Jane Austen had ADHD and other lies

Did Austen have ADHD? Or would that be Emma Woodhouse?

It’s a little-known fact that a lot of novelists have ADHD (spoiler alert: including me). And it’s a still lesser-known fact that, recently, many more people are winning diagnoses — women over forty, especially. This is because, when we were young, we were almost always either (a) too brilliant at “masking” it to be diagnosed — ADHD having been…