'It has been tough to keep my diagnosis a secret from classmates all these years, but I don’t want them to think I’m weird or broken…”
, these high school years are complicated enough, and the challenges of ADHD may add more stress to the confusion. Relationships with your friends are important, and you don’t want the ADHD diagnosis to mess them up! However, ADHD can affect you in high school in different ways.
You may have trouble following the teacher’s lecture, or making conversation with your friends at lunch. Organizational challenges can be embarrassing when you don’t bring the right stuff to your study group or the right shoes to baseball practice. If you are impulsive, you might say things that you think are cute and funny, but that you realize later shouldn’t have been said.
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