are 10 things I didn’t realise were my ADHD…

I learned recently that it’s very common to sit on chairs in strange ways when you have ADHD. This is because your brain is trying to regulate dopamine, among other things. It’s literally your brain trying to make your body feel better. Who knew!

I want people to like me, and I always have. To the point of editing myself depending on who I am around.

I became really good at fitting in from an early age. Changing my wants and needs to ensure that people would like me and think I was a good person.

It’s definitely become more apparent with young children and as I go through perimenopause, but sometimes I feel like I am losing my mind. I’ll give you an example: last week I lost a small bag containing mics that I use for work. I absolutely tore our house apart to look for them. I called all the people whose houses I’d been in. Not only that, but I even considered looking in the bins.

And then I got to work, and I’d left them on a colleague’s desk. I have no recollection of doing that. Sure, I can laugh it off now, but those couple of days over the weekend looking for them were incredibly distressing and frustrating. This is........

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