{"id":230168,"date":"2026-01-06T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230168\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:54:09","slug":"adult-diagnosis-of-adhd-im-passive-and-quiet-so-it-never-occurred-to-me-that-i-had-it-but-it-all-makes-sense-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/230168\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult diagnosis of ADHD: \u2018I\u2019m passive and quiet, so it never occurred to me that I had it \u2013 but it all makes sense now\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">When Will Gannon was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, joining an online support group made a huge difference in terms of peer support and practical skills like time management\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Gannon: \u2018The feeling of safety that participants have in the group means they stop feeling paralysed and work more efficiently.\u2019 Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GM Will Gannon 007.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Will Gannon: \u2018The feeling of safety that participants have in the group means they stop feeling paralysed and work more efficiently.\u2019 Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Can you imagine feeling out of kilter with others for most of your life, but not knowing why? This was the reality for Will Gannon until recently. The 64-year-old father of two from Templeogue in Dublin, dropped out of college at UCD in second year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He\u2019d been studying German and English, but found he struggled to pass exams. \u201cI felt really stupid because of it. It was like I was running up against a brick wall and I couldn\u2019t figure out why,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Will Gannon was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, joining an online support group made a huge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[117984,103,61,60],"class_list":["post-230168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-erin-mccafferty","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}