ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 deals with experiences and implications of being diagnosed with ADHD and illustrates how a diagnosis offers a certain narrative, within which the individual’s life trajectory is interpreted. The chapter examines the formative process of getting an ADHD diagnosis and how the diagnosis is welcomed with both relief and with ambivalence and concern. Moreover, it is described how everyday practices and routines are changed following the diagnosis, and how medical treatment transforms the individual’s way of perceiving and being in the world. These processes of understanding and experimenting with opportunities offered by the diagnosis reflect how the diagnosis is part of a self-evaluative and self-constitutive project of becoming and striving to become a good parent, friend, and partner.
