00:00:00
I didn't tell my parents that I was
00:00:01
doing it or any of my family that I was
00:00:03
doing it at first just cuz I kind of was
00:00:05
like, "What if it what if I do all the
00:00:07
testing and then they're like, "You
00:00:08
don't have ADHD." And then I'm
00:00:11
like all embarrassed, right? You're
00:00:13
like, "Yeah." So, I didn't I didn't um
00:00:17
tell them at first, but no, once I did
00:00:20
get diagnosed, I um talked to them about
00:00:23
it. And I think I'm still
00:00:26
um still learning how
00:00:30
to communicate a lot of that. Um it's
00:00:34
kind of an interesting experience.
00:00:37
Like this kind of relates to how I feel
00:00:39
about homeschooling as well. I feel like
00:00:42
as a kid I
00:00:44
like I was able
00:00:47
to do a really good job without the
00:00:50
structure, but it like wasn't because I
00:00:52
didn't need structure. And it was kind
00:00:55
of like a self-p protection thing of
00:00:57
like, oh, okay, I have to get this done
00:01:01
myself, so I'm going to learn how to do
00:01:03
that. But it wasn't necessarily like a
00:01:05
healthy way for me to
00:01:07
be pushing myself, I
