My childhood best friend is ADHD, all but 1 of my other childhood friends is ADHD and about half of my current friends that I hang out with are either ADHD, on the autism spectrum or likely to be but as yet undiagnosed.

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    10 months ago

    Aside from myself, there is only one other person in my family that has been formally diagnosed as being neurodivergent (autism). I was diagnosed when I was 32. So I found it interesting that even decades before that, I happened to tend to be closer to people that were formally diagnosed with ADHD. The vast majority of my classmates, coworkers and students that I have tutored were very likely neurotypical. But this wasnt true of most of the people I chose to be around.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t know how, but half of my students (I tutor online) are neurodivergent too, which suits me just fine.

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        9 months ago

        Well the school system isn’t very supportive of neurodivergent students so it isn’t THAT surprising.

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      9 months ago

      I’m feeling scared because I’m worried I blacked out, made a new account and posted this.