Although many people may feel like they have some similar symptoms, genetics play an important role in ADHD and a full diagnosis is given to those who are negatively affected on a daily basis.<\/p>\n
Pegg said he had previously been putting his symptoms down to “just character fault”.<\/p>\n
The actor and writer also spoke about his mental health, including having clinical depression and struggling to control his drinking, which he said he initially thought had “caused” his diagnosis.<\/p>\n
“I felt like it was something that had come on in later life because I wasn’t a naughty child.<\/p>\n
“I’ve had bouts of depression in my adult life since 18 and I thought maybe it had come on with that.<\/p>\n
“Maybe over the years with therapy and medication – whatever – I’ve been treating the symptoms and not the cause of why I feel that way.”<\/p>\n
Pegg said: “I did feel different in a way I might not be able to put my finger on. Maybe everybody feels that way.<\/p>\n
“I just assumed ADHD kids were kind of chaotic and difficult and didn’t pay attention in school,” he added.<\/p>\n
“But there were other things that I did do as a kid \u2013 fidget or whatever \u2013 that made me think, ‘Oh no, maybe I’ve had this longer than I thought’.”<\/p>\n
Pegg said his wife has been supportive and is “dealing with it as if I’d been diagnosed ages ago”, adding: “It’s just who I am, and it’s just things that I do.<\/p>\n
“She makes allowances for forgetfulness and and lack of concentration.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although many people may feel like they have some similar symptoms, genetics play an important role in ADHD…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-795946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}