“I Never Felt Like an Adult. A Late ADHD Diagnosis Explained Why.”

“I Never Felt Like an Adult. A Late ADHD Diagnosis Explained Why.”

I’m 48 years old, but I don’t feel like a grown-up. Grown-ups write a weekly meal schedule on a Sunday and do careful calculations before drilling holes. They make sandwiches the night before and remember to take them to work. Grown-ups quell their transient urges in the pursuit of long-term goals. They commit, they save, they resist, and they toil. They get where they were planning to go. Tedium does not torment the regular grown-up. If a borin…