When I had some cognitive space back in 2022, I ran through some diagnoses intakes with my psychiatrist. We decided not to review for autism because the test is time consuming and there isn’t really anything you can do with the results. For the OCD intake I was like “of course I do these things, any rational person behaves this way,” (no, they do not). For the ADHD intake I was like “I do not have trouble activating to do things or focusing on them once I’m doing them, so this isn’t me; EXCEPT for when I’m on my period, in which case absolutely yes.”

Then I went on testosterone and things got a little more gnarly. If you do a search for this, you’ll see that hormones (estrogen in particular) and ADHD have some interesting correlations that may in fact be causation. Some tendencies I’d always had got more extreme.