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Malaysian actress, Diana Danielle opens up about her personal journey with ADHD, from years of silent struggle to the moment of clarity she found online at just 13.  In a country where access exists but exposure doesn’t, Diana shares the reality of masking, misunderstood symptoms, and finally understanding what it means to be neurodivergent.  Watch the full conversation now on all Sinar Daily social media platforms.  WATCH FULL VIDEO: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/sinardaily/videos/1427061595130869  YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGH74c2GrP8&t=24s  #DianaDanielle #ADHDJourney #NeurodivergentVoices #MentalHealthMatters #SinarDaily #LifeAndStylePodcast #BreakTheStigma #RealTalk #MalaysianStories #ADHDAwareness #YouAreNotAlone #Neurodiversity

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00:00It took me a while only because I didn't know how to go about the process of getting myself

00:06diagnosed because we're living in a country that although we have access to it, we don't

00:12have exposure to it. I was aware of my ADHD symptoms without having a name for it since

00:22I was very young. So I knew that I was not typical in terms of the way I behaved or the

00:29way that I was bringing myself amongst people in a social setting. But I didn't really have

00:38a name for it until I had access to the computer since I was like maybe 13. So I was on at that

00:46time it was like I think it was like Yahoo or some sort of platform that wasn't Google.

00:52And I think the first sort of realization or revelation was when I had seen sort of a website

01:03that had all the symptoms that I was having. I was very forgetful. My attention span was

01:09running between, you know, 10 different things. I was always multitasking. I was always impatient.

01:17Um, and I was always forgetting to do things that were like deadlines and stuff like that

01:26was not very good for me. I didn't have a good concept of time, meaning, you know, some people

01:32can feel the passing of time. But for myself, it's like, I can't feel it. I can't feel two hours go.

01:38It's almost as if the concept of time isn't something that I could grasp. So I was either very early or

01:44very late. Um, and then I was always demotivated until the last minute where, you know, you have

01:52that sense of urgency. And so when it was all listed down, I knew from the get go that this

01:59somehow was, they were talking about me in that article. Um, the problem with understanding or

02:07knowing, but not understanding is the fact that you don't know how to harness because as a

02:12neurodivergent or someone who is atypical, who's not typically processing in the same way when you

02:20don't know how to harness and how to actually take care of, um, because you have to take care of

02:25yourself differently, right? You know, you have different triggers and all that stuff. So when

02:29that happens, you don't know how to harness your, um, your, uh, what do you call that? Your

02:36strengths and you don't know how to work with your weaknesses. So you're always on that push

02:41and pull and always struggling to fit in and working in the same way as people who are not

02:47neurodivergent, who are neurotypical. Um, so that was the biggest struggle. It was pretending

02:54or masking as if I was like everybody else and having to function the way that they did and

02:59also not knowing how to function the way that I should. Um, and it took me a while only because

03:05I didn't know how to go about the process of getting myself diagnosed because we're living

03:13in a country that although we have access to it, we don't have exposure to it. So there

03:18are two different, you know, um, um, perspectives. It's like, you know, it's there, but you just

03:23don't know how to get to it.

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