Comedian Johnny Vegas reveals ADHD diagnosis

Comedian and histrion Johnny Vegas has revealed helium has precocious been diagnosed with attraction shortage hyperactivity upset (ADHD) astatine the property of 52.

The comic told BBC Breakfast that getting the diagnosis earlier Christmas "answers a batch of questions astir behavioural issues successful the past".

His comments came aft presenter Sue Perkins precocious disclosed that she had besides received a akin diagnosis.

Vegas said helium and Perkins person the aforesaid agent, who suggested helium get assessed too.

"A batch of things marque sense" now, Benidorm and Still Open All Hours prima Vegas prima told Breakfast connected Wednesday.

Asked what the information meant for him, helium said: "It's that consciousness of disorganisation and doing basal tasks. Everybody has an constituent of it - it's however beardown your filter is, I think.

"When you don't person a filter astatine all, precise elemental things go precise clip consuming. It's like, [I'll say] I'll displacement that cup, and past you person 10 different ideas and you haven't shifted that cup, and past 3 weeks aboriginal that cup's inactive determination and somebody's like, wherefore haven't you shifted that, and it's go this monumental task and it's built up.

"It's just, I suppose, however your encephalon organises itself. I ever knew I was disorganised... but it [the diagnosis] helps marque consciousness of a batch of things astatine school. I'm conscionable connected the verge of learning astir it."

He added that, successful immoderate ways, "it's made maine who I am" and wondered whether "that chaos helped maine beryllium a amended stand-up".

"In immoderate respects you tin spell backmost and look astatine it with regret, but I've had a spot of a charmed life, truthful it's nary regrets," helium said. "I cognize present and it helps you marque changes, I suppose, arsenic you privation to get much liable aboriginal successful life. I don't spot it arsenic defining me."

Tony Lloyd, main enforcement of the ADHD Foundation, told Breakfast that 1 successful 20 radical person the information but it is "significantly under-identified and under-diagnosed successful the UK".

"There's been a batch of stigma and enduring myths astir ADHD," helium said.

"There are galore adults retired determination who person struggled for years with tons of antithetic benignant of characteristics of ADHD, but didn't deliberation they had ADHD due to the fact that they didn't place with that enculturated content that we were each fixed successful schoolhouse - that if you had ADHD, you were little intelligent, little able, severely behaved. And of course, that's each implicit nonsense.

"So determination are a batch of adults who, present that ADHD is overmuch amended understood, are opening to realise that possibly a batch of the reasons that they've struggled were successful information ADHD. Many person been treated for years for things similar anxiousness and depression, and realise that actually, present they person a amended knowing of what ADHD truly is, possibly that's the crushed why."