Growing up in a small midwestern town in the 1980s, Cassie Blakely learned to mask her symptoms early. She’d ask the teacher to help sharpen pencils so she didn’t have to finish a task. She learned that winning people over could be a superpower, especially when she struggled academically.
It took decades before Blakely was officially diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, at 37, thanks to her two daughters’ own diagnosis processes.
“I realized through them, because they started being under the microscope” at speech therapy and occupational therapy, Blakely, now 51 and living in San Diego, told The Post. “Watching both of my daughters struggle kind of felt like my own childhood was being repeated in front of me.”
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