Always viewed myself as an organised person, yet my psychologist thinks I might have adhd?

Hi, I’m F24. Long history of anxiety and depression. Been on antidepressants since I was 14. Got diagnosed with autism at 16. Childhood wasn’t very good. Despite all of that my life is going pretty good. Graduating university this summer and will be a psychologist. I work every weekend at a psych ward. I have two wonderful cats.

So it doesn’t really sound like I am that disabled. Despite all of that the psychologist I have been seeing for my PTSD for years brought up last week that he thinks I might have ADHD and that’s why my thoughts constantly spiral even during therapy. At first I thought that was a weird suggestion because I am not at all like the stereotypical ADHD patient. I am often very very organised with detailed to do lists. I don’t forget things because I make sure I have packed everything so many times. I overthink everything instead of being impulsive. And most of all, it’s not like I have the disability part of the diagnosis when my life is objectively going great.

He then brought up that my lists might be a way I have developed of dealing with my brain naturally not being organised. That I keep checking I haven’t forgotten anything to compensate for naturally easily forgetting things. And that I really am easily distracted. And then I realised I’ve written all of my university exams in a small exam room all by myself as an accommodation for my distractablity that we thought was a symtom of my autism. The only time I wrote an exam in the big exam hall I failed because I got so distracted, despite knowing the material.

I am also always absolutely exhausted. What if he’s right and all of these strategies I’ve developed to deal with adhd symptoms are what’s causing it? Then maybe medication could help me live a normal life?

I don’t know. I think I’m kind of spiraling here. Does anyone relate to always having viewed themselves as an organised person, not someone with typical adhd symptoms, just to later realise you actually had adhd and were overcompensating by being overly organised? Not looking for a diagnosis, just wondering if anyone even relates to this.