When I was a little girl, I had been diagnosed with ADHD ADD and hypermobility. My parents had noticed that there was something odd about me that wasn’t coordinating with how other children were supposed to behave. I was unfocused, my speech was not how it should have been and my attention span was far too short.
The doctors ignored my parents when they insisted that that wasn’t what I had. Even six year old me worked out that the condition I had been labelled with ADHD ADD was wrong. As the years went by, moving from primary to secondary, the answers that my parents had been fighting for stayed unanswered. And as for me? Well, I went through a lot. Betrayal, bullying, depression, paranoia- I went through it all. And it had left me with a lot of scars but also some wisdom. Finally, in the last year of my secondary school, I finally got the answers I wanted. Turns out I had two conditions that no one had bothered looking into. Autism and dyscalculia.
Bearing in mind that it took up almost half of my life trying to uncover the real truth, the relief that I could finally get the supported help I needed was overwhelming, it different mean that I wasn’t out of the woods yet. Autism is a life long disorder as is hypermobility and dyscalculia. I will always struggle with these conditions until the day I die, though, I will die knowing what I am and being proud of what it has helped me achieve.