Many Black women are diagnosed with ADHD for the first time in their forties, not because the condition is new, but because the coping strategies that hid it for decades are finally failing under the weight of perimenopause.
For most of her life, the woman in question has been known for her competence. Then, somewhere in midlife, that competence becomes harder to summon. The diary she once managed instinctively becomes unreliable.
