Hi all,
Im new here and really just looking for some advice/insight!!!
I was recently diagnosed with both ADHD and Autism in quick succession, and I was hoping (naive, I know!!) that I would gain some clarity/ understanding or myself. However it has only served to confuse me!! I really wasn’t expecting the diagnosis; I mean I just thought I was different.
And now …. I’m upset all the time, I can’t seem to wrap my head around it, but mostly I feel lost!! When I have told people I haven’t had the greatest response from the 2 people I told, so I stopped telling people!! My biggest hurdle is work, in my previous job I was part of a team and was able to hide in the chaos of the role, but now I work alone and although I struggled when I started the job, it has got progressively worse since my diagnosis, and I feel like I just cannot get a handle on it, don’t get me wrong work have been good and have tried to help and I have reasonable adjustments but all of a sudden I feel like I’m completely incapable and I know the quality of my work is suffering, I struggle to meet targets, I’m working later than ever, and my overall performance is at an all time low!! I feel like the harder I try the worse I get!!! I am rambling, I guess I just want to know if anyone can relate? It just feels so lonely and isolating :(
