ADHD Girls to Women Quotes

“I’ve lived my entire life with the knowledge that I’m not like everyone else. Still, I’ve always believed in what others tell me – that my belief that my experiences, my problems, and my emotional register are different is all in my head.”
― Lotta Borg Skoglund, ADHD Girls to Women: Getting on the Radar

“Every humming fly, every shadow, every sound, the memory of old stories will draw him off his task to other imaginations. Even his own imagination entertains him with a thousand minor subjects. (Melchior Adam Weikard, 1775) This passage, found in a German medical textbook from 1775, describes the psychiatric disorder that back then was called Attentio Volubilis. As far as I’m aware, it’s the earliest”
― Lotta Borg Skoglund, ADHD Girls to Women: Getting on the Radar