Colman Noctor

And that was what I understood ADHD to be and I wasn't like that.

I never had that sort of...

level of overactivity that I can remember.

And I certainly wouldn't have been troublesome in any way.

I was kind of a risk averse kid, you know, from the point of view of if there was lads jumping over a river on stepping stones, I'd be the one that going, I'll just go down and find a narrow point and I'll jump at the end.

I was kind of that kid.

which wouldn't kind of fit the impulsiveness or the, you know, that sort of what we would, the caricature of ADHD certainly wasn't that.

But someone came into my life who has spent a lot of time with me, and I spent a lot of time with them, and they were...

their specialist area was ADHD.

And they said to me, I think you have ADHD.

And I remember thinking, what are you talking, like not a chance.

And they were kind of saying, no, I genuinely think you do.

And I think you should get it.

looked at and I was kind of saying no.

I reluctantly agreed to go for this assessment thinking that this would reveal that I didn't.

And it was kind of like, I'll get you off my back now once I go for this.

And it wasn't, the assessment gathered up all the stuff that I thought it was and I filled out all the forms I was supposed to fill.

And the feedback was, yeah, we think you have it.

And even at that time I went,

Whatever.