I'm just curious. I've heard the whole "you know you're ADHD when a high dose of Adderall means a nap" spiel from a lotta people, but then I've also heard "everyone is higher functioning on a stimulant, that's the point."

I'm doubting my diagnosis. Basically I, at 28 as a female, got diagnosed this past April when I showed up at a psych ward for bipolar/BPD shyt. I tested positive for amphetamines because I took my partner's and subsequently passed the fk out for half an hour. My provider said "well, you've tried every class of psych med except stimulants, maybe that's what you need," and I've been on one (methylphenidate--sometimes IR sometimes ER) since.

Basically, if I look up something ADHD related on the internet I ended up getting recommended a post that's like "did you know if you have an internal monologue, you probably have ADHD?" and I feel like that's BS (do people not have internal monologues?) and "if you're more productive around other people, you probably have ADHD" (which also sounds BS).

Basically I don't want to say/think I have a disorder when everyone struggles with stuff like this especially when I am part of a 300,000 year old species evolved on a planet that may have had life ~4,000,000,000 years ago but we're dealing with all this electronic technology our primitive bodies aren't used to... well I was never comfortable with boredom. Finish a test in school early? Doodle, take apart a calculator, turn my pencil into a metronome.

But I never had one of those "official" (AKA expensive af) assessments to get my dx, it was pretty much me being in a hospital saying I took a good nap after I don't know how much Adderall and them trialing me on Ritalin and me having a discussion that morning on a school shooting and should the parents be held accountable that, unlike previously, did not end up as a rant about music instructors.

(Today's a day I thought about my alphabet soup of diagnoses and I swear there's too many for one person to genuinely "have." Although I realize too many docs go by strict DSM criteria for a lot of psych stuff so of course there's overlap etm)