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Self tests can be good, but people shouldn't just go by that, it's best to take it up with a doc,and have it confirmed. If ADHD/ADD is DXed,and it really is messing up things, a doc can start you on meds and/or therapy...

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This was my impression too. I'm 23 also, as per the original poster. I've been doing the self tests and reading the literature for a while now, which has 'strongly' suggested I'm ADD. Finally going in this week to have a professional diagnosis though.

It's weird because on the one hand I want the diagnosis to be negative ... I don't want to be another "medicated" person. I guess there's also a sort of feeling that it comes with a "you are defective" stigma. Plus, it seems to me that people who identify themselves as having a particular condition tend to blame all their problems on that ... I don't want anyone to think that of me.

On the other hand, if I'm positively diagnosed, it would mean there's hope for fixing some of the things with my life that have always bothered me and hindered my happiness... I feel like it would be a new chance at life/fresh start/etc.

We'll see what the doc says....