Julia Morris on late ADHD diagnosis | The Senior - video Dailymotion

Comedian Julia Morris discusses being diagnosed with ADHD at age 56. Video from ABC TV

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00:00How would your life have been different if you had your diagnosis earlier?

00:04There's lots of things I could say, would I have been more successful?

00:07I don't know, might have been more successful in my relationships.

00:10The one thing that I look back on, and I think having an earlier diagnosis

00:14would have helped with, is how much I've let my friends down over the years.

00:17You make these great plans.

00:19On the day, honestly, I did not know this about myself,

00:23but I really have to check how I'm going to be on the day.

00:26So now when I make a plan with someone, I'm like, let's absolutely do it.

00:30But there's every possibility I'll pull out.

00:32So if I can do some pre-disappointment, then that really helps

00:36because I don't like that feeling of letting people down.

00:40I think the diagnosis kind of set me free.