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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds similar to my very high achieving DD. I didn’t know that ADHD could look that way and it didn’t click for me until she was in college that something was not right. She had severe ADHD and dyslexia! Straight A, all the activities, bookworm. She took medication for about a year and now uses it occasionally, and she received accommodations that were very helpful. She remained a high achiever, but she was much happier and much less stressed.

No one ever caught it- no teacher, doctor, or therapist. She was so “good.” I’m glad people are becoming more aware of how ADHD wears many hats. I wish my DD hadn’t gone through K-12 as she did. Have an evaluation- there’s nothing to lose.

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OP here. Who did the evaluation? I'm not 100% sure where to go from here. I just know something is not right.

What medication did she end up on out of curiosity?[/quote]
We went to a licensed clinical psychologist and board certified neuropsychologis (PhD, ABB-CN) at a neuropsych practice. If your daughter is younger you should look at the similar credential for Pediatric Clinical Neuropsychiatry. DD used Adderall and then Elvanse for a few months, it’s the European name for Vyanse.

She has learned that when she has a lot of control over her schedule she doesn’t need the medication, but when she has limited control she does. So in terms where she did independent research she was ok without, but terms with a heavy class load and intense schedule, she needed the medication. She had a host of accommodations that made life better. Also did some CBT because years of telling herself she was a worthless, faking, failure were sort of engraved. Medication, therapy, and accommodations were life changing. But also knowing that her brain worked differently than others was such a relief and allowed her to start unwinding the self-hatred. [/quote]

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