Thank you so much for sharing this piece, it is nuanced, complex, thoughtful, and vulnerable. I learned a lot from reading this.

I can relate to being told I'm "too smart" to have ADHD as well as having a psychiatrist label me with Borderline Personality Disorder because I'm a woman and women have PDs, not ADHD/ADD: https://medium.com/invisible-illness/how-my-adhd-was-misdiagnosed-as-a-personality-disorder-11fa7f2431eb