Mel Robbins discovered she was dyslexic and had ADHD at 47, while her son was being evaluated for school. She spent decades with undiagnosed learning disabilities that fueled her anxiety.
I didn't discover that I had dyslexia and ADHD until I was 47, and I found out the way most women do. My son was getting evaluated for school, and I'm like, oh, I think I have the same thing here. Yeah. Yeah. For years, I thought that the primary thing that I was struggling with was anxiety, because when you have dyslexia or ADHD and it's not diagnosed or addressed, the thing that rises to the surface is anxiety, which, by the way, it is a mentally healthy response. If you're a dyslexic kid in classroom, to feel nervous, we go upstairs to our heads, which is where self doubt is, and then you start going, oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God. Which only makes the alarm bigger. I didn't know any of this back then. So I, of course, went from a dyslexic and ADHD kid to somebody that develops anxiety. Because I'm sitting in a classroom thinking I'm an idiot. And you want to know the kid that works the hardest in school, the one who's struggling, not the kids that are getting straight A's and it's easy for them. Yes.
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