With all that out of the way, I find it silly when someone making 100k a year or whatever in tech all of a sudden is following trends without knowing it and during the pandemic "finds out" they "can't focus" and therefore has ADHD. They need expensive Lisdexamfetamine to get that raise or acknowledgement at work... while I'm here struggling to function in my day to day life let alone take on the responsibilities of a job which the thought of absolutely destroys my brain.
If your executive function isn't impaired and you have no issue just "doing things" then I'll say you don't have ADHD to the point of requiring medication. You might, you very well might... but it's extremely hard as an observer to all of this to feel we share the same struggles.
People with ADHD focus on EVERYTHING. They don't procrastinate in that "oh I'll just put this off" care free kind of way. They do it in a "I'm overwhelmed and I can't, I just can't... oh shit I put it off for too long now I HAVE TO!" kinda way. You'll notice that a person who has been diagnosed with ADHD very early and has had therapy and been on and off medication (vacations) multiple times will be extremely aware of things and very self aware but they still under some extreme situations (personal and variable) they still can't "do" some things just because this disorder is a physiological difference.
Imagine having the motivation, the ability to simply do things, as a depressed person. Okay? But you aren't depressed. But everyone tells you that you are because that is how society sees your symptoms... but it's ADHD, it's your defective fuel tank. Some days, out of the blue, your tank is working because you found an angle that tricks your brain to do stuff. Other days you need to try what feels like 500x harder than other people to do simple stuff.
Yes, you could of covered this up and masked it your entire life. You might of had the ability to "suck it up" as it were. And then as soon as you had free time to introspect you have doubts to the amount of effort you had to expend to get where you are...
BTW, I can't stand articles that are like "how to use your ADHD as a super power". It's not, it's fucking not. I feel like most of those are written by people entranced by their new found medication hyperfocus and don't have the self awareness to know when they are just opening themselves up to exploitation. I refuse to be exploited just because I can get tons of deep work done all day without a break without realizing the passage of time. That is not a super power, that is literal mental disorder and time blindness. I want to be told I don't have to do that and to take care of myself to not burn myself out.