Sonia Gray

You need a diagnosis in order to get the support, in order for people to have some kind of understanding of what you're going through.

But also, that's just the starting point.

And then it's about who are you?

You know, who really are you?

I was.

None, initially.

I was like, I mean, I don't know if you know, but I scored 100%, which I was delighted about.

Well done.

Thank you.

I was stoked with that.

But I didn't even want to do the assessment.

I was like, I said to the psychologist, I do not have ADHD.

Like, I can't be bothered doing your dumb test.

Didn't say it like that, but, you know, just do the tests on you, which is something that a lot of psychologists do for parents because of that genetic component is so high.

Um, yeah, did the test a hundred percent.

And then I just was like, yeah, I don't know.

That's not me.

So I just left it for a few years and then things started to get hard and I revisited it and I went to see more people.

And I talked to my mum who said, to be honest, this kind of explains your whole childhood.

And yeah, it was a slow conversion, slow kind of, I think for a lot of us, especially women, we come to a diagnosis with a history of anxiety and depression and a belief that