About Grant

I was diagnosed with ADHD at 45 — long after finishing secondary school.

Like many students with undiagnosed ADHD, I didn’t realise my brain worked differently. I just knew that secondary school suddenly felt harder.

I was expected to sit still, focus for long periods, and absorb information that often didn’t interest me. For my brain, it was almost physically uncomfortable. But I wasn’t disengaged — I understood the system, parental expectations and the esteem and opportunities that emerged from doing well.

So I did what many ADHD students do: I tried to play the game, even though it wasn’t designed for how my brain worked.

In class, I struggled to focus and retain information. After school, I would reteach myself everything I’d missed. From the outside, it looked like work ethic and discipline. In reality, I was just keeping up.

My reports were consistent:
“Easily distracted. Could do better.”

Could I?

What I know now is this — I didn’t need to “try harder.”
I needed to understand how my brain worked.

Without that understanding, I made key decisions — study technique, subject choices, career direction — with limited self-awareness. I was capable, but I was flying blind.

That experience now shapes the work I do.

Today, as an ADHD Coach, facilitator and educator, I support young people with ADHD, and the adults around them, to better understand their brain, work with it where possible and in the process be able to make clearer and more informed decisions about school, work, and life.

**In addition to ADHD Lived Experience Grant has completed his ADHD Coach training at ADDCA (ADD Coaching Academy) in the US in 2024.

He also has 25 years experience as an Osteopath - both in private practice and in professional mentoring of young practitioners.