thank you for this i have inattentive adhd and my whole life i was told these things by everyone and i didn’t get diagnosed with adhd until i was fresh into 17 i’m 18 going on 19 now and even after i got diagnosed people around me never fully understood my diagnosis and this gravity of having inattentive type of adhd or even worse they didn’t even know that they are more than one type very frustrating having to explain this over and over especially to my mom had to tell her time and time again all throughout my early childhood and up until very recently i had no motivation no drive and couldn’t focus to save my life i constantly stayed tired no matter how much sleep i got and most of the time i didn’t even feel depressed my brain just didn’t work and all i wanted to do was lay in bed even when i tried to focus on hobbies that i found interesting i would get bored of them very very quickly but fortunately i finally got on medication that works for me still have trouble with the boredom a little bit took the longest time though i’m glad i fought for what i believe in because i had a strong intuition that something was wrong and that i wasn’t just “depressed” which everyone thought it was totally worth the fight