Em Rusciano discusses her recent ADHD diagnosis

Em Rusciano revealed she has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) earlier this month.

And on Monday, the radio star revealed the symptoms she’d experienced over the years.

‘Here are 10 things that I always thought made me a bit sh*t and weird, but turns out are actually ADHD symptoms,’ the 42-year-old wrote on Facebook.

Em went on to list the symptoms she’s experienced including struggling to follow recipes, maps and instructions.

She continued: ‘I can’t wear a hair tie or scrunchy around my wrist, it makes me feel like I’m suffocating.’

She also said: ‘Everything is always loud and all at once. When I’m at the shops I hear traffic noise, music, people talking, doors opening and closing and generally feel like the world is coming at me at 100.’

Em revealed she also struggles to complete tasks and finds it difficult to respond to text messages.

‘I literally cannot gather the resources in my brain to figure out how to respond. Instead I just feel overwhelmed and I leave it, then I feel guilty for leaving it,’ she said.

Em continued: ‘I’m absolutely incapable of sending anything at the post office. Getting the address, putting the thing in an envelope, going to the post office, buying a stamp, actually mailing it. NOPE. CANNOT DO.’

She also said she always ‘felt like an outsider’ and ‘spent my life minimising myself to try and fit in.’

Em added: ‘I have two gears. Completely over the top, engaged, loud and passionate or scrunched up in a corner somewhere desperately hoping no one tries to make eye contact with me.’

She also admitted she ‘still feels a weird shame around my diagnosis, almost like it’s fake. That I’m really just a disorganised, messy fraud who has managed to find something to blame for all her shortcomings.’