i’m fairly new to the adhd diagnosis i’m in my forties and was diagnosed 2 or 3 years ago i’m also female assigned at birth anyway i always felt like i understand - and i always believed that everyone around me understood mental health professionals included - that obviously jim carrey had adhd   i mean obviously right  but that made it so much harder for me to get my diagnosis   i mean honestly it didn’t make it hard for me to get my diagnosis   it just made it really hard for me to understand that i was even a candidate to be evaluated for this diagnosis   i mean obviously i was a super focused student   obviously i was an exceptionally gifted over-achiever   obviously i had no issue with a deficit of attention   i mean i was fing killing it on all the parameters where they told me it was important to create destruction   how much of a rude awakening was it for me to realize that the real world didn’t give a sh about all my supposed achievements  how much of a wake-up cap was it to learn that the world literally wiped its bum with my resume true story but still wouldn’t invite me in for an interview  i’m in my forties and gosh i wish i’d understood my diagnosis earlier   but yeahi always understood that jim carrey was probably adhd   it honestly made it so much easier accepting my diagnosis  i mean one of my heroes had been working with this condition and succeeding all of these years   ugh i’m blathering on the whole point of your uhumbled_lightbringer - cool user name btw - anyway the whole point of your post was basically like low-key look how awesome this dude is just out here representing our community in the most positive and most empowering and best-feeling way ever  i know there’s a lot of hate for the whole adhd is my superpower shtick - and i hate that shit too - but this post just tickled my positive bone   i guess this is just my long bloviated overly exuberant way of saying thank you so much for sharing this   this brought up a lot of memories specifically of being validated by jim carrey’s humor and i’m grateful to you for sharing