> However, I recognize that some people may see more > benefits than you do.
Do you mean benefits to me or benefits in other people?
> one of the keys to diagnosis is that the conditions > impair you in some significant way.)
I suppose it's possible to be diagnosed (informally, at least) even if one is successful in life simply on the basis of observed personality traits: Steve Wozniak, for instance, is someone who by the standard American definition of "success" is successful, and yet also has a really obvious and severe case of ADHD.
One wouldn't receive a formal diagnosis unless there were an already noticed significant impairment in the first place. Why spend professional time diagnosing someone who isn't complaining?
I went for a professional consultation based on self-diagnosed Asperger's, and in the first session was told "No, you don't appear to have Asperger's so much, but you meet all the criteria for ADHD." Either way, it was no relief to be told "Of course you can't run, you've had a crippled leg all your life," because life requires running and the "crippled leg" is incurable.
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> However, I recognize that some people may see more
> benefits than you do.
Do you mean benefits to me or benefits in other people?
> one of the keys to diagnosis is that the conditions
> impair you in some significant way.)
I suppose it's possible to be diagnosed (informally, at least) even if one is successful in life simply on the basis of observed personality traits: Steve Wozniak, for instance, is someone who by the standard American definition of "success" is successful, and yet also has a really obvious and severe case of ADHD.
One wouldn't receive a formal diagnosis unless there were an already noticed significant impairment in the first place. Why spend professional time diagnosing someone who isn't complaining?
I went for a professional consultation based on self-diagnosed Asperger's, and in the first session was told "No, you don't appear to have Asperger's so much, but you meet all the criteria for ADHD." Either way, it was no relief to be told "Of course you can't run, you've had a crippled leg all your life," because life requires running and the "crippled leg" is incurable.