Kirsty Brown krb700{at}alumni.bham.ac.uk Kirsty Brown shares her experience of undergoing surgery as a person with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and explains some of the ways that health professionals could help others like her I have always felt different from others, but these differences became more apparent while I was at university and during the pandemic. As my anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder became worse, I received a diagnosis of ADHD at the age of 22.