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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son and I have a profile with inattentive ADHD and low processing speed. Mine is quite mild and generally invisible to outsiders, his is much more severe: he needed an IEP in school. We both have working memory issues, we procrastinate terribly, have difficulties with multitasking, and we're a bit slow... my son is VERY slow.

And then my husband and my daughter have mixed type ADHD (hyperactive and inattentive). They have an impatience/anger component to their symptoms which my son and I don't have (we're the chillest, most daydreaming people).[/quote]

OP here. Thank you for this. You just described my son and me to a T - chill, daydreamy, procrastinating, slow, difficulty with memory. I really have spent my whole life thinking that was just “me” and had no idea that was neurodivergent. [/quote]

NP.  I agree with your last sentence.  As DS and then DD were diagnosed, DH and I looked at our families, with a family history of diagnosed and undiagnosed ADHD on his side and diagnosed and undiagnosed ASD on my side, and we saw ourselves.  But I think we fall on the wrong (or right?) side of the line, while DS and DD fall on the other.  DH and I are only quirky, our kids are fully ND. Maybe DH or I could get a diagnosis now as an adult but I don't see any value in it.  Ymmv[/quote]

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