Nancy

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So I'm Nancy and I've come to this school with my granddaughters and my daughter.

Climbing the Walls

But everything is hard. My struggle made me feel not good enough. I kept thinking, why do I worry about people loving me when I have no evidence of people not loving me? It was just really, really hard. Harder than it probably needed to be had I had a clue what was going on.

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So right now, I'm on the quest for a new psychiatrist and an ADHD coach.

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I was born in 49, and it wasn't a diagnosis then. And some days I get really angry that I was born too soon, that they didn't have the diagnosis. And I can get really angry about that and really sad, and I feel like my life has been so much more difficult than it had to be. But then I think, you know, I was born. They had found the treatment for polio.

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They found the treatment for tuberculosis and all the vaccines. So I have to temper it that I did benefit from a lot of medical successes. And that's the way life is. They didn't know about this. Thank goodness that people were working on it. Thank goodness it moved from just little boys' problem to people's problems, and that women are being seen.

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Like, do I wish science had worked on it a little quicker and harder? Sure. Am I upset about the gender discrimination in the diagnosis? I'm really angry about that. So just recently, I've had a lot of anger and frustration in not finding the... what I think is the appropriate caregivers for me. I'm just happy that my daughter's getting it and I'm super happy that my granddaughters are getting it.