I have ADHD, too. I was diagnosed last year after years and years of struggling. I've actually been teaching English as a foreign language for the best part of a decade (without a degree, go figure!) and I've found I'm really good at it, but what I'm better at is working with gifted or struggling students and helping them/their parents identify what's causing their issues (and gifted students are very likely to have issues, too!) and get help. Following my own abysmal experience with getting ADHD treatment, and the appalling way so many of y students have been treated, I've decided I want to become a neuropsychologist. I finally got adequate treatment at the end of last summer and since then I've finished a series of coursera courses - more to see if I can actually commit to studying and to get back into studying than for the courses themselves, and I've been really consistent and I've done well on the courses. I wish I'd been treated sooner, but I wasn't, so I just have to make the best of now...

I needed this. I should have gone to university in 2007 but took a year to work and save some money, then 2008 happened and I hadn't really managed to save much anyway. I started working in 2007 and never had the finances to go, and had no support from my family. In the UK there are student loans but loads of my friends were waiting months and months for their loans, and I simply couldn't afford it under those conditions. Now I'm in my mid 30s and I'm finally looking at going to uni to study something completely different from what I'd wanted to study back then. I'm a completely different person now, and finally medicated fea neurological condition that affects my ability to learn and work, and I'm feeling really positive about it, even if I know I'm technically old enough to be the parent of some of my likely classmates

I've never even heard of salopettes!

I'm an English teacher. My 11 year old Finnish student asked me in October what the outer trousers you wear over your normal trousers "like a jacket" are called. I had to explain to her that while they exist there are just so many names for them because they're just not common enough to have one universally recognised name like a coat or jacket does. We decided we'd use ski pants. She was amazed we don't all own several pairs in the UK. I can completely understand why she'd feel that way given how cold it is there