IT TOOK 48 YEARS FOR A DIAGNOSIS
‘I FINALLY UNDERSTOOD THE FEELINGS OF INTENSITY’
Sitting at the kitchen table, helping my daughter with her schoolwork, my heart was pounding and I couldn’t understand why. It was May last year, and I was homeschooling Olivia, then 10, during the first COVID-19 lockdown. As a single mum with my own business, I was used to coping with stress, but now we were stuck at home - so why did I still feel like I was hurtling through life at breakneck speed?
As a child, I was always spilling drinks or interrupting people, and could rarely concentrate on what the teacher was saying in class. I assumed
