I think sometimes people think that someone who admits that they have ADHD is trying to find excuses for not doing their work or for not being successful. Before I was diagnosed with ADHD, my H would make comments about my inability to focus for a full 18 holes of golf, or say that I was a scatterbrain because I would misplace my keys. When I told him my T suggested that I might have ADHD, he was like the total BS. Then I was dx by a neurologist, he felt bad about teasing me.

Honestly, I think that everyone at times could answer affirmatively to a few of the items on the ADHD self assessment questionnaire. I think it is a matter of the degree of severity that others don't get. Or the fact that the we suffer these symptoms not only while doing non-preferred tasks but also when trying to do things that we like or want to do. I also think that the over Rx of medications without attempting to manage the symptoms in other ways also has soured people's perceptions of this condition.