Hello, I’m David, and like many others who have found their way to this blog I’ve had quite the journey in the 50 years of my life. Let me share a little about the challenges and the path that’s brought me to where I am today.
Relatively late in my life, at the age of 48, I was diagnosed with ADHD. It was a revelation that explained so much about the way my mind worked. Growing up in the countryside, in a family of academics, school wasn’t always a smooth ride for me. Like many children with ADHD, I faced all the common difficulties, struggling with focus and often juggling various interests and projects without ever seeing many of them through to the end.
Leaving my parent’s house at the age of 18, I ventured into my first own house, an extremely exciting endeavour at this age and without a real perspective. I then embarked on a 4-year professional education journey in a creative field, which I successfully completed. Since then, I’ve mostly worked as a freelancer in a creative industry, my entire career being under the influence of undiagnosed ADHD.
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