Hey friend,
Honestly I don’t understand what the difference would be for you.
There’s no badge or membership. Personally I had three benefits of my diagnosis (which is two decades back by now and was as an adult):
I had an easier time understanding my own brain and… Well world perception.
I was able to easier look for help and talk about it.
I was able to test medication (didn’t work our for me back then she took side effects but that’s a different story).
To get a strangers “judgment”: If you just want an excuse for your low energy and failing here and there you don’t have it. If you want guidance and new approaches to improve your life for yourself and then here’s your diagnosis: one of us!
Either way I wish you the best :)
Got it. Then the bad news is that when with a diagnosis you’ll have a more of trial and error in front of you. The good news is that man’s of the structural behavioral tools die ADHD will help non ADHD people as well as at their core they work against overburdening the brain.
I think you over worry then die a simple reason: There meds will be clear in few days, a therapist will find ways to help you and you will find things that work for you!
Actually the medication is one of the cleanest diagnostics tools in my opinion: if they give you energy and push you up then your brain did its job already. If they call you down and provide focus then they (literally) filled the gaps in the brain.