Sonia Gray
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And that's quite confronting for people in your lives, I think, sometimes.
Yeah, but for a long time, and I probably still am, you're straddling these two worlds, your old world and your new world, because, you know, it's habit to just be a certain way.
And so it's quite destabilising.
Yeah, but definitely more a freedom, I think.
I think definitely more a freedom.
But I do want people to know that it is a process and it can get a bit worse before it gets better.
I didn't have this, but for a lot of people who are late diagnosed, there's a lot of grief and anger.
And that takes a bit of time to work through.
But I think for our parents, for our generation, they didn't know, you know, like the awareness has grown so much.
So I don't think, I mean, did we even know about ADHD?
Was it maybe in the States?
Our parents did the best they could.
So then what happens, and this is where, you know, for a lot of women it becomes anxiety and depression, and I'm totally generalising here, but for a lot of males...
If you're told the way you are is wrong from an early age, that has massive impacts.
You're going to then go, well, I am wrong.
There's people, there's teachers, parents, whatever, telling me that I am wrong.