Kuala Lampur, Nov. 5 -- The horror stories of would-be cancer patients being gaslit by medical professionals are all too common.

Women, especially, are often waved off by doctors telling them that they're just being "anxious".

Yet I find that there is one kind of late diagnosis that many people don't understand or relate to - being found to be autistic, have ADHD or other disorders that come under the umbrella of neurodivergence.

A friend of mine wept when he finally got his ADHD diagnosis in his late 40s.

Not because he finally knew he had ADHD but because the psychiatrist had told him that the decades of untreated ADHD and forced "masking" likely was the root cause of his developing bipolar disorder.

Bipolar disorder had wrecked a ...