f15: wondering if my lifelong traits could be neurodivergence?
i’ve just been wondering if i could be neurodivergent?
i’ve been thinking about this because a lot of things i struggle with have been happening since i was a kid
when i was younger i would get extremely
overwhelmed by certain noises and sometimes they would cause me a lot of fear and headaches. i also really disliked having people around me and would isolate myself a lot, and i mostly spent my free time making videos by myself
i still get extremely annoyed/overwhelmed when there’s a loud noise around me, especially when it’s something i’m not making myself
i’ve always struggled with socializing and talking to people, and i have a really hard time concentrating. i’ll start doing something and then randomly start doing something completely different. i also struggle to keep myself still sometimes and i stim a lot
i’m not sure if this is actually neurodivergence or if i’m just relating things that might not be connected, so i don’t want to self diagnose. i’m mostly wondering if these are things that would be worth bringing up when asking for an autism/adhd or general neurodevelopmental evaluation
if anyone here was diagnosed later on did you have similar traits as a kid
Posted Sep 1, 2026, 4:41 PM UTC