Thank goodness this sub has been created. I am pretty sure I have a mild case of dyscalculia with a comorbidity of mild-to-moderate ADHD as an adult. I would like to ask if anyone has ever dealt with the problem of false memories and the utter certainty that you are remembering something correctly. And then you discover your certainty, and your memory is "false": it may be a true memory but you applied the wrong context; or the memory is from one period of time, only you misattribute it to another?

I am asking as I'm trying to reconcile with an ex-girlfriend. I had this clear memory of reviewing this string of texts she sent, and I told her that I had; now I discover that memory was false. I did read the texts, but not at the time I told her that I did. Those texts are gone and I cannot go back to get them. I had forgotten that I deleted them all months ago, but I had this damned memory saying that I had them and read through them. And I was so certain that memory was both true and recent. Does that happen to other ADHD sufferers?

I do apologize if this question is weird. I'm in my 40s and growing up all I was ever told of ADHD was that it was a condition where you literally couldn't focus on anything without Ritalin. Now I'm discovering it is so much more than that, and that I have likely had ADHD and dyscalculia all my life.