Självdiagnos

Jag läser Eyresses. En av texterna handlar om karaktären Helen Burns och textförfattarens (Kate Harding) egna diagnostisering med koncentrationssvårigheter. Jag kankse är något på spåren här?
Ur Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood through Adulthood, av Edward M. Hallowell, M.D., and John J. Ratey, M.D.:
"There is another kind of ADD that shows no hyperactivity whatsoever. Indeed, these people can be underactive. This is the child, often a girl, who sits at the back of the classroom daydreaming, or the adult who moves serenely within a cloud, never quite present anywhere."

Harding skriver:
"In our time, a time when ADD is ostensibly overdiagnosed, a girl could go a very long time without anyone connecting the dots. Dots like, inconsistent effort and productivity. Poor organization. Forgetting to do things. Daydreaming. Also: A chronically messy room. “Hyperfocus” on things she enjoys—e.g., reading books she’s chosen instead of the ones assigned—and enormous difficulty shifting gears once absorbed in such a thing. Extreme chattiness. Impatience. Frustration. Relentless self-criticism."

Detta är typ inte ens kul.