Ya, I don’t know, however I think if parents had you in therapy, it must of been because they knew you were struggling for some reason. Seems at that point it would be illogical if them to then go into denial.
I am 59, not until I was about 58 did I start reading about ADS, and was able to confirm what I suspected. The clincher for me was watching my daughter sitting at the kitchen table trying to do homework, I recognized in her, myself as a child.
After she graduated high school she entered collage, is was only then was she diagnosed. I’ll never forget her excitement the first time she tried Ritalin, she said “Dad, it’s a whole new world, I can zero in right on the professor, take in what he is actually saying, I can’t believe the difference”.