‘MY ABILITY TO FOCUS WAS NON-EXISTENT. AND THAT FEELING OF BEING DIFFERENT WAS VERY STRONG’
Taahira Viviers, who is from Cape Town, found out she has ADHD when she was almost 30 years old.
SHE’D always felt like the odd one out, like something was wrong with her. But she wasn’t able to put her finger on exactly why.
At school Taahira Viviers had felt there was something that prevented her from being as involved in class as the other kids. She would zone out in class and felt no urgency to complete assignments.
“My ability to focus was non-existent,” she says. “And that feeling of being different was very strong.”
This carried on all the way through high school and her tertiary studies.
Even when Taahira (34) started her first job in her mid-20s, she felt out of place. Making a career change from marketing to banking didn’t help and at 28, she felt so anxious, stressed, overwhelmed and inadequate that she went to see her GP, who diagnosed her with depression.
Taahira first suspected she might
