Just a quick reply, your life can work fine, meds, naturally the right ones, makes all the difference in treatting ADD, plus talk therapy can help.
I have 2 brothers, one has ADD, probably from childhood, it wasn't till his late 40's and early 50's that the pdoc he found, dxed him properly, here is a guy that dropped out of HS, etc.
Then once medicated his life changed, he got his equivalncy diploma and then went to college, and did well too
Don't sell yourself short, you can make it, and if meds for life, so what, you want to improve your life and feel better that is the most important, hey diabetics, epileptics, people with heart conditions, and other things take meds for life, the main thing is how they give you a better quality life, right?
Just hang in there, work with this and I feel confident in time it will all work out.
I wish you lots of love and luck with this

DE

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