After all, you just realized it. You're not really used to thinking about it this way, yet.

Time will allow you to become accustomed to your "new" self.

I suspect that eventually you will become familiar with yourself.

luckily i never gave a hoot about others opinions.

She is very high functioning. She takes ADHD medication and also has MS. She has no ongoing problems with MS. She has a successful business, working from home. She has a very loving and supportive husband.

Her diagnosis came as no surprise to me.

Also a "picky eater". He would only (and I mean ONLY) EAT boiled hot dogs with their skins peeled off, spaghetti with butter, and mashed potatoes. As for the latter, he would refuse to eat them if there was even the tiniest speck of unmashed potato, which he would call a "bump". Velvet smooth in texture or nothing. Mom finally surrendered to instant potatoes to get him to eat. When he finally tried and liked hamburger, our father practically declared it a national holiday.

And in his case, he was obsessed with construction trucks, e.g., backhoe, dump truck, bulldozer, crane, front loader, excavator, crane, etc. His favorite bedtime story was Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. It was an obsession, not an interest. He had a collection of toy Tonka construction trucks as well.

And now that he's an adult, he's an omnivore and followed his high interest in construction trucks for a career by becoming an engineer.