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From my PCP suggesting it to diagnosis was about 4 months, with 6 weeks of that being wait time while my assessment was being evaluated.

If you count how long it took me as a woman to when have ADHD suggested? 47 years.

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At the age of 39, I was randomly reading a reddit thread and people were saying oh I do XYZ but I have ADHD. And it sounded very familiar to my own behaviors. From there, it took me a couple months to find a psychiatrist and secure an appointment but the diagnosis was pretty fast. The doctor said I likely had it during that first appointment and confirmed in a follow-up a couple of weeks later. Apparently I had a pretty typical presentation of ADHD in a female, and my profile made it clear why it had been overlooked for so long (high achieving child, straight As because I could work fast enough to overcome procrastination even when I waited until the very last minute to do things, many "systems" in place to make up for ADHD inefficiencies, constant fatigue because I was doing twice the work a neurotypical person needed to do). I have been pretty successful, but I do often wonder what else I could have achieved had I been diagnosed and treated earlier.

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