Today marks the one year anniversary of my AuDHD diagnosis. And what a year this has been. I was able to receive medication (MPH) for my ADHD. I started to get help from a local autism counselor. I've opened up about my diagnose at work. And the most recent, I got acknowledged to be severely disabled by German law.
After 15+ years of bad mental health, this has been the most "productive" year for me in discovering what has caused all those problems. And it's not the AuDHD. It was the fact, that my AuDHD went undiscovered and nobody, not even myself, was aware that it's there. All those years I just tried to function ... and failed miserably. 15 years later, today I finally see things turning to the better.
I'm thinking of writing a thank-you e-mail to my diagnosing therapist. This diagnosis has opened doors for me that I would never have thought or even hoped of.